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January 2021
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
Šístek, F. (ed)
January 2021
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
Reorienting Anthropology for the Future
Ahmad, I. (ed)
July 2021
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
January 2021
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)
January 2021
In the Shadow of the Great War
Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)
January 2021
Embodying Borders
A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies
Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)
January 2021
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)
February 2021
Experiencing Materiality
Museum Perspectives
Gamberi, V.
February 2021
Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.
March 2021
Reluctant Intimacies
Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
Świtek, B.
February 2021
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.
February 2021
Rhetoric and Social Relations
Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)
September 2021
Experimental Collaborations
Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)
March 2021
Floating Economies
The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India
Casimir, M. J.
March 2021
Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Transnational Approaches
Moletsane, R., Wiebesiek, L.,Treffry-Goatley, A. & Mandrona, A. (eds)
March 2021
The Struggle for the Past
How We Construct Social Memories
Jelin, E.
March 2021
A Taste for Oppression
A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Hervouet, R.
January 2022
The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Lueong, G. M.
March 2021
Agent of Change
The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)
March 2021
The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.
April 2021
Liminal Moves
Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times
Cangià, F.
September 2021
Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
April 2021
Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Nichols, C. A.
April 2021
Merchant Kings
Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
Schrauwers, A.
April 2021
In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum
Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution
Franck, A., Casciarri, B., & Salim El-Hassan, I. (eds)
April 2021
Ethnography in the Raw
Life in a Luzon Village
Moeran, B.
February 2022
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)
October 2021
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
April 2021
Remaking the Human
Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)
April 2021
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
April 2021
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)
July 2021
Militant Lactivism?
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Faircloth, C.
October 2021
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
May 2021
A Twisted Style
The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies
Jerrentrup, M. T.
May 2021
Mattering the Invisible
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral
Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)
May 2021
To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.
May 2021
Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
June 2021
The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy
Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max Weber
Mommsen, W. J.
June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures
Anthropological Engagements with the Future
Collins, S. G.
June 2021
Narratives in the Making
Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present
Gallinat, A.
August 2021
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Griffith, L. M.
June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.
June 2021
Embracing Landscape
Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia
Küçüküstel, S.
June 2021
NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa
Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)
June 2021
Sovereign Forces
Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America
McNeish, J.-A.
June 2021
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)
June 2021
Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society
A Journey from Envy to Personhood
Souvlakis, N.
June 2021
Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience
New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives
Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)
October 2021
Staying at Home
Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans
Sanders, R.
June 2021
Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)
June 2021
The Moral Work of Anthropology
Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work
Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)
June 2021
Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia
Women, Migration, and the Diaspora
Akman, H. (ed)
July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.
July 2021
Margaret Mead
Shankman, P.
July 2021
Matsutake Worlds
Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)
July 2021
Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula
An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia
Matošević, A.
July 2021
How Kinship Systems Change
On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
Parkin, R.
July 2021
Textures of Belonging
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Racleş, A.
August 2021
Stories from an Ancient Land
Perspectives on Wa History and Culture
Fiskesjö, M.
August 2021
Tracing Slavery
The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands
Balkenhol, M.
June 2021
Wolf Conflicts
A Sociological Study
Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.
August 2021
Latin America and Refugee Protection
Regimes, Logics and Challenges
Jubilut, L. L., Espinoza, M. V., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)
August 2021
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.
August 2021
Living Like a Girl
Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond
Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)
January 2021
Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Hoggard, B.
February 2021
Transborder Media Spaces
Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US
Kummels, I.
August 2021
William Robertson Smith
Bošković, A.
September 2021
Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Knight, D. M.
September 2021
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
December 2021
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
HadžiMuhamedović, S.
September 2021
Work, Society and the Ethical Self
Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era
Hann, C. (ed)
September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
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
Hope and Insufficiency
Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)
September 2021
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
September 2021
The Camino de Santiago
Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism
Murray, M.
September 2021
Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Eczet, J.-B.
September 2021
Guido Goldman
Transatlantic Bridge Builder
Klingst, M.
November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
July 2021
Children of the Camp
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Grayson, C.-L.
October 2021
Civil Society Revisited
Lessons from Poland
Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)
September 2021
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
October 2021
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
October 2021
Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
Kingfisher, C.
October 2021
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Swancutt, K. (ed)
October 2021
Moral Economy at Work
Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)
October 2021
Afropolitan Horizons
Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
Hannerz, U.
October 2021
Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.
