{"id":10396,"date":"2017-10-03T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:37:30","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-september-2017-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-september-2017-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE September 2017 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of\u00a0Anthropology<\/a>, Media Studies<\/a>,\u00a0History<\/a>, and\u00a0Refugee and Migration Studies<\/a>, along with our\u00a0New in Paperback<\/a>\u00a0titles.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE PARTICIPANTS<\/a>
\nThe Men of the Wannsee Conference
\nEdited by Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzm\u00fcller
\nTranslated from the German by Charlotte Kreutzm\u00fcller-Hughes and Jane Paulick<\/em><\/p>\n

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On 20 January 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, exemplifying the labor division and bureaucratization that made the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d possible. Yet while the conference itself has been exhaustively researched, many of its attendees remain relatively obscure. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants<\/em> presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in history.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>The Participants:<\/strong>\u00a0The Men of the Wannsee Conference<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"LABORERS AND ENSLAVED WORKERS<\/a>
\nExperiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro’s Working Class, 1850-1920
\nMarcelo Badar\u00f3 Mattos
\nTranslated by Renata Meirelles and Frederico Machado de Barros<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 29, International Studies in Social History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly distinct social categories. In this volume, Marcelo Badar\u00f3 Mattos demonstrates that these two historical phenomena cannot be understood in isolation. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Badar\u00f3 Mattos reveals the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio\u2019s working class, from which emerged the many strategies that workers both free and unfree pursued in their struggles against oppression.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MAKING NORDIC HISTORIOGRAPHY<\/a>
\nConnections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970
\nEdited by Pertti Haapala, Marja Jalava, and Simon Larsson<\/p>\n

Volume 32, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Is there a \u201cNordic history\u201d? If so, what are its origins, its scope, and its defining features? In this informative volume, scholars from all five Nordic nations tackle a notoriously problematic historical concept. Whether recounting Foucault\u2019s departure from Sweden or tracing the rise of movements such as \u201caristocratic empiricism,\u201d each contribution takes a deliberately transnational approach that is grounded in careful research, yielding rich, nuanced perspectives on shifting and contested historical terrain.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Nordic Historiography: From Methodological Nationalism to Empirical Transnationalism<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE PERSISTENCE OF RACE<\/a>
\nContinuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism
\nEdited by Lara Day and Oliver Haag<\/p>\n

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Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras.<\/p>\n

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\"\"COMPENSATION IN PRACTICE<\/a>
\nThe Foundation ‘Remembrance, Responsibility and Future’ and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich
\nEdited by Constantin Goschler<\/p>\n

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Founded in 2000, the German Foundation \u201cRemembrance, Responsibility and Future\u201d is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history: in cooperation with its international partner organizations, it has to date paid over 4 billion euros to nearly 1.7 million survivors of forced labour during the Nazi Era. This volume provides an unparalleled look at the Foundation\u2019s creation, operations, and prospects after nearly two decades of existence, with valuable insights not just for historians but for a range of scholars, professionals, and others involved in human rights and reconciliation efforts.<\/p>\n

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\"\"FROM EASTERN BLOC TO EUROPEAN UNION<\/a>
\nComparative Processes of Transformation since 1990
\nEdited by G\u00fcnther Heydemann and Karel Vodi\u010dka
\nTranslated from the German<\/p>\n

Volume 22, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states\u2014Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany\u2014that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in these nations, using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU.<\/p>\n

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\"\"CULTURE CHANGE AND EX-CHANGE<\/a>
\nSyncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
\nRegina Knapp<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea? In her analysis, Knapp draws upon existing bodies of work on \u2018culture change\u2019, \u2018exchange\u2019 and \u2018person\u2019 in Melanesia but brings them together in a new way by conjoining traditional models with theoretical approaches of the new Melanesian ethnography and with collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Culture Change and Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"FOUCAULT’S ORIENT<\/a>
\nThe Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
\nMarnia Lazreg<\/p>\n

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Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the \u201cOrient\u201d constitute the \u201climit\u201d of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars in Tunisia, Japan and France, this book examines the philosophical sources, evolution as well as contradictions of Foucault\u2019s experience with non-Western cultures. Beyond tracing Foucault\u2019s journey into the world of otherness, the book reveals the personal, political as well as methodological effects of a radical conception of cultural difference that extolled the local over the cosmopolitan.<\/p>\n

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\"\"FROM CLANS TO CO-OPS<\/a>
\nConfiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
\nTheodoros Rakopoulos<\/p>\n

Volume 4, The Human Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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From Clans to Co-op<\/em>s explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos\u2019s ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and the material changes that cooperatives bring to people\u2019s lives in terms of kinship, work and land management. The book contributes to broader debates about cooperativism, how labor might be salvaged from market fundamentalism, and to emergent discourses about the \u2018human\u2019 economy.<\/p>\n

From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Theodoros Rakopoulos<\/strong>\u00a0is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u00a0(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).<\/a><\/p>\n

