{"id":10711,"date":"2018-02-26T19:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=10711"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:10:52","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-february-2018-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-february-2018-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: Browse February 2018 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology<\/a>, Theory and Methodology in Anthropology<\/a>, Environmental Studies<\/a>, and Sociology<\/a>, along with our New in Paperback<\/a> titles.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MORAL ANTHROPOLOGY<\/a>
\nA Critique
\nEdited by Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the ‘moral turn’, is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. Contributions from anthropologists from around the world from different theoretical traditions and with expertise in a multiplicity of ethnographic areas makes this collection a provocative contribution to larger discussions not only in anthropology but the social sciences more broadly.<\/p>\n

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\"\"AFTER DIFFERENCE<\/a>
\nQueer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
\nPaolo Heywood<\/p>\n

Volume 6, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activists in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find around them. Conversely, anthropologists find difference in the world around them, and seek to produce an identity between anthropological theory and the ethnographic material it elucidates. This book describes problems faced by an activist “politics of difference,” and issues concerning the identity of anthropological reflection itself\u2014connecting two conceptions of difference whilst simultaneously holding them apart.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SOUP, LOVE, AND A HELPING HAND<\/a>
\nSocial Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China
\nFriederike Fleischer<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Asian Anthropologies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research among several different types of communities in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand<\/em> examines different modes and ideologies of help\/support, as well as the related issues of reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China. With an emphasis on the subjective experience, Fleischer\u2019s research carefully explores people\u2019s ideas about moral obligations, social expectations, and visions of urban Chinese society.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SACRED PLACES, EMERGING SPACES<\/a>
\nReligious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
\nEdited by Tsypylma Darieva, Florian M\u00fchlfried, & Kevin Tuite<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Space and Place<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces<\/em> discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"MANAGING NORTHERN EUROPE’S FORESTS<\/a>
\nHistories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology
\nEdited by K. Jan Oosthoek and Richard H\u00f6lzl<\/p>\n

Volume 12, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region\u2019s woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present. Each explores the complex interrelationships of state-building, resource management, knowledge transfer, and trade over a period characterized by ongoing modernization and evolving environmental awareness.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0State Forestry in Northern Europe<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"A LIVING PAST<\/a>
\nEnvironmental Histories of Modern Latin America
\nEdited by John Soluri, Claudia Leal, and Jos\u00e9 Augusto P\u00e1dua<\/p>\n

Volume 13, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past<\/em> synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Finding the \u201cLatin American\u201d in Latin American Environmental History<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"MESSY EUROPE<\/a>
\nCrisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
\nEdited by Krist\u00edn Loftsd\u00f3ttir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl<\/p>\n

Volume 32, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe<\/em> offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work \u201ccrisis talk\u201d does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"GYPSY ECONOMY<\/a>
\nRomani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
\nEdited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, and Martin Fotta
\nAfterword by Keith Hart<\/p>\n

Volume 3, The Human Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI specifically recommend this book to those who are interested in anthropology, ethnography, or in the everyday lives of Roma in general. However, those who are interested in unusual economic processes will find this volume interesting, too.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Cornivus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\"\"OIKOS AND MARKET<\/a>
\nExplorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism
\nEdited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann<\/p>\n

Volume2, Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThese studies make a timely contribution to postsocialist studies, wherein anthropologists grapple with the transformative effects of collectivization and subsequent privatization of productive resources. They also offer enduring insights into the way people sharpen or blur boundaries between household and market, especially with regard to particular lives. These understandings resonate throughout anthropology.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropological Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Self-Sufficiency as Reality and as Myth<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"YEARNINGS IN THE MEANTIME<\/a>
\n‘Normal Lives’ and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
\nStef Jansen<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026a carefully conceptualized and thoroughly researched ethnographic account of \u2018yearnings for normal life\u2019 among ordinary people living on the outskirts of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The book is also a timely theoretical investigation of statecraft, statehood, hope, temporality, normalcy, and citizenship in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond. Jansen\u2019s account is well-written and accessible, and its \u2018tone\u2019 is complex as it moves from intimate and reflexive to bold, critical, and analytical.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Slavic Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0[or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns]<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THINKING THROUGH SOCIALITY<\/a>
\nAn Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts
\nEdited by Vered Amit<\/p>\n

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\u201c[The volume] advances conceptual tools for contemporary anthropology and in provides a valuable source of overviews of the examined concepts, stimulating reading on how to think the configuration of social life.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>Thinking through Sociality: The Importance of Mid-Level Concepts<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"OUR COMMON DENOMINATOR<\/a>
\nHuman Universals Revisited
\nChristoph Antweiler
\nTranslated from the German by Diane Kerns<\/p>\n

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FULLY REVISED AND COMPREHENSIVELY UPDATED FROM THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION<\/p>\n

