American Anthropological Association Conference 2023
We are excited to have a presence at the American Anthropological Association conference, November 15th-19th, 2023, in Toronto, Canada. If you are attending in-person, please visit Berghahn booth #316 to browse new and recent books available at special conference prices, pick up FREE sample copies of journals, learn more about our Open Access initiatives and speak with publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Marion Berghahn!
If you are unable to attend, we offer limited time special 35% discount on all Anthropology titles through December 3rd, 2023. Just enter code AAA2023 at the checkout on our webpage. Our current Anthropology catalogue can be viewed and downloaded here.
The Berghahn Open Anthro - Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) initiative in partnership with Libraria, has entered its 4th year of providing full open access to 15 journals in the collection. In addition to the open access content, Berghahn Journals would like to offer FREE ACCESS to Boyhood Studies, Durkheimian Studies, Girlhood Studies, Nature and Culture, and Transfers until November 30, 2023. To access, use code AAA23. View redemption details. (Scroll down for more on journals.)
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Featured Titles
Urban Natures
Living the More-than-Human City
Edwards, F., PEttersen, I. N. & Popartan, L. (eds)
That Sinking Feeling
On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
Wellgraf, S.
The Subject of Sovereignty
Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism
Feldman, G.
Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing
Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
Joshi, M.
Broken Glass, Broken Class
Transformations of Work in Bulgaria
Kofti, D.
Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism
Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology
Ferraz de Matos, P.
Set to See Us Fail
Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York
Castellano, V.
Romani Chronicles of COVID-19
Testimonies of Harm and Resilience
Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)
Obstetricians Speak
On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation
Floyd-Davis, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities
Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
Military Politics
New Perspectives
Crosbie, T. (ed)
Love, Loyalty and Deceit
Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men
Firth, H. & Brown, L.
In the Meantime
Toward an Anthropology of the Possible
Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe
The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus
Hirschon, R.
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)
Against Better Judgment
Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives
McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)
Featured Series: Anthropology's Ancestors
William Robertson Smith
Bošković, A.
Max Gluckman
Macmillan, H.
Mary Douglas
Richards, P. & 6, P.
Margaret Mead
Shankman, P.
Françoise Héritier
Gaillard, G.
Alfred Cort Haddon
A Very English Savage
Walsh, C.
Open Access
Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.
We are also is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the OA Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access. To learn more please visit www.berghahnbooks.com/open-access/migration-development
This Land Is Not For Sale
Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda
Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)
Resisting Radicalisation?
Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus
Pilkington, H. (ed)
Weary Warriors
Power, Knowledge, and the Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
Moss, P. & Prince, M. J.
Visions of Marriage
Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
Chiu, H.-C.
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States
War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest
Keyel, J.
Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
Leibing, A. & Schicktanz, S. (eds)
The Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)
Patrons of Women
Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
Hertzog, E.
Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Biesele, M.
Making Multiple Babies
Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction
Wu, C.-L.
Integrating Strangers
Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast
Ménard, A.
From Village Commons to Public Goods
Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
Trémon, A.-C.
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)
Cryptopolitics
Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism
Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad
Knudsen, S. (ed)
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)
New Paperbacks
Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Knight, D. M.
Travelling towards Home
Mobilities and Homemaking
Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)
Time Work
Studies of Temporal Agency
Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)
Jaguars of the Dawn
Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, E.
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.
BERGHAHN OPEN ANTHRO – SUBSCRIBE-TO-OPEN
In partnership with Libraria
The Berghahn Open Anthro - Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) initiative in partnership with Libraria, has entered its 4th year of providing full open access to 15 journals in the collection.
Benefits of Subscribe-to-Open:
- An opportunity for authors to publish without paying APCs, which promotes equity and diversity in scholarly research.
- A sustainable and seamless open access solution for both libraries and publishers.
- Open content to researchers with limited access to important resources.
Support the initiative by recommending one journal or the entire BOA collection to your library!
Contact: info@berghahnjournals.com
Berghahn Open Anthropology Journals
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Anthropology in Action
Anthropology of the Middle East
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Conflict and Society
Environment and Society
Focaal
Journal of Legal Anthropology
Learning and Teaching
Migration and Society
Museum Worlds
Religion and Society
Sibirica
Social Analysis
Social Anthropology/Anthropolie Sociale
More Anthropology Journals
Boyhood Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editor: Michael R.M. Ward, Swansea University
more infoGirlhood Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editor in Chief: Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam
more infoDurkheimian Studies
Études Durkheimiennes
Editors: W. Watts Miller and Jean-Christophe Marcel
more infoNature and Culture
Editors:
Sing C. Chew, Heimholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Mattiah Gross, Heimholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and University of Jena
Daniel Sarabia, Roanoke College, USA
Regions and Cohesion
Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion
Editors:
Harlan Koff, Université du Luxembourg
Carmen Maganda, INECOL
Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Editor: Cotton Seiler, Dickinson College, USA
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Introducing the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection
Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year until 2023 we are adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As libraries […]
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