{"id":10171,"date":"2017-06-30T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:25:06","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-june-2017-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-june-2017-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE JUNE 2017 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of\u00a0Anthropology<\/a>,\u00a0Applied Anthropology<\/a>, Environmental Studies<\/a>, Film Studies<\/a>, History<\/a>, Jewish Studies<\/a> and Medical Anthropology<\/a>, along with our\u00a0New in Paperback\u00a0titles.<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"Paperback Original<\/em><\/p>\n

STORIES MAKE THE WORLD<\/a>
\nReflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary
\nStephen Most<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cStories Make the World is an insightful look into the craft of documentary filmmaking that should be required reading for media students. Story and honesty are needed now more than ever in an era of \u2018fake news,\u2019 half-truths, and technical virtuosity.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 John de Graaf<\/strong>, Director of Affluenza and fifteen other national PBS documentaries<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of human history, stories have helped people make sense of their lives and their world. Today, an understanding of storytelling is invaluable as we seek to orient ourselves within a flood of raw information and an unprecedented variety of supposedly true accounts. In Stories Make the World<\/em>, award-winning screenwriter Stephen Most offers a captivating, refreshingly heartfelt exploration of how documentary filmmakers and other storytellers come to understand their subjects and cast light on the world through their art. Drawing on the author\u2019s decades of experience behind the scenes of television and film documentaries, this is an indispensable account of the principles and paradoxes that attend the quest to represent reality truthfully.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

To stream and download films in Stories Make the World<\/em>, go to www.videoproject.com\/Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"ORGANIC CINEMA<\/a>
\nFilm, Architecture, and the Work of B\u00e9la Tarr
\nThorsten Botz-Bornstein<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The \u201corganic\u201d is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in the work of B\u00e9la Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker and pioneer of the \u201cslow cinema\u201d movement. Through a wholly original analysis of the long take and other signature features of Tarr\u2019s work, author Thorsten Botz-Bornstein establishes compelling links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture, revealing shared organic principles that emphasize the transcendence of boundaries.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"MONEY IN A HUMAN ECONOMY<\/a>
\nEdited by Keith Hart<\/p>\n

Volume 5, The Human Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked and remittances in the South, cross-border investment in China, the payments industry and the politics of bitcoin); and cases from 19th century India and Southern Africa to contemporary Haiti and Argentina. Money is one idea with diverse forms. As national monopoly currencies give way to regional and global federalism, money is a key to achieving economic democracy.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Money in a Human Economy <\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"THE MYTH OF SELF-RELIANCE<\/a>
\nEconomic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp
\nNaohiko Omata<\/p>\n

Volume 36, Forced Migration<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For many refugees, economic survival in refugee camps is extraordinarily difficult. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative research , this volume challenges the reputation of a \u2018self-reliant\u2019 model given to Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana and sheds light on considerable economic inequality between refugee households.By following the same refugee households over several years, The Myth of Self-Reliancealso<\/em> provides valuable insights into refugees\u2019 experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Buduburam: An Exemplary Refugee Camp?<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"THE ETHICS OF KNOWLEDGE CREATION<\/a>
\nTransactions, Relations, and Persons
\nEdited by Lisette Josephides and Anne Sigfrid Gr\u00f8nseth<\/p>\n

Volume 31, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences, tackling questions having to do with the foundations, ethics, and deployment of the knowledge crucial to human lives. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation<\/em> focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into \u2018universal knowledge\u2019, and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the process of \u2018transacting knowledge\u2019 and investigates how these transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0The Ethics of Knowledge-Creation<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"INDIGENEITY AND THE SACRED<\/a>
\nIndigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
\nEdited by Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner<\/p>\n

Volume 22, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred<\/em> explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"RUPTURES IN THE EVERYDAY<\/a>
\nViews of Modern Germany from the Ground
\nLead Authors: Andrew Stuart Bergerson and Leonard Schmieding<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories\u2014and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday<\/em> brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigates Alltag<\/em> through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self, society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work \u201con the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"CONCEPTUAL HISTORY IN THE EUROPEAN SPACE<\/a>
\nEdited by Willibald Steinmetz, Michael Freeden, and Javier Fern\u00e1ndez-Sebasti\u00e1n<\/p>\n

A volume in the European Conceptual History<\/em><\/a> Series<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space<\/em> represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"SPACE AND SPATIALITY IN MODERN GERMAN-JEWISH HISTORY<\/a>
\nEdited by Simone L\u00e4ssig and Miriam R\u00fcrup<\/p>\n

