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We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Theory and Methodology in Anthropology, Environmental Studies, and Sociology, along with our New in Paperback titles.
MORAL ANTHROPOLOGY
A Critique
Edited by Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold
Volume 16, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
Continue reading “SIMULATED SHELVES: Browse February 2018 NEW BOOKS”
“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
We’re delighted to offer a selection of soon-to-be-published titles from our core subjects of Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, History, Sociology, Travel & Tourism and Urban Studies. The following list of new volumes is complete with brief descriptions of the books and a peek at each cover.
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Willem Assies’s Anthropological Work in Context
Edited by Ton Salman, Salvador Marti i Puig, and Gemma van der Haar Continue reading “Simulated Shelves: Browse June’s New Books”
Nutrition is essential to human life, no matter one’s cultural background or period in which one lived. Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Past Meets Present, published in 2010 and recently available as an ebook, follows this fundamental building block of life and its impact on society from prehistoric to contemporary times, across the world. Following, volume editors Tracy Prowse and Tina Moffat discuss the most (and least) enjoyable aspects of editing a collection, changes in the study of human diet, and the way forward in the Anthropology of diet and nutrition.
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Berghahn Books: What drew you to the study of health and nutrition?
Tracy Prowse: I really like food. Seriously, I’ve always been interested in diet and nutrition in past populations.
Tina Moffat: I started out in infant mortality studies and child health and realized quickly that nutrition is a major component of child health.
Newly released titles from Berghahn’s Anthropology and Applied Anthropology, Film Studies, and History lists:
Toward Engaged Anthropology, Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida
Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, Michael Bollig, Michael Schnegg, and Hans-Peter Wotzka
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
Soldiering Under Occupation: Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Erella Grassiani
Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914, Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann
Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World, Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys
Judging “Privileged” Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the “Grey Zone”, Adam Brown
Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary, Sallie Han
United Germany: Debating Processes and Prospects, Konrad Jarausch
Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges, Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes
Newly released paperbacks from Berghahn:
Youth Gangs and Street Children: Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia, Paula Heinonen
Funerals in Africa: Explorations of a Social Phenomenon, Michael Jindra and Joël Noret
Gardening the World: Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water, Veronica Strang
Growing Up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Children and Adolescence, Ute Eickelkamp
East meets West in United Germany: Debating Processes and Prospects, to be published this month, a collection of works that compares and contrasts German sentiments since the fall of the Berlin Wall nearly a quarter of a century ago. Editor Konrad Jarausch answers questions about the collection and the roots of his passion for the subject.
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What drew you to the study of Germany’s re-unification after the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Since we had just bought an apartment at the Bayerischer Platz in Schöneberg during the summer of 1989, I was able to witness a good deal of the “peaceful revolution” firsthand. Moreover, as co-chair of an IREX commission of GDR and U.S. historians I became personally involved in the transition difficulties of my East German colleagues. After so many decades of Cold War stagnation, it seemed that history had returned with a vengeance – posing a challenge for explanation which I could not resist.
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
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