{"id":10440,"date":"2017-11-07T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=10440"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:10:57","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-october-2017-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-october-2017-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE October 2017 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of\u00a0Anthropology<\/a>, Environmental Studies<\/a>, Gender Studies<\/a>, History<\/a>, Medical Anthropology<\/a>, and Mobil Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"STRAYING FROM THE STRAIGHT PATH<\/a>
\nHow Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
\nEdited by Daan Beekers and David Kloos<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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“This rich collection of ethnographic studies of failure goes a long way in moving anthropological accounts of ethical and religious life beyond false dichotomies, including the very distinction between failure and success itself.”\u00a0\u00b7<\/strong> <\/em>Michael Lambek<\/strong>, Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto Scarborough<\/p>\n

If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life \u2013 such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith \u2013 outside the domain of religion \u2018proper.\u2019<\/p>\n

Straying from the Straight Path\u00a0<\/em>breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MORAL ENGINES<\/a>
\nExploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
\nEdited by Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, Maria Louw, and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer<\/p>\n

Volume 5, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life<\/em> includes essays from some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?<\/p>\n

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\"\"MIMESIS AND PACIFIC TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS<\/a>
\nMaking Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
\nEdited by Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann<\/p>\n

Volume 8, ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.<\/p>\n

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\"\"NEW & REVISED EDITION<\/p>\n

THE VOICE OF PROPHECY<\/a>
\nAnd Other Essays
\nEdwin Ardener\u2020
\nSecond and Expanded Edition
\nForeword by Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University<\/p>\n

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\u201cArdener is the Czerny of anthropology, concerned with technical training, with how to think productively within the discipline. He should be read above all by postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers, whose formation is not yet \u2018completed.\u2019\u2026As exercises to form the anthropological mind, these papers are both unique and irreplaceable.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0JRAI<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe intellectual bequest of a brilliant and compassionate human being.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University<\/p>\n

\u201cHis voice is as deeply needed as ever. Ardener anticipated numerous central issues in the social sciences today\u2026This publishing event will achieve something much more significant still: a long-overdue recognition that Ardener not only forged ahead of today\u2019s mainstream but bequeathed a legacy of ideas that can regenerate and redirect anthropological thought today. This new edition will allow a new and more receptive audience to come to grips with Ardener\u2019s distinctive mode of analysis and understanding, bringing it more clearly into the mainstream of anthropological thought not only as a historical contribution but also, and especially, as a source of new reflections.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(From the Foreword)<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE FETUS<\/a>
\nBiology, Culture, and Society
\nEdited by Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott
\nForeword by Rayna Rapp<\/p>\n

Volume 37, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus<\/em> seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. Contributors draw on research in prehistoric, historic, and contemporary sites in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America to explore the biological and cultural phenomenon of the fetus, raising methodological and theoretical concerns with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.<\/p>\n

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\"\"EASTERN EUROPE UNMAPPED<\/a>
\nBeyond Borders and Peripheries
\nEdited by Irene Kacandes and Yuliya Komska<\/p>\n

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Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, and intellectual traditions. Through a series of inventive cultural and historical explorations, Eastern Europe Unmapped<\/em> dispenses with scholars\u2019 long-time preoccupation with national and regional borders, instead raising provocative questions about the area\u2019s non-contiguous\u2014and frequently global or extraterritorial\u2014entanglements.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0A Discontiguous Eastern Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"MODERN GERMANY IN TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE<\/a>
\nEdited by Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp<\/p>\n

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Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective<\/em> takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections on the discipline\u2019s theoretical, professional, and methodological dimensions, it explores Jarausch\u2019s monumental work as a teacher and a builder of scholarly institutions. In this way, it provides not merely a look back at the last fifty years of German history, but a path forward as new ideas and methods infuse the study of Germany\u2019s past.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0From Ruination to Renewal: Konrad Jarausch\u2019s Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"UNEARTHING THE PAST TO FORGE THE FUTURE<\/a>
\nColin Mackenzie, the Early Colonial State, and the Comprehensive Survey of India
\nTobias Wolffhardt
\nTranslated by Jane Rafferty<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Studies in British and Imperial History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This volume carefully reconstructs the life and career of Mackenzie, showing how the massive survey of India that he undertook became one of the most spectacular and wide-ranging knowledge production initiatives in British colonial history.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SILENCED COMMUNITIES<\/a>
\nLegacies of Militarization and Militarism in a Rural Guatemalan Town
\nMarcia Esparza<\/p>\n

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Although the Guatemalan Civil War ended more than two decades ago, its bloody legacy continues to resonate even today. In Silenced Communities<\/em>, author Marcia Esparza offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tom\u00e1s Chichicastenango following the conflict. Combining insights from postcolonialism, subaltern studies, and theories of internal colonialism, Esparza explores the remarkable resilience of ideologies and practices engendered in the context of the Cold War, demonstrating how the lingering effects of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities that continue to struggle with inequality and marginalization.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALISM AS A REAL UTOPIA<\/a>
\nTransitioning to an Alternative World System
\nHans A. Baer<\/p>\n

