Join our Email List
Berghahn Anthropology
Berghahn Books: winner of The AAA Executive Director's Award of Excellence for Publishing in Anthropology. Presented to Marion Berghahn "for her decades of courageous, risk-taking publishing work, remaining independent and without a safety net at a time of upheaval and consolidation in the publishing world. Small presses like Berghahn Books are absolutely essential to scholarly communication in the field of Anthropology."
- eBooks
- General Interest
- Applied Anthropology
- Environmental Studies
- Food & Nutrition
- Medical Anthropology
- Peace & Conflict Studies
- Political Economy
- Religion
- Sociology
- Theory & Methodology
New & Recent titles
February 2021
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.
February 2021
Rhetoric and Social Relations
Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)
March 2021
Reluctant Intimacies
Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
Świtek, B.
September 2021
Experimental Collaborations
Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)
February 2021
Experiencing Materiality
Museum Perspectives
Gamberi, V.
February 2021
Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.
March 2021
The Struggle for the Past
How We Construct Social Memories
Jelin, E.
April 2022
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)
March 2021
Agent of Change
The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)
March 2021
Floating Economies
The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India
Casimir, M. J.
March 2021
A Taste for Oppression
A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Hervouet, R.
March 2021
Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Transnational Approaches
Moletsane, R., Wiebesiek, L.,Treffry-Goatley, A. & Mandrona, A. (eds)
March 2021
The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.
April 2021
In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum
Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution
Franck, A., Casciarri, B., & Salim El-Hassan, I. (eds)
April 2021
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
April 2021
Ethnography in the Raw
Life in a Luzon Village
Moeran, B.
September 2021
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
October 2021
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
April 2021
Merchant Kings
Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
Schrauwers, A.
April 2021
Liminal Moves
Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times
Cangià, F.
April 2021
Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Nichols, C. A.
April 2021
Remaking the Human
Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)
February 2022
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)
October 2021
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
April 2021
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)
May 2021
Mattering the Invisible
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral
Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)
May 2021
A Twisted Style
The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies
Jerrentrup, M. T.
May 2021
To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.
May 2021
Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
June 2021
Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society
A Journey from Envy to Personhood
Souvlakis, N.
June 2021
Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia
Women, Migration, and the Diaspora
Akman, H. (ed)
June 2021
The Moral Work of Anthropology
Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work
Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)
June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy
Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber
Mommsen, W. J.
October 2021
Staying at Home
Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans
Sanders, R.
June 2021
Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)
June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures
Anthropological Engagements with the Future
Collins, S. G.
June 2022
The Vampire
Origins of a European Myth
Bohn, T. M.
June 2021
NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa
Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)
June 2022
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
June 2021
Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience
New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives
Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)
June 2021
Embracing Landscape
Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia
Küçüküstel, S.
June 2021
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)
June 2021
Sovereign Forces
Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America
McNeish, J.-A.
June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.
August 2021
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Griffith, L. M.
June 2021
Narratives in the Making
Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present
Gallinat, A.
July 2021
Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula
An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia
Matošević, A.
July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.
June 2022
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
July 2021
Explorations in Economic Anthropology
Key Issues and Critical Reflections
Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)
July 2021
Margaret Mead
Shankman, P.
July 2021
How Kinship Systems Change
On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
Parkin, R.
July 2021
Matsutake Worlds
Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)
July 2021
Textures of Belonging
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Racleş, A.
August 2021
Living Like a Girl
Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond
Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)
August 2021
Tracing Slavery
The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands
Balkenhol, M.
August 2021
William Robertson Smith
Bošković, A.
August 2021
Stories from an Ancient Land
Perspectives on Wa History and Culture
Fiskesjö, M.
August 2021
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.
August 2021
Latin America and Refugee Protection
Regimes, Logics, and Challenges
Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)
February 2021
Transborder Media Spaces
Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US
Kummels, I.
December 2021
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
HadžiMuhamedović, S.
September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
September 2021
Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Knight, D. M.
