{"id":8816,"date":"2016-07-04T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:14:22","slug":"berghahn-titles-at-the-association-of-social-anthropologists-of-the-uk-and-commonwealth-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/berghahn-titles-at-the-association-of-social-anthropologists-of-the-uk-and-commonwealth-conference","title":{"rendered":"Berghahn titles at The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/cats\/subject\/Berghahn-2016-Anthropology-and-Sociology.pdf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to inform you that Berghahn\u00a0will be present at<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001Pk1XXTikIHskUzRaFFbLQRN8lIgLfZJyTajzRr6LqluVTy_pT7DMEqD6U8BjLyIw_cPLe_0k7vzdd2BWbbfSK5JumPzduJnTrduncu__UEFA3g_THvuQqOlBZdNM_HsEnIJoDtpGtK2C1Qcww1ymmP0o6a9Guy8XD-HGD5c7hjSYw26C9frj982hmwdhmhWDJIHJiiR10Mc=&amp;c=sSOVS4EiS5NKT8_Xws5ZxDZnScCGdMH7mokvC5BieJ693-VOYXLBNw==&amp;ch=78rq_Y7i8AYZ747I2ls4NDergdsZamYkSfhvdw_MaPWPakG5tKF4lg==\"> The Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Conference<\/a> in Durham, UK from the 4th-7th July 2016. 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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<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LaFontaineWitches_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Understanding the Other<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/MitchellGirlhood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"212\" \/>Paperback Original\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/MitchellGirlhood\">GIRLHOOD AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE<\/a><br \/>\nEdited by Claudia Mitchell and Carrie Rentschler<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This title is available <a class=\"2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oapen.org\/search?identifier=606216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Access<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a> and published in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeunlatched.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knowledge Unlatched<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/MitchellGirlhood_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> The Significance of Place in Girlhood Studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HasselbergEnduring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"205\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=HasselbergEnduring\">ENDURING UNCERTAINTY<\/a><br \/>\nDeportation, Punishment and Everyday Life<br \/>\nInes Hasselberg<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/loca\">Volume 17, <b><i>Dislocations<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This title is available <a class=\"1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oapen.org\/search?identifier=605854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Access<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a> and published in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeunlatched.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knowledge Unlatched<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume provides fascinating insights into the deportation process as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. The author presents a rich and innovative ethnography of deportation and deportability experienced by migrants convicted of criminal offenses in England and Wales. The unique perspectives developed here \u2013 on due process in immigration appeals, migrant surveillance and control, social relations and sense of self, and compliance and resistance \u2013 are important for broader understandings of border control policy and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/HasselbergEnduring_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> An Ethnography of Deportation from the UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/WulffAnthropologist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"206\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/WulffAnthropologist\">THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS WRITER<\/a><br \/>\nGenres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century<br \/>\nEdited by Helena Wulff<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist\u2019s primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/WulffAnthropologist_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer:<\/strong> Across and Within Genres<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/Broch-DueTrusting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"206\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/Broch-DueTrusting\">TRUSTING AND ITS TRIBULATIONS<\/a><br \/>\nInterdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust<br \/>\nEdited by Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis impressive volume stands as a powerful corrective to latent ethnocentric tendencies lying at the heart of much contemporary scholarship on the nature of trust&#8230; Instead of identifying trust with the intimacies of family life, or attributing it to the conscious calculations of risk-averse individuals, this manuscript reveals the importance of approaching trust as something performed.\u201d<\/em><strong> \u00b7 Sharon Hutchinson<\/strong>, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/Broch-DueTrusting_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Introducing Ethnographies of Trusting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LittlewoodCosmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"216\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=LittlewoodCosmos\">COSMOS, GODS AND MADMEN<\/a><br \/>\nFrameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine<br \/>\nEdited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LittlewoodCosmos_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Divinity, Disease, Distress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/AmitThinking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"212\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=AmitThinking\">THINKING THROUGH SOCIALITY<\/a><br \/>\nAn Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts<br \/>\nEdited by Vered Amit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this book, an international group of contributors train attention on the concepts of disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network, mid-range concepts that are \u201cgood to think with.\u201d Neither too narrowly defined nor too sweeping, these concepts can be used to think through a myriad of ethnographic situations.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/AmitThinking_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong>Thinking through Sociality: The Importance of Mid-Level Concepts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HyattLearning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"210\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=HyattLearning\">LEARNING UNDER NEOLIBERALISM<\/a><br \/>\nEthnographies of Governance in Higher Education<br \/>\nEdited by Susan Brin Hyatt, Boone W. Shear, and Susan Wright<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/high_educ\">Volume 1, <b><i>Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As part of the neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships, universities all over the world have forged more intimate relationships with corporate interests and more closely resemble for-profit corporations in both structure and practice.\u00a0 These transformations, accompanied by new forms of governance, produce new subject-positions among faculty and students and enable new approaches to teaching, curricula, research, and everyday practices. The contributors to this volume use ethnographic methods to investigate the multi-faceted impacts of neoliberal restructuring, while reporting on their own pedagogical responses, at universities in the United States, Europe, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/HyattLearning_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Higher Education, Engaged Anthropology, and Hegemonic Struggle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>New in Paperback!