MULTIPLE MORALITIES AND RELIGIONS IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA

“…a strong volume that provides an excellent overview of the moral breakdown and re-constitution in Russia. It is a valuable contribution to the fast growing body of English-language volumes that study different aspect of religion and morality in the former Soviet Union. In addition, it is one of the few English-language volumes on the Orthodox Church.”  •  Mathijs Pelkmans, London School of Economics

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RECONSTRUCTING THE HOUSE OF CULTURE

Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond

“This book has a clear immediate aim that has not been covered in the anthropology of Russia—to describe and analyse the ‘House of Culture,’ a prominent institution in every Soviet town and village… is a very interesting, ambitious, worthwhile and readable book.”  •  Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge

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MAPPING DIFFERENCE

The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine

“…n impressive and multifaceted assessment of the monumental changes that have occurred for women in Ukraine since independence from the Soviet Union. The articles are all of considerable interest and topical, and mesh well together as a unified whole into a comprehensive and fine collection.”  •  Michael M. Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

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DIVERSITY AND DISSENT

Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800

This volume examines the tremendous challenge of managing confessional diversity in Central Europe between 1500 and 1800. Addressing issues of tolerance, intolerance, and ecumenism, each chapter explores a facet of the complex dynamic between the state and the region’s Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Utraquist, and Jewish communities. The development of religious toleration—one of the most debated questions of the early modern period—is examined here a fresh, with careful consideration.

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THE KINGS AND THE PAWNS

Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II

For many years, the history of Byelorussia under Nazi occupation was written primarily from the perspective of the resistance movement. The very sensitivity of the topic of collaboration has prevented researchers from approaching it for many years, not least because in the former Soviet territories ideological considerations have played an important role in preserving the topic’s “untouchable” status.

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RUSSIA BEFORE THE “RADIANT FUTURE”

Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society

One of the major historians of prerevolutionary Russia has collected in this volume some of his most important essays. Written over a number of years, these pioneering works have been revised and updated and are complemented by others being published for the first time. The twelve essays raise cardinal questions about current scholarship on Russian history before the upheavals of 1917 and offer original interpretations.

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STRANGERS EITHER WAY

The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home

CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE YEAR

"This is an excellent addition to the literature on the experience of migration... Čapo ˇmegač... is well informed... The theoretical treatments are useful and well supported... The translation is very good, and the epilogue reflecting on the Croatian reception of Čapo ˇmegač's work in 2002 is an unusual and valuable methodological contribution. Highly recommended."  •  Choice

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OUT OF ALBANIA

From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy

“I strongly believe that this book will soon become a ‘standard reference’ in studies of Albanian society, Albanian migration, immigration to Italy (and possibly to Greece).”  •  Panos Hatziprokopiou

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POSTSOCIALIST EUROPE

Anthropological Perspectives from Home

“The major contribution of the volume lays in its rethinking of the postsocialist paradigm from an insider’s perspective. By taking a longue durée perspective on their societies, contributors explore cultural, political, and economic transformations, revealing the complex interactions between global processes and specific localities. Their scholarship prove,. if still necessary, that Central and Eastern European anthropology is thriving both at home and abroad.”  •  JRAI

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ASPASIA

The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Women's and Gender History

Aspasia defines gender as an organizing principle of social relationships that encompasses and produces women and men, femininities and masculinities. In addition, the yearbook emphasizes research that examines the intersection of gender with other categories of social organization―class, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, religion, and others―and that illuminates the complicated relationship between gender as cultural construct and material reality. It also explores and advances transnational aspects of women’s and gender histories within, to, and from CESEE.

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SIBIRICA

Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies

The journal publishes articles, research reports, conference and book reviews on history, politics, economics, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, and environmental studies. It provides a forum for scholars representing a wide variety of disciplines from around the world to present findings and discuss topics of relevance to human activities in the region or directly relevant to Siberian studies.

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Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)

The journal serves as an important forum for ethnographic research in and on Europe, which in this context is not defined narrowly as a geopolitical entity but rather as a meaningful cultural construction in people's lives, which both legitimates political power and calls forth practices of resistance and subversion. By presenting both new field studies and theoretical reflections on the history and politics of studying culture in Europe anthropologically, AJEC encompasses different academic traditions of engaging with its subject, from social and cultural anthropology to European ethnology and empirische Kulturwissenschaften.

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