September 2021
Work, Society and the Ethical Self
Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era
Hann, C. (ed)
December 2021
Divining History
Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Svenungsson, J.
September 2021
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
October 2021
Civil Society Revisited
Lessons from Poland
Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)
July 2021
Children of the Camp
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Grayson, C.-L.
September 2021
Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Eczet, J.-B.
March 2022
Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Hromadžić, A. & Palmberger, M. (eds)
September 2021
The Camino de Santiago
Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism
Murray, M.
November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
September 2021
Guido Goldman
Transatlantic Bridge Builder
Klingst, M.
September 2021
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?
Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted
Hadley, R. A.
September 2021
Hope and Insufficiency
Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)
April 2022
The Dance of Nurture
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.
October 2021
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Swancutt, K. (ed)
October 2021
Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
Kingfisher, C.
October 2021
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
October 2021
Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.
October 2021
Moral Economy at Work
Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)
May 2022
Critique of Identity Thinking
Jackson, M.
November 2021
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
November 2021
Nothing New in Europe?
Israelis Look at Antisemitism Today
Haviv-Horiner, A.
February 2022
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
November 2021
Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Matthews, W.
November 2021
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Marchand, T. H. J.
November 2021
Rethinking Internal Displacement
Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
Laker, F.
November 2021
Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
López, JM
September 2021
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
December 2021
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)
January 2022
A Goddess in Motion
Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza
Canals, R.
December 2021
We are All Africans Here
Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe
Loftsdóttir, K.
December 2021
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)
December 2021
Franz Baermann Steiner
A Stranger in the World
Adler, J. & Fardon, R.
January 2022
An Urban Future for Sápmi?
Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia
Berg-Nordlie, M., Dankertsen, A, & Winsvold, M. (eds)
January 2022
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
January 2022
Today’s Extremisms
Crisis, Radicalization, and the Conundrum of the Center and the Extremes
Loperfido, G. (ed)
January 2022
Afropolitan Horizons
Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
Hannerz, U.
January 2022
Entrepreneurs of Identity
The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire
Günther, C.
January 2022
Opening Up the University
Teaching and Learning with Refugees
Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)
January 2022
Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.
February 2022
Land and the Mortgage
History, Culture, Belonging
Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)
July 2021
Militant Lactivism?
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Faircloth, C.
June 2021
Wolf Conflicts
A Sociological Study
Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.
February 2022
Wine Is Our Bread
Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking
Ana, D.
February 2022
An American Icon in Puerto Rico
Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.
February 2022
Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Lenhard, J.
February 2022
Walls and Gateways
Contested Heritage in Post-War Dubrovnik
Loades, C. M.
February 2022
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)
January 2022
The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Lueong, G. M.
February 2022
Françoise Héritier
Gaillard, G.
February 2022
Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Abranches, M.
February 2022
Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Urciuoli, B.
February 2022
Refugees on the Move
Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe
Balkan, E. & Kutlu-Tonak, Z. (eds)
February 2022
Durable Solutions
Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia
Funke, C.
July 2021
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
March 2022
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Perminow, A. A.
March 2022
The Precarity of Masculinity
Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Kovač, U.
March 2022
Self in the World
Connecting Lifes Extremes
Hart, K.
March 2022
The Social Origins of Thought
Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
Schick, Johannes F. M.
