{"id":10671,"date":"2018-02-13T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:17:50","slug":"world-anthropology-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/world-anthropology-day-2018","title":{"rendered":"World Anthropology Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/rdcms-aaa\/files\/production\/public\/images\/anthroday_2018_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"198\" \/><\/h2>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"titlesm\">The 2018 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americananthro.org\/ParticipateAndAdvocate\/Landing.aspx?ItemNumber=13244&amp;&amp;navItemNumber=790\">Anthropology Day<\/a> celebration\u00a0is on Thursday, February 15.<\/span>\u00a0According to the AAA website, Anthropology Day\u00a0&#8220;is a day for anthropologists to celebrate our discipline while sharing it with the world around us.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In support of these efforts and to mark this special day, we are delighted to showcase titles from across all strands of the subject and offer a time-limited discount of\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/anthropology\/\">25% off ALL Anthropology print titles ordered via our website by the close of 24th February 2018<\/a><\/b>. Simply enter the code\u00a0<b>WAD18<\/b>\u00a0at checkout. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h2><!--more--><\/h2>\n<h5><span class=\"s1\">Featured below are a number of new, recent and forthcoming titles. For a full listing of all current and new anthropology titles, please see our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/cats\/subject\/Berghahn-2018-Anthropology-and-Sociology.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">catalog<\/span><\/a>. For a complete list of all titles in the range, please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/anthropology\"><span class=\"s3\">website<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>NEW:<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/NaderContrarian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"204\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/NaderContrarian\">CONTRARIAN ANTHROPOLOGY<\/a><br \/>\nThe Unwritten Rules of Academia<br \/>\nLaura Nader<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist\u2019s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking and to stimulate boundary crossing in others.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/NaderContrarian_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>New in Paperback:<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/WulffAnthropologist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"201\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/WulffAnthropologist\">THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS WRITER<\/a><br \/>\nGenres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century<br \/>\nEdited by Helena Wulff<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\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 <strong>Thomas Hylland Eriksen<\/strong>, University of Oslo<\/p>\n<p>Read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/WulffAnthropologist_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer:<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/WulffAnthropologist_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Across and Within Genres<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/JacksonWhat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"198\" \/>WHAT IS EXISTENTIAL ANTHROPOLOGY?<br \/>\nEdited by Michael Jackson and Albert Piette<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\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> \u00b7 <strong>Sociologus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/JacksonWhat_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthropology and the Existential Turn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HorvathBreaking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"203\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/HorvathBreaking\">BREAKING BOUNDARIES<\/a><br \/>\nVarieties of Liminality<br \/>\nEdited by Agnes Horvath, Bj\u00f8rn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\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 <strong>European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/HorvathBreaking_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introduction:<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/HorvathBreaking_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Liminality and the Search for Boundaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><strong>Series:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>NEW SERIES:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/studies-in-social-analysis\">Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The focus of this series is on \u2018analysis\u2019, understood not as a synonym of &#8216;theory&#8217;, but as the fertile meeting-ground of the empirical and the conceptual. It provides a platform for exploring anthropological approaches to social analysis in all of their variety, and in doing so seeks also to open new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LaszczkowskiAffective.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"205\" \/>Volume 5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/LaszczkowskiAffective\">AFFECTIVE STATES<\/a><br \/>\nEntanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions<br \/>\nEdited by Mateusz Laszczkowski and Madeleine Reeves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as \u2018affect theory\u2019. These range from psychological and social-constructivist approaches to emotion to feminist and post-human perspectives. Covering a wide spectrum of topics and ethnographic contexts\u2014from engineering in the Andes to household rituals in rural China, from South African land restitution to migrant living in Moscow, and from elections in El Salvador to online and offline surveillance among political refugees from Uzbekistan and Eritrea\u2014the chapters in this volume interrogate this \u2018affective turn\u2019 through the lens of fine-grained ethnographies of the state. The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LaszczkowskiAffective_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Affective States: Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/ThelenStategraphy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"206\" \/>Volume 4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/ThelenStategraphy\">STATEGRAPHY<\/a><br \/>\nToward a Relational Anthropology of the State<br \/>\nEdited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stategraphy\u2014the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors\u2014offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/ThelenStategraphy_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction to Stategraphy:<\/strong> Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/studies-in-social-analysis\">For a full list of volumes please visit series webpage. