Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Mistrust is usually treated as an annoying absence and a societal failure. This book takes a step back and explores what people actually do when they mistrust.

Urbanisation in Bahir Dar poses challenges to urban living conditions. This book argues that urban development therefore needs to be locally grounded, differentiated and inclusive.

After slavery, indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap labour. This volume investigates global variants of bonded labour that exist until today.

The authors examine spaces and identities resulting from social practice in cross-border contexts in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Politics of ethnicity – this volume presents the first attempt to analyze ethnicity from an interdisciplinary angle in a comparative, global, and historical perspective.

Port cities have always been the gateway to the world. This anthology shows port cities as crucibles of globalization and trans-nationalization processes, developing their own kinds of urban structures.

A cultural science perspective on anti-terrorism laws after 9/11. This volume shows that these jurisdictional interventions permanently change and endanger the idea of citizenship.

In contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness. Insights into the ways in which this dynamic unfolds enable one to affirm human temporalities in their potential difference to the temporalities of global capitalism.
The book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporalities on markets, in buses and in traditional subsistence in Guatemala, and a theoretical exploration of these through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and inter-relational approaches within psychoanalysis.

This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural background of the society of origin on the one hand and the strategies of integration found in the host society on the other play in the creation of identity and of a concept of home, origin and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, style) and what role do peer groups and social milieus play in this regard? How do migrant children experience xenophobia and a lack of acceptance on the side of the host society and how do they counter-balance such experiences?
The approach taken is both comparative and interdisciplinary, the contributors having different theoretical and methodological backgrounds, the contributions dealing with different social and cultural settings both with regard to place of origin and host society.