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On what basis are sibling relations made and negotiated and how do they change over time? How do siblings provide support, but also create pressure or conflict? Despite their importance as models for or contrasts to marriage, friendship, and nation, sibling relations have been largely ignored in anthropology. In this volume, the contributors provide a conceptualization of siblingship as shared parentage, exchange, and experience. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to wider community processes, material support, and emotional connection. The ethnographic case studies provide detailed descriptions of lived sibling relations in various settings across the globe.

Der Auschwitz-Überlebende Joseph Wulf (1912-1974) war in den 1950er Jahren der erste, der in Deutschland Bücher zum Holocaust publizierte. Vor einigen Jahren entspann sich um ihn eine Kontroverse über die frühe bundesrepublikanische NS-Forschung. In ihrem Zentrum stand die Frage, ob die deutsche Zeitgeschichtsforschung nationalapologetisch war und die jüdische Geschichtserfahrung - die Perspektive der Opfer - systematisch ausklammerte. Klaus Kempter beleuchtet diese Frage anhand von Leben und Werk Joseph Wulfs neu. Er verdeutlicht: Das vorherrschende, durch seinen Suizid 1974 scheinbar bestätigte Bild Wulfs als tragische und gescheiterte Existenz ist zu korrigieren. Wulf war aufgrund seiner Herkunft und seines Lebenswegs ein Außenseiter, doch seine Publikationen trugen wesentlich zur Aufklärung über den Nationalsozialismus bei. "Kempters großes historisches Verdienst ist es, zum ersten Mal den polnisch-ostjüdischen Kontext von Wulfs frühem Leben zu erhellen. Seine literarische Meisterleistung ist, die bräsig-infamen Intrigen der Legendenbildner des Nachkriegs so minutiös nachzuzeichnen, dass man hinsichtlich der Aufklärung der Verbrechen nur den Schluss ziehen kann: Hier ist nicht ein Außenseiter zu früh gekommen - er ist vielmehr an eine sich mutwillig verspätende Nation geraten" (dradio.de)

The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects of this cross-cultural relationship. Cultural interactions are often accompanied by the term cultural imperialism, a concept that on close scrutiny turns out to be a hasty oversimplification given the contemporary cultural interaction between the U.S. and Japan. "Embracing Differences" shows that this assumption of a one-sided transfer is no longer valid. Closely investigating Disney theme parks, sushi, as well as movies, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt reveals a dialogical exchange between these two nations that has changed the image of Japan in the United States.

Die Geschichte des Landes als eine Geschichte des Leidens, dem die kulturelle Vielfalt, dem Literatur und Musik als Korrektiv gegenüber stehen. Rezension: Der Hamburger Romanist und Journalist (über "Flamenco", 2006) beschreibt die Geschichte des Landes als eine Geschichte des Leidens - beginnend mit der Herrschaft der Spanier und Portugiesen, die nur an der Ausbeutung der Ressourcen des Landes interessiert waren bis in die neueste Zeit. Knipp zeigt schön, wie sich die Nation aus dem Widerstand gegen die lange Zeit herrschenden Militärs heraus bildete. Die Präsidenten Lula und Roussef kommen aus diesem Zusammenhang, der auch Literatur und Musik lange Zeit geprägt hat. Diese Zeit ist auch mitverantwortlich für die tägliche Gewalt und Brutalität, die sich aus den Verwerfungen speist, die die in kürzester Zeit sich abspielende Umwandlung einer ländlichen Gesellschaft in eine städtische mit sich bringt. Knipp arbeitet schwerpunktmäi︢g dabei auch die Leistung der Kultur heraus, die der Unwirtlichkeit der Städte - die sich auch auf dem Land widerspiegelt - in bescheidenem Masse verändert. - Ergänzend zu U. Prutsch (2013) angesichts der aktuellen Bedeutung Brasiliens (Buchmesse, Fussballweltmeisterschaft, Olympiade) gut einsetzbar. (2)

The history of decolonization is usually written backward, as if the end-point (a world of juridically equivalent nation-states) was known from the start. But the routes out of colonial empire appear more varied. Some Africans sought equal rights within empire, others to federate among themselves; some sought independence. In London or Paris, officials realized they had to reform colonial empires, but not necessarily give them up. The idea of "development" became a way to assert that empires could be made both more productive and more legitimate. Frederick Cooper explores how these alternative possibilities narrowed between 1945 and approximately 1960.

