{"id":8746,"date":"2016-06-28T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8746"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:32:29","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-june-2016-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-june-2016-new-books","title":{"rendered":"Simulated Shelves: Browse June 2016 New Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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\"\"DESIGNING WORLDS<\/a>
\nNational Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
\nEdited by Kjetil Fallan and Grace Lees-Maffei<\/p>\n

Volume 24, Making Sense of History<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a lively, spirited, and imaginative volume whose editors have assembled an impressive range of contributions. It is likely to be embraced not just within design history but also by scholars working in comparative history, art history, spatial theory, and material culture.\u201d<\/em>\u00b7 Peter McNeil<\/strong>, University of Technology, Sydney<\/p>\n

From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often succumbed to a bias toward Western, industrialized nations. This diverse but rigorously curated collection recalibrates our understanding of design history, reassessing regional and national cultures while situating them within an international context. Here, contributors from five continents offer nuanced studies that range from South Africa to the Czech Republic, all the while sensitive to the complexities of local variation and the role of nation-states in identity construction.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"NARRATIVES IN MOTION<\/a>
\nJournalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
\nLu\u00eds Trindade<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Remapping Cultural History<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an outstanding book and a superlative example of cultural studies done at its best. Lu\u00eds Trindade develops a sophisticated argument with a clarity of expression that makes this one of the most important works in the field to date.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Phillip Rothwell<\/strong>, University of Oxford<\/p>\n

Interwar Portugal was in many ways a microcosm of Europe\u2019s encounter with modernity: reshaped by industrialization, urban growth, and the antagonism between liberalism and authoritarianism, it also witnessed new forms of media and mass culture that transformed daily life. This fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal explores how the new \u201cmodernist reportage\u201d embodied the spirit of the era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes, from political upheavals to lurid crimes of passion. In the process, Lu\u00eds Trindade illuminates the twofold nature of that journalism\u2014both historical account and material object, it epitomized a distinctly modern entanglement of narrative and event.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Chapter 1<\/strong>. Newspapers and Modernist Events<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"MORTUARY DIALOGUES<\/a>
\nDeath Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
\nEdited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman
\nForeword by Shirley Lindenbaum<\/p>\n

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

“This book is notable for its wealth of ethnographic data on mortuary practices in very different parts of a changing Pacific, as well as for the critique running through it that reminds us that Hertz\u2019s model is an idealization\u2014both emic and etic\u2014from which the actual practice departs into varying degrees of ambivalence.”<\/em> \u00b7 Roger Lohmann<\/strong>, Trent University<\/p>\n

Mortuary Dialogues<\/em> presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book\u2019s key concept, \u201cmortuary dialogue,\u201d describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to restore individual and collective order in the aftermath of death in the contemporary Pacific.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"RETHINKING ANTIFASCISM<\/a>
\nHistory, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present
\nEdited by Hugo Garc\u00eda, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, and Cristina Cl\u00edmaco<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Rethinking Antifascism does a commendable job of offering, for the first time in English, a panoramic view of the antifascist experience that resists the temptation to elaborate an \u2018antifascist minimum,\u2019 and instead embraces its multitude of individual and international varieties.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 David Ward<\/strong>, Wellesley College<\/p>\n

Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent historiography. Through case studies that exemplify the field\u2019s breadth and sophistication, it examines antifascism in two distinct realms: after surveying the movement\u2019s remarkable diversity across nations and political cultures up to 1945, the volume assesses its postwar political and ideological salience, from its incorporation into Soviet state doctrine to its radical questioning by historians and politicians. Avoiding both heroic narratives and reflexive revisionism, these contributions offer nuanced perspectives on a movement that helped to shape the postwar world.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Beyond Revisionism: Rethinking Antifascism in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"SWEDEN AFTER NAZISM<\/a>
\nPolitics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War
\nJohan \u00d6stling
\nTranslated by Peter Graves<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study makes a generous contribution to our understanding of segments of Sweden\u2019s intellectual and political postwar response to the catastrophe of Nazism and, with it, Europe more generally today.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 The American Historical Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians. Nonetheless, as this definitive study shows, the war\u2014and particularly the specter of Nazism\u2014changed Swedish society profoundly. Prior to 1939, many Swedes shared an unmistakable affinity for German culture, and even after the outbreak of hostilities there remained prominent apologists for the Third Reich. After the Allied victory, however, Swedish intellectuals reframed Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism. Accordingly, Swedes\u2019 self-conception underwent a dramatic reformulation. From this interplay of suppressed traditions and bright dreams for the future, postwar Sweden emerged.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Prologue:<\/strong> A Sword of Damocles over the Age in Which We Live<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"COSMOS, GODS AND MADMEN<\/a>
\nFrameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine
\nEdited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch<\/p>\n

