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New & Recent Anthropology titles
April 2017
Hairy Hippies and Bloody Butchers
The Greenpeace Anti-Whaling Campaign in Norway
Riese, J.
April 2017
Grace after Genocide
Cambodians in the United States
Mortland, C. A.
April 2017
Death of the Public University?
Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
Wright, S. & Shore, C. (eds)
April 2017
Methodologies of Mobility
Ethnography and Experiment
Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
April 2017
Conflict, Domination, and Violence
Episodes in Mexican Social History
Illades, C.
April 2017
Wolf Conflicts
A Sociological Study
Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.
April 2017
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Hill, C. M., Webber, A. D. & Priston, N. E. C. (eds)
April 2017
Redescribing Relations
Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics
Lebner, A. (ed)
May 2017
Indigenist Mobilization
Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
Steur, L.
May 2017
The Good Holiday
Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique
Baptista, J. A.
May 2017
Footprints in Paradise
Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
Murray, A. E.
May 2017
Mary Douglas
Understanding Social Thought and Conflict
6, P. & Richards, P.
May 2017
Archeologies of Confession
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
Johnson, C. L., Luebke, D. M., Plummer, M. E. & Spohnholz, J. (eds)
May 2017
Civil Society Revisited
Lessons from Poland
Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)
May 2017
Being Godless
Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
Blanes, R. L. & Outsinova-Stjepanovic, G. (eds)
May 2017
The Mirror of the Medieval
An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination
Fazioli, K. P.
June 2017
The Myth of Self-Reliance
Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp
Omata, N.
June 2017
The Ethics of Knowledge Creation
Transactions, Relations, and Persons
Josephides, L. & Grønseth, A. S. (eds)
June 2017
Money in a Human Economy
Hart, K. (eds)
June 2017
Indigeneity and the Sacred
Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)
June 2017
The Dance of Nurture
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.
July 2017
Transborder Media Spaces
Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US
Kummels, I.
July 2017
Emptiness and Fullness
Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China
Bregnbæk, S. & Bunkenborg, M. (eds)
July 2017
Travel and Representation
Lean, G., Staiff, R., & Waterton, E. (eds)
July 2017
Managing Ambiguity
How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brković, Č.
August 2017
Gender, Violence, Refugees
Buckley-Zistel, S. & Krause, U. (eds)
August 2017
Images from Paradise
The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia
Salgó, E.
August 2017
Living Before Dying
Imagining and Remembering Home
Davies, J.
August 2017
Contesting Deregulation
Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s
Andresen, K. and Müller, S. (eds)
August 2017
A Goddess in Motion
Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza
Canals, R.
August 2017
European Anthropologies
Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)
August 2017
Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference
Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
Kreager, P. & Bochow, A. (eds)
September 2017
Foucault's Orient
The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Lazreg, M.
September 2017
Children of the Camp
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Grayson, C.-L.
September 2017
Culture Change and Ex-Change
Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Knapp, R.
September 2017
From Eastern Bloc to European Union
Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990
Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)
September 2017
Power in Practice
The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
González Varela, S.
September 2017
Laborers and Enslaved Workers
Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
Badaró Mattos, M.
September 2017
From Clans to Co-ops
Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Rakopoulos, T.
October 2017
The Voice of Prophecy
And Other Essays
Ardener†, E.
October 2017
Moral Engines
Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)
October 2017
Straying from the Straight Path
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Beekers, D. & Kloos, D. (eds)
October 2017
Silenced Communities
Legacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town
Esparza, M.
October 2017
Anthropology of the Fetus
Biology, Culture, and Society
Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)
October 2017
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
Mageo, J. & Hermann, E. (eds)
October 2017
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
October 2017
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Baer, H. A.
October 2017
Growing Up in Transit
The Politics of Belonging at an International School
Tanu, D.
November 2017
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
November 2017
Peaceful Selves
Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda
Eramian, L.
November 2017
Selfhood and Recognition
Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality
Galuschek, A.
November 2017
Cyprus and its Conflicts
Representations, Materialities, and Cultures
Doudaki, V. & Carpentier, N. (eds)
November 2017
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Nahum-Claudel. C.
November 2017
Stategraphy
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)
November 2017
Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion
Schlee, G. & Horstmann, A. (eds)
December 2017
Seekers and Things
Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa
Lambertz, P.
December 2017
Island Historical Ecology
Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
Siegel, P. (ed)
December 2017
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
December 2017
Indigeneity on the Move
Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept
Gerharz, E., Uddin, N., & Chakkarath, P. (eds)
December 2017
Contrarian Anthropology
The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Nader, L.
December 2017
Returning Life
Language, Life-Force and History in Kilimanjaro
Myhre, K. C.