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/loose_cannons\">LOOSE CAN(N)ONS <\/a>Series<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/DrummondHeading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"203\" \/>Volume 3\u00a0<em>Forthcoming in March<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/DrummondHeading\">HEADING FOR THE SCENE OF THE CRASH<\/a><br \/>\nThe Cultural Analysis of America<br \/>\nLee Drummond<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American anthropologists have long advocated cultural anthropology as a tool for cultural critique, yet seldom has that approach been employed in discussions of major events and cultural productions that impact the lives of tens of millions of Americans. This collection of essays aims to refashion cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, addressing topics including the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides. Grounded in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, the essays advance an inquiry into the nature of culture in American society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/anthropology-of-europe\">Anthropology of Europe<\/a> Series<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BarreraEuropean.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"215\" \/>Volume 2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/BarreraEuropean\">EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES<\/a><br \/>\nEdited by Andr\u00e9s Barrera-Gonz\u00e1lez, Monica Heintz and Anna Horolets<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic \u2018Other\u2019 at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when their disciplines were progressively being established in academia? By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/BarreraEuropean_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Strength from the Margins: Restaging European Anthropologies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/worlds-in-motion\">Worlds in Motion<\/a> Series<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/SalazarKeywords.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"203\" \/>Volume\u00a01 <em>New in Paperback!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/SalazarKeywords\">KEYWORDS OF MOBILITY<\/a><br \/>\nCritical Engagements<br \/>\nEdited by Noel B. Salazar and Kiran Jayaram<\/p>\n<p>Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in part by Raymond Williams\u2019 Keywords (1976), this edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. Each chapter provides an historical context, a critical analysis of how the keyword has been used in relation to mobility, and a conclusion that proposes future usage or research.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/SalazarKeywords_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Keywords of Mobility: A Critical Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/GroesIntimate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"203\" \/>Volume 3 <i>Forthcoming<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/GroesIntimate\">INTIMATE MOBILITIES<\/a><br \/>\nSexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World<br \/>\nEdited by Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people\u2019s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/worlds-in-motion\">For a full list of volumes please visit series webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/human-economy\">The Human Economy<\/a> Series<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/MaurerMoney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"203\" \/>Volume 6\u00a0<em>Forthcoming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/MaurerMoney\">MONEY AT THE MARGINS<\/a><br \/>\nGlobal Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design<br \/>\nEdited by Bill Maurer, Smoki Musaraj, and Ivan Small<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more\u2014as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a potential solution to the issue of financial inclusion. How, if at all, do new forms of dematerialized money impact people\u2019s everyday financial lives? In what way do technologies interact with financial repertoires and other socio-cultural institutions? How do these technologies of financial inclusion shape the global politics and geographies of difference and inequality? These questions are at the heart of <em>Money at the Margins<\/em>, a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HartMoney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"213\" \/>Volume 5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/HartMoney\">MONEY IN A HUMAN ECONOMY<\/a><br \/>\nEdited by Keith Hart<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/HartMoney_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Money in a Human Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/RakopoulosFrom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"204\" \/>Volume 4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/RakopoulosFrom\">FROM CLANS TO CO-OPS<\/a><br \/>\nConfiscated Mafia Land in Sicily<br \/>\nTheodoros Rakopoulos<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From Clans to Co-ops<\/em> 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<p><em>From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily <\/em>by Theodoros Rakopoulos is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u00c2\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This edition is supported by the University of Bergen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/OpenAccess\/RakopoulosFrom\/9781785336065_OA.pdf\">Full Text<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/human-economy\">For a full list of volumes please visit the series webpage. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/higher-education-in-critical-perspective\">Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies<\/a> Series<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/WrightDeath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"201\" \/>Volume 3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/WrightDeath\">DEATH OF THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY?<\/a><br \/>\nUncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy<br \/>\nEdited by Susan Wright and Cris Shore<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them \u2018entrepreneurial\u2019, \u2018efficient\u2019 and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue \u2018excellence\u2019 and \u2018innovation\u2019, many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the \u2018critic and conscience\u2019 of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/WrightDeath_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction: <\/strong>Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LevinCreating.