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In studying the treatment of battered, raped and sexually-harassed women in the two countries, she has found that, contrary to conventional expectation, the ability of the decentralized American state to innovate effectively has been consistently underestimated, whereas Sweden's ability to do the same has often been exaggerated.

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines.

The question of individuality in non-European, and especially South Asian societies is a controversial one. Studies in anthropology and psychology undertaken in recent years onconcepts of person and self approach the problem by concentrating on ideologies; the question of practice remains largely neglected.

What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions by examining the making of people and the emergence of places in a particular context. He develops a powerful idea: the formulation of "creativity" as an ongoing and integral part of kinship as environmental engagement.

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world of even mythical significance. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated.

Studies of the military that deal with the actual experience of troops in the field are still rare in the social sciences. In fact, this ethnographic study of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Force is the only one of its kind. As an officer of this unit and a professional anthropologist, the author was ideally positioned for his role.

Placing the anthropological study of mass media into historical and interdisciplinary perspectives, this study examines how work in cultural studies, sociology, mass communication and other disciplines has helped shape the re-emerging interest in media by anthropologists.

The construction of masculinity is becoming a field of growing interest because it is opening up new and fascinating perspectives, thus adding a further dimension to Gender Studies. However, so far the analysis has focused mostly on homosexuality. By contrast, the author examines social processes and relations that constitute hegemonic masculinity.

Having produced volumes on the 1994 and 1998 German elections, political scientists based in the US here look at the 2002 election, in which a last-minute swing returned the parties of Gerhard Schr der's government.

Based on fieldwork on the socioeconomic aspects of conservation on the tourist destination of Zakynthos, Theodossopoulos (social anthropology, U. of Bristol) shifted his original focus from a general analysis of emerging Greek environmental politics to an ethnographic case study of the values shapin

Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with processes of globalization and cultural production within a specific group of consumers, British Sh'ite Iranians.

Following the Arakmbuts' recommendation, the author uses their three greatest myths to introduce social, cultural and historical aspects of their lives. He ends with a discussion of the relationship between myth and history showing how the Arakmbut recreate their myths at the dramatic moments of their history.

In light of the curve balls the times are throwing at the identity, priorities, and world views of young Israelis, Hazan (social anthropology, Tel Aviv U.) constructs an ethnographically informed discourse pertaining to the tension and interplay between the mythical framework and formulae of Zionism

Looking back at the last century with its devastating wars, genocides, environmental disasters, more often than not caused by humans, an urgent need for a paradigmatic shift in human relationships suggests itself. Other factors point in the same direction, such as movement towards globalization, reflected in greater fragmentation of society...

The most original, new work on Hesse in many years and the definitive study of the young Herman Hesse, offering much previously unknown material such as his "neo-Romantic" poetry of which two dozen are published here for the first time in the original.

Though he focuses fairly narrowly on the sale and liquidation of Jewish businesses, Bajohr (history, Forchungsstelle fnr Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg) also sees Aryanization as an all- encompassing displacement process whose political and social underpinnings and historical context must be analyzed as wel

Reunification, Berger (University of Wales, Cardiff) observes, has brought in its wake efforts on the extreme Right to re-establish a nationalist historiography. Even among the liberal-conservative mainstream of German historiography, an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation-state has begu

Over the last few years, there has been a noticeable increase in studies on the postwar period of Germany, reflecting the crucial importance of these years for an understanding of the developments in the two Germanys. This is a study of U.S. occupation policy and its effects on German social and political developments in the major cities.

As the field of film studies rediscovers film history and the value of historical context for the analysis of individual films, monographs on filmmakers are increasingly valuable to scholars and students of both film history and cultural studies. Through the provocative and prolific career of Robert Wiene, a wider, more dynamic view of fantasy...

Karina, a professional dancer who fled wartime Germany, and dance historian Kant (U. of Pennsylvania) counter revisionist histories of dance in the Nazi era. In their first-hand accounts and analysis, they emphasize dancers' collaboration with the regime and the regime's infusion of its Aryan/anti-S

To augment the many celebrations of the anniversary of European revolutions of the middle 19th century, historians from the continent, Britain, and the US follow the story to where, for many revolutionaries, it ended: in exile in London. They look at what Englishmen thought of the refugees, emigr co

Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work became an instant classic.

Just as feminist scholars began to develop an analysis of "the state" and women in Europe gained access to its political, legal and bureaucratic arenas, increased attention and reliance on European institutions have begun to take precedence over the more parochial concerns of the nation state.

Points to the important role of women as key characters in Polish films, such as the enduring female figure in Polish culture, the "Polish Mother," female characters in socialist realistic cinema, women depicted in the films of the Polish School, solidarity heroines, and women in the films from the postcommunist period.