November 2021
Entrepreneurs of Identity
The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire
Günther, C.
November 2021
An Urban Future for Sápmi?
Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia
Berg-Nordlie, M., Dankertsen, A, & Winsvold, M. (eds)
November 2021
Nothing New in Europe?
Israelis Look at Antisemitism Today
Haviv-Horiner, A.
February 2022
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
November 2021
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Marchand, T. H. J.
November 2021
Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
López, JM
November 2021
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
November 2021
Rethinking Internal Displacement
Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry
Laker, F.
November 2021
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
January 2022
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
November 2021
Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Matthews, W.
December 2021
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)
September 2021
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
December 2021
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)
December 2021
Franz Baermann Steiner
A Stranger in the World
Adler, J. & Fardon, R.
January 2022
A Goddess in Motion
Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza
Canals, R.
Anthropology-Related Journals
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Journal of Legal Anthropology
ISSN Print: 1758-9576
ISSN Online: 1758-9584
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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
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Migration and Society
Advances in Research
Editors: Mette Louise Berg, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Johanna L. Waters, University College London
ISSN Print: 2574-1306
ISSN Online: 2574-1314
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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
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Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawaii
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787
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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
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The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Editor: Andrew Sanchez, University of Cambridge, UK
ISSN Print: 0305-7674
ISSN Online: 2047-7716
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Latest Anthropology Blog Articles
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 […]
A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church
Karen Lauterbach World Refugee Day (20 June) offers a chance to raise awareness of the plight of refugees around the world and of the efforts to protect their human rights. In the spirit of this day, we are featuring an excerpt from “‘A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church’: Refugee-Refugee Hosting in a Faith-Based Context” by Karen Lauterbach (published […]
Excerpt: The triple-sidedness of “I can’t breathe”
Juneteenth (19 June) is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. In the spirit of this day, we are featuring an excerpt from “The triple-sidedness of “I can’t breathe”: The COVID-19 pandemic, enslavement, and agro-industrial capitalism” by Don Nonini (published in Focaal, Vol. 2021: Issue 89). On Juneteenth,1 Friday, […]
Human Engagement with the Sea: A Shifting Discourse
Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson World Oceans Day (8 June) is a day for humanity to celebrate the ocean. In this spirit, we are delighted to feature an excerpt from the introduction to AT HOME ON THE WAVES: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today, edited by Tanya J. King and Gary […]
Excerpt: Austrian “Gypsies” in the Italian archives
Paola Trevisan In the spirit of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month in June, we invite you to read the following excerpt from “Austrian ‘Gypsies’ in the Italian archives: Historical ethnography on multiple border crossings at the beginning of the twentieth century” by Paola Trevisan. This article is featured in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical […]
Excerpt: Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance
Ana K. Spalding and Ricardo de Ycaza In the spirit of World Environment Day on 5 June, we invite you to read the following excerpt from “Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance: From UNCLOS to Sustainable Development Goal 14” by Ana K. Spalding and Ricardo de Ycaza (Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Vol.11: Issue 1), a […]
Celebrating 9 Years of the Berghahn Blog
The Berghahn Blog turns nine this June! Celebrate with us by reading our nine most popular articles since our inception in 2012! 9. A ‘Privileged’ Prisoner is Still a Prisoner by Adam Brown The evolution of my book, Judging “Privileged” Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation and the “Grey Zone,” was – like most books no doubt – somewhat long and complex. To […]
TRANSBORDER MEDIA SPACES: AYUUJK VIDEOMAKING BETWEEN MEXICO AND THE US
Ingrid Kummels As a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, social arrangements allowing people to carry on despite the restrictions on mobility forced upon them became predominant across the world. From work (home office) and education (home schooling) to birthday parties, meetings, conferences and political campaigns (Zoom, etc.) diverse aspects of life were reoriented to adapt […]
On Archival Access in a Pandemic
Catherine A. Nichols Exchanging Objects and my broader research agenda considers how and why certain objects left museums, institutions so often associated with preservation, archiving, and keeping. It can be an odd thing, to go to a museum to intentionally study things that aren’t there. When the idea for this research was suggested to me […]
Marcel Mauss, a gift to the social sciences
Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872—Feb. 10, 1950), celebrated author of The Gift and nephew of Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist and anthropologist whose contributions include a highly original comparative study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure. His views on the theory and method of ethnology are thought to have influenced […]
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