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January 2018
The Partial Revolution
Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal
Hoffmann, M.
January 2018
Parallel Lives Revisited
Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980
Bock, J. De
January 2018
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation
Between Text and Practice
Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)
January 2018
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
January 2018
Island Historical Ecology
Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
Siegel, P. (ed)
January 2018
Contrarian Anthropology
The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Nader, L.
February 2018
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
February 2018
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces
Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)
February 2018
After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Heywood, P.
February 2018
Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand
Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China
Fleischer, F.
March 2018
Money at the Margins
Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. (eds)
March 2018
Heading for the Scene of the Crash
The Cultural Analysis of America
Drummond, L.
March 2018
World Heritage Craze in China
Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory
Yan, H.
March 2018
Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
Maida, C. A. & Beck, S, (eds)
March 2018
Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Roth†, C.
de Jong, W., Perlik, M., Steuer, N., & Znoj, H. (eds)
March 2018
Back to the Postindustrial Future
An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City
Ringel, F.
March 2018
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)
April 2018
Cutting Cosmos
Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot
Mikkelsen, H. H.
April 2018
Experimental Collaborations
Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)
April 2018
A Creole Nation
National Integration in Guinea-Bissau
Kohl, C.
April 2018
Oil and Sovereignty
Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s
Graf, R.
April 2018
Animism beyond the Soul
Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (eds)
April 2018
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
HadžiMuhamedović, S.
April 2018
Basic and Applied Research
The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century
Kaldewey, D. & Schauz, D. (eds)
April 2018
Moral Anthropology
A Critique
Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)
April 2018
Burgundy
A Global Anthropology of Place and Taste
Demossier, M.
May 2018
The Experience of Neoliberal Education
Urciuoli, B. (ed)
May 2018
Searching for a Better Life
Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok
Mahony, S.
May 2018
Intimate Mobilities
Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World
Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds)
May 2018
In the Best Interests of the Child
Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings
Mass, M.
May 2018
Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Smith, A. A.
May 2018
Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Lems, A.
May 2018
Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Munro, J.
May 2018
Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Hromadžić, A. & Palmberger, M. (eds)
June 2018
The Revolt of the Provinces
Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary
Szombati, K.
June 2018
Travelling with the Argonauts
Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens
Irek, M.
June 2018
Reconceiving Muslim Men
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)
June 2018
Archaeogaming
An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
Reinhard, A.
June 2018
Who are 'We'?
Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology
Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)
June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity
Comparing Beyond Europe
Rakopoulos, T. (ed)
June 2018
Frontiers of Civil Society
Government and Hegemony in Serbia
Mikuš, M.
June 2018
Worldwide Mobilizations
Class Struggles and Urban Commoning
Kalb, D. & Mollona, M. (eds)
July 2018
Living Under Austerity
Greek Society in Crisis
Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)
July 2018
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)
July 2018
Momentous Mobilities
Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel
Salazar, N. B.
July 2018
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Burke, P.
July 2018
Mirrors of Passing
Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (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
Global Fluids
The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value
Kroløkke, C.
July 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
Being a Sperm Donor
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark
Mohr, S.
August 2018
All or None
Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt
Sánchez Hall, A.
August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History
Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)
August 2018
Refugee Resettlement
Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.
August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Rollins, J.
August 2018
The Wheel of Autonomy
Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley
Girke, F.
August 2018
Healthcare in Motion
Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access
Vindrola-Padros, C., Johnson G. A., & Pfister, A. E. (eds)
August 2018
Roma Activism
Reimagining Power and Knowledge
Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)
September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
Zeitzen, M. K.
September 2018
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
September 2018
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
September 2018
Travelling Towards Home
Mobilities and Homemaking
Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)
September 2018
Medicinal Rule
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Stroeken, K.
September 2018
Cash Transfers in Context
An Anthropological Perspective
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)
September 2018
Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
Henfrey, T. B.
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
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
Competing Power
Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State
Halstead, N.
October 2018
Social DNA
Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past
Martin, M. K.
October 2018
Economy, Crime, and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
Carrier, J. G. (ed)
November 2018
Artifak
Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu
DeBlock, H.
November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
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
Democracy Struggles
NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Vetta, T.
November 2018
Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)
December 2018
Conceptualizng 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)
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
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
Europeanization in Sweden
Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations
Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)
January 2019
From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Marsh, D. E.
January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.
January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self
The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Microcelebrity in Malaysia
Hopkins, J.
January 2019
Refugees Welcome?
Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)
January 2019
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
January 2019
Management by Seclusion
A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty
Cochrane, G.
