In celebration of Pride Month in June, enjoy free access to the following articles and chapters from Berghahn.
Karen Lauterbach World Refugee Day (20 June) offers a chance to raise awareness of the plight of refugees around the world and of the efforts to protect their human rights. In the spirit of this day, we are featuring an excerpt from “‘A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church’: Refugee-Refugee Hosting in a Faith-Based Context” by Karen Lauterbach (published […]
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Posted 20 June 2021
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Also tagged: Berghahn Open Anthro, Christianity, displacement, DRC, hospitality, Kampala, migration and society, Open Access, refugee and migration studies, refugee churches, refugee studies, religion, religious studies, Uganda, World Refugee Day
Juneteenth (19 June) is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. In the spirit of this day, we are featuring an excerpt from “The triple-sidedness of “I can’t breathe”: The COVID-19 pandemic, enslavement, and agro-industrial capitalism” by Don Nonini (published in Focaal, Vol. 2021: Issue 89).
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Posted 19 June 2021
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Also tagged: agriculture, agro-industrial, anti-racism, Berghahn Open Anthro, Black Lives Matter, Capitalism, COVID-19, enslavement, Focaal, juneteenth, neoliberalism, Open Access, Pandemic, slavery, united states, US Slavery
Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson World Oceans Day (8 June) is a day for humanity to celebrate the ocean. In this spirit, we are delighted to feature an excerpt from the introduction to AT HOME ON THE WAVES: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today, edited by Tanya J. King and Gary […]
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Posted 08 June 2021
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Also tagged: archaeology, environment and society, environmental humanities, environmental studies, fisheries, fising, geography, maritime archaeology, Ocean, ocean archaeology, oceans, sea, United Nations, World Ocean Day, World Oceans Day
Paola Trevisan In the spirit of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month in June, we invite you to read the following excerpt from “Austrian ‘Gypsies’ in the Italian archives: Historical ethnography on multiple border crossings at the beginning of the twentieth century” by Paola Trevisan. This article is featured in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical […]
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Posted 07 June 2021
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Also tagged: Focaal, GRTHM, GRTHM2021, Gypsy, identity, methodology, migration, Roma, romani, romani studies, Romani Studies Series, romanipe, sinti, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology, theory and methodology, Traveller
Ana K. Spalding and Ricardo de Ycaza In the spirit of World Environment Day on 5 June, we invite you to read the following excerpt from “Navigating Shifting Regimes of Ocean Governance: From UNCLOS to Sustainable Development Goal 14” by Ana K. Spalding and Ricardo de Ycaza (Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Vol.11: Issue 1), a […]
The Berghahn Blog turns nine this June! Celebrate with us by reading our nine most popular articles since our inception in 2012!
Ingrid Kummels As a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, social arrangements allowing people to carry on despite the restrictions on mobility forced upon them became predominant across the world. From work (home office) and education (home schooling) to birthday parties, meetings, conferences and political campaigns (Zoom, etc.) diverse aspects of life were reoriented to adapt […]
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Posted 21 May 2021
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Also tagged: anthropology of media, Ayuujk, cultural anthropology, film and media studies, Latin America, mexico, photography, social anthropology, transborder, US, videomaking
Catherine A. Nichols Exchanging Objects and my broader research agenda considers how and why certain objects left museums, institutions so often associated with preservation, archiving, and keeping. It can be an odd thing, to go to a museum to intentionally study things that aren’t there. When the idea for this research was suggested to me […]
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Posted 18 May 2021
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Also tagged: archives, Berghahn Open Anthro, COVID-19, International Museum Day, mobility, Museum Anthropology, museum day, museum studies, museum worlds, museums, Preservation, Smithsonian
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 […]
