{"id":7474,"date":"2015-12-14T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:13:48","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-november-2015-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-november-2015-new-books","title":{"rendered":"Simulated Shelves: Browse November 2015 New Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology<\/a>, Applied Anthropology<\/a>, Film Studies<\/a>, History<\/a>, and Politics<\/a>,\u00a0along with a selection of our New in Paperback<\/a> titles.<\/p>\n

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\"\"ULTIMATE AMBIGUITIES<\/a>
\nInvestigating Death and Liminality
\nEdited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen<\/p>\n

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Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these \u201cultimate ambiguities,\u201d assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.<\/p>\n

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\"\"GYPSY ECONOMY<\/a>
\nRomani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
\nEdited by Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha, and Martin Fotta
\nAfterword by Keith Hart<\/p>\n

Volume 3, The Human Economy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite \u2014 or perhaps because of \u2014 their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.<\/p>\n

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\"\"TOURISM AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTERS IN CUBA<\/a>
\nValerio Simoni
\nForeword by Nelson Graburn<\/p>\n

Volume 38, New Directions in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores the promises and expectations of tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to the challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Notions of informal encounter and relational idiom illuminate ambiguous experiences of tourism harassment, economic transactions, hospitality, friendship, and festive and sexual relationships. Comparing these various connections, the author shows the potential of touristic encounters to redefine their moral foundations, power dynamics, and implications, offering new insights into how contemporary relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Relating through Tourism<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"WATERWORLDS<\/a>
\nAnthropology in Fluid Environments
\nEdited by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Ethnography, Theory, Experiment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people\u2019s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors\u2019 detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Waterworlds at Large<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"TIME AND THE FIELD<\/a>
\nEdited by Steffen Dalsgaard and Morten Nielsen
\nAfterword by George Marcus<\/p>\n

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In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Time and the Field<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE GERMANS AND THE HOLOCAUST<\/a>
\nPopular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews
\nEdited by Susanna Schrafstetter and Alan E. Steinweis<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Vermont Studies on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did \u201cordinary\u201d Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did they respond collectively and as individuals? This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence. Ranging from the roots of popular anti-Semitism to the complex motivations of Germans who hid Jews, these studies illuminate some of the most difficult questions in Holocaust historiography, supplemented with an array of fascinating primary source materials.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: The German People and the Holocaust<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"MEMORY AND CHANGE IN EUROPE<\/a>
\nEastern Perspectives
\nEdited by Ma\u0142gorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
\nForeword by Jeffrey Olick<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Contemporary European History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region\u2019s experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Memory and Change in Eastern Europe: How Special?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY POLITICS<\/a>
\nA Cross-Atlantic Perspective
\nEdited by Christina Sp\u00e4ti<\/p>\n

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In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era\u2019s defining political dynamics.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Language and the Rise of Identity Politics: An Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"NEW HONG KONG CINEMA<\/a>
\nTransitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia
\nRuby Cheung<\/p>\n

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The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city\u2019s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The change in course has become more visible in recent years as China has aggressively developed its national film industry and assumed the role of powerhouse in East Asia\u2019s cinematic landscape. The author introduces the \u201cCinema of Transitions\u201d to study the New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background. Using examples from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a fresh perspective on how Hong Kong-related Chinese-language films, filmmakers, audiences, and the workings of film business in East Asia have become major platforms on which \u201ctransitions\u201d are negotiated.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: The New Hong Kong Cinema, Cinema of Transitions and East Asia<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"SACRIFICE AND REBIRTH<\/a>
\nThe Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
\nEdited by Mark Cornwall and John Paul Newman<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg territories. Each of the book\u2019s twelve chapters focuses on a separate region, studying how the transition to peacetime was managed either by the state, by war veterans, or by national minorities. This \u201csplintered war memory,\u201d where some posed as victors and some as losers, does much to explain the fractious character of interwar Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

