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We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, German Studies, History and Sociology, along with our new in paperback titles and new Berghahn Journal issues published in July.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\"ThisARTICULATE NECROGRAPHIES<\/a><\/strong>
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead<\/strong>
Edited by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Esp\u00edrito Santo
Afterword by Magnus Course<\/em><\/p>\n

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Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies<\/em> offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"LewisLEWIS HENRY MORGAN’S COMPARISONS<\/strong><\/a>
Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
Georg Pfeffer<\/p>\n

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From a new perspective, the book will re-examine, confirm and criticize, Morgan\u2019s findings to conclude that reciprocal affinal relations determine most \u2018classificatory\u2019 terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals.<\/p>\n

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\"CritiqueCRITIQUE OF IDENTITY THINKING<\/a>
Michael Jackson<\/p>\n

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Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary conversation of humankind.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Civil\u00e2\u0080\u0093MilitaryCIVIL\u2013MILITARY ENTANGLEMENTS<\/a>
Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Birgitte Refslund S\u00f8rensen and Eyal Ben-Ari<\/p>\n

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Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"FromFROM BULLIES TO OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN<\/a>
How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces
Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum<\/p>\n

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Focusing on the process of professionalization of the Ghanaian military, this ethnography based monograph examines both historical and contemporary themes, and assesses the shift in military personnel from \u2018Buga Buga\u2019 soldiers \u2013 uneducated, lower-class soldiers, human rights abusers \u2013 to a more \u2018modern\u2019 fighting force.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"PCPC WORLDS<\/strong><\/a>
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Jonathan Friedman<\/p>\n

NEW SERIES: Volume 2, Loose Can(n)ons<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.<\/p>\n

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\"MobileMOBILE URBANITY<\/a>
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Edited by Neil Carrier and Tabea Scharrer
Afterword by G\u00fcnther Schlee<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 20, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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This volume demystifies Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, showing its historical depth, and exploring the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cultural Studies<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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NEW SERIES: Shakespeare &<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Series Editors: Graham Holderness and Bryan Loughrey<\/p>\n

Shakespeare is everywhere, permeating culture at every level; yet it is less well-recognized that culture also permeates Shakespeare. Shakespeare &<\/em> explores Shakespeare and his work outside the lens of traditional literary studies. By intersecting the worlds beyond fiction and poetry with those disciplines outside of literature and drama, this series offers nuanced approaches that reveal a more diverse and complex legacy left by Shakespeare.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"ShakespeareVolume 1<\/p>\n

SHAKESPEARE AND STRATFORD<\/a>
Edited by Katherine Scheil
Afterword by Nicola J. Watson<\/em><\/p>\n

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The essays in this volume consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across time, genre and place, from America to New Zealand, from children\u2019s literature to wartime commemorations.<\/p>\n

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\"ShakespeareVolume 2<\/p>\n

SHAKESPEARE AND COMMEMORATION<\/a>
Edited by Clara Calvo and Ton Hoenselaars<\/p>\n

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With an international focus and a comparative scope that explores the afterlives also of other artists, this volume shows the diverse modes of commemorative practices involving Shakespeare. <\/p>\n

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\"ShakespeareVolume 3<\/p>\n

SHAKESPEARE AND THE ARAB WORLD<\/a>
Edited by Katherine Hennessey and Margaret Litvin<\/p>\n

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Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab\/ic appropriations of Shakespeare\u2019s plays and sonnets.<\/p>\n

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Environmental Studies<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\"PlanningPLANNING FOR THE PLANET<\/a>
Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960\u20131980
Simone Schleper<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n

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German Studies<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\"TwilightTWILIGHT OF THE MERKEL ERA<\/a>
Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election
Eric Langenbacher<\/p>\n

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Paying special attention to the rise of the Alternative for Germany AfD, this volume delves into the campaign, leading political figures, the structure of the electorate, the state of the parties, the media environment, coalition negotiations, and policy impacts.<\/p>\n

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\"FranceFRANCE AND THE GERMAN QUESTION, 1945\u20131990<\/a>
Edited by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bozo and Christian Wenkel<\/p>\n

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Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France\u2019s approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"PeacePEACE AT ALL COSTS<\/a>
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish\u2013German Reconciliation
Annika Elisabet Frieberg<\/p>\n

Volume 23, Contemporary European History<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs<\/em> follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"ComicalCOMICAL MODERNITY<\/a>
Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Heidi Hakkarainen<\/p>\n