Volume 8, New German Historical Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of \u201cthe spatial,\u201d these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.<\/p>\n

Read \u2028Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0What Made a Space \u201cJewish\u201d? Reconsidering a Category of Modern German History<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a>THE DANCE OF NURTURE<\/a>
\nNegotiating Infant Feeding
\nPenny Van Esterik and Richard A. O’Connor<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Food, Nutrition, and Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture<\/em> integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

New In Paperback:<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"THE GREATER GERMAN REICH AND THE JEWS<\/a>
\nNazi Persecution Policies in the Annexed Territories 1935-1945
\nEdited by Wolf Gruner and J\u00f6rg Osterloh<\/p>\n

Volume 20, War and Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Much remains to be learned about the Holocaust in the occupied regions, but this collection helps fill the gap.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Holocaust and Genocide Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between 1935 and 1940, the Nazis incorporated large portions of Europe into the German Reich. The contributors to this volume analyze the evolving anti-Jewish policies in the annexed territories and their impact on the Jewish population, as well as the attitudes and actions of non-Jews, Germans, and indigenous populations. They demonstrate that diverse anti-Jewish policies developed in the different territories, which in turn affected practices in other regions and even influenced Berlin\u2019s decisions. Having these systematic studies together in one volume enables a comparison – based on the most recent research – between anti-Jewish policies in the areas annexed by the Nazi state. The results of this prizewinning book call into question the common assumption that one central plan for persecution extended across Nazi-occupied Europe, shifting the focus onto differing regional German initiatives and illuminating the cooperation of indigenous institutions.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"MIXED MATCHES<\/a>
\nTransgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
\nEdited by David M. Luebke and Mary Lindemann
\nAfterword by Joel Harrington<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cA seminal anthology of original work and research, Mixed Matches is a valued and highly recommended addition to personal and academic library Germany History & Culture reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Midwest Book Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants, those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther\u2019s redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers\u2019 attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Transgressive Unions<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"TOPOGRAPHIES OF SUFFERING<\/a>
\nBuchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
\nJessica Rapson<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cJessica Rapson has written a fascinating book\u2026 that can be immensely inspiring. One may not agree with her all the time, but this makes her discourse contribution even more valuable.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong><\/p>\n

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of \u201cmonument fatigue\u201d, a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"ANXIOUS HISTORIES<\/a>
\nNarrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
\nJordana Silverstein<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Anxious Histories invites scholars and educators to consider Holocaust education from a series of thought-provoking dimensions. It ought to spur further research to enrich the knowledge base at both the theoretical and practical levels. The book adds to our understanding of the contents and discontents of Holocaust education in Jewish high schools in diaspora contexts at the beginning of the 21st century. Its treatment of a crucial and timely topic in our field renders it a valuable work. For its innovative claims about the roles of both anxiety and assimilation in how Jewish educators teach the Holocaust, it merits our careful attention.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of Jewish Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the last seventy years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. The author explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York. Bringing together a diverse range of critical approaches, including memory studies, gender studies, diaspora theory, and settler colonial studies, Anxious Histories<\/em> complicates the stories being told about the Holocaust in these Jewish schools and their broader communities.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Holocaust Historiography, Anxiety and the Formulations of a Diasporic Jewishness<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"VANISHED HISTORY<\/a>
\nThe Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
\nTomas Sniegon<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, this is an informative book [that]\u2026 may be especially useful for readers interested in the ongoing development of historical narratives in Europe generally, and in the Czech and Slovak Republics in particular.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Holocaust and Genocide<\/strong><\/p>\n

About 270,000 out of the 360,000 Czech and Slovak casualties of World War II were victims of the Holocaust. Despite these statistics, the Holocaust vanished almost entirely from post-war Czechoslovak, and later Czech and Slovak, historical cultures. The communist dictatorship carried the main responsibility for this disappearance, yet the situation has not changed much since the fall of the communist regime. The main questions of this study are how and why the Holocaust was excluded from the Czech and Slovak history.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Czechoslovak history\u2019s velvet awakening<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of\u00a0Anthropology,\u00a0Applied Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, Jewish Studies and Medical Anthropology, along with our\u00a0New in Paperback\u00a0titles. Paperback Original STORIES MAKE THE WORLD Reflections on Storytelling and the Art of the Documentary Stephen Most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[656,299,107,311,338,111,349,207,177,1763,1726,1782,992,110,599,121,601,280,1793,109,230,797,1601,275,851,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20871,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions\/20871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}