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As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia<\/em>, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"GENDER IN GEORGIA<\/a>
\nFeminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
\nEdited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston
\nAfterword by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn<\/em><\/p>\n

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As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia<\/em>, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its many manifestations, and an assessment of women\u2019s political agency in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Contextualizing Gender in Georgia: Nation, Culture, Power and Politics<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"GROWING UP IN TRANSIT<\/a>
\nThe Politics of Belonging at an International School
\nDanau Tanu
\nForeword by Fazal Rizvi<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being \u201cinternational\u201d that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships and romance on campus. By going back to high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnational youth, often called \u201cThird Culture Kids\u201d, to present their struggles with identity, belonging and internalized racism in their own words. The result is the first engaging, anthropological critique of the way Western-style cosmopolitanism is institutionalized as cultural capital to reproduce global socio-cultural inequalities.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Unpacking \u201cThird Culture Kids\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"GLOBAL EXCHANGES<\/a>
\nScholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
\nEdited by Ludovic Tourn\u00e8s and Giles Scott-Smith<\/p>\n

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Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges<\/em> provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the scope, scale and evolution of organized exchanges around the globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential contribution for knowledge transfer, cultural interchange, and the formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0A World of Exchanges: Conceptualizing the History of International Scholarship Programs (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries)<\/a><\/p>\n

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NEW IN PAPERBACK:
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\"\"CAPRICIOUS BORDERS<\/a>
\nMinority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
\nOlga Demetriou<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026a book that is well placed to become an essential reading for anyone interested in the study of borders, minority rights, Greek-Turkish relations and politics in South-eastern Europe more broadly. Western Thrace is a region that is constantly undergoing political, spatial and demographic transformations and Demetriou already highlights in the conclusion and postscript new sets of questions that may guide future research.<\/em>\u201d \u00b7 The Cyprus Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY<\/a>
\nEdited by Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak
\nAfterword by Robert J. Foster<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cEach chapter in this important book, in one way or another, interrogates the slippery and shady partnerships forming between transnational corporations, international development agencies, and NGOs to further augment and implement CSR programmes\u2026If you think critically about corporations, add this to your collection.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"BLOOD AND FIRE<\/a>
\nToward a Global Anthropology of Labor
\nEdited by Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella<\/p>\n

Volume 13, Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c[This volume] draws upon long-term fieldwork to examine how labor struggles have faltered, become disconnected from the societal mission to advance the greater good, and the reactions and fallout from this change. Applying principles of global anthropology to the dilemma, <\/em>Blood and Fire portrays an uncertain future. A thought-provoking and studious title, ideal for college library anthropology shelves.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Library Bookwatch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"AT HOME IN THE OKAVANGO<\/a>
\nWhite Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging
\nCatie Gressier<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book is an important contribution to anthropological studies of belonging, minorities, settler populations, whiteness, identity, tourism, and autochthony. A thoroughly thought-provoking, intimate, and detailed ethnography that is worth reading to gain an insight into how a white community in a postcolonial nation construct their belonging as Africans.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 American Anthropologist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Waiting for the Flood<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"BREAKING BOUNDARIES<\/a>
\nVarieties of Liminality
\nEdited by Agnes Horvath, Bj\u00f8rn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn well integrated chapters, the [volume] proves the relevance of the concept across disciplines, particularly for the study of moments of instability and possibility, as well as for understanding the transformative potential of participation\u2026 In addition to helping one understand in-between experiences overall, [it] invites the reader to rethink the complicated relation between individual agency, social order and cultural transmission\u2026 a remarkable contribution to sociology, anthropology and critical theory.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Liminality and the Search for Boundaries<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"ANTHROPOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY<\/a>
\nDialogues on Trust and Hope
\nEdited by Sune Liisberg, Esther Oluffa Pedersen and Anne Line Dalsg\u00e5rd<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Anthropology & … <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis volume is a serious, innovative, and patient attempt to meet disciplinary difference with candour, and to work beyond it; it is imbued with the sobriety and good faith of its contributors. It also upholds a kind of tradition in (what might now be termed) \u2018thinking outside the box\u2019 that characterises, certainly on the anthropological side of the fence, the work of some of the most innovative and inspirational figures.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Trust and Hope: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"VEHICLES<\/a>
\nCars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
\nEdited by David Lipset and Richard Handler<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe essays in this collection offer fresh perspectives on the social role of transportation. I appreciated the weight given to Pacific cultures, which are not as common in conversations about mobility writ large. Though they do undoubtedly use anthropological methods and ask anthropological questions, they also model innovative ways for discussing how technologies enable their drivers and passengers to engage in an embodied relationship to the past.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Technology and Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

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