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New & Recent Anthropology titles
April 2020
Protest, Youth and Precariousness
The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal
Carmo, R. M. & Vasconcelos Simões, J. A. (eds)
April 2020
Total Atheism
Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India
Binder, S.
April 2020
Rhetorical Minds
Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion
Oakley, T.
April 2020
Theorising Media and Conflict
Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)
April 2020
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Layne, L. L. (ed)
May 2020
Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
Politics, Medicine and Morality
Maffi, I.
May 2020
Finding Ways Through Eurospace
West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
Schapendonk, J.
May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity
Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands
Sharples, R.
May 2020
Structures of Protection?
Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)
June 2020
States of Imitation
Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Ladwig, P. & Roque, R. (eds)
June 2020
Borders across Healthcare
Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Sahraoui, N. (ed)
June 2020
Time Work
Studies of Temporal Agency
Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
June 2020
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic
Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
Orttung, R. W.
June 2020
Pacing Mobilities
Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements
Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
June 2020
Ours Once More
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
Herzfeld, M.
July 2020
Tides of Empire
Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia
Work, C.
July 2020
After Society
Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford
Pina-Cabral, J. & Bowman, G. (eds)
July 2020
Working in Greece and Turkey
A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940
Papastefanaki, L. & Kabadayı, M. E. (eds)
July 2020
Birds of Passage
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Falzon, M.-A.
July 2020
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics
Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)
July 2020
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)
July 2020
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology
Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence
Graham, S.
August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men
Schuber, V.
August 2020
Punks and Skins United
Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
Venstel, A.
August 2020
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure
Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History
Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)
August 2020
Under the Sign of the Cross
The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania
Tateo, G.
August 2020
Who’s Cashing In?
Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness
Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)
August 2020
Financialization
Relational Approaches
Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)
September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)
September 2020
Heirs of the Bamboo
Identity and Ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese
Gaspar, M. C.
September 2020
Reconciliation Road
Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace
Schoenborn, B.
September 2020
Facing the Crisis
Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism
D'Aloisio, F. & Ghezzi, S. (eds)
September 2020
Nourishing Life
Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
Huhn, A.
September 2020
Search After Method
Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork
Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)
October 2020
The Mobility of Memory
Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders
Passerini, L., Trakilović, M., & Proglio, G. (eds)
October 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine
Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
Skrzypek, E. E.
October 2020
Collective and State Violence in Turkey
The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)
October 2020
Moebius Anthropology
Essays on the Forming of Form
Handelman, D., Shapiro, M. (ed), & Feldman, J. (ed)
October 2020
Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
Leibing, A. &Schicktanz, S. (eds)
October 2020
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia
Values, Family, and Identity
Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)
October 2020
We Come as Members of the Superior Race
Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mfum-Mensah, O.
October 2020
What Now
Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Dalley, C.
November 2020
Nature Wars
Essays Around a Contested Concept
Ellen, R.
November 2020
Invisible Faces - Hidden Stories
Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers
Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)
November 2020
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)
November 2020
Dust Inside
Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil
Mazzeo, A.
November 2020
Politics of the Dunes
Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City
Woods, M.
November 2020
The Helmand Baluch
A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan
Amiri†, G. R.
November 2020
Homo Itinerans
Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan
Monsutti, A.
December 2020
Waithood
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Inhorn, M. C. & SMith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)
December 2020
The Sea Commands
Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village
Mendes, P.
January 2021
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (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
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
Reorienting Anthropology for the Future
Ahmad, I. (ed)
January 2021
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
Šístek, F. (ed)
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
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
Rhetoric and Social Relations
Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)
February 2021
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.
February 2021
Experiencing Materiality
Museum Perspectives
Gamberi, V.
March 2021
A Taste for Oppression
A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Hervouet, R.
March 2021
Agent of Change
The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)
March 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures
Anthropological Engagements with the Future
Collins, S. G.
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
The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.
March 2021
Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.
March 2021
Floating Economies
The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India
Casimir, M. J.
April 2021
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)
April 2021
Remaking the Human
Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)
April 2021
Ethnography in the Raw
Life in a Luzon Village
Moeran, B.
