{"id":8393,"date":"2016-05-04T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:27:46","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-april-2016-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-april-2016-new-books","title":{"rendered":"Simulated Shelves: Browse April 2016 New Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted\u00a0to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology<\/a>, History<\/a>, Medical Anthropology<\/a>, Museum Studies<\/a>, and Theory & Methodology in Anthropology<\/a>, along with our New in Paperback<\/a> titles.<\/p>\n

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WITCHES AND DEMONS<\/a>
\nA Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism
\nJean La Fontaine<\/p>\n

Volume 10, Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. In this volume, Jean La Fontaine explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. The chapters touch on public scares about devil-worship, misconceptions about human sacrifice and the use of body parts in healing practices, and mistaken accusations of children practicing witchcraft. Together, these cases demonstrate that comparison is a powerful method of cultural understanding, but warns of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that untrained ideas about other ways of life can lead to.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> Understanding the Other<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"TRUSTING AND ITS TRIBULATIONS<\/a>
\nInterdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust
\nEdited by Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes<\/p>\n

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Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations, the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> Introducing Ethnographies of Trusting<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"HUMOUR, COMEDY AND LAUGHTER<\/a>
\nObscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
\nEdited by Lidia Dina Sciama<\/p>\n

Volume 8, Social Identities<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Anthropological writings on humour are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Unfortunately, though, cartoons, jokes, and parodies can cause irremediable distress and offence. Nevertheless, contributors\u2019 cross-cultural evidence confirms that the positive aspects of humour far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions and fuelling hostilities.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"WORLD HERITAGE ON THE GROUND<\/a>
\nEthnographic Perspectives
\nEdited by Christoph Brumann and David Berliner<\/p>\n

Volume 28, EASA Series<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> UNESCO World Heritage \u2013 Grounded?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE REVOLUTION BEFORE THE REVOLUTION<\/a>
\nLate Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal
\nGuya Accornero<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Protest, Culture & Society<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Histories of Portugal\u2019s transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation\u2019s colonial holdings. However, the events of this \u201cCarnation Revolution\u201d were in many ways the culmination of a much longer process of resistance and protest originating in universities and other sectors of society. Combining careful research in police, government, and student archives with insights from social movement theory, The Revolution before the Revolution<\/em> broadens our understanding of Portuguese democratization by tracing the societal convulsions that preceded it over the course of the \u201clong 1960s.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"RATIONED LIFE<\/a>
\nScience, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914-1918
\nRudolf Ku\u010dera<\/p>\n

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Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained social ties and placed in sharp relief the most mundane aspects of daily life, such as when, what, and with whom to eat. This study reconstructs the experience of the Bohemian working class during the Great War through explorations of four basic spheres\u2014food, labor, gender, and protest\u2014that comprise a fascinating case study in early twentieth-century social history.<\/p>\n

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\"\"WHOSE MEMORY? WHICH FUTURE?<\/a>
\nRemembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
\nEdited by Barbara T\u00f6rnquist-Plewa<\/p>\n

Volume 18, Contemporary European History<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together interdisciplinary case studies conducted in Central and Eastern European cities, exploring how present-day inhabitants \u201cremember\u201d past instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the cultural heritage of groups that vanished in their wake. Together these contributions offer insights into more universal questions of collective memory and the formation of national identity.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"PARENTHOOD BETWEEN GENERATIONS<\/a>
\nTransforming Reproductive Cultures
\nEdited by Si\u00e2n Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi<\/p>\n

Volume 32, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Recent literature has identified modern \u2018parenting\u2019 as an expert-led practice \u2013 one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers, and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make \u2013 and break \u2013 relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"HAVING AND BELONGING<\/a>
\nHomes and Museums in Israel
\nJudy Jaffe-Schagen<\/p>\n

Volume 5, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity. This meticulous, insightful book draws striking connections between both spheres, which play similar roles by housing objects and generating social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight representative Israeli communities\u2014Chabad, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, Russian, Religious-Zionist, Christian Arab, and Muslim Arab\u2014it gives a powerful account of museums\u2019 role in state formation, proposing a new approach to collecting and categorizing particularly well-suited to societies in conflict.<\/p>\n

