{"id":11852,"date":"2018-09-28T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:59:13","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-september-2018-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-september-2018-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE September 2018 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Economic History, Film Studies and History, along with our New in Paperback titles.<\/h3>\n

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Anthropology<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"Edges,EDGES, FRINGES, FRONTIERS<\/a>
\nIntegral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
\nThomas B. Henfrey<\/p>\n

Volume 23, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana,\u00a0Edges, Frontiers, Fringes<\/em>\u00a0examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.<\/p>\n

Read Chapter 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Edges, Fringes, Frontiers<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Economy,ECONOMY, CRIME AND WRONG IN A NEOLIBERAL ERA<\/a>
\nEdited by James G. Carrier<\/p>\n

Volume 36, EASA <\/em>Series<\/a><\/p>\n

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Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrong-doing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many people would consider wrong.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"CashCASH TRANSFERS IN CONTEXT<\/a>
\nAn Anthropological Perspective
\nEdited by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli<\/p>\n

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Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:\u00a0<\/strong>Cash Transfers and the Revenge of Contexts: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"BarterBARTER AND SOCIAL REGENERATION IN THE ARGENTINEAN ANDES<\/a>
\nOlivia Ang\u00e9<\/p>\n

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Despite the pervasiveness of barter across societies, this mode of transaction has largely escaped the anthropologist\u2019s gaze. Drawing on data from fairs in the Argentinean Andes, this book explores fairs\u2019 embeddedness within religious celebration, arguing that barter is addressed as a sacrifice to catholic figures and local ancestors, and thus challenging a widespread view of barter as a non-monetary form of commodity exchange.<\/p>\n

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

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\"TravellingTRAVELLING TOWARDS HOME<\/a>
\nMobilities and Homemaking
\nEdited by Nicola Frost and Tom Selwyn<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Home and Homemaking in a Time of Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MedicinalMEDICINAL RULE<\/a>
\nA Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
\nKoen Stroeken<\/p>\n

Volume 35, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa the model of rule has been medicine \u2013 and not the colonizer\u2019s despotic administrator, the missionary\u2019s divine king, or Vansina\u2019s big man.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Endogenous Kingship<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"EliteELITE MALAY POLYGAMY<\/a>
\nWives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
\nMiriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen<\/p>\n

Volume 41, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the \u201cthreat\u201d of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Polygamous Anxieties<\/a><\/p>\n

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Economic History<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"WhatWHAT IS WORK?<\/a>
\nGender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
\nEdited by Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini<\/p>\n

Volume 30, International Studies in Social History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn\u2019t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0What is Work? Gendered Perspectives between Home, Family and Business from the Early Mordern Era to the Present<\/a><\/p>\n

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Film Studies<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"ScreenedSCREENED ENCOUNTERS<\/a>
\nThe Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990
\nCaroline Moine
\nTranslated from the French by John Barrett<\/em>
\nPreface by Dina Iordanova<\/em>
\nEdited by Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW SERIES:<\/strong> Volume1, Film and the Global Cold War<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from its founding until German unification, and tracing the outsize influence it exerted on international cultural relations during the Cold War.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0A Festival at the Heart of the Cold War<\/a><\/p>\n

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History<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"GulagGULAG MEMORIES<\/a>
\nThe Rediscovery and Commemoration of Russia’s Repressive Past
\nZuzanna Bogumi\u0142
\nTranslated from the Polish by Philip Palmer<\/em><\/p>\n

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This ethnographic study takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories of the Gulag, and particularly the language of commemoration that surrounds it in present-day Russian society. It focuses on four regions of particular historical significance\u2014the Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma\u2014to carefully explore how memories become a social phenomenon, how objects become heritage, and how the human need to create sites of memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today.<\/p>\n

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

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\"AA HISTORY SHARED AND DIVIDED<\/a>
\nEast and West Germany since the 1970s
\nFrank B\u00f6sch
\nTranslated from the German by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser<\/em><\/p>\n

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Divided History<\/em> uniquely explores how East and West Germany responded to the new challenges and crises of the 1970s, and reunification. Topics range from political, labor, and business issues to migration and environmental issues, showing how the two German states remained inextricably connected in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Divided and Connected: Perspectives on German History since the 1970s<\/a><\/p>\n

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New in Paperback<\/a><\/h5>\n

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\"Re-orientingRE-ORIENTING CUISINE<\/a>
\nEast Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century
\nEdited by Kwang Ok Kim<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Food, Nutrition, and Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cOverall, this volume provides rich ethnographic and descriptive material for any scholar interested in Asian foodways. This work is a welcome addition to the ever-growing cannon on food scholarship in Asia.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"AA FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE<\/a>
\nAbortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe
\nEdited by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton<\/p>\n

Volume 20, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis edited volume does not only offer gender historians a rich source, but should also be of interest to historians of social movements and legal historians who have to face the fact that an expected process like \u2018liberalization\u2019 is created by economic and material factors as well as subterranean techniques of subjectivization and does not reveal any direction but presents a constellation that can switch position any time.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\"ReflectingREFLECTING ON REFLEXIVITY<\/a>
\nThe Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise
\nEdited by Terry Evens, Don Handelman and Christopher Roberts<\/p>\n

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Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Reflexivity and Selfhood<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"'City‘CITY OF THE FUTURE’<\/a>
\nBuilt Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana
\nMateusz Laszczkowski<\/p>\n

Volume 14, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe book can serve as the perfect companion to post-graduate studies in many fields, because its methodology is brilliant, clear, transparent, and utterly reflexive. No doubt it will become a major reference text on many syllabi to come.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Central Asian Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Pathways into the \u2018City of the Future\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Shamanism:NEW & REVISED PAPERBACK EDITION<\/p>\n

SHAMANISM<\/a>
\nTraditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
\nMerete Demant Jakobsen\u2020<\/p>\n

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“This is a most useful book in the present discourse on shamanism, for it is one in which a specialist in traditional or classical shamanism who is also familiar with New Age shamanism compares the two complexes … highly recommendable.”<\/em> \u00b7 Shamanism<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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\"TheTHE ONLINE WORLD OF SURROGACY<\/a>
\nZsuzsa Berend<\/p>\n

Volume 35, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a much awaited contribution to the surrogacy scholarship as it is the first ethnographic study to look at surrogacy in the United States since the early 1990’s\u2026 Berend’s book is also cutting edge in its methodology, since it is based on “online ethnography.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Elly Teman<\/strong>, author of\u00a0Birthing a Mother: the Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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