Books in the New Anthropologies of Europe series

In Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the social safety net, it is women who have been left as leaders of service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the destitute with little or no support from the Ukrainian state. This book documents the unexpected effects that social activism has produced for women in Ukraine.

Mumming and modernity in rural Bulgaria

Reflections on politics, loss and reconciliation in Europe and the Middle East

Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the "e;Ottoman mosaic."e; In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the "e;good minority,"e; Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination and their institutions are regularly threatened and periodically attacked. Brink-Danan explores the contradictions and gaps in the popular ideology of Turkey as a land of tolerance, describing how Turkish Jews manage the tensions between cosmopolitanism and patriotism, difference as Jews and sameness as Turkish citizens, tolerance and violence.

Crossing religious frontiers at shared holy places

Psychological harassment at work, or "e;mobbing,"e; has become a significant public policy issue in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Mobbing has given rise to specialized counseling clinics, a new field of professional expertise, and new labor laws. For Noelle J. Mole, mobbing is a manifestation of Italy's rapid transition from a highly protectionist to a market-oriented labor regime and a neoliberal state. She analyzes the classification of mobbing as a work-related illness, the deployment of preventive public health programs, the relation of mobbing to gendered work practices, and workers' use of the concept of mobbing to make legal and medical claims, with implications for state policy, labor contracts, and political movements. For many Italian workers, mobbing embodies the social and psychological effects of an economy and a state in transition.