\u201cThe introduction to this book is very well-written and lays out the topic and scope clearly… The essays have been collected carefully and offer much to the study of religion and healing\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Stefan Ecks<\/strong>, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Divinity, Disease, Distress<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"1st Volume in a NEW Series!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

KEYWORDS OF MOBILITY<\/a>
\nCritical Engagements
\nEdited by Noel B. Salazar and Kiran Jayaram<\/p>\n

Volume 1, Worlds in Motion<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is very enlightening, covering areas of thought and research which are at present clearly on a lively frontier of scholarship\u2026 The editors are well placed to take on the task of organizing and introducing this topic \u2013 as notions of \u201cmobility\u201d have become increasingly prominent in recent anthropology. Noel B. Salazar has an overview of the field which may well be unmatched in anthropology.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Ulf Hannerz<\/strong>, Stockholm University<\/p>\n

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed. Given this context and inspired in part by Raymond Williams\u2019 Keywords<\/em> (1976), this edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime. Each chapter provides an historical context, a critical analysis of how the keyword has been used in relation to mobility, and a conclusion that proposes future usage or research.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> Keywords of Mobility: A Critical Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE GERMAN RIGHT IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC<\/a>
\nStudies in the History of German Conservatism, Nationalism, and Antisemitism
\nEdited by Larry Eugene Jones<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strength of this collection is its engagement with this ideological and institutional diversity\u2026 Though not intended for general readers (who will find relatively little about Hitler and the Nazis here), specialists will benefit from this volume\u2019s exploration of the ideas that shaped the German Right and the ways that their spokesmen negotiated their ideological differences during a period of profound societal crisis.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

The German Right in the Weimar Republic<\/em> examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic, with particular emphasis on the political and organizational history of Rightist groups as well as on the many permutations of right-wing ideology during the period.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> The German Right in the Weimar Republic:\u00a0 New Directions, New Insights, New Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"THE MIND OF THE NATION<\/a>
\nV\u00f6lkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955
\nEgbert Klautke<\/p>\n

\u201cKlautke charts the historical and systematic differences between the concepts of V\u00f6lkerpsychologie over a century in a book of fewer than 200 pages. Readers will consult with profit this short, but important history of ideas, science, and culture, which deals with the arguments and topics relating to V\u00f6lkerpsychologie.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 German Historical Institute London Bulletin<\/strong><\/p>\n

V\u00f6lkerpsychologie<\/em> played an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of \u201cfolk psychology\u201d was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and Willy Hellpach. This book follows the invention of the discipline in the nineteenth century, its rise around the turn of the century and its ultimate demise after the Second World War. In addition, it shows that despite the repudiation of \u201cfolk psychology\u201d and its failed institutionalization, the discipline remains relevant as a precursor of contemporary studies of \u201cnational identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/strong>V\u00f6lkerpsychologie<\/em> in Germany<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"A FATAL BALANCING ACT<\/a>
\nThe Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939-1945
\nBeate Meyer
\nTranslated from the German by William Templer<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the more remarkable things about Meyer\u2019s study is her almost total lack of criticism of the various Jewish leaders in the RJD and the RR.\u2026 Meyer sees the work of the RJD and the RR in a very different light. She argues that these Jewish leaders worked continuously through various phases of Nazi Germany\u2019s ever-changing policies on the \u201cJewish Question\u201d to find ways to ameliorate such policies\u2026a masterful study of a phase of the Shoah that needs further exploration.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Holocaust and Genocide Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1939 all German Jews had to become members of a newly founded Reich Association. The Jewish functionaries of this organization were faced with circumstances and events that forced them to walk a fine line between responsible action and collaboration. They had hoped to support mass emigration, mitigate the consequences of the anti-Jewish measures, and take care of the remaining community. When the Nazis forbade emigration and started mass deportations in 1941, the functionaries decided to cooperate to prevent the \u201cworst.\u201d In choosing to cooperate, they came into direct opposition with the interests of their members, who were then deported. In June 1943 all unprotected Jews were deported along with their representatives, and the so-called intermediaries supplied the rest of the community, which consisted of Jews living in mixed marriages. The study deals with the tasks of these men, the fate of the Jews in mixed marriages, and what happened to the survivors after the war.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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