American Anthropological Association Conference 2024
We are excited to have a presence at the American Anthropological Association conference, November 20th-23rd, 2024, in Tampa, Florida. If you are attending, please visit Berghahn booth #312 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 Editor, Tom Bonnington, and 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 20th, 2024. Just enter code AAA2024 at the checkout on our webpage.
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, 2024. To access, use code AAA2024. View redemption details. (Scroll down for more on journals.)
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Featured Titles
Two Against the Tide
The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman
Lazarsfeld-Jensen, A.
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being
African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands
Bakuri, A. Z.
Radcliffe-Brown
Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955
Niehaus, I.
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis
An International Casebook
Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)
The Politics of Relations
How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia
Thiemann, A.
Oscar Lewis in Cuba
La Partida Final
Rigdon, S. M.
One Hundred Years of Argonauts
Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology
Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)
The New Australian Military Sociology
Antipodean perspectives
West, B. & Carter, C. (eds)
Immigrant Industry
Building Postwar Australia
Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.
The Global Life of Mines
Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective
Pusceddu, A. M. & Zerilli, F. M. (eds)
An Ethnographic Chiefdom
Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)
Balaš, N.
Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa
An Axel Sommerfelt Collection
Sommerfelt, A., (au) Sommerfelt, T., Jakoubek, M., & Eriksen, T. H. (eds)
Difference and Sameness in Schools
Perspectives from the European Anthropology of Education
Gilliam, L. & Markom, C. (eds)
Boaters of London
Alternative Living on the Water
Bowles, B. O. L.
‘I am Here’, Abraham Said
Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science
Rapport, N.
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
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
Freidus, A. & Shenk, D.
Voices in the Dark
The Energy Lives of Refugees
Rosenberg-Jansen, S.
Urban Displacement
Syria's Refugees in the Middle East
Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)
Performing State Boundaries
Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China
Lammer, C.
Managing Sacralities
Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage
Hemel, E. van den, Salemink†, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Murphy Thomas, J.
Living on a Time Bomb
Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community
Schöneich, S.
Lives in Limbo
Syrian Youth in Turkey
Bryant, R., Abdulla, A., Nimer, M., & Üstübici, A.
Invisible Labours
The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England
Middlemiss, A. L.
Insidious Capital
Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle
Kalb, D. (ed)
Governing Migration Through Paperwork
Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation
Andreetta, S. & Borrelli, L. M. (eds)
Egalitarian Dynamics
Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process
Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)
Crypto Crowds
Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain
Shapiro, M. (ed)
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism
Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South
Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
New Paperbacks
Wine Is Our Bread
Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking
Ana, D.
Who are 'We'?
Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology
Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)
We are All Africans Here
Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe
Loftsdóttir, K.
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Marchand, T. H. J.
The Moral Work of Anthropology
Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work
Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)
Latin America and Refugee Protection
Regimes, Logics, and Challenges
Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Augé , C. R.
Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society
A Journey from Envy to Personhood
Souvlakis, N.
Ethnography in the Raw
Life in a Luzon Village
Moeran, B.
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Mason, A. (ed)
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
Reorienting Anthropology for the Future
Ahmad, I. (ed)
Berghahn Open Anthropology
Launched in 2020, Berghahn Open Anthro is a subscribe-to-open initiative by Berghahn Books in partnership with Libraria. Now in its fifth year, the initiative has transitioned 16 core anthropology journals fully open access and added Social Anthropology, the journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists to the collection in 2022, as well as Ethnologia Europaea in 2024.
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.comView the full BOA-S2O collection
For a full list of anthropology journals, view our collections page.
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
Ethnologia Europaea
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
Interim Editors:
Jonathan A. Allan, Brandon University
Chris Haywood, Newcastle University
Girlhood Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University
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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Readings on Abortion
In an effort to further public understanding of abortion and Roe v. Wade, we are offering free access to these relevant journal articles and book chapters. ABORTION IN ASIALocal Dilemmas, Global PoliticsEdited by Andrea Whittaker “[This book] makes an empirically rich and important contribution to social scientific scholarship on induced abortion practices and will hopefully… Read More
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22 June 2023 is Keith Hart’s 80th birthday and all at Berghahn wish him many happy returns of the day! Keith Hart has edited, authored, or contributed to more than a dozen Berghahn titles, which is quite a record. He is also the founding editor of The Human Economy series, which has just published John… Read More
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Celebrating Pride
Pride Month celebrates the LGBTQ community internationally in June, in honor of the Stonewall Riots in 1969. Joining the celebration, Berghahn Journals is offering free access to relevant journal articles until June 15, 2024, using code PRIDE24. See below for details. Available in Paperback, February 2024IDENTITIES AND PLACE Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ… Read More
Celebrating International Museum Day
On May 18th the worldwide museum community celebrates International Museum Day. This day is an occasion to raise public awareness on how important museums are in the enrichment of cultural exchange, development of society, and cooperation among people. For more information on the theme and calendar of events, visit the International Council of Museums webpage. Joining the celebration, Berghahn… Read More
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EDITOR INTERVIEW: Representing 21st-Century Migration In Europe
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