{"id":12296,"date":"2019-02-20T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=12296"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:59:14","slug":"world-anthropology-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/world-anthropology-day-2019","title":{"rendered":"WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY DAY 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2019 Anthropology Day<\/a>\u00a0celebration\u00a0is on Thursday, February 21st.<\/span>\u00a0According to the AAA website, Anthropology Day\u00a0\u201cis a day for anthropologists to celebrate our discipline while sharing it with the world around us.\u201d<\/h5>\n
To join the celebration, we are delighted to showcase titles from across all strands of the subject and offer a limited time 25% discount on ALL Anthropology print titles <\/a>ordered via our website<\/a>, valid through February 28th, 2019. Simply enter the code\u00a0WAD19 at checkout.
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Featured below is just a selection of our newly published title, for a full listing of all anthropology titles, please visit our webpage<\/a>.<\/span><\/h5>\n
We are also pleased to announce an expanding list of eBooks available for download directly via our site. Visit our Anthropology eBooks site<\/a>.
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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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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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\"CompetingCOMPETING POWER<\/a>
\nLandscapes of Migration, Violence and the State
\nNarmala Halstead<\/p>\n

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Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research, this volume considers competing forms of power at micro- and macro-levels in Guyana, where the local is marked by extensive migration, corruption, and differing levels of violence.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Competing Power: Landscapes of Violence, Migration and the State<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"TransformingTRANSFORMING STUDY ABROAD<\/a>
\nA Handbook
\nNeriko Musha Doerr<\/p>\n

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Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including \u201cthe global\/national,\u201d \u201cculture,\u201d \u201cnative speaker,\u201d \u201cimmersion,\u201d and \u201chost society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

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\"SocialSOCIAL DNA<\/a>
\nRethinking Our Evolutionary Past
\nM. Kay Martin<\/p>\n

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Exploring new cross-disciplinary research that links this capacity to critical changes in the organization of the primate brain, Social DNA<\/em> presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins \u2013 challenging models that trace our beginnings to traits shaped by ancient hunting economies, or to genetic platforms shared with contemporary apes.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Some Givens<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"DemocracyDEMOCRACY STRUGGLES<\/a>
\nNGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
\nTheodora Vetta<\/p>\n

Volume 25, Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the \u201cassociational revolution\u201d in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia.<\/p>\n

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

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\"FateFATE CALCULATION EXPERTS<\/a>
\nDiviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
\nGeng Li<\/p>\n

Volume 9, Asian Anthropologies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Fate Calculation Experts<\/em> explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality.<\/p>\n

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

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\"AtAT HOME ON THE WAVES<\/a>
\nHuman Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
\nEdited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson
\nVolume 24, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it.<\/p>\n

Read: Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0At Sea in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/p>\n

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NEW SERIES: <\/strong>Romani Studies<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Roma<\/strong><\/a>In the course of the twenty-first century, Europe has become aware that the Roma are its largest minority, with an estimated population of 11 million people. As a result, Romani Studies has emerged as <\/em>an interdisciplinary field that offers perspectives derived from the humanities and social sciences in the context of state and transnational institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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ROMA ACTIVISM<\/a>
\nReimagining Power and Knowledge
\nEdited by Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Renewing Research and Romani Activism<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"GoingGOING TO PENTECOST<\/a>
\nAn Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
\nAnnelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Michelle MacCarthy<\/p>\n

Volume 7, Ethnography, Theory, Experiment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Co-authored by three anthropologists with long\u2013term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea\/the Trobriand Islands respectively,\u00a0Going to Pentecost<\/em>\u00a0offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing.<\/p>\n

Going to Pentecost<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Annelin Eriksen, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Michelle MacCarthy<\/b>\u00a0is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u00a0(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)<\/a>\u00a0with support from the University of Bergen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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View an entire selection of Berghahn Open Access Titles and Journals.<\/a><\/h6>\n
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\"ReligionRELIGION AND SCIENCE AS FORMS OF LIFE<\/a>
\nAnthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason
\nEdited by Carles Salazar and Joan Bestard<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe publication of this volume marks a rich addition to long-established anthropological fields of magic, religion, and science. More importantly, however, the book is an important, much-needed injection to arguably sidelined anthropological fields of belief, disbelief, and, relatedly, unresolved contradiction.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Science, Religion and Forms of Life<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"BorderBORDER AESTHETICS<\/a>
\nConcepts and Intersections
\nEdited by Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Organized around six key ideas\u2014ecology, imaginary, in\/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting\u2014the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/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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For a full selection of Anthropology titles please visit our webpage<\/a> or sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.<\/h5>\n
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\"JournalNew in 2018!<\/p>\n

Journal of Legal Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor
\nNarmala Halstead,\u00a0University of Sussex<\/p>\n

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Current Issue: Vol. 2, Issue 1<\/a><\/div>\n
Free Access to Vol. 1<\/a><\/div>\n

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\"MigrationNew in 2018!<\/p>\n

Migration and Society<\/a>
\nAdvances in Research<\/p>\n

Editors:
\nMette Louise Berg, University College London
\nElena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London
\nJohanna L. Waters, University College London<\/p>\n

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Current Issue: Hospitality and Hostility Towards Migrants: Global Perspectives<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"AnthropologyOPEN ACCESS!<\/p>\n

Anthropology in Action<\/a>
\nJournal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice<\/p>\n

Editor:\u00a0Christine McCourt,\u00a0City, University of London<\/p>\n

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View the new issue<\/a><\/p>\n

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