\u201cAntweiler’s is a quite meticulous and lucid study of human universals in the discipline of anthropology after more than a century of neglect in favor of the particularistic, relativist study of human cultures through the method of ethnography. His review is comprehensive and searching.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\"\"EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS<\/a>
\nAuthenticity and the Interview
\nEdited by Katherine Smith, James Staples and Nigel Rapport<\/p>\n

Volume 28, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is experienced and imagined as a kind of space within which personal, biographic and social cues and norms can be explored and interrogated.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0The Interview as Analytical Category<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"POLITICAL FELLINI<\/a>
\nJourney to the End of Italy
\nAndrea Minuz
\nTranslated from the Italian by Marcus Perryman<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a scholar deeply immersed in Italian culture, Minuz knows the material inside and out, and his fresh interpretations of Fellini\u2019s films reference both the political and artistic climate in which they were created. Smoothly translated by Perryman, Political Fellini is a truly valuable book, one that delves deep into Fellini as a critic of politics on a larger scale and society as a whole\u2026 Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Political Fellini?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"GERMAN TELEVISION<\/a>
\nHistorical and Theoretical Perspectives
\nEdited by Larson Powell and Robert R. Shandley<\/p>\n

Volume 19, Film Europa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis collection of essays is the first of its kind in English \u2026 this volume offers well-researched, in-depth reflection on the subject of German television ranging from historical overview to case study and spanning the history of West and East Germany, the key relationship between film and television, and the transnational dimensions of programming, technology and audience.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\"\"MEMORY AND CHANGE IN EUROPE<\/a>
\nEastern Perspectives
\nEdited by Ma\u0142gorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
\nForeword by Jeffrey Olick<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c[This volume] addresses memory and cultural transformations from an eastern point of view\u2026 [and] illuminates very different aspects of the problems Eastern European researchers face identifying national crossroads of diverging memories and the necessity of coming to terms with a surfeit of memories which had not hitherto been publicly articulated or acknowledged.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 European History Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE LONG AFTERMATH<\/a>
\nCultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016
\nEdited by Manuel Bragan\u00e7a and Peter Tame
\nForeword by Richard Overy
\nAfterword by Jay Winter<\/p>\n

Volume 17, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cManuel Braganca and Peter Tame have compiled a highly stimulating volume of essays, which whets the appetite for more.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of European Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

In its totality, the \u201cLong Second World War\u201d\u2014extending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945\u2014has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans\u2019 individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continent\u2019s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0The Long Aftermath of the Long Second World War<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"SACRIFICE AND REBIRTH<\/a>
\nThe Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
\nEdited by Mark Cornwall and John Paul Newman<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cBy following the many ways in which the Great War was framed and interpreted all over the former Habsburg Monarchy, this collection provides a fantastic foundation for fresh and thought-provoking comparisons throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and makes a strong argument for overcoming the hitherto prevailing focus on single successor states.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0A Conflicted and Divided Habsburg Memory<\/a><\/p>\n

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

DOING CONCEPTUAL HISTORY IN AFRICA<\/a>
\nEdited by Axel Fleisch and Rhiannon Stephens<\/p>\n

Volume 25, Making Sense of Histor<\/em>y<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe volume offers conceptual historians of other world regions a rich trove of new sources and methods (rituals, historical linguistics, proverbs, songs, and patterns in the combination of lexical items, to name a few) for doing conceptual history in areas and for time periods for which we have few written records.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The International Journal of African Historical Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Theories and Methods of African Conceptual History<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"KEYWORDS OF MOBILITY<\/a>
\nCritical Engagements
\nEdited by Noel B. Salazar and Kiran Jayaram<\/p>\n

Volume 1, Worlds in Motion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cGrounded in anthropology and informed by trans-disciplinary mobility studies, the authors rely on ethnographic analyses from a refreshing combination of both American and European perspectives\u2026 [The volume] is careful in its selection of topics, and contributors are up-to-date in their scholarship and rigorous in the construction of their analyses\u2026 [A]s a methodological and theoretical approach to the topic<\/em>, Keywords of Mobility is unparalleled. It represents an important contribution to the literature on studies of forced migration, and human mobilities more generally, by working toward a common, robust vocabulary.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Refuge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Keywords of Mobility: A Critical Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"SUSTAINING RUSSIA’S ARCTIC CITIES<\/a>
\nResource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change
\nEdited by Robert Orttung<\/p>\n

Volume 2, Studies in the Circumpolar North<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from Muslim cultures are reshaping the social fabric of northern cities, and provides a detailed analysis of climate change and its impact on urban and industrial infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Read Chapter 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Russia\u2019s Arctic Cities: Recent Evolution and Drivers of Change<\/a><\/p>\n

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