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\"\"EMPIRE OF PICTURES<\/a>
\nGlobal Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy
\nS\u00f6nke Kunkel<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Explorations in Culture and International History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research which shows that U.S. power came to depend more and more not on military superiority or economic strength alone, but also on America\u2019s ability to create appealing pictures that assured recognition of its global leadership.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION<\/a>
\nThe Expansion of Technology in Modern Times
\nFran\u00e7ois Caron
\nTranslated from the French by Allan Mitchell<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026offers a series of fascinating vignettes tied together by a satisfactory thesis about the commonalities associated with the evolving nature of technological innovation.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 The Historian<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTo integrate the slow evolution of medieval know-how and the current explosion of information technologies into one analysis is a challenge magnificently met by the historian Fran\u00e7ois Caron.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Gerard Moatti<\/strong>, Les Echos.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Winner of the 2015 Keeley Book Prize of the Modern Greek Studies Association<\/p>\n

CHILDREN OF THE DICTATORSHIP<\/a>
\nStudent Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ‘Long 1960s’ in Greece
\nKostis Kornetis<\/p>\n

Volume 10, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This long-anticipated\u2026 publication signals the beginning of a potentially fruitful and certainly long overdue examination of the 1960s and 1970s in Greece. After so many years of discussions and debates on the Greek Civil War, the time for a careful consideration of the junta and its afterlife seems to have finally come. Kornetis offers an enormously productive entry point by exploring the issue that is analytically most central and socially most sensitive concerning this period: resistance and its counterpart, complicity. For anyone with an interest in the period or in the broad range of theoretical issues raised by its study, Children of the Dictatorship is an indispensible book that is sure to anchor future discussion and debate of the military regime.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of Modern Greek Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE<\/a>
\nFeeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934
\nBritta McEwen<\/p>\n

Volume 13, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn [this book] Britta McEwen has produced an interesting and useful work of scholarship that not only deals with a previously neglected topic, but, in so doing, also expands the still under-researched field of interwar Austria.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0American Historical Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMcEwen has based her excellent and lively written book, which covers a broad range of issues related to the shaping of sexual knowledge in Austria, on a close investigation of a wide range of sources. McEwen\u2019s book should become a standard reference for anybody interested in the history of sexuality in the German-speaking world during the first third of the twentieth century.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 German Studies Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Vienna as Laboratory for Sexual Knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"FROM FIDELITY TO HISTORY<\/a>
\nFilm Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century
\nAnne-Marie Scholz<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Transatlantic Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cOverall, Scholz\u2019s highly readable and accessible book contributes new insights to the field of adaptation studies and the individual films that she so thoroughly and eloquently studies. She achieves a balance in considering films as both industrial products and artistic achievement and her transnationality and, more specifically, her bi-lingual skills give her important access to German language secondary source material, hitherto not included in English-language studies of these works. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in transatlantic adaptations or indeed any of the films she considers and its intellectual paradigm is both expansive and offers a significant contribution to current debates in adaptation studies.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Cercles. Revue pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"BONDAGE<\/a>
\nLabor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
\nAlessandro Stanziani<\/p>\n

Volume 24, International Studies in Social History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe strength of Stanziani’s work is his lively engagement with numerous scholars over the meaning and significance of labor around the world. Whether or not one agrees or disagrees with the many arguments he posits, his ideas deserve attention, and are sure to inspire further research and discussion\u2026 Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cStanziani has produced an intellectually rich and invigorating study. The problems identified are not necessarily new, but they are enduring, and for students of Russia, they have to my knowledge never before been so thoroughly integrated into the framework of world history\u2026 Stanziani\u2019s breadth of vision is impressive and his arguments invariably challenge. Every student of Russian histo
\nry and international politics should read his work.\u201d<\/em>\u00b7 Slavic Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Please note we have recently released our brand new\u00a0History 2016 Catalog<\/a>, Slavic Studies 2016 Catalog<\/a>, Anthropology & Sociology 2016 Catalog<\/a> , German Studies 2016 Catalog<\/a>, Fall\/Winter 2015 New titles Catalog<\/a>, and Medical Anthropology and Global Health 2015\/6 Catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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