In this book Jukka Korpela offers an analysis of the trade in kidnapped Finns and Karelians into slavery in Eastern Europe. Blond slaves from the north of Europe were rare luxury items in Black Sea and Caspian markets, and the high prices they commanded stimulated and sustained …
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The edited collection Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa presents research findings from the German Research Council's Priority Programme 1448 "Adaptation and Change in Africa" (2011-2018). At the heart of the volume are important new spatial pract…
Front Matter -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Social Sciences at the Crossroads: Introduction /Björn Wittrock and Shalini Randeria -- Forms of Being -- What Can We Learn from Insect Societies? /Raghavendra Gadagkar -- What Does it M…
The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? Ho…
