{"id":9578,"date":"2016-12-23T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2025-05-13T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:03:07","slug":"simulated-shelves-browse-december-2016-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/simulated-shelves-browse-december-2016-new-books","title":{"rendered":"SIMULATED SHELVES: BROWSE December 2016 NEW BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology<\/a>, Development Studies<\/a>,\u00a0Environmental Studies<\/a>,\u00a0Film Studies<\/a>, and History<\/a>,\u00a0along with our New in Paperback<\/a> titles.<\/p>\n

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AMERICA OBSERVED<\/a>
\nOn an International Anthropology of the United States
\nEdited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib
\nAfterword by Jane C. Desmond<\/p>\n

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There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed<\/em> fills that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon. Edited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib, the essays collected here offer a critique of such an absence, exploring its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork-based anthropological projects conducted by colleagues from outside the U.S. This volume contains an introduction written by the editors and fieldwork-based essays written by Helena Wulff, Jasmin Habib, Limor Darash, Ulf Hannerz, and Moshe Shokeid, and reflections on the broad issue written by Geoffrey White, Keiko Ikeda, and Jane Desmond. Suitable for introductory and mid-level anthropology courses, America Observed will also be useful for American Studies courses both in the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Can the US Be \u201cOthered\u201d Usefully? On an International Anthropology of the United States<\/a><\/p>\n

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AGAINST EXOTICISM<\/a>
\nToward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
\nEdited by Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos<\/p>\n

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Anthropology begins in the encounter with the \u2018exotic\u2019: what stands outside of\u2014and challenges\u2014conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.<\/p>\n

Chapters look at the risk of exoticism in the perspectivist approach, the significant exotic corrective of L\u00e9vi-Strauss vis-\u00e0-vis an imperializing Eurocentrism, our nostalgic relationship with the ethnographic record, and the attempts of local communities to readapt previous exoticized referents, renegotiate their identity, and \u2018counter-exoticize.\u2019 This volume demonstrates a range of approaches that will be valuable for researchers and students seeking to effectively establish comparative methodological frameworks that transcend issues of relativism and universalism.<\/p>\n

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HUMAN ORIGINS<\/a>
\nContributions from Social Anthropology
\nEdited by Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan and Hilary Callan
\nAfterword by Alan Barnard<\/p>\n

Volume 30, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Human Origins<\/em> brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.<\/p>\n

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\"\"BREAKING ROCKS<\/a>
\nMusic, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
\nJoe Trapido<\/p>\n

Volume 19, Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks<\/em> examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons \u2013 who include gangsters based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless diamond dealers in northern Angola \u2013 this book offers insights into ideologies of power and value in central Africa\u2019s troubled post-colonial political economy, as well as a glimpse into the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"THE IMBALANCE OF POWER<\/a>
\nLeadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon
\nMarc Brightman<\/p>\n

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Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American \u2018state of nature\u2019 operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power<\/em> demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of \u2018simple\u2019 political units with \u2018egalitarian\u2019 political ideologies and \u2018harmonious\u2019 relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian politics: far from balanced and egalitarian, Carib societies are rife with tension and difference; but this imbalance conditions social dynamism and a distinctive mode of cohesion.<\/p>\n

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\"\"A FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE<\/a>
\nAbortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe
\nEdited by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton<\/p>\n

Volume 20, Protest, Culture & Society<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.<\/p>\n

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\"\"LANGUID BODIES, GROUNDED STANCES<\/a>
\nThe Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance
\nNandini Sikand<\/p>\n

Volume 9, Dance and Performance Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Widely believed to be the oldest Indian dance tradition, odissi has transformed over the centuries from a sacred temple ritual to a transnational genre performed\u2014and consumed\u2014throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book charts the evolution of odissi dance and reveals the richness, rigor, and complexity of the form as it is practiced today. As author and dancer-choreographer Nandini Sikand shows, the story of odissi is ultimately a story of postcolonial India, one in which identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal politics dramatically come together.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Towards a Global Community<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE FOREST PEOPLE WITHOUT A FOREST<\/a>
\nDevelopment Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
\nGlory M. Lueong<\/p>\n

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Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention. This book examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. Often referred to as \u2018forest people\u2019, the Baka have witnessed many recent development interventions that include competing and contradictory policies such as \u2018civilize\u2019, assimilate and integrate the Baka into \u2018full citizenship\u2019, conserve the forest and wildlife resources, and preserve indigenous cultures at the verge of extinction.<\/p>\n

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\"\"INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION<\/a>
\nConservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
\nEdited by Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer<\/p>\n

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Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and\u2014following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment\u2014implement and enforce actual international policies.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/strong> International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"STARS AND STARDOM IN BRAZILIAN CINEMA<\/a>
\nEdited by Tim Bergfelder, Lisa Shaw and Jo\u00e3o Luiz Vieira<\/p>\n

