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Audiences of Nazism: Using Media in the Third Reich
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2024), xii, 290 pp.
"Traces of audience responses to propaganda in the Third Reich are particularly sparse given that the public sphere was so highly regulated. By taking an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to found historical sources of audiences' responses, the contributions to Audiences of Nazism critically
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Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2024), xxxii, 244 pp.
"The West German novel, radio play, and television series, Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has been gradually regaining popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in post-war
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The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2023), x, 168 pp.
"The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order t
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Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
New York: Berghahn (2023), vii, 245 pp.
"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on
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Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2021), viii, 239 pp.
"Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives
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On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History
New York; Oxford: Berghahn; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2021), 104 pp.
"Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known image
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Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2021), xii, 228 pp.
"Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline space
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Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case
"In this chapter, I analyze transnational memory following the four elements outlined in the introduction—actors, structures, practices, and outcomes—in the case of the disappearances of forty-three students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico, in 2014. First, I discuss why the issue of agency and the outco
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Theorising Media and Conflict
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), x, 339 pp.
"Theorising Media and Conflict is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort to set the theoretical and empirical agenda in theorising upon the complex relationship between media and conflict. By considering the theorisation work accomplished by the ‘Anthropology of Media’ series forerun
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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-Media-Centric Perspectives
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), 250 pp.
"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on
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Monetising the Dividual Self: The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), xiii, 221 pp.
"Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter thick description case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers – precursors to current social media microcelebrities and influencers. It tracks the transformation of pe
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Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.
"From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and
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Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking Between Mexico and the US
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2017), xvii, 336 pp.
"Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined medi
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Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement
New York: Berghahn (2015), vi, 228 pp.
"Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Be
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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.
"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West
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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
New York: Berghahn, paperback ed. (2015), xvii, 331 pp.
"How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion
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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.
"This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A
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Mass Communication in Israel: Nationalism, Globalization, and Segmentation
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2014), 238 pp.
"Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique. It explores the roots and evolut
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Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
New York: Berghahn (2013), vi, 183 pp.
"The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military o
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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account
New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.
"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma
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