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June 30 is London Anthropology Day, held at the British Museum’s Education Clore Centre, where participants get to learn what anthropology is about, the types of careers anthropologists have, and gain hands-on experience of what it is like to study the subject at university.
London Anthropology Day is organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Discover Anthropology Education Outreach Programme in collaboration with the British Museum and participating universities.
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In the spirit of engaging young anthropologists, Berghahn is happy to present a selection of Anthropology Resources for Students and Young Scholars:
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“Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
As the summer ends and the weather turns, the new school year begins. Although the first day varies in different parts of the world, however normal pattern is for school to begin in late August or early September in the northern hemisphere. Berghahn is happy to welcome everyone back with some relevant Education Studies titles.
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ANTHROPOLOGIES OF EDUCATION
A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling
Edited by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
The 71st Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, opens today and runs through September 6th 2014, on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy. Twenty films will be competing for the Golden Lion prize, and several dozen more will wrestle for the attention of critics and audiences.
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Italian: Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, “International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale”) is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the “Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica”, the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island
For this year’s festival line-up, screening schedule and other information please visit Venice Film Festival official website.
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In the interim, Berghahn is delighted to present its own line-up of Film Studies titles:
THE JOURNEY OF G. MASTORNA
The Film Fellini Didn’t Make
Federico Fellini
With the collaboration of Dino Buzzati, Brunello Rondi, and Bernardino Zapponi
Translated with a commentary by Marcus Perryman
Continue reading “Venice Film Festival Kicking Off the Fall Movie Festival Season”
Anthropology in Action
Volume 21, Issue 1
This is a special issue on Applied and Social Anthropology, Arts and Health.
Asia Pacific World
Volume 5, Issue 1
In this first issue of Volume 5, we have chosen to begin with two keynote presentations from the fourth IAAPS Annual Conference.
Contributions to the History of Concepts
Volume 9, Issue 1
This issue focuses on conceptual changes and political struggles around citizenship related to the challenges of Europeanization, as well as both migration and immigration after WWII.
German Politics & Society
Volume 32, Issue 2
This special issue is titled The 2013 Bundestag Election (Part 1).
Journeys
Volume 15, Issue 1
This journal explores travel as a practice and travel writing as a genre, reflecting the rich diversity of travel and journeys as social and cultural practices as well as their significance as metaphorical processes.
Learning and Teaching
Volume 7, Issue 1
This special issue is titled Collusion, Complicity and Resistance: Theorising Academics, the University and the Neoliberal Marketplace.
Social Analysis
Volume 58, Issue 2
This journal encourages contributions that break away from the disciplinary bounds of anthropology and suggest innovative ways of challenging hegemonic paradigms through analysis based in original empirical research.
Israel Studies Review
Volume 28, Issue 2
This collection of articles aims to rethink the concepts of family and familism in Israel today and analyze the changes that are taking place.
Projections
Volume 7,
Issue 2
This issue of Projections highlights the complexity of the intersection of movies and mind by integrating established traditions of analyzing media aesthetics with current research into perception, cognition and emotion.
Cambridge Anthropology
Volume 31, Issue 2
This issue features articles covering a broad spectrum of topics.
International Journal of Social Quality
Volume 3, Issue 1
The articles included in this issue of IJSQ touch on different aspects of the “sustainable growth” issue.
Asia Pacific World
Volume 4, Issue 2
The general articles cover a wide range of topics but all grew out of presentations made at IAAPS conferences,with two from the original conference in 2010, and three from the 2011 conference.
Journeys
Volume 14, Issue 2
This special issue is titled: Shaping Strangers in Early Modern English Travel Writing. The articles consider how various strangers were presented and represented in English travel writing, whether their “strangeness” be one of physical, religious, geographical, or national difference, and, simultaneously, the slippage between different kinds of strangeness.
German Politics & Society
Volume 31, Issue 3
This issue comprises articles covering a range of topics. It also features a forum section and a book reviews section.
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.
The Arab uprisings of 2011 are among those rare events that shake the world and capture our attention because they are largely unexpected and because their significance remains a mystery. Often we get used to everyday situations, and politics can become routine so that we conveniently forget that change is the only constant in global affairs. These revolts, which caught most world leaders off-guard, confirm this view. They became popularized in public debate as the “Arab Spring”, since many outsiders viewed them as refreshing change in a region where it was thought that time had frozen, and hierarchical societies were unchangeable. Continue reading “Exploring the Arab Spring with Regions & Cohesion Editors Harlan Koff and Carmen Maganda”
New journal releases from Berghahn:
Nature and Culture
Volume 7, Number 3, Winter 2012
Including articles on the Second Darwinian Revolution, environmentalism in Iran, what is necessary for sustainability in the water sector, and the environmental impacts of militarization.
Transfers
Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2012
Featuring a Special Section on Cultural Appropriation containing articles that comment on the “cultural appropriation” of, respectively, literary genres, stories, and sausages.
Theoria
Volume 59, Number 133, Winter 2012
With articles on the national debt to Africa, democracy and democide in the Weimar Republic, moral relativism, the politics of theatre, and the revival of political philosophy.
Journal of Romance Studies
Volume 12, Number 3, Winter 2012
With a special focus on Antonia Gramsci, exploring various intersections between culture and politics, fostering the cross-fertilization of new Gramscian specialisms and traditional disciplines.
Focaal
Volume 2012, Number 64, Winter 2012
Featuring a theme section on the anthropology and radical philosophy of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, as well as articles on issues in China, West Bengal, and South Korea.
