We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Development Studies, Gender Studies, History, and Media Studies, along with our new in paperback titles and new Berghahn Journal issues published in March.
Anthropology
HOW MATERIALS MATTER
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Graeme Were
Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.
Read Introduction: Materials and Design
RACCOMANDAZIONE
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Dorothy Louise Zinn
Translated from the Italian
Volume 7, European Anthropology in Translation
Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done.
Read Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione
PLAYING THE MARGINALITY GAME
Identity Politics in West Africa
Anita Schroven
Volume 19, Integration and Conflict Studies
Past periods of colonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.
Read Introduction: Identity at the Margins: A Place in Guinea
Development Studies
RETHINKING AND UNTHINKING DEVELOPMENT
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Edited by Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies.
Read Introduction: Rethinking and Unthinking Development in Africa
Gender Studies
CATEGORIES IN CONTEXT
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present
Edited by Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann, Olivier Giraud, Léa Renard, and Theresa Wobbe
Volume 31, International Studies in Social History
Categories in Context seeks to enrich our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed by relevant actors.
Read Introduction: Categories of Gender and Work in Context. Ways Toward a Research Agenda
History
BEYOND THE BORDER
Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971
Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung
Beyond the Border reconstructs the experiences of both Danish and German minority youths living in the area from the 1950s to the 1970s, a period in which relations remained tense amid the broader developments of Cold War geopolitics.
Read Introduction
NEGOTIATING THE SECULAR AND THE RELIGIOUS IN THE GERMAN EMPIRE
Transnational Approaches
Edited by Rebekka Habermas
Volume 10, New German Historical Perspectives
In this volume, leading scholars of sociology, religious studies, and history study the interplay of secular and religious worldviews beyond the simple interrelation of practices and ideas.
Read Introduction: Negotiating the Religious and the Secular in Modern German History
Media Studies
PERSISTENTLY POSTWAR
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Edited by Blai Guarné, Artur Lozano-Méndez, and Dolores P. Martinez
Through a series of stimulating case studies, this volume examines the political and cultural representations of Japan’s past, showing how they have reinforced personal and collective narratives while also formulating new cultural meanings, both on a local scale and in the context of transnational media production and consumption.
Read Introduction: The Politics of Media and Memory Representation in Japan
New in Paperback
MONEY AT THE MARGINS
Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
Edited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan V. Small
Volume 6, The Human Economy
“Indispensable reading material for scholars as well as industry specialists interested in payment infrastructures and the questions of money and value, this book entails fruitful applications for classroom use. One can hope that this innovative volume will inspire a similarly creative following that continues to combine empirical and industry-based insights with those of anthropological theory, along with an inclusive platform of diverse collaborators.” • American Ethnologist
Read Introduction: Money and Finance at the Margins
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer
Volume 11, Environment in History: International Perspectives
This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century.
CYCLING AND RECYCLING
Histories of Sustainable Practices
Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler
Volume 7, Environment in History: International Perspectives
“…an informative and very readable volume that offers stimulating ideas for further research.” • Technikgeschichte
Read Introduction: How Old Technologies Became Sustainable: An Introduction
Berghahn Journals
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Issue 83: The anthropology of austerity
A peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision.
Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology
Vol. 62, Issue 4: Matsutake Worlds
An international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research.
Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Vol. 8, Issue 3: Postcolonial Intersections
A peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edge research on the processes, structures, and consequences of the movement of people, resources, and commodities.
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