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New & Recent Anthropology titles
July 2018
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)
July 2018
Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Meyer, B. & van de Port, M. (eds)
July 2018
Pilgrimage and Political Economy
Translating the Sacred
Coleman, S. & Eade, J. (eds)
July 2018
Living Under Austerity
Greek Society in Crisis
Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)
July 2018
Global Fluids
The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value
Kroløkke, C.
July 2018
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Burke, P.
July 2018
Momentous Mobilities
Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel
Salazar, N. B.
August 2018
Mirrors of Passing
Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (eds)
August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Rollins, J.
August 2018
Healthcare in Motion
Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access
Vindrola-Padros, C., Johnson G. A., & Pfister, A. E. (eds)
August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History
Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)
August 2018
Hierarchy and Value
Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order
Hickel, J. & Haynes, N. (eds)
August 2018
The Rite of Urban Passage
The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation
Masoudi, R.
August 2018
Refugee Resettlement
Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.
August 2018
Being a Sperm Donor
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark
Mohr, S.
August 2018
Roma Activism
Reimagining Power and Knowledge
Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)
August 2018
The Wheel of Autonomy
Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley
Girke, F.
August 2018
All or None
Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt
Sánchez Hall, A.
September 2018
Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
Carrier, J. G. (ed)
September 2018
Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
Henfrey, T. B.
September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
Zeitzen, M. K.
September 2018
Medicinal Rule
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Stroeken, K.
September 2018
Travelling towards Home
Mobilities and Homemaking
Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)
September 2018
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
September 2018
Cash Transfers in Context
An Anthropological Perspective
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)
October 2018
Competing Power
Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State
Halstead, N.
October 2018
The Politics of Authenticity
Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989
Häberlen, J. C., Keck-Szajbel, M., & Mahoney, K. (eds)
October 2018
Indeterminacy
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)
October 2018
The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement
A Critical Appraisal
Staffored, P. B. (ed)
October 2018
Social DNA
Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past
Martin, M. K.
November 2018
Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)
November 2018
Artifak
Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu
DeBlock, H.
November 2018
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War
Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990
Badalassi, N. & Snyder, S. B. (eds)
November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
December 2018
Transforming Study Abroad
A Handbook
Doerr, N. M.
December 2018
Of Life and Health
The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System
Tengan, A. B.
December 2018
From Storeroom to Stage
Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
Urdea, A.
December 2018
Law, History, and Justice
Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century
Weinke, A.
December 2018
Democracy Struggles
NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Vetta, T.
December 2018
Europeanization in Sweden
Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations
Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)
December 2018
Conceptualizing the World
An Exploration across Disciplines
Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)
December 2018
Contemplating Historical Consciousness
Notes from the Field
Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)
January 2019
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.
January 2019
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Marsh, D. E.
January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self
The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
Hopkins, J.
January 2019
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
January 2019
Refugees Welcome?
Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)
February 2019
Party Responses to Social Movements
Challenges and Opportunities
Piccio, D. R.
February 2019
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Theodossopoulos, D. & Kapferer, B. (eds)
February 2019
Rampart Nations
Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)
February 2019
Going to Pentecost
An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.
February 2019
At Home on the Waves
Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)
February 2019
Fate Calculation Experts
Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
Li, G.
March 2019
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. (eds)
March 2019
Muted Memories
Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade
Lindström, J.
March 2019
Playing the Marginality Game
Identity Politics in West Africa
Schroven, A.
March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Habermas, R. (ed)
March 2019
Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
March 2019
Rethinking Civil-Military Relations
Anthropological Perspectives
Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)
March 2019
Management by Seclusion
A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty
Cochrane, G.
March 2019
Beyond the Border
Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971
Wung-Sung, T. H.
March 2019
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.
March 2019
Categories in Context
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present
Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)
April 2019
Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Hoggard, B.
April 2019
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)
April 2019
The Engaged Historian
Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession
Berger, S. (ed)
April 2019
Planning Labour
Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania
Cucu, A.-S.
April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation State
Argenti, N. (ed)
April 2019
On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification
Chun, A.
April 2019
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)
April 2019
Cyborg Mind
What Brain-Computer and Mind-Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
MacKellar, C.
May 2019
Marketing Hope
Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia
Schiffauer, L.
May 2019
Political Networks and Social Movements
Bolivian State-Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006-2016
Valdiva Rivera, S.
May 2019
The Brazilian Truth Commission
Local, National and Global Perspectives
SChneider, N. (ed)
May 2019
Shakespeare and War
Gray, P. (ed)
May 2019
Not Even Past
How the United States Ends Wars
Fitzgerald, D., Ryan, D., & Thompson, J. M. (eds)
May 2019
Engaging Evil
A Moral Anthropology
Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. (eds)
June 2019
Twilight of the Merkel Era
Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.
June 2019
The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere
From the Enlightenment to the Indignados
Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)
June 2019
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Armstrong, A. B.
June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging
Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces
Rottmann, S, B.
June 2019
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Collinson, P., Young, I. S., Antal, L. J., & Macbeth, H. (eds)
June 2019
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)
June 2019
Market Frictions
Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border
Endres, K. W.
June 2019
Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Pickles, A. J.
July 2019
From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen
How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces
Agyekum, H. A.
July 2019
The Anti-Social Contract
Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Højer, L.
July 2019
Articulate Necrographies
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
Panagiotopoulos, A. & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
July 2019
Critique of Identity Thinking
Jackson, M.
July 2019
The Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Burt, B.
July 2019
Mobile Urbanity
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)
July 2019
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
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Hospitality and Hostility towards Migrants: Global Perspectives
With International Migrants Day around the corner, we are proud to present the inaugural volume of Migration and Society. Here is a note from the editors. Mette Louise Berg and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Throughout history, migration, forced and otherwise, has been at the heart of the transformation of societies and communities and it continues to touch […]
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We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Film Studies, Genocide Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Museum Studies and Performance Studies, along with our New in Paperback titles. Anthropology ARTIFAK Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu Hugo DeBlock Artifak investigates the […]
Berghahn will be Attending AAA 2018 Conference !
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Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
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Tribute to Roy Wagner
Anthropology mourns one of its greatest practitioners, Roy Wagner, who died on 10 September 2018. To honour Wagner and his intellectually inexhaustible work, we are re-issuing for free access a Special Issue of Social Analysis that was first published in 2002. The eponymous “Reinventing The Invention of Culture”, edited by David Murray and Joel Robbins, sought to […]
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We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Economic History, Film Studies and History, along with our New in Paperback titles. Anthropology EDGES, FRINGES, FRONTIERS Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana Thomas B. Henfrey Volume 23, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology […]
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