{"id":12243,"date":"2019-02-01T18:10:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:07:22","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-january-2019-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-january-2019-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE January 2019 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of\u00a0Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Museum Studies, and Sociology, along with our New in Paperback titles.<\/h2>\n

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

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\"MonetisingMONETISING THE DIVIDUAL SELF<\/a>
\nThe Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
\nJulian Hopkins<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Anthropology of Media<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter \u201cthick description\u201d case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers \u2013 precursors to current social media \u201cmicrocelebrities\u201d and \u201cinfluencers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthroblogia: Participant Observation and Blogging in Malaysia<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"BeingBEING BEDOUIN AROUND PETRA<\/a>
\nLife at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
\nMikkel Bille<\/p>\n

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Being Bedouin Around Petra<\/em> explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area. It explores what it means to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, and other forces lay competing claims to the past.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0In the Presence of Things<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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\"PoliticsPOLITICS OF SCALE<\/a>
\nNew Directions in Critical Heritage Studies
\nEdited by Tuuli L\u00e4hdesm\u00e4ki, Suzie Thomas, and Yujie Zhu<\/p>\n

NEW SERIES:\u00a0<\/strong>Volume 1, Explorations in Heritage Studies<\/p>\n

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Politics of Scale<\/em> offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Heritage and Scale<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE ARKANSAS REGULATORS<\/a>
\nFriedrich Gerst\u00e4cker
\nTranslated and edited by Charles Adams and Christoph Irmscher<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 5, Transatlantic Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Arkansas Regulators<\/em> is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. Written in the tradition of James Fenimore Cooper, but offering a much darker and more violent image of the American frontier, this was the first novel produced by Friedrich Gerst\u00e4cker, who would go on to become one of Germany\u2019s most famous and prolific authors.<\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE CHANGING MEANINGS OF THE WELFARE STATE<\/a>
\nHistories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
\nEdited by Nils Edling<\/p>\n

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In this volume, specialists from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland chronicle the historical trajectory of \u201cthe welfare state,\u201d tracing the variable ways in which it has been interpreted, valued, and challenged over time.<\/p>\n

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

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\"ViewsVIEWS OF VIOLENCE<\/a>
\nRepresenting the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
\nEdited by J\u00f6rg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger
\nAfterword by Jay Winter<\/p>\n

Volume 19, Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RefugeesREFUGEES WELCOME?<\/a>
\nDifference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
\nEdited by Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald<\/p>\n

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The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Making, Experiencing and Managing Difference in a Changing Germany<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"DesiresDESIRES FOR REALITY<\/a>
\nRadicalism and Revolution in Western European Film
\nBenjamin Halligan<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs a history of aesthetic priorities, formal shifts, and creative possibilities in broadly leftist cinema in Europe of the 1960s, the book is authoritative. The early chapters about the pre-history of the film production in question offer valuable insights into the influence of neo-realism on European post-war cinema, and the importance of concepts of Bazinian realism on the French New Wave specifically. The quality of the film analysis throughout is excellent.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 French Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Chapter 1.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAll All All\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"AnthropologyANTHROPOLOGY AND PUBLIC SERVICE<\/a>
\nThe UK Experience
\nEdited by Jeremy MacClancy<\/p>\n

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Anthropology and Public Service<\/em> shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Written for scholars and students of various social sciences, these chapters include discussions of anthropologists\u2019 work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and the Cabinet Office, and their contributions to prison governance.<\/p>\n

Read Chapter 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Introduction\u2028: Anthropology and Public Service<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"MuseumMUSEUM WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA<\/a>
\nIssues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
\nAna Luisa S\u00e1nchez Laws<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Museums and Collections<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom a basic section on what blogs, social media, and websites are, to informative case studies that o\ufb00er real-world examples of successes and failures from top world museums, this book is a valuable contribution to public historians and museum professionals. The history of museums\u2019 use of digital technology and the web is fascinating to the historical researchers among us\u2026 Any public historian who works for an organization that is interested in digital history and dissemination of that history will \ufb01nd this volume important.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 The Public Historian<\/strong><\/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

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