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Now Open Access! Anthropology in Action Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Volume 25, Issue 1 We are delighted to announce that, as of 2018, Anthropology in Action will be published as an open access journal per the Knowledge Unlatched Select initiative! Read more in our related blog post. The first new Open Access issue has […]
Anthropological Issues and US President Obama
The following is an excerpt from the article “The President’s Mother, the Anthropologist and the Anthropologist’s Son: Anthropological Issues and US President Obama” by David Lampert published in the latest issue of our journal, Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice. As of 2018, this journal is Open Access per the Knowledge Unlatched Select […]
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Celebrating International Museum Day
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Social Analysis The International Journal of Anthropology Volume 62, Issue 1 This issue of Social Analysis opens with an interview Editor Martin Holbraad gave for the Berghahn Blog. The interview is followed by a forum focusing on the theme “What is ‘Analysis’?” The series of short think pieces are based on a round-table discussion between an array of […]
Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul
The following is a guest post from Katherine Swancutt, who co-edited Animism beyond the Soul: Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge. This title is now available in hardback and paperback, and we’re offering 25% off this book with code SWA663 until June 30, 2018. Animism and reflexivity are classic themes in anthropology that have […]
Changes in the Uses and Meanings of Money
By Smoki Musaraj and Ivan Small How we think about and what we think of as money is constantly changing. And in many cases, those changes are driven in locales that are not necessarily centers of global capital. Consider for the instance of the relatively recent introduction of “mobile money”. In 2007, the Kenyan […]
Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in March
Celebrating 30 Years of Scholarship! Critical Survey Volume 30, Issue 1: Shakespeare and War In its current incarnation, Critical Survey is now thirty years old. The first of four issues in its volume, this special issue serves as a reminder of the journal’s founding principles: clarity of exposition; relevance to the curriculum; recognition given to emerging […]
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Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
Editor: Christine McCourt, City, University of London
ISSN Print: 0967-201X
ISSN Online: 1752-2285
Volume 25/2018, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Conflict and Society
Advances in Research
Editor in Chief: Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam
ISSN Print: 2164-4543
ISSN Online: 2164-4551
Volume 4/2018, 1 issue p.a. (summer)
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Environment and Society
Advances in Research
Editors: Paige West, Barnard College, Columbia University and Dan Brockington, University of Sheffield
ISSN Print: 2150-6779
ISSN Online: 2150-6787
Volume 9/2018, 1 issue p.a. (autumn)
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Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
Editor: Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
ISSN Print: 1755-2923
ISSN Online: 1755-2931
Volume 27/2018, 2 issues p.a. (spring, autumn)
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Anthropology of the Middle East
Editor in Chief: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
ISSN Print: 1746-0719
ISSN Online: 1746-0727
Volume 13/2018, 2 p.a. (summer, winter)
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The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Editor: Andrew Sanchez, University of Cambridge, UK
ISSN Print: 0305-7674
ISSN Online: 2047-7716
Volume 35/2017, 2 issues p.a. (spring, autumn)
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Durkheimian Studies
Études Durkheimiennes
Editor: W. Watts Miller
ISSN Print: 1362-024X
ISSN Online: 1752-2307
Volume 23/2017, 1 issue p.a. (winter)
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Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Managing & Lead Editor: Luisa Steur, University of Amsterdam
ISSN Print: 0920-1297
ISSN Online: 1558-5263
80, 81 & 82/2018, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Girlhood Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University
ISSN Print: 1938-8209
ISSN Online: 1938-8322
Volume 11/2018, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Journeys
The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing
Editors: Maria Pia Di Bella, CNRS-IRIS-EHESS, Paris and Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso
ISSN Print: 1465-2609
ISSN Online: 1752-2358
Volume 19/2018, 2 issues p.a. (summer, winter)
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Learning and Teaching
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
Editors: Penny Welch, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communication, University of Wolverhampton and Susan Wright, Danish School of Education, University of Århus
ISSN Print: 1755-2273
ISSN Online: 1755-2281
Volume 11/2018, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Nature and Culture
Editors: Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State University, USA, and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and
Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and University of Jena, Germany
ISSN Print: 1558-6073
ISSN Online: 1558-5468
Volume 13/2018, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Regions and Cohesion
Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion
Editors: Harlan Koff, Université du Luxembourg, and Carmen Maganda, INECOL
ISSN Print: 2152-906X
ISSN Online: 2152-9078
Volume 8/2018, 3 issues pa. (spring, summer, winter)
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Social Analysis
The International Journal of Anthropology
Editor: Martin Holbraad, University College London
ISSN Print: 0155-977X
ISSN Online: 1558-5727
Volume 62/2018, 4 issues p.a. (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
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Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawaii
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787
Volume 17/2018, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Editor: Dagmar Schfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
ISSN Print: 2045-4813
ISSN Online: 2045-4821
Volume 8/2018, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
Editors: Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester, and Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington
ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737
Volume 6/2018, 1 issue p.a. (summer)
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