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/EdgarDream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"202\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/EdgarDream\">THE DREAM IN ISLAM<\/a><br \/>\nFrom Qur&#8217;anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration<br \/>\nIain R. Edgar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\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.\u201d<\/em> <strong>\u00b7 Political Studies Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/SchielkeOrdinary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"205\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/SchielkeOrdinary\">ORDINARY LIVES AND GRAND SCHEMES<\/a><br \/>\nAn Anthropology of Everyday Religion<br \/>\nEdited by Samuli Schielke and Liza Debevec<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/easa_seri\">Volume 18, <b><i>EASA Series<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\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> <strong>\u00b7 Allegra Laboratory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/SchielkeOrdinary_intro.pdf\">Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/ZenkerIrish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"220\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/ZenkerIrish\">IRISH\/NESS IS ALL AROUND US<\/a><br \/>\nLanguage Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland<br \/>\nOlaf Zenker<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/inte_conf\">Volume 6, <b><i>Integration and Conflict Studies<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>This 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.<\/em>\u201d<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0American Ethnologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/ZenkerIrish_intro.pdf\"><strong>Chapter 1. <\/strong>A Walk of Life: Entering Catholic West Belfast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/LongSocial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"209\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/LongSocial\">THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT<\/a><br \/>\nEdited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta Moore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/wyse_seri\">Volume 2, <b><i>WYSE Series in Social Anthropology<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The range of ethnographic settings is dazzling&#8230; there is something here for everyone and a veritable cornucopia for the lover of ethnographic diversity.&#8221;<\/em> <strong>\u00b7 American Ethnologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/LongSocial_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction: <\/strong>Achievement and Its Social Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BacasBorder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"212\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/BacasBorder\">BORDER ENCOUNTERS<\/a><br \/>\nAsymmetry and Proximity at Europe&#8217;s Frontiers<br \/>\nEdited by Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh\u2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026provides a rich and thought provoking perspective on encounters and connectivity at the borders of Europe \u2013 both internal and external.\u201d<\/em> <strong>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 The Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/BacasBorder_intro.pdf\"><strong>Introduction:<\/strong> Border Encounters \u2013 Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe\u2019s Frontiers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/MacClancyEthics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"214\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/MacClancyEthics\">ETHICS IN THE FIELD<\/a><br \/>\nContemporary Challenges<br \/>\nEdited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agust\u00edn Fuentes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/series\/bios_soci\">Volume 7, <b><i>Studies of the Biosocial Society<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis book will be informative and helpful for anyone planning to do fieldwork in the social sciences. It is particularly appropriate for environmental or ecological anthropologists because of the often inter- and trans-disciplinary nature of their work and because it covers ethical and methodological issues similar to those they may encounter. Although not an introductory book on field ethics, it would be valuable for advanced undergraduate or graduate students who have previously been introduced to these issues, or as a valued addition to other more basic materials on the subject.\u201d<\/em> <strong>\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 Journal of Ecological Anthropology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this volume, practitioners from across anthropological disciplines\u2014social and biological anthropology and primatology\u2014come together to question and compare the ethical regulation of fieldwork, what is common to their practices, and what is distinctive to each discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/downloads\/intros\/MacClancyEthics_ch1.pdf\"><strong>Chapter 1.<\/strong> The ethical fieldworker, and other problems<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forthcoming!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/CookState.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"219\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/CookState\">THE STATE WE&#8217;RE IN<\/a><br \/>\nReflecting on Democracy&#8217;s Troubles<br \/>\nEdited by Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. 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Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic \u2013 allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>OF RELATED INTEREST FROM BERGHAHN JOURNALS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_air-cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"173\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/conflict-and-society\/\">Conflict and Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advances in Research<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organized violence-war, armed revolt, genocide, lynching, targeted killings, torture, routine discrimination, terrorism, trauma, and suffering-is a daily reality for some, while for others it is a sound bite or a news clip seen in passing and easily forgotten. Rigorous scholarly research of the social and cultural conditions of organized violence, its genesis, dynamic, and impact, is fundamental to addressing questions of local and global conflict and its impact on the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_ajec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"180\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.berghahnbooks.com\/ajec\/\">Anthropological Journal of European Cultures \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Published since 1990, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (AJEC)\u00a0engages with current debates and innovative research agendas addressing the social and cultural transformations of contemporary European societies. The journal serves as an important forum for ethnographic research in and on Europe, which in this context is not defined narrowly as a geopolitical entity but rather as a meaningful cultural construction in people&#8217;s lives, which both legitimates political power and calls forth practices of resistance and subversion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_aia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"178\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.berghahnbooks.com\/aia\">Anthropology in Action\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology. 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