December 2017
Affective States
Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions
Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)
December 2017
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance, and Belonging in EU Romania
Szeman, I.
December 2017
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation
Between Text and Practice
Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)
December 2017
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Bishop Kendzia, V.
January 2018
Cutting Cosmos
Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot
Mikkelsen, H. H.
January 2018
A Creole Nation
National Integration in Guinea-Bissau
Kohl, C.
January 2018
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the 'Science of Man'
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
January 2018
Parallel Lives Revisited
Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980
Bock, J. de
January 2018
The Partial Revolution
Labor, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal
Hoffmann, M.
February 2018
After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Heywood, P.
February 2018
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces
Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)
February 2018
Money at the Margins
Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion and Design
Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. (eds)
February 2018
Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Smith, A. A.
February 2018
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
February 2018
Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand
Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China
Fleischer, F.
Latest Blog Articles
Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in August
Anthropology of the Middle East Volume 12, Issue 1: The Anthropology of Children in the Middle East With only relatively few ethnographic studies of children in the Middle East or in the diaspora in existence, the articles in this issue of Anthropology of the Middle East represents thematically and theoretically highly divergent projects ranging […]
SIMULATED SHELVES: Browse August 2017 NEW BOOKS
We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Archaeology, Colonialism, Economical History, Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, History, Medical Anthropology, and Refugee and Migration Studies, along with our New in Paperback titles. Paperback Original HOUSE OF THE WATERLILY A Novel of the Ancient Maya World Kelli Carmean “House of […]
An Interview with Nafisa Shah, Author of Honour and Violence
The following is an interview with Nafisa Shah about hew new book Honour and Violence: Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan. 1) When did you begin working on Honour and Violence? Can you briefly tell us about your journey as a journalist, scholar, and politician following honor killings in Pakistan? Honour and Violence is […]
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Pronounced by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December 1994, The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on August 9 each year to promote and protect the rights of the world’s indigenous population. Making up 5% of the world’s population there are an estimated 370 million indigenous people living across […]
Portrait of a Storyteller
The following is a post by Stephen Most, author of Stories Make the World: Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary. Two portraits of the young man I once was, one oil-painted, the other shaped in clay, watch over my study. More than half a century after they were made I portrayed the painter, Pedro […]
World Breastfeeding Week 2017
Celebrating it’s 25th year in 2017, World Breastfeeding Week is held yearly from 1st to 7th of August in more than 120 countries. Being organized by WABA, WHO and UNICEF, the goal is to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life which yields tremendous health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases […]
Why do so many American Parents Struggle with Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep?
by Cecília Tomori For World Breastfeeding Week, we’re delighted to offer FREE access to a chapter from Nighttime Breastfeeding for a limited time. Click here to access this chapter, titled Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep. Nighttime Breastfeeding addresses the central question: why do so many American parents struggle […]
Introducing Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
In 2011 a global wave of protest changed the way in which people saw contention. January saw two revolutions: first, in Tunisia culminating in the overthrow of then president Ben Ali; and second in Egypt with protests that would end the Mubarak regime within eighteen days. This wave of protest spread to Libya, Syria, Yemen […]
Promoting ‘self-reliance’ for refugees: what does it really mean?
The following is a post by Naohiko Omata, author of The Myth of Self-Reliance: Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp. Promotion of ‘self-reliance’ for refugees has occupied a central seat in the policy arena of the international refugee regime in recent years. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) broadly defines self-reliance as ‘the social […]
SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE JULY 2017 NEW BOOKS
We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Film Studies, Gender Studies, History, and Media Studies, along with our New in Paperback titles. EMPTINESS AND FULLNESS Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China Edited by Susanne Bregnbæk and Mikkel Bunkenborg Volume 2, Studies in Social Analysis As critical […]
Anthropology-Related Journals
Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
Editor: Christine McCourt, City, University London
ISSN Print: 0967-201X
ISSN Online: 1752-2285
Volume 24/2017, 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 3/2017, 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 8/2017, 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 26/2017, 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 12/2017, 2 p.a. (summer, winter)
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The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Editor-in-chief: Maryon McDonald, 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
76, 77 & 78/2017, 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 10/2017, 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 18/2017, 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 10/2017, 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 12/2017, 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 7/2017, 3 issues pa. (spring, summer, winter)
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Social Analysis
The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice
Editor: Martin Holbraad, University College London
ISSN Print: 0155-977X
ISSN Online: 1558-5727
Volume 61/2017, 4 issues p.a. (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
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Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: John P. Ziker, Boise State University
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787
Volume 16/2017, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Chief Editor: Gijs Mom, Eindhoven University of Technology
ISSN Print: 2045-4813
ISSN Online: 2045-4821
Volume 7/2017, 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 5/2017, 1 issue p.a. (summer)
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