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‘Wrapped in the Flag of Israel’ Author Earns Heart at East Award

On May 21, 2013, in Tel Aviv, the Heart at East Lifetime Achievement Plaque was bestowed upon Prof. Smadar Lavie. Her scholarly and activist voice for the rights of Mizrahi Jewish women living in Israel received formal recognition. Lavie’s two decades of ethnographic research and community leadership to better the lives of those within these populations not only earned her the award, but also led her to write Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, to be published in April 2014. Below, Lavie explains why Heart at East is significant—both within the State of Israel and for herself.

 

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Smadar Lavie
— Photo by Jutta Henglein-Bildau

I was so thrilled to receive Facebook messages from Reuven Abarjel, co-founder of the Jerusalem Black Panthers, and Shira Ohayon, a longtime Mizrahi feminist and educational director of Israel’s Andalusian Orchestra, that I was to be awarded the Heart at East Lifetime Achievement Plaque in May 2013.

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Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for August

Journeys
Volume 14, Issue 1
This issue discusses railway guides in South Wales, the work of Wilfred Thesiger, tourist blogs in Southwestern Ethiopia, and a former Soviet prison camp. It also features book reviews.

Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 8, Issue 1
This is a very particular issue, and its topic–art in the Middle East–is new. All of the writers seem deeply involved in their subject and present their research in a fresh and spirited way.

Museum Worlds
Volume 1, Issue 1
This is the first issue of our newest journal. Museum Worlds represents trends in museum-related research and practice and builds a profile of various approaches to the expanding discipline of museum studies.

Transfers
Volume 3, Issue 2
This issue features articles exploring many subjects within mobility scholarship as well as film, museum, and book reviews. 

German Politics & Society
Volume 31, Issue 2
This special issue is devoted to the experience surrounding migration from Turkey to Germany and was motivated by the 50th anniversary of the first Turkish migrant marked in 2011.

Anthropology in Action
Volume 20, Issue 2
This special issue on the study of organizations investigates the dynamic nature of boundaries arising from historical and social contexts. 

French Politics, Culture, and Society
Volume 31, Issue 2
This journal explores modern and contemporary France from the perspectives of the social sciences, history, and cultural analysis. It also examines the relationship of France to the larger world, especially Europe, the United States, and the former French Empire. 

Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques
Volume 39, Issue 2
This special issue comprises articles exploring issues of genocide and the Holocaust, especially as they relate to notions of betrayal, justice, and social bonds. 

Regions and Cohesion
Volume 3, Issue 2
This journal promotes the comparative examination of the human and environmental impacts of various aspects of regional integration across geographic areas, time periods, and policy arenas.

Sibirica
Volume 12, Issue 2
This special issue comprises articles based on papers presented at the session “Baikal Issues under Persistent State Care” at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.

 

Knowledge, an Anthropological Commodity

Within the pages of his newly published book, An Anthropological Trompe L’Oeil for a Common World: An Essay On The Economy Of Knowledge, published by Berghahn last month, Alberto Corsín Jiménez addresses the value and framework of knowledge, theory, and scholarship. Below the author discusses the sources of inspiration for the book, the commodity of knowledge, and the trick that not everything is exactly as it first appears.

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Although I did not quite know it at the time, I began writing this book roughly at the time of my appointment to a university lectureship at the University of Manchester in 2003.

 

The university had only just merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology — a merger hailed in various contexts as a harbinger of the changes to come in UK higher education. Continue reading “Knowledge, an Anthropological Commodity” →

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for June/July

Asia Pacific World
Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2013
Includes transcripts of two keynote speeches from recent International Association for Asia Pacific Studies conferences.

Sibirica
Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2013
Explores Siberia’s important role in the study of the emergence of pottery, maintaining the communal knowledge systems of the indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North and the process of cosmopolitan learning among hosts in a hospitality couchsurfing network.

International Journal of Social Quality
Features empirical papers from a large cross-cultural research project investigating social quality across six Asia-Pacific societies.

Journal of Romance Studies
Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2013
Five articles covering a broad spectrum of topics including: the workings of the Islamic community in Italy, queer and intersex childhood in Argentine filmmaking, the literary and political work of Tunisian poet and theorist Abdelwahab Meddeb.

Anthropology in Action
Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2013
Explores the relationship between modernist, global health promotion agendas and a more locally rooted approaches to improving health and wellbeing.

Social Analysis
Volume 57, Number 1, Spring 2013
This special issue is titled: Time and the Field.  By exploring and unfolding the temporal properties of the field, anthropology can favorably complement and extend the (spatially anchored) notion of multi-sited fieldwork with one of multi-temporal ethnography.

European Judaism
Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue gathers lectures delivered at four of the most recent Annual International Jewish-Christian-Muslim Student Conferences as well as other papers that reflect aspects of new thinking in the field of interfaith dialogue.

Israel Studies Review
Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue begins with the Forum, which focuses on a very current issue in Israel–the major attacks on, or abuses of, academic freedom.

European Comic Art
Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue is devoted to comics adaptations of literary works.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 2013
This is the first issue of Girlhood Studies that we have devoted primarily to method and methodology related to deepening an understanding of girlhood and girls’ lives.

Nature and Culture
Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2013
This issue covers a variety of topics such as the German energy transition, Love and Kill as mixed constructs in hunting and shifts in governance ushered in by the sustainability paradigm are reshaping knowledge governance.

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special issue on history and place-making.

 

Research & Reward in Central Australia

Called a “timely collection” and a “worthwhile contribution” to the discourse of Aboriginal life, Growing up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence was first published in June 2011 and was published last month in paperback. Editor Ute Eikelkamp revisits the volume and describes the joy and reward of fieldwork that led to its publication.

 

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Paying attention to the life experiences and capacities of the Aboriginal children I had known as mediators, shifting presences and welcome companions for some years during field research with the senior knowledge bearers in a central Australian community has been a most rewarding experience, both personally and intellectually.

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Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn

Anthropology in Action
Volume 19, Issue 3, Winter 2012
Special issue on Tourism and Applied Anthropology in Theory and Praxis, with articles on village tourism in Cyprus, hospitality in Laos, surf tourism in Costa Rica, and wine tourism in the Temecula Valley.

German Politics and Society
Volume 30, Issue 4, Winter 2012
With articles on “Freie Wähler” in the German political system, migrant interests in Germany, and fairy tale heroes and heroines in an East German Heimat; also featuring a forum on research performance in Germany, and several book reviews.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Celebrating the tenth issue and the First Annual Day of the Girl (October 11), with articles spanning girls’ aggression and use of violence, quality of life, use of the internet, and book reviews.

Journeys
Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Focusing on the places or trails where traumatic or miraculous events took place, and on the significance and meaning people put in the act of walking to and around these sites.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2012
Special Issue on “Towards and Anthropology of Anthropology: the socialization of aspiring anthropologists”, with articles focusing on the education of anthropologists.

Aspasia
Volume 6, 2012
Celebrating 100 Years of International Women’s Day, with articles focusing on Russia, the Polish lands, and Greece; a review of the book Frauentag! (Women’s Day!); and a report on recent IWD-related events in Ukraine, including two exhibitions.

Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn

New journal releases from Berghahn:

Anthropology in Action
Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2012
Articles on the post-industrial urban neighbourhoods of the U.S.A., the U.K. and Europe, the visual-anthropological method of participatory video in Northeastern Brazil, and improving obstetric care in Burkina Faso. Also including an open letter to World Bank President Kim.

Contributions to the History of Concepts
Volume 7, Number 1, Summer 2012
This issue includes articles on national histories, democracy in the Swedish Parliamentary Debates during the Interwar Years, conceptual history in Korean, the concept of Unnati (Progress) in Hindi, and the concept of nation in East-Central Europe.

Focaal
Volume 2012, Number 63, Summer 2012
This issue focuses on changing flows in anthropological knowledge, with articles about Western anthropologists and Eastern ethnologists, cosmopolitan anthropology, inequality, labor, citizenship, and more.

French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 30, Number 2, Summer 2012
Special issue on The Rescue of Jews in France and its Empire during World War II: History and Memory, featuring articles on the French resistance and figures who played key roles in aiding the Jews in France during WWII.

Regions & Cohesion
Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2012
Focuses on themes of water management in North America, social cohesion and migration, and cohesion and governance.

Sibirica
Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2012
Featuring two extensive articles on cattle economy and environmental perception of sedentary Sakhas in Central Yakuti, and genre differentiation in spontaneous Koriak storytelling.

Theoria
Volume 59, Number 132, September 2012
Part two of a special issue on Freedom and Power. Articles examine the concepts of freedom and power, the dimensions of freedom in Plato’s Laws, and delves into Plato’s analogy between the structure of the soul and the polis.

Transfers
Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2012
Featuring a Special Section on Global Cycling examining the local meaning of bicycling in West Africa, Finland, Japan, and China. Articles also include reviews of the Gambiocycle, The National Carriage Gallery at the Cobb + Co Museum, and the movie Drive.

Hot Off the Presses- New Journal Releases


Recent Journal Releases from Berghahn:
Anthropology in Action, Volume 19, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Asia Pacific World, Volume 3, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Cambridge Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1– Spring 2012
French Politics, Culture and Society, Volume 30, Issue 1– Spring 2012
German Politics and Society, Volume 30, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Israel Studies Review, Volume 27, Issue 1– Summer 2012
Projections, Volume 6, Issue 1– Summer 2012
Sibirica, Volume 11, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Theoria, Volume 60, Number 131– June 2012
Transfers, Volume 2, Issue 1– Spring 2012