April 2021
Matsutake Worlds
Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)
April 2021
Liminal Moves
Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times
Cangià, F.
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
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.
May 2021
Hope and Insufficiency
Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)
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Texts for Teaching
Our textbooks and paperbacks are perfectly suited for teaching beyond the traditional classroom, in remote learning environments and with large class sizes. View our list of recent and featured titles suitable for courses below (available in eBook and paperback) and visit the title links for format options and freely available introductions. Subject KeyAnthropologyAnthropology of Religion […]
Birds of Passage: Hunting and conservation in Malta
Mark-Anthony Falzon My interest in, and love for, nature go back to my early childhood. There was something Victorian about the books I read on butterflies: they contained descriptions and beautiful illustrations of (British, usually) species, but they also taught you how to catch butterflies, kill them using potassium cyanide, and set them on mounting […]
August Simulated Shelves
We are delighted to share the following new releases in Anthropology, History, and Mobility Studies as well as titles new in paperback this month. Summer Sale! Easily access critical research material across disciplines with a discount of 30% off all Berghahn Books until 1 September 2020. Use discount code SUMMER20 at check out. Anthropology NEW […]
A Taste for Oppression
An interview with Ronan Hervouet following the 2020 Belarus Election 13 August 2020 How did you come to write A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus? This book is my second one on Belarus. The first one, published in French in 2009 and entitled Datcha Blues : Existences ordinaires et dictature […]
Celebrating the resilience of Indigenous Peoples
August 9, 2020 The United Nations’ International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on August 9 each year to honor the estimated 370 million indigenous people around the world. The day was established to recognize the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva in 1982. This year’s […]
Summer Simulated Shelves
Browse our latest in Anthropology, Archaeology, Sociology, History, Literary Studies, Film & Television Studies, and Mobility Studies/Refugee and Migration Studies below. COVID-19 UPDATE: We have implemented a range of initiatives to support the academic community during this time, including unlimited eBook use through your library. All Berghahn eBooks available through your institution’s library are DRM-free: one library purchase […]
June is Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month recognizes the history and celebrates the cultures, traditions, and contributions of Gypsy, Roma and Traveler communities. See a growing list of digital #GRTHM2020 activities here. As we reach the end of the month, we would like to spotlight our growing Romani Studies series edited by anthropologist Sam Beck. This series aims to remove the […]
An Interview with Courtney Work
Courtney Work is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University (Taiwan). She studied at Cornell University, and has published multiple papers on the intersections of religion, traditional practices, and the politics of land, global development, and climate change. She is the author of the forthcoming title Tides of Empire: Religion, Development, and Environment […]
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 […]
Spring Simulated Shelves
Browse our February and March 2020 releases in Anthropology, Archaeology/Heritage Studies, History, Memory Studies, and Mobility Studies and see what’s new in paperback. COVID-19 UPDATE: Our thoughts are with all of you and your families as you try to cope with the personal and professional disruptions that this pandemic has brought upon all of us. […]
Anthropology-Related Journals
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
Volume 26/2019, 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 5/2019, 1 issue p.a. (summer)
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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
Volume 2/2019, 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 10/2019, 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 28/2019, 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 14/2019, 2 p.a. (summer, winter)
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The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Editor: Andrew Sanchez, University of Cambridge, UK
ISSN Print: 0305-7674
ISSN Online: 2047-7716
Volume 37/2019 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 25/2019, 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
83, 84 & 85/2019, 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 12/2019, 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 20/2019, 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 12/2019, 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 14/2019, 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 9/2019, 3 issues pa. (spring, summer, winter)
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Journal of Legal Anthropology
ISSN Print: 1758-9576
ISSN Online: 1758-9584
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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
Volume 63/2019, 4 issues p.a. (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
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Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawaii
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787
Volume 18/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Transfers
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Editor: Dagmar Schfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
ISSN Print: 2045-4813
ISSN Online: 2045-4821
Volume 9/2019, 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 7/2019, 1 issue p.a. (summer)
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