{"id":4990,"date":"2014-12-12T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:56:24","slug":"awards-authors-anthropology-aaa-2014-conference-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/awards-authors-anthropology-aaa-2014-conference-recap","title":{"rendered":"Awards, Authors, Anthropology: AAA 2014 Conference Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s American Anthropological Association conference in Washington, D.C. was quite a success for Berghahn Books.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The conference started Wednesday, December 3, with an awards ceremony, at which our publisher Marion Berghahn earned the AAA Executive Director’s Award.<\/p>\n

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Marion and Vivian Berghahn share a happy moment at the award ceremony.<\/p>\n

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The Berghahn booth was teeming with activity, with authors stopping by to say hello and look over recent additions to our Anthropology list (including some of their own!).<\/p>\n

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Chaise Ladousa with his book Hindi is our Ground, English is our Sky: Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rachel Stryker with her book Up, Down, and Sideways: Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power<\/a><\/em>. Her co-editor Roberto Gonzales was at the meeting but is not pictured here.<\/p>\n

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Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella with their volume Blood and Fire: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Cec\u00edlia Tomori with her book Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Friday afternoon, Berghahn hosted a wine reception to \u2014 among other causes for celebration \u2014 recognize the launch of our Environment and Society journal’s companion site www.envirosociety.org<\/a>. Also worth noting, Focaal<\/a> and Museum Worlds<\/a> launched companion sites this year.<\/p>\n

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Vivian Berghahn and Paige West, co-editor with Dan Brockington of the Environment and Society<\/a> journal.<\/p>\n

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Cheers!<\/p>\n

All in all, a great success! We look forward to seeing everyone at AAA 2015<\/a> in Denver!<\/p>\n

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