Contained with the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Norfolk's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just Norfolk but the whole nation. From the Burnham Poisoners of 1835 to the Yarmouth Beach Murders, from the Pixworth Horror to 'the last judicial beheading in England', this is a collection of the county's most dramatic and interesting criminal cases. Neil R Storey has gone back to original records and documents to uncover the truth about these extrao

For almost a thousand years, Scotland and England have been neighbour nations. For more than half that time, they were foreign countries, often at war. Four hundred years ago, they began to share a monarchy; three hundred years ago, they joined in a United Kingdom. A new concept of 'Britishness' arose, but for most purposes Scots remained Scots and English remained English, and the old sense of rivalry remained. In olden times, a war of words and propaganda accompanied the fighting. As the countries got to know each other better and the fighting died down, the verbal exchanges continued, and b

The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation known as the JMP is mandated by the United Nations to report every two years on access to drinking water and sanitation worldwide and on progress towards related targets under Millennium Development Goal 7. This 2012 report is based on data gathered from household surveys and censuses including both recent andolder data sets that have come to the attention of the JMP. The estimates presented here describe the situation as of end 2010 and supersede those of the JMP update published in March 2010. The report brings welcome

At no time in American history has an understanding of the role and the art of diplomacy in international relations been more essential than it is today. Both the history of U.S. diplomatic relations and the current U.S. foreign policy in the twenty-first century are major topics of study and interest across the nation and around the world. Spanning the entire history of American diplomacy-from the First Continental Congress to the war on terrorism to the foreign policy goals of the twenty-first century-Guide to U.S. Foreign Policy traces not only the growth and development of diplomatic polic

Political Struggles over the Afghan-Pakistani Borderlands / Amin Tarzi -- The Transformation of the Afghan-Pakistan Border / Gilles Dorronsoro -- Religious Revivalism across the Durand Line / Sana Haroon -- Taliban, Real and Imagined / James Caron -- Quandaries of the Afghan Nation / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi -- How Tribal are the Taliban? / Thomas Ruttig -- Ethnic Minorities in Search of Political Consolidation / Lutz Rzehak -- Red Mosque / Faisal Devji -- Madrasa Statistics Don't Support the Myth / Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja -- Will Sufi Islam save Pakistan? / Farzana Shaikh -- The Politics of Pashtun and Punjabi Truck Decoration / Jamal J. Elias -- The Afghan Mediascape / Nushin Arbabzadah -- Women and the Drug Trade in Afghanistan / Fariba Nawa

In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Robert P. Ericksen explains how an advanced, highly educated, Christian nation could commit the crimes of the Holocaust. This book describes how Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, thus becoming active participants in the persecution of Jews, and ultimately, in the Holocaust. Ericksen also examines Germany's deeply flawed yet successful postwar policy of denazification in these institutions. Complicity in the Holocaust argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. An Orphan's Fire -- 2. A Father in Black Robes -- 3. The Count and the Club -- 4. Walking Right into Trouble -- 5. King Carl Wins the Crown -- 6. Eastern Washington's First Black Lawyer -- 7. Stirrings from the South -- 8. The Haircut Uproar and a Perfunctory Execution -- 9. Freedom Summer in the Tail End of America -- 10. "The Sickness of Our Nation" -- 11. A Right Hook to Scoop Jackson -- 12. The Seattle Seven Circus -- 13. The Maxey Temper -- 14. Ruth Coe's Greek Tragedy -- 15. "No Goddamned Award" -- 16. "Living through All This B.S." -- 17. Type-A Gandhi -- Notes on Sources -- Index.

Spaces and Projects of National Importance (SAPONI) are not only important for the respective spatial areas, they are also in the interest of the entire nation, and, sometimes of European interest as well. Over a three years period a series of different symposia with high-level spatial planners from all over Europe had been focusing on these strategic spaces and projects. The book sums up the findings of these issues which can have "far-reaching consequences and chances that could be used - or they could be lost" like the leader of the workshop-series, Prof. Bernd Scholl, points out.

Preface -- Europe's preferential trade agreements: status, content, and implications / Raymond J. Ahearn -- NATO common funds burdensharing: background and current issues / Carl Ek -- Monitoring and verification in arms control / Amy F. Woolf -- Foreign aid: international donor coordination of development assistance / Marian Leonardo Lawson -- Foreign science and engineering presence in U.S. institutions and the labor force / Christine M. Matthews -- Foreign aid reform, national strategy, and the quadrennial review / Susan B. Epstein -- Detection of nuclear weapons and materials: science, technologies, observations / Jonathan Medalia -- The trans-Pacific partnership agreement / Ian F. Fergusson and Bruce Vaughn -- A new United Nations entity for women: issues for Congress / Luisa Blanchfield

In the domain of health, the relation between bodies, citizenship, nations and governments has changed beyond recognition over the past four decades, especially in Africa. In many regions, populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, and the disciplinary regimes of modernity are faint memories. In this situation, new critical insights beyond the critique of old »modernization« and the »disciplinary regimes« of imperial times are needed. How can we keep up our sophisticated criticism of knowledge regimes and our doubts with regard to narratives of development, when so many people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and are envisioning their own renaissance?