{"id":17588,"date":"2022-05-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:50:27","slug":"international-day-of-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/international-day-of-families","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Families"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the 1993, May 15 was declared as International Day of Families<\/a> by the United Nations to provide awareness of family related issues and to increase the knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families. This year’s theme is Demographic Trends and Families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recognition of the day, Berghahn is pleased to highlight family related books and journal articles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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ASPIRATIONS OF YOUNG ADULTS IN URBAN ASIA<\/a><\/strong>
Values, Family, and Identity
Edited by Mariske Westendorp, D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Remmert and Kenneth Finis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis collection of essays presents anthropologists’ ethnographic research on young adults’ aspirations primarily in East and Southeast Asia. The editors helpfully contextualize these studies within the broader realm of aspirations research\u2026This work will be of greatest interest to students and scholars of anthropology and aspirations research, and to a secondary audience among those working in Asian studies.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FROM MISSIONARIES TO MAIN STREET<\/a><\/strong>
The Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United States
Daniel Gilhooly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Htoo family, who are Sgaw Karen and originally from Burma, resettled in Georgia in the United States refugee resettlement program in 2007. This book chronicles their life in their new country. While the Htoo family\u2019s story is singular, the family\u2019s experiences in Burma, Thai refugee camps, and their experiences in the US are representative of other refugees from Burma and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE CHILDREN OF GREGORIA<\/a><\/strong>
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family
Regnar Kristensen and Claudia Adeath Villamil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis book is remarkable. It is unique in its methodological approach to key themes in current urban anthropology\u2026 an outstanding achievement considering the staggering amount of interview transcriptions and the work to turn these ethnographic data into a readable and structured book.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Wil G. Pansters,<\/strong> Utrecht University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 1.<\/strong> The House in Ruins<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RECONCEIVING MUSLIM MEN<\/a><\/strong>
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>Reconceiving Muslim Men makes a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Muslim men, an excellent companion volume to the more theoretical discussions of masculinity, which largely focus on Western contexts, and a useful reminder of the need to differentiate between discourse and practice in exploring gender issues more broadly.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OPEN ACCESS! <\/strong>Forthcoming July 2023!<\/em>
VISIONS OF MARRIAGE<\/a><\/strong>
Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
Hsiao-Chiao Chiu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage<\/em> explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Paperback<\/em>
AMBIGUOUS CHILDHOODS<\/a><\/strong>
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Nana Clemensen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging social and moral protocols across homes, classrooms, church halls, and the streets. Mostly unmonitored by adults, they explore the ambiguities of adult life in playful interactions with their siblings and kin across gender and age. Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of such interactions combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Paperback<\/em>
THE HISTORY OF THYSSEN<\/a><\/strong>
Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century
G\u00fcnther Schulz and Margit Sz\u00f6ll\u00f6si-Janze
Translated by Christopher Reid
Foreword by Volker Berghahn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of a multi-volume research project, funded by the Thyssen Foundations (Stiftung zur Industriegeschichte Thyssen and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung), ten books were published that served to greatly advance the available knowledge on the Thyssen family and their companies. The results of this project are summarized in this volume which provides both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and their business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Berghahn Journals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Open Access Articles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION<\/strong>
<\/a>The Nuclear\/Nuclear Family: Moralities of Intimacy under COVID-19<\/a>
<\/em>Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (Vol. 28, Issue 2)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ASPASIA<\/a><\/strong>
For the Father of a Newborn: Soviet Obstetrics and the Mobilization of Men as Medical Allies<\/a>
<\/em>Amy E. Randall (Vol. 15)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONFLICT AND SOCIETY<\/a>
<\/strong>Family Matters in Conflict: Displacement and the Formulation of Politics among Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey<\/a>
<\/em>Birgitte Stamp Holst (Vol. 9)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FOCAAL<\/a><\/strong>
From breadwinner to bedridden: Vulnerable tales of a labor migrant household in Italy
<\/a><\/em>Sara Bonfanti (Vol. 2022, Issue 92)<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOCIAL ANALYSIS<\/a><\/strong>
The American Eugenics Record Office: Technologies for Terminating \u2018Degenerate\u2019 Family Lines and Purifying the Nation
<\/a><\/em>Susan McKinnon (Vol. 65, Issue 4)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Berghahn Journals is offering free access<\/strong> to the following relevant articles until May 31, 202<\/strong>4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS<\/strong>
<\/a>Natural Children, Country Wives, and Country Girls in Nineteenth-Century India and Northeast Scotland<\/a>
<\/em>Eloise Grey (Vol. 47, Issue 1)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISRAEL STUDIES REVIEW<\/strong>
<\/a>Special Issue: The Family in Israel<\/em> (Vol. 28, Issue 2)<\/a>

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY\/ANTHROPOLOGIE SOCIALE<\/a><\/strong>
\u2018Are you paying for somebody else\u2019s?\u2019 The value of secrecy in the uses of DNA paternity tests in the USA<\/a>
<\/em>M\u00e9lanie Gourarier (Vol. 29, Issue 2)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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