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" \/>Volume 2 <i>Forthcoming in Paperback<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/LevinCreating\">CREATING A NEW PUBLIC UNIVERSITY AND REVIVING DEMOCRACY<\/a><br \/>\nAction Research in Higher Education<br \/>\nMorten Levin and Davydd J. Greenwood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers. The authors argue that public universities must be democratically organized to perform their educational and societal functions. The book closes by laying out Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LevinCreating_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Democracy and Public Universities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/higher-education-in-critical-perspective\">For a full list of volumes please visit the series page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/max-planck\">Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy<\/a> Series<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HannIndustrial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"203\" \/>Volume 4\u00a0<em>Forthcoming in March<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/HannIndustrial\">INDUSTRIAL LABOR ON THE MARGINS OF CAPITALISM<\/a><br \/>\nPrecarity, Class and the Neoliberal Subject<br \/>\nEdited by Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry<br \/>\n<em>Afterword by Michael Burawoy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, <em>Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism<\/em> explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new \u2018commonsense\u2019 of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/GudemanOikos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"203\" \/>Volume 2 <em>New in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/GudemanOikos\">OIKOS AND MARKET<\/a><br \/>\nExplorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism<br \/>\nEdited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026the volume offers possibilities for fruitfully reconsidering enduring topics and issues in economic theory that are of great interest not just to anthropologists but to other social scientists and economic philosophers.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 <strong>Anthropos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/GudemanOikos_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introduction:<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/GudemanOikos_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Self-Sufficiency as Reality and as Myth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/max-planck\">For a full list of volumes please visit series webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/dislocations\">Dislocations<\/a> Series<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HoffmannPartial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"202\" \/>Volume 21<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/HoffmannPartial\">THE PARTIAL REVOLUTION<\/a><br \/>\nLabour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal<br \/>\nMichael Hoffmann<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history.<em> The Partial Revolution<\/em> examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal\u2019s Maoist insurgency, critically examining the ways in which revolutionary political mobilization changes social relations\u2014often unexpectedly clashing with the movement\u2019s ideological goals. Focusing primarily on the end of Kailali\u2019s feudal system of bonded labor, Hoffmann explores the connection between politics, labor, and Mao\u2019s legacy, documenting the impact of changing political contexts on labor relations among former debt-bonded laborers.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/HoffmannPartial_intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>The Maoist Victory Rally<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/DolanAnthropology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" \/>Volume 18 <em>New in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/DolanAnthropology\">THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY<\/a><br \/>\nEdited by Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak<br \/>\nAfterword by Robert J. 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Applying principles of global anthropology to the dilemma, Blood and Fire portrays an uncertain future. 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A peer-review press, Berghahn is committed to the highest academic standards and seeks to enable innovative contributions to the scholarship in its fields of specialty.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h2>Open Access Articles:<\/h2>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Ffocaal%2F2016%2F75%2Ffocaal750106.xml%3Frskey%3D86krcs%26result%3D1\">Visions of prosperity and conspiracy in Timor-Leste<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nby Judith Bovensiepen<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Ffocaal%2Ffocaal-overview.xml\">Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Ffocaal%2F2016%2F75%2Ffocaal.2016.issue-75.xml\">Volume: 2016 Issue: 75<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Ffocaal%2F2015%2F71%2Ffocaal710106.xml\"><strong><em>Which community for cooperatives? Peasant mobilizations, the Mafia, and the problem of community participation in Sicilian co-ops<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Theodoros Rakopoulos<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Ffocaal%2Ffocaal-overview.xml\">Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Ffocaal%2F2015%2F71%2Ffocaal.2015.issue-71.xml\">Volume: 2015 Issue: 71<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Faia%2F22%2F2%2Faia220204.xml\"><em><strong>Workshop Scribbles, Policy Work and Impact: Anthropological Sensibilities in Praxis at an FASD Workshop<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\nby Michelle Stewart<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Faia%2Faia-overview.xml\">Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Faia%2F22%2F2%2Faia.22.issue-2.xml\">Volume: 22 Issue: 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fgirlhood-studies%2F9%2F3%2Fghs090304.xml\"><strong><em>Girlhood and Ethics: The Role of Bodily Integrity<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Mar Cabezas and Gottfried Schweiger<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fgirlhood-studies%2Fgirlhood-studies-overview.xml\">Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fgirlhood-studies%2F9%2F3%2Fgirlhood-studies.9.issue-3.xml\">Volume: 9 Issue: 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fenvironment-and-society%2F6%2F1%2Fair-es060109.xml\"><strong><em>Less Than One But More Than Many: Anthropocene as Science Fiction and Scholarship-in-the-Making<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt and Anna Tsing<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fenvironment-and-society%2Fenvironment-and-society-overview.xml\">Environment and Society: Advances in Research<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fenvironment-and-society%2F6%2F1%2Fenvironment-and-society.6.issue-1.xml\">Volume: 6 Issue: 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?t=ds5y5yzab.0.0.8nztinjab.0&amp;id=preview&amp;r=3&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.berghahnjournals.com%2Fview%2Fjournals%2Fmuseum-worlds%2F1%2F1%2Fair-mw010109.xml\"><strong><em>&#8216;Ceremonies of Renewal&#8217;: Visits, Relationships, and Healing in the Museum Space<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Laura Peers<br \/>\n<em><a 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