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April 2023
Patrons of Women
Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
Hertzog, E.

April 2023
The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.

June 2023
An American Icon in Puerto Rico
Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

May 2023
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.

June 2023
Explorations in Economic Anthropology
Key Issues and Critical Reflections
Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)

May 2023
Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)

June 2023
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)

May 2023
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

June 2023
Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
Leibing, A. & Schicktanz, S. (eds)

June 2023
Financialization
Relational Approaches
Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)

April 2023
The Sound of Silence
Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism
Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)

April 2023
Travelling towards Home
Mobilities and Homemaking
Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)

May 2023
Cash Transfers in Context
An Anthropological Perspective
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)

April 2023
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Burke, P.

June 2023
Basic and Applied Research
The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century
Kaldewey, D. & Schauz, D. (eds)

April 2023
Moral Engines
Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)

April 2023
Contesting Moralities
Roma Identities, State and Kinship
Sarafian, I.

April 2023
The Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

April 2023
Working the Fabric
Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry
Nascimento, J.

April 2023
The Girl in the Pandemic
Transnational Perspectives
Mitchell, C. & Smith, A. (eds)

April 2023
Of Jaguars and Butterflies
Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy
Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.

April 2023
Things of the House
Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal
Rosales, M. V.

April 2023
Integrating Strangers
Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast
Ménard, A.

April 2023
Advocacy and Archaeology
Urban Intersections
Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

May 2023
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe
The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus
Hirschon, R.

May 2023
Chicanery
Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960
Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

May 2023
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism
Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad
Knudsen, S. (ed)

May 2023
Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development
Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas
Conroy, J. D.

June 2023
Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America
Anthropological Perspectives
Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)

June 2023
Against Better Judgment
Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives
McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)

June 2023
White Eagle, Black Eagle
Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands
Parkin, R.

June 2023
From Village Commons to Public Goods
Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
Trémon, A.-C.

June 2023
Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future
Stories from Global Frontiers
Beuving, J.

June 2023
Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities
Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

June 2023
Obstetricians Speak
On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation
Floyd-Davis, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

June 2023
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
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
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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 […]
AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Viola Castellano and ‘Set to See Us Fail’
Viola Castellano’s new book Set to See Us Fail looks at how on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested within the child welfare system of New York. Here she tells us what drew her to this complex issue and what her work has revealed. Thank you for joining us Dr. Castellano. Before we […]
AUTHOR ARTICLE: Witches and Demons
Jean La Fontaine’s Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism just enjoyed its seventh anniversary. And since it remains as popular – and as timely – as ever we asked Jean if she would take a look back at her Berghahn classic (available in paperback and eBook). So many thanks to Jean […]
EDITOR INTERVIEW: Representing 21st-Century Migration In Europe
ANA BELÉN MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA is Associate Professor at ISSA School of Applied Management, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). She teaches Business Communication, Academic Writing, and World Literatures in English. In this exclusive interview, in conversation with her intern Arantza Morales (final year in Literature and Creative Writing undergraduate at the University of Navarra), Ana Belén […]
Introducing the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection
Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year until 2023 we are 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 libraries […]
Spring Paperbacks!
Unique studies at budget-friendly prices, these March and April paperbacks are great for adoptions and reading lists. If you want to evaluate their usefulness on a course you teach, please request a digital examination copy: just click through and look for the green ‘Request a review or examination copy’ button. Open Access titles are, of course, freely available […]
Berghahn Books and the German Historical Institute Washington Announce New Open Access Agreement
April 26, 2023, Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.—The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and Berghahn Books are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement to transition the Studies in German History series to Open Access. GHI Director and Series Editor Simone Lässig commented on the agreement: “In the last several years, the GHI […]
Celebrating the Life and Career of Reinhart Koselleck
Reinhart Koselleck (23 April 1923 – 3 February 2006), a German historian widely considered one of the most influential European theorists of history and historiography in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous innovative approaches and exposed himself to a large range of impulses from other […]
Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!
Celebrated yearly on April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, encourages local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. For […]
The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey: Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III
by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial. There has been a 700% increase in downloads from 2019 when content was paywalled to 2022. We have seen a 200% increase by […]
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