Anthropology-Related Journals
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
ISSN Print: 1755-2923
ISSN Online: 1755-2931
Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
ISSN Print: 0967-201X
ISSN Online: 1752-2285
Anthropology of the Middle East
ISSN Print: 1746-0719
ISSN Online: 1746-0727
Conflict and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2164-4543
ISSN Online: 2164-4551
Environment and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2150-6779
ISSN Online: 2150-6787
Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0920-1297
ISSN Online: 1558-5263
Journal of Legal Anthropology
ISSN Print: 1758-9576
ISSN Online: 1758-9584
Learning and Teaching
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
ISSN Print: 1755-2273
ISSN Online: 1755-2281
Migration and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2574-1306
ISSN Online: 2574-1314
Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737
Religion and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2150-9298
ISSN Online: 2150-9301
Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787
Social Analysis
The International Journal of Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0155-977X
ISSN Online: 1558-5727
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
ISSN Print: 0964-0282
ISSN Online: 1469-8676
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0305-7674
ISSN Online: 2047-7716
Latest Anthropology Blog Articles
Introducing the KU Migration and Development Studies collection
Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the KU Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year until 2023 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 […]
Celebrate Pride Month with free access to LGBTQ articles and chapters
In celebration of Pride Month in June, enjoy free access to the following articles and chapters from Berghahn. Berghahn Journals ASPASIA Secret Years: Hungarian Lesbian Herstory, 1950s–2000sAnna Borgos (Vol. 9) BOYHOOD STUDIES Boyz2Men: Male Migrants’ Attitudes to Homosexuality and What Age Has To Do with ItKatarzyna Wojnicka (Vol. 13, Issue 2) GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY LGBTI Rights and the 2017 […]
A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church
Karen Lauterbach World Refugee Day (20 June) offers a chance to raise awareness of the plight of refugees around the world and of the efforts to protect their human rights. In the spirit of this day, we are featuring an excerpt from “‘A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church’: Refugee-Refugee Hosting in a Faith-Based Context” by Karen Lauterbach (published […]
Excerpt: The triple-sidedness of “I can’t breathe”
Juneteenth (19 June) is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. In the spirit of this day, we are featuring an excerpt from “The triple-sidedness of “I can’t breathe”: The COVID-19 pandemic, enslavement, and agro-industrial capitalism” by Don Nonini (published in Focaal, Vol. 2021: Issue 89). On Juneteenth,1 Friday, […]
Human Engagement with the Sea: A Shifting Discourse
Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson World Oceans Day (8 June) is a day for humanity to celebrate the ocean. In this spirit, we are delighted to feature an excerpt from the introduction to AT HOME ON THE WAVES: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today, edited by Tanya J. King and Gary […]
Excerpt: Austrian “Gypsies” in the Italian archives
Paola Trevisan In the spirit of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month in June, we invite you to read the following excerpt from “Austrian ‘Gypsies’ in the Italian archives: Historical ethnography on multiple border crossings at the beginning of the twentieth century” by Paola Trevisan. This article is featured in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical […]
Excerpt: Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance
Ana K. Spalding and Ricardo de Ycaza In the spirit of World Environment Day on 5 June, we invite you to read the following excerpt from “Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance: From UNCLOS to Sustainable Development Goal 14” by Ana K. Spalding and Ricardo de Ycaza (Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Vol.11: Issue 1), a […]
Celebrating 9 Years of the Berghahn Blog
The Berghahn Blog turns nine this June! Celebrate with us by reading our nine most popular articles since our inception in 2012! 9. A ‘Privileged’ Prisoner is Still a Prisoner by Adam Brown The evolution of my book, Judging “Privileged” Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation and the “Grey Zone,” was – like most books no doubt – somewhat long and complex. To […]
TRANSBORDER MEDIA SPACES: AYUUJK VIDEOMAKING BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE US
Ingrid Kummels As a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, social arrangements allowing people to carry on despite the restrictions on mobility forced upon them became predominant across the world. From work (home office) and education (home schooling) to birthday parties, meetings, conferences and political campaigns (Zoom, etc.) diverse aspects of life were reoriented to adapt […]
On Archival Access in a Pandemic
Catherine A. Nichols Exchanging Objects and my broader research agenda considers how and why certain objects left museums, institutions so often associated with preservation, archiving, and keeping. It can be an odd thing, to go to a museum to intentionally study things that aren’t there. When the idea for this research was suggested to me […]
Email List Signup
Sign-Up For Anthropology Communications from Berghahn Books Inc
If you would like to receive occasional e-Marketing Communications from Berghahn Books Inc on New Book Titles and Series, and our latest Subject Catalogues and Newsletters, please tick the relevant box(es) below: