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July 2021
Matsutake Worlds
Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)
July 2021
Textures of Belonging
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Racleş, A.
July 2021
Margaret Mead
Shankman, P.
July 2021
Explorations in Economic Anthropology
Key Issues and Critical Reflections
Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)
July 2021
How Kinship Systems Change
On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
Parkin, R.
June 2022
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.
July 2022
After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Heywood, P.
July 2021
Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula
An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia
Matošević, A.
August 2021
Stories from an Ancient Land
Perspectives on Wa History and Culture
Fiskesjö, M.
August 2021
Living Like a Girl
Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond
Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)
August 2021
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.
August 2021
William Robertson Smith
Bošković, A.
August 2021
Tracing Slavery
The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands
Balkenhol, M.
August 2021
Latin America and Refugee Protection
Regimes, Logics, and Challenges
Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)
September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
September 2021
Hope and Insufficiency
Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)
September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
September 2021
Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Knight, D. M.
December 2021
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
HadžiMuhamedović, S.
December 2021
Divining History
Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit
Svenungsson, J.
September 2021
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?
Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted
Hadley, R. A.
September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
July 2021
Children of the Camp
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Grayson, C.-L.
September 2021
Work, Society, and the Ethical Self
Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era
Hann, C. (ed)
September 2021
The Camino de Santiago
Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism
Murray, M.
March 2022
Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Hromadžić, A. & Palmberger, M. (eds)
September 2021
Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Eczet, J.-B.
September 2021
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
October 2021
Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
Kingfisher, C.
October 2021
Moral Economy at Work
Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)
October 2021
Guido Goldman
Transatlantic Bridge Builder
Klingst, M.
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.
May 2022
Critique of Identity Thinking
Jackson, M.
October 2021
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Swancutt, K. (ed)
November 2021
Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
López, JM
November 2021
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Marchand, T. H. J.
November 2021
Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Matthews, W.
February 2022
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
November 2021
Rethinking Internal Displacement
Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
Laker, F.
November 2021
Nothing New in Europe?
Israelis Look at Antisemitism Today
Haviv-Horiner, A.
November 2021
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
December 2021
We are All Africans Here
Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe
Loftsdóttir, K.
December 2021
Extremism, Society, and the State
Loperfido, G. (ed)
December 2021
Franz Baermann Steiner
A Stranger in the World
Adler, J. & Fardon, R.
September 2021
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
July 2021
Militant Lactivism?
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Faircloth, C.
October 2021
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
January 2022
Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.
January 2022
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)
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
Françoise Héritier
Gaillard, G.
August 2022
Mobile Urbanity
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)
January 2022
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)
January 2022
Entrepreneurs of Identity
The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire
Günther, C.
January 2022
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
January 2022
Opening Up the University
Teaching and Learning with Refugees
Cantat, C., Cook, I., & Rajaram, P. K. (eds)
February 2022
Durable Solutions
Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia
Funke, C.
February 2022
An American Icon in Puerto Rico
Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.
February 2022
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)
February 2022
Land and the Mortgage
History, Culture, Belonging
Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)
February 2022
Afropolitan Horizons
Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
Hannerz, U.
February 2022
Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Urciuoli, B.
February 2022
Walls and Gateways
Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik
Loades, C. M.
February 2022
Refugees on the Move
Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe
Balkan, E. & Kutlu-Tonak, Z. (eds)
March 2022
Self in the World
Connecting Life's Extremes
Hart, K.
October 2021
Staying at Home
Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans
Sanders, R.
March 2022
The Precarity of Masculinity
Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Kovač, U.
March 2022
A New African Elite
Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation
Pellow, D.
July 2021
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
March 2022
The Social Origins of Thought
Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
Schick, Johannes F. M.
March 2022
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Perminow, A. A.
April 2022
African Political Systems Revisited
Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power
Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)
April 2022
Thrift and Its Paradoxes
From Domestic to Political Economy
Alexander, C. & Sosna, D. (eds)
April 2022
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Mason, A. (ed)
July 2022
At Home on the Waves
Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)
October 2021
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
April 2022
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)
April 2022
Fire on the Island
Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Bratrud, T.
April 2022
Nurturing the Other
First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
Grotti, V.
May 2022
Bulldozer Capitalism
Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey
Evren, E.
May 2022
Wine Is Our Bread
Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking
Ana, D.
May 2022
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis
An International Casebook
Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)
May 2022
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)
May 2022
Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Abranches, M.
May 2022
Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Lenhard, J.
January 2022
The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Lueong, G. M.
May 2022
Gender, Power, and Non-Governance
Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)
August 2022
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)
January 2022
A Goddess in Motion
Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza
Canals, R.
May 2022
Grazing Communities
Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions
Bindi, L. (ed)
June 2022
Technology and the Common Good
The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society
Batteau, A. W.
June 2022
Other Argonauts
Ethnographers Before Malinowski, 1870-1922
Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)
June 2022
The Cracked Art World
Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
Rush, K.
June 2022
Communication
A House Seen from Everywhere
Klyukanov, I. E.
June 2022
Migration and Health
Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy
El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)
June 2022
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology
Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture
Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)
July 2022
Where is the Good in the World?
Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)
July 2022
Tangled Mobilities
Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration
Fresnoza-Flot, A. & Liu-Farrer, G. (eds)
July 2022
Humboldt Revisited
The Impact of the German University on American Higher Education
Brandser, G. C.
July 2022
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
An Intimacy with Strangers
Hsu, E.
October 2021
Civil Society Revisited
Lessons from Poland
Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)
July 2022
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Murphy Thomas, J.
February 2022
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)
August 2021
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Griffith, L. M.
November 2021
I Dreamed the Animals
Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter
Henriksen, G.
July 2022
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Auge’, C. R.
July 2022
Crossroads of Heritage and Religion
Legacy and Sustainability of World-Heritage-Site Moravian Christiansfeld
Damsholt, T., Reeh, T., Petterson, C. & Melchior, M. R. (eds)
August 2022
Cyborg Mind
What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
MacKellar, C.
July 2022
World Heritage Craze in China
Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory
Yan, H.
August 2022
Ethnographies of Deservingness
Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)
August 2022
Working With Diagrams
Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.
April 2022
The Vampire
Origins of a European Myth
Bohn, T. M.
September 2021
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
September 2021
Experimental Collaborations
Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)
August 2022
Risky Futures
Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North
Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)
August 2022
Unusual Death and Memorialization
Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North
Kallio-Seppa, T., Lipkin, S., Väre, T., Moilanen, U. & Tranberg, A. (eds)
August 2022
New Perspectives on Moral Change
Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds
Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)
June 2022
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
August 2022
Puzzling Stories
The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature
Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)
September 2022
An Anthropological Toolkit
Sixty Useful Concepts
Zeitlyn, D.
September 2022
Ritual
What It Is, How It Works, and Why
Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.
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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Resilience and transformation in the Vietnamese marketplace
by Kirsten W. Endres, author of Market Frictions: Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border Markets and marketplaces have long captured the interest of economic anthropologists because of the insights they offer into the embeddedness of economic activity within wider societal, cultural, and political contexts. They study how different modes of sociality and relatedness are […]
Myths around Men
by Dr Robin A Hadley, author of How is a Man Supposed to be a Man The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike because care in later life is often fundamentally reliant on adult children to indirectly and/or directly support their parents. […]
The Story behind ’Crafting Chinese Memories’
by Katherine Swancutt Katherine Swancutt is the editor of Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling. Storytelling is always an entertaining and lively theme, but it’s surprisingly elusive to come to grips with conceptually. This is especially the case when pairing storytelling with other great warhorses of social theory like art, materiality, and memory, which often require fine-grained interdisciplinary detail to bring them fully to light. Factor in the study of China from ancient times to the present day – with […]
Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
by Rachel Douglas-Jones and Justin Shaffner, editors of Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison We open our new edited collection Hope and Insufficiency by traveling the world in workshops. Three capacity building events, ranging from Paramaribo to Addis Ababa, sketched as thumbnails, form our introductory paragraph. These three events, drawn from thousands, simply […]
The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey: Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part II
by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director In 2021 Berghahn Open Anthro entered its second year as a ground-breaking three-year pilot. In this two-part blog post we will share how its journey has brought together various stakeholders to realize the goal of attaining an equitable path to open access using the subscribe-to-open (S2O) model. Our intention is to outline how stakeholders have supported the pilot: as a researcher by urging their library to maintain subscriptions for the journals they value as a reader and author; as […]
The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey: Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part I
by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director In 2021 Berghahn Open Anthro entered its second year as a ground-breaking three-year pilot. In this two-part blog post we will share how its journey has brought together various stakeholders to realize the goal of attaining an equitable path to open access using the subscribe-to-open (S2O) model. Our intention is to outline how stakeholders have supported the pilot: as a researcher by urging their library to maintain subscriptions for the journals they value as a reader and author; as […]
Open Access Week is Here!
Berghahn Books supports practical Open Access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way. In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors’ funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles. […]
HAPPY WORLD TOURISM DAY
September 27th is World Tourism Day, a day to foster awareness and appreciation of tourism’s social, cultural, political and economic value. This year’s theme focus is on “Tourism for Inclusive Growth”. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive social and economic impact. Both developed and developing economies have been hit. And marginalized groups and the most vulnerable […]
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 […]
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