This edition is supported by the University of Bergen. OA ISBN: 978-1-78533-606-5<\/p>\n

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\"\"POWER IN PRACTICE<\/a>
\nThe Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
\nSergio Gonz\u00e1lez Varela<\/p>\n

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Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres<\/em>) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding of the modern history of capoeira, and for the themes of embodiment, play, cosmology, and ritual action. The book also emphasizes the great significance that creativity and aesthetic expression have for capoeira\u2019s practice and performance.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong><\/a>SPANISH LESSONS<\/a>
\nCinema and Television in Contemporary Spain
\nPaul Julian Smith<\/p>\n

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Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of \u201ctransmedia\u201d works that bridge narrative forms. In Spanish Lessons<\/em>, Paul Julian Smith provides an engaging exploration of visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult. Whether generating new insights into the work of key figures like Pedro Almod\u00f3var, comparing media depictions of Spain\u2019s economic woes, or giving long-overdue critical attention to quality television series, Smith\u2019s book is a consistently lively and accessible cultural investigation.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Film, Television, Transmedia<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"CHILDREN OF THE CAMP<\/a>
\nThe Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
\nCatherine-Lune Grayson<\/p>\n

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Chronic violence has characterized Somalia for over two decades, forcing nearly two million people to flee. A significant number have settled in camps in neighboring countries, where children were born and raised. Based on in-depth fieldwork, this book explores the experience of Somalis who grew up in Kakuma refugee camp, in Kenya, and are now young adults. This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MEDIA, ANTHROPOLOGY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT<\/a>
\nEdited by Sarah Pink and Simone Abram<\/p>\n

Volume 9, Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe importance of public anthropology has been growing around the world making this a timely edition which, \u2018mark[s] a line in the sand about where we are today\u2019 [This volume] provides a place to begin to discuss the different ways in which people are currently engaging in public anthropology, including their methods, types of media used, topics researched and blogs such as \u2018Savage Minds.\u2019 It has the potential to be a valuable resource in instigating discussions around what anthropology can do, should do and has the potential to communicate through being public.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 SITES \u2013 A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Mediating Publics and Anthropology: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"WINNER OF THE 2014 GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK UK AWARD<\/p>\n

FOOD IN ZONES OF CONFLICT<\/a>
\nCross-Disciplinary Perspectives
\nEdited by Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth
\nForeword by Hugo Slim<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Anthropology of Food & Nutrition<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the most prevalent themes of this innovative collection is the exploration of how food becomes highly politicized and used as a political and military weapon, with multiple chapters examining\u2014and convincingly demonstrating\u2014how governments and other powerful groups exploit the availability of and access to food\u2026 a valuable contribution to an often overlooked and underexplored topic, which also offers innovative and novel case studies and empirical data to the more well-trodden tropes of food security and poverty, nutrition and intervention. It is sure to find its way onto many reading lists and will provide a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate teaching and research.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Food, Culture & Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"WHAT IS EXISTENTIAL ANTHROPOLOGY?<\/a>
\nEdited by Michael Jackson and Albert Piette<\/p>\n

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\u201cOverall, this book offers fascinating insights into the potentialities of existential anthropology\u2026 it allows to step beyond some of the conceptions that have governed past edited collections in this field, without yielding to current fads in Anglophone anthropology.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Sociologus<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn giving insight into the existential questions that arise from specific \u2018moments of being\u2019, this book will form a crucial point of departure for anyone who is interested in the continuously shifting conditions of human existence.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00b7 Anthropology & Humanism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthropology and the Existential Turn<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS WRITER<\/a>
\nGenres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century
\nEdited by Helena Wulff<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis well-written collection of essays is not merely a programmatic statement about the need for anthropologists to experiment with genres, but indicates how it can be done. It succeeds in showing just as much as telling, with examples ranging from the thought-provoking to the entertaining.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Thomas Hylland Eriksen<\/strong>, University of Oslo<\/p>\n

Read Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Across and Within Genres<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"ECONOMY FOR AND AGAINST DEMOCRACY<\/a>
\nEdited by Keith Hart<\/p>\n

Volume 2, The Human Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c[This book] sets out debates and insights that have been long forgotten in social science as a result of the domination of orthodox economics. Absent is the arcane mathematical formalism that commands mainstream enquiry into economics; in these chapters, the study of economics speaks to \u2013 and of \u2013 people and their daily struggles. In a phrase not to be killed with over-use: this is a liberating read.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Peter Vale<\/strong>, University of Johannesburg<\/p>\n

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\"\"REGIMES OF IGNORANCE<\/a>
\nAnthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge
\nEdited by Roy Dilley and Thomas G. Kirsch<\/p>\n

Volume 29, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat Kirsch and all the contributors to the volume illustrate is that, although anthropology is a latecomer to the topic of agnotology, the discipline has much to offer, especially in expanding the range of the study beyond Western science and corporations and in identifying the constructive processes and effective outcomes of ignorance-making.<\/em>\u201d \u00b7 Anthropology Review Database<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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