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We are delighted to inform you that we will be present at\u00a0 The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth\u2019s 2018 conference in Oxford, UK, from September 18-21 2018. Please stop by our table to browse the latest selection of books at discounted prices and pick up some free journal samples.<\/p>\n
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If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer in celebration of the new academic year. Receive a 50% discount on all Anthropology titles<\/a>. Visit our website<\/a> and enter discount code\u00a0ASA18<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Below is a small selection of the titles we will have on display.<\/p>\n For a more comprehensive view of our Anthropology List, please view our current catalogue<\/a> or visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 7,\u00a0Studies in Social Analysis<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy\u2014or the reemergence of old forms\u2014as people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East to visions of the 1950s family among conservatives in the United States. Why does this happen and how do we make sense of this phenomenon? Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good.<\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Hierarchy and Value<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mirrors of Passing<\/em> offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental, universal questions that confront us.<\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Mirrors of Passing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 9, Material Mediations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the “politics of authentication” and “aesthetics of persuasion,” this volume explores the centrality of this tension to heritage formation worldwide.<\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication, Aesthetics of Persuasion and the Cultural Production of the Real<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 8, Material Mediations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place.<\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Spatiality, Movement and Place-Making<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 17,\u00a0Critical Interventions<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Using historical analysis and ethnographically-grounded research, this volume shows the similarities of the European conundrum with realities outside Europe, seeing austerity in a non-Eurocentric fashion. In doing so, it offers novel insights as to how economic crises are experienced at a global level.<\/p>\n Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.<\/p>\n Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 39, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taking a sociological and anthropological perspective, the author focuses in particular on the role that countries like Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, and Japan play in the reproductive products industry, and discusses the moral limits of the cultural and rhetorical trajectories that turn women\u2019s body products into internationally mobile substances.<\/p>\n Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 4,\u00a0Worlds in Motion<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design,\u00a0Momentous Mobilities<\/em>\u00a0disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilitie<\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Mapping Mobility<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n LIVING BEFORE DYING<\/a> Volume 41, New Directions in Anthropology<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>Living Before Dying\u00a0is an important and timely contribution to a rising body of social scientific and bioethical work about dementia, including the anthropology of senility. It should be read by all those who want care to improve for older people, with and without dementia.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Times Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 8, Social Identities<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis collection is like a charm bracelet. The essays are attractive and bright, but their interconnection derives largely from being gathered in one place. The general theme is anthropological\u2014the\u00a0collection presents humor as both a topic and a method in anthropological research\u2014but the title is broad enough to permit scholarship from a wide variety of disciplines\u2026. All the essays in this volume have something valuable to say and say it well.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n MAKING UBUMWE<\/em><\/a> Volume 34, Forced Migration<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAlthough the author focuses upon Rwanda\u2019s unity-building project, she places her analysis within a wider social and political reflection. This makes the book a major contribution to the literature on contemporary Rwanda.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 African Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n Read PART I: INTRODUCTION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “[this book] provides an effective and timely response to the current comparative biomedical focus within medical anthropology, by reconnecting with its social origins.”\u00a0\u00b7<\/strong><\/em> Anthropology & Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Divinity, Disease, Distress<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 25, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Approaching \u201cwork\u201d as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary \u201cflexible\u201d capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism\u2019s social dimensions.<\/p>\n Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 28, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201c[This volume] is offering what it promises, meaning a perfect articulation of two equally legitimate approaches: a top-down one,\u00a0<\/em>investigating UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage as a global institution, and a grass-roots one, searching for local applications and implications of patrimonial decisions taken up-there.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Anuac Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0UNESCO World Heritage \u2013 Grounded?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Volume 15,\u00a0Epistemologies of Healing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOverall, Laplante\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Healing Roots, focusing on the tensions between the biomedical and traditional healing\u2013based ways of making a medicine is an informative and important contribution to the literature [of] intrinsic value in the classroom, primarily for graduate-level students with specific interests in South Africa and the crossroads of ethnopharmacology and biomedicine.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Medical Anthropology Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Migration and Society<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Advances in Research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Editors:<\/strong>\u00a0Mette Louise Berg,\u00a0University College London<\/em><\/p>\n Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,\u00a0University College London<\/em> Read the introduction to Volume 1 here<\/a>!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Journal of Legal Anthropology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Editor:<\/strong>\u00a0Narmala Halstead,\u00a0University of Sussex<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Journal of Legal Anthropology<\/em>\u00a0(JLA) is a peer-reviewed journal committed to anthropological understandings of socio-legal and cultural encounters.<\/p>\n Free access to all backfiles (Volume 1) on the\u00a0journal page<\/a>!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n View the editorial for Volume 2\u00a0here<\/a>!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For updates on these and other Berghahn titles as well as all other exciting developments from Berghahn Books, on\u00a0 \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are delighted to inform you that we will be present at\u00a0 The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth\u2019s 2018 conference in Oxford, UK, from September 18-21 2018. 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