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New & Recent titles
November 2022
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Wetzell, R. F. (ed)
September 2022
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.
December 2022
Enduring Uncertainty
Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
Hasselberg, I.
October 2022
Borders across Healthcare
Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Sahraoui, N. (ed)
October 2022
Structures of Protection?
Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)
September 2022
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe
Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)
December 2022
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.
August 2022
Mobile Urbanity
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)
October 2022
Engaging Evil
A Moral Anthropology
Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)
November 2022
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)
August 2022
Cyborg Mind
What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
MacKellar, C.
August 2022
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)
December 2022
Going to Pentecost
An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.
September 2022
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Marsh, D. E.
October 2022
The Rite of Urban Passage
The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation
Masoudi, R.
October 2022
Lessons in Perception
The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
Taberham, P.
September 2022
Parenthood between Generations
Transforming Reproductive Cultures
Pooley, S. & Qureshi, K. (eds)
August 2022
Ethnographies of Deservingness
Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)
August 2022
New Perspectives on Moral Change
Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds
Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)
August 2022
Puzzling Stories
The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature
Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)
August 2022
The Return of Polyandry
Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet
Fjeld, H. E.
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
200 Years of Peace
New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy
Biltekin, N., Müller, L., & Petersson, M. (eds)
August 2022
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology
Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture
Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)
August 2022
Risky Futures
Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North
Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)
September 2022
An Anthropological Toolkit
Sixty Useful Concepts
Zeitlyn, D.
September 2022
Humboldt Revisited
The Impact of the German University on American Higher Education
Brandser, G. C.
September 2022
Ritual
What It Is, How It Works, and Why
Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.
September 2022
Critical Public Archaeology
Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century
Westmont, V. C. (ed)
September 2022
Managing Sacralities
Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage
Hemel, E. van den, Salemink, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)
September 2022
Edible People
The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh
Siefkes, C.
September 2022
Morality, Crisis and Capitalism
Anthropology for Troubled Times
Baldacchino, J.-P. & Mitchell, J. P. (eds)
September 2022
Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing
The Soninké Foyer in Paris
Accoroni, D.
October 2022
Pacific Spaces
Translations and Transmutations
Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)
October 2022
Ӧmie Sex Affiliation
A Papuan Nature
Rohatynskyj, M.
October 2022
Gentrifications
Views from Europe
Chabrol, M., Collet, A., Giroud, M., Launay, L., Rousseau, M., Minassian, H. ter
October 2022
Enlightening Encounters
The Journeys of an Anthropologist
Gudeman, S.
October 2022
Living on a Time Bomb
Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community
Schöneich, S.
October 2022
Inconceivable Iran
To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?
Tremayne, S.
October 2022
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Anthropological Encounters
Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)
November 2022
Sentient Ecologies
Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape
Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)
November 2022
Sexual Self-Fashioning
Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging
Roodsaz, R.
November 2022
Punching Back
Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Rana, J.
November 2022
Sexscapes of Pleasure
Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy
Zambelli, E.
November 2022
Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus
Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing
Doerr, N. M.
December 2022
Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas
Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals
Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.
December 2022
Taking Our Water for the City
The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities
Beisaw, A. M.
December 2022
The Politics of Making Kinship
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Alber, E. (ed)
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
Latest Anthropology Blog Articles
Discussing New Perspectives on Moral Change
In our interview with Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen, the editors of New Perspectives on Moral Change, volume 13 in the WYSE Series in Social Anthropology, they explain the thinking behind their work, how they found their contributors, and the range of issues that they tackled. Dr Eriksen, Dr Hämäläinen, thank you for joining us. […]
In commemoration of German reunification
German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3rd. Tag der Deutschen Einheit celebrates the 1990 reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic with ceremonial acts and the citizens’ festival Bürgerfest. Browse our relevant titles and journals on the ramifications of a divided Germany below. Easily access critical research material with […]
International Translation Day
According to the United Nations, International Translation Day is “an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation.” This International Translation Day, we’d like to celebrate the language professionals who translated the following works into English, bridging academic communities […]
Excerpt: EXTINCT MONSTERS TO DEEP TIME
Following up on Smithsonian Day last week, an event hosted by ‘Smithsonian’ magazine where participating museums and various cultural centers across the US provide free entry, Berghahn is excited to feature an excerpt from Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian’s Fossil Halls by Diana E. Marsh. Describing participant observation […]
An interview with David Zeitlyn, author of An Anthropological Toolkit
Can you give some background to yourself, and how you became an anthropologist in the first place? Well, I was born in 1958 in Cambridge and brought up there. I went to the Perse School (which incidentally is the origin of the name Free School Lane, where the Cambridge Anthropology Department is based). As an […]
Disasters, Risks, Responses, and Recovery
“As disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction…” So reads a line from the blurb of Making Things Happen, Jane Murphy Thomas’ account of post-earthquake reconstruction in Pakistan. And, sadly, how prescient it was, for her book was published just weeks before the same nation experienced a […]
Making Connections: Reflections on Writing Towards a Collaborative Memory
Sara Jones, University of Birmingham The idea for Towards a Collaborative Memory came when I was researching my last book on memories of the East German Stasi. I was reading press releases from the Stasi Prison Memorial at Berlin Hohenschönhausen and came across one in which the then Director of the Memorial used a visit […]
National Read a Book Day 2022
September 6th marks National Read a Book Day in the United States. To celebrate, we want to share what the Berghahn staff is currently reading and a scholarly reading from Berghahn Books we recommend for you. Marion Berghahn, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Currently Reading: A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd “Master […]
The beginning of a Germany divided
August 13th marks the anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall. The concrete barrier physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Along with separating West Berlin from East German territory, it came to symbolize the “Iron Curtain” that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Browse relevant Berghahn titles on the history of […]
The Making of Making Things Happen
An interview with Jane Murphy Thomas JANE MURPHY THOMAS is an independent consultant, practitioner, project manager and social anthropologist in projects for UN agencies, NGOs, governments, donor agencies, and consulting firms, specializing in anthropological approaches and community participation in conflict and disaster-prone locations. Her book, Making Things Happen: Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan […]
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