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\"\"OUR COMMON DENOMINATOR<\/a>
\nHuman Universals Revisited
\nChristoph Antweiler
\nTranslated from the German by Diane Kerns<\/p>\n

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Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals \u2013 that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT<\/a>
\nEdited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta Moore<\/p>\n

Volume 2, WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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“The range of ethnographic settings is dazzling… there is something here for everyone and a veritable cornucopia for the lover of ethnographic diversity.”<\/em> \u00b7 American Ethnologist<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happens when people \u201cachieve\u201d? Why do reactions to \u201cachievement\u201d vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for explaining achievement\u2019s multiple effects\u2014one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical insights into politics, psychology, ethics, materiality, aurality, embodiment, affect and narrative. In doing so, the volume advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology, emphasizing the significance of achievement as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of \u201cthe achiever\u201d as a subject position.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/a><\/strong>Achievement and Its Social Life<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"HINDI IS OUR GROUND, ENGLISH IS OUR SKY<\/a>
\nEducation, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
\nChaise LaDousa
\nForeword by Krishna Kumar<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026an important addition to the sociology of education, as well as to linguistic anthropologists\u2019 understanding of language politics and institutionality in postcolonial settings. It importantly bridges the gap between our understandings of language ideology and institutional organization as they come to register in and as the changing political economy of north India. It will be of interest to scholars of multilingualism, education, language ideology, and youth culture.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of Linguistic Anthropology<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book demonstrates that the school division allows for different visions of what it means to belong to the nation and what is central and peripheral in the nation. It also shows how the language-medium division reverberates unevenly and unequally through the nation, and that schools illustrate the tensions brought on by economic liberalization and middle-class status.<\/p>\n

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\"\"IRISH\/NESS IS ALL AROUND US
\nLanguage Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
\nOlaf Zenker<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book will be of interest to linguistic anthropologists, cultural anthropologists, as well as sociologists, political scientists, and historians of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It will also be valuable to those interested in cultural identity formation within politically charged contexts, including postcolonial contexts. It complements and extends the existing research on political identities in Northern Ireland.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 American Ethnologist<\/strong><\/p>\n

The author\u2019s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Chapter 1. <\/a><\/strong>A Walk of Life: Entering Catholic West Belfast<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE DREAM IN ISLAM<\/a>
\nFrom Qur’anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration
\nIain R. Edgar<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe book stands out as noteworthy in one respect especially, because the author goes beyond the continual struggle between orientalists and anti-orientalists. One consequence of defining Islamic studies within this vicious circle is that a majority of the current generation of Islamic historians believes that the study of Arabic legal, theological or historical texts from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries is good enough to define \u2018native\u2019 Islamic civilisation. Edgar deconstructs that old approach, and brings to the task considerable expertise in social science methodology. Subsequent case studies on dream narratives will benefit immensely from his imagination-based research methods.<\/em>\u201d \u00b7 Political Studies Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

The war in the Middle East is marked by a lack of cultural knowledge on the part of the western forces, and this book deals with another, widely ignored element of Islam\u2014the role of dreams in everyday life. The practice of using night dreams to make important life decisions can be traced to Middle Eastern dream traditions and practices that preceded the emergence of Islam. In this study, the author explores some key aspects of Islamic dream theory and interpretation as well as the role and significance of night dreams for contemporary Muslims. In his analysis of the Islamic debates surrounding the role of \u201ctrue\u201d dreams in historical and contemporary Islamic prophecy, the author specifically addresses the significance of Al-Qaeda and Taliban dream practices and ideology.<\/p>\n

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\"\"ORDINARY LIVES AND GRAND SCHEMES<\/a>
\nAn Anthropology of Everyday Religion
\nEdited by Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec<\/p>\n

Volume 18, EASA Series<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe great merit of this book consists in taking the practices of the people \u201con the ground\u201d into account. It thereby addresses a gap: the moments when grand schemes and daily practices come together, often in contradiction or in complex and open ways\u2026 a compelling and inspirational volume.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Allegra Laboratory<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given setting can be. Rather than putting everyday practice and normative doctrine on different analytical planes, the authors argue that the articulation of religious doctrine is also an everyday practice and must be understood as such.<\/p>\n

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