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Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in \u201cstar studies,\u201d Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As this volume demonstrates, however, the richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda. Among the studies assembled here are fascinating explorations of figures such as Eliane Lage (the star attraction of S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s Vera Cruz studios), cult horror movie auteur Coffin Joe, and L\u00e1zaro Ramos, the most visible Afro-Brazilian actor today. At the same time, contributors interrogate the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.<\/p>\n

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

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\"\"SENSITIVE PASTS<\/a>
\nQuestioning Heritage in Education
\nEdited by Carla van Boxtel, Maria Grever, and Stephan Klein<\/p>\n

Volume 27, Making Sense of History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Heritage, as an area of research and learning, often deals with difficult historical questions, due to the strong emotions and political commitments that are often at stake. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers, museum educators and the publics they serve. Guided by a shared focus on these \u201csensitive pasts,\u201d the contributors to this volume draw on new theoretical and empirical research to provide valuable insights into heritage pedagogy. Together they demonstrate the potential of heritage as a historical-educational domain that transcends myopic patriotism, parochialism and simplistic relativism, helping to enhance critical and sophisticated historical thinking.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: The Appeal of Heritage in Education\u2028<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"BETWEEN BLOOD AND GOLD<\/a>
\nThe Debates over Compensation for Slavery in the Americas
\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Beauvois<\/p>\n

Volume 10, European Expansion & Global Interaction<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lost among these debates, however, is the fact that such payments were widespread in the nineteenth century\u2014except the \u201cvictims\u201d were not slaves, but the slaveholders deprived of their labor. This landmark comparative study analyzes the debates over compensation within France and Great Britain. It lays out in unprecedented detail the philosophical, legal-political, and economic factors at play, establishing a powerful new model for understanding the aftermath of slavery in the Americas.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Compensation as a Driving Force for Abolition<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"gekasxenocracy\"<\/a>XENOCRACY<\/a>
\nState, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864
\nSakis Gekas<\/p>\n

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Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain\u2014a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. As author Sakis Gekas shows, the ordeal engendered dependency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the \u201cneocolonial\u201d condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.<\/p>\n

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\"\"THE MONUMENTAL NATION<\/a>
\nMagyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-si\u00e8cle Hungary
\nB\u00e1lint Varga<\/p>\n

Volume 20, Austrian and Habsburg Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

From the 1860s onward, Habsburg Hungary attempted a massive project of cultural assimilation to impose a unified national identity on its diverse populations. In one of the more quixotic episodes in this \u201cMagyarization,\u201d large monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin\u2014supposedly, the moment when the Hungarian nation was born. This exactingly researched study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which\u2014far from cultivating national pride\u2014provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians. Author B\u00e1lint Varga thus reframes the narrative of nineteenth-century nationalism, demonstrating the complex relationship between local and national memories.<\/p>\n

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\"\"DIFFERENT GERMANS, MANY GERMANIES<\/a>
\nNew Transatlantic Perspectives
\nEdited by Konrad H. Jarausch, Harald Wenzel, and Karin Goihl<\/p>\n

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As much as any other nation, Germany has long been understood in terms of totalizing narratives. For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history, whether through the lens of Nazi-era militarism and racial hatred or the nation\u2019s emergence as a \u201cmodel\u201d postwar industrial democracy. This volume transcends such common categories, bringing together transatlantic studies that are unburdened by the ideological and methodological constraints of previous generations of scholarship. From American perceptions of the Kaiserreich to the challenges posed by a multicultural Europe, it argues for\u2014and exemplifies\u2014an approach to German Studies that is nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic.<\/p>\n

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\"\"LEGACIES OF VIOLENCE<\/a>
\nRendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia
\nEdited by Robert Mason<\/p>\n

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Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia\u2019s sense of nationhood was born from\u2014and continues to be defined by\u2014experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to modern domestic spaces, exploring themes of empathy, isolation, and Australians\u2019 imagined place in the world. Moving beyond the primacy that is typically accorded white accounts of violence, contributors place particular emphasis on the experiences of those perceived to be on the social periphery, repositioning them at the center of Australia\u2019s relationship to global events and debates.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Rendering the Legacies of the Past<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"POVERTY AND WELFARE IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY<\/a>
\nEdited by Lutz Raphael<\/p>\n

Volume 7, New German Historical Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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For many, the history of German social policy is defined primarily by that nation\u2019s postwar emergence as a model of the European welfare state. As this comprehensive volume demonstrates, however, the question of how to care for the poor has had significant implications for German history throughout the modern era. Here, eight leading historians provide essential case studies and syntheses of current research into German welfare, from the Holy Roman Empire to the present day. Along the way, they trace the parallel historical dynamics that have continued to shape German society, including religious diversity, political exclusion and inclusion, and concepts of race and gender.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History: Recent Trends and New Perspectives in Current Research<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"MICROHISTORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST<\/a>
\nEdited by Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann<\/p>\n

Volume 24, War and Genocide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe\u2019s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Towards a