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Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Issues Published in July
European Comic Art
Volume 8, Issue 1
Articles in this edition of ECA pursue the theme of boundary crossing by examining negotiations between the national and the transnational from several different angles, including subject matter, influences, and critical traditions.
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Celebrate National Anthropology Day with Berghahn!
Today, the American Anthropological Association celebrates the first National Anthropology Day, which has been set to recognize the field of anthropology and the work of anthropologists within it. Continue reading “Celebrate National Anthropology Day with Berghahn!”
Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Issues for January
Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 9, Issue 1
This issue focuses on the critical political anthropology of the Middle East.
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Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for July
Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 8, Issue 2
This issue was an open-theme issue but, amazingly, all the articles are concerned in one way or other with ethnicity.
Focaal
Voume 2014, Issue 69
This special issue is titled Seeds—Grown, Governed, and Contested.
Introducing: FocaalBlog
The blog aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.
Historical Reflections
Volume 40, Issue 2
This special issue is titled Religion(s) and the Enlightenment.
Nature and Culture
Volume 9, Issue 2
This special issue is comprised of articles presented at the first conference of the Energy & Society network, held with the support of the European Sociological Association at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, in March 2012.
Theoria
Volume 61, Issue 139
This issue covers a range of topics.
Transfers
Volume 4, Issue 2
This issue sheds new light on transitions in forms of personal transportation. All of the articles in this issue are concerned in some way with the dynamics of social change and urban form as shapers of mobility.
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.
Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn
Nature and Culture
Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2013
Special Symposium on Nature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development, focusing on better understanding science-policy interaction and conducting policy assessments that are supportive of sustainable development.
Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 7, Issue 2, Winter 2012
This issue includes articles on rituals of healing and mourning, on marriage, and on the significance of hair as an application of religious law in Judaism.
Nomadic Peoples
Volume 16, Issue 2, Winter 2012
The three research articles in this issue tell unorthodox stories of change and adaptation in West African livestock trade, pastoral and agropastoral groups in Niger, Mongolia pastoralists. The second half of the issue is dedicated to the Dana +10 conference held on 11–13 April 2012.
Sibirica
Volume 11, Issue 3, Winter 2012
With articles on alcoholism and suicide among the indigenous peoples of the Russian north, the tradition narratives of Chukotka and Kamchatka, and the new Arctic/Siberian Studies program at the European University at St. Petersburg, as well as book reviews.
Hot Off the Presses- New Journal Releases from Berghahn
New journal releases from Berghahn:
Anthropology of Middle East, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2012
This issue focuses on the ethnography of contemporary Afghanistan, with articles village life, war, reconstruction, and more.
Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, Volume 13, Issue 1, Summer 2012
Articles on an English pilgrimage site, Peter Carey’s writings on Tokyo and Sydney, hotel culture in Victorian England and Ireland, and a reconsideration of the tourist/traveler distinction with regard to 18th century Europe.
Social Analysis, Volume 56, Issue 1, Spring 2012
A special issue on “Cosmologies of Fortune: Luck, Vitality, and Uncontrolled Relatedness.” Articles examines “fortune” as it is present in a wide array of cultures spanning the globe, including the Amazon, Siberia, Mongolia, Malaysia, Japan, and others.