Volume 23, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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In Comical Modernity<\/em>, Heidi Hakkarainen looks at Vienna in the second half of the nineteenth century, a period of dramatic urban renewal during which the city\u2019s rapidly changing face was a mainstay of humorous magazines, books, and other publications aimed at middle-class audiences. As she shows, humor provided a widely accessible means of negotiating an era of radical change.<\/p>\n

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Sociology<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\"TheTHE ANTI-SOCIAL CONTRACT<\/a>
Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Lars H\u00f8jer<\/p>\n

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Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, H\u00f8jer introduces a local world, where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"MortuaryMORTUARY DIALOGUES<\/a>
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman
Foreword by Shirley Lindenbaum<\/p>\n

Volume 7, ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cMethodologically, <\/em>Mortuary Dialogues demonstrates the value of anthropologists revisiting their fieldwork sites. The authors share a longstanding engagement with the communities they describe. By juxtaposing personal experiences from repeated intervals of field- work with readings of historical sources, they achieve solid depth to their analyses of continuity and change in ritual responses to death.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"CulturalCULTURAL TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW BERLIN<\/a>
Edited by Karin Bauer and Jennifer Ruth Hosek<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026an indispensable resource for any scholar who works on Berlin, and any person who is interested in the changing dynamics of urban space. The collection is thoughtfully conceived, and extremely well edited, as many of the wide-ranging contributions are cross-referenced and intertextual.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 German Studies Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE DEVIL’S WHEELS<\/a>
Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Sasha Disko<\/p>\n

Volume 2, Explorations in Mobility<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cA \ufb01ne study of the gendering of motorcycles in the inter- war years, Sasha Disko\u2019s<\/em> The Devil\u2019s Wheels offers an important interpretation of a mass-produced technology, the motorcycle, and how it came to embody masculinity as well as new forms of consumerism.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 American Historical Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE ETHICS OF SEEING<\/a>
Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
Edited by Jennifer Evans, Paul Betts, and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann<\/p>\n

Volume 21, Studies in German History<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026traditionally, photographs have been treated as a kind of secondary or tertiary source with which apprentice historians should engage only after they master the \u2018real\u2019 or \u2018more important\u2019 meat and potatoes of the historical profession: the traditional archival document.\u2026The contributors to<\/em> The Ethics of Seeing do a tremendous service by challenging this orthodoxy.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The German Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"SpaceSPACE AND SPATIALITY IN MODERN GERMAN-JEWISH HISTORY<\/a>
Edited by Simone L\u00e4ssig and Miriam R\u00fcrup<\/p>\n

Volume 8, New German Historical Perspectives<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn their various ways, the contributions of the volume\u2026 offer rich food for thought\u2026 the volume advances the discussion of space and spatiality in German-Jewish history considerably, and in the best instances individual contributions successfully break down the barriers between German and non-German historiography, just as the editors hoped they would.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 German History<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE FRANCE OF THE LITTLE-MIDDLES<\/a>
A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris
Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, and Yasmine Siblot
Translated by Juliette Rogers<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 1, Anthropology of Europe<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cThis splendid and nuanced volume provides long-needed corrections to images from literature, cinema, news, and social science that have reduced Parisian suburbs to a dystopian vision of crime-ridden towers and despairing immigrants\u2026 Essential.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"NewNEW IMAGINARIES<\/a>
Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine’s Cultural Paradigm
Edited and Translated by Marian J. Rubchak
Foreword by Martha Kichorowska Kebalo<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWithout doubt, this volume offers pioneering contributions and fills gaps on the subject of women in the Ukraine. It thus contributes to opening up a new era in the research on gender in the Ukraine. It is obvious that we can count on Rubchak to continue gathering publications on women in the Ukraine, and we look forward to reading the analyses of the cultural changes to come.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Genre & Histoire<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Critical Survey<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Double Issue: Canonizing Q1 Hamlet<\/em> (Volume 31, Issue 1-2)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Issue: Australian Protest in a Social Movement Society (Volume 7, Issue 1)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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French, Politics & Society<\/a> Volume 37, Issue 2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Published in Association with the International Girls Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobilizing a Social Justice (Volume 12, Issue 2)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Issue: Higher education reform in the \u2018periphery\u2019 (Volume 12, Issue 1)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Screening Expectations (Volume 3, Issue 2)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America (Volume 63, Issue 2)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Volume 9, Issue 1)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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