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For the Mengen of Papua New Guinea, ‘hard work’ does not refer to drudgery or physically exhausting labour. Instead, ‘work’ involves creating and recreating meaningful social relations and generating value through acts of care, marriages, ceremonial events, sharing, and working the land together. Similarly, all activities that produce valued people, places, and relations are hard work. This book is a study of human-environmental relations, value production, natural resource extraction, and state formation. It examines these themes by looking at how the Mengen relate to each other, their lived environment, and outside actors.
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This edited volume analyses how illiberal states manage migration to absorb resistance and how migration impacts the illiberal political agenda in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. With an interdisciplinary approach, the contributions show how illiberalism shapes, influences, and enables states to take advantage of migration to secure and advance political goals. The case studies also provide an understanding of how migration processes can simultaneously challenge authoritarianism and illiberal political goals by fostering diversity, networking, democracy promotion, and political empowerment.
Book DetailsThis volume brings together researchers from various fields to enhance discussion of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages as one continuum. With new archaeological data and a focus on both textual and material remains, archaeologists, historians, classicists, and theologians shed light on how religious identities of the people of the past are defined and identified.
Book Details“Slava Ukraini!” Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance tells the story of the volunteers lauded to have saved Ukraine twice. First in the spring of 2014 after the onset of the war in Donbas, and again in February 2022 after the large-scale Russian invasion. Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, this volume makes significant contributions to our understanding of events in Ukraine over the past decade. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with volunteer battalion fighters, the volume focuses on strategy, or the creation, control, and use of force. In addition, “Slava Ukraini!” discusses the volunteers’ long-term sociological impact in Ukraine. While the volunteers may have initially exacerbated internal divisions in Ukraine, their spirit of 2014 also embodied the beginning of Ukrainian resistance, which in 2022 flared-up on a national scale.
Book DetailsLocating the Mediterranean brings together ethnographic examinations of processes that make locations and render them meaningful. The volume’s contributions illustrate how historical, legal, religious, economic, political, and social connections and separations shape the experience of being located in the geographical space around the Mediterranean. Theoretically novel and empirically rich, the volume stimulates anthropological debates on the interplay between location and region-making.
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This book draws a unique and detailed picture of developments in human interpersonal violence and presents new findings on rates, patterns and long-term changes of lethal violence in the Nordic. Conducted by an interdisciplinary team of criminologists and historians, the book analyses homicide and lethal violence in northern Europe in two eras – the 17th century and early 21st century. The book is also a methodological experiment that seeks to assess the feasibility of long-duration standardized homicide analysis and to better understand the logic of long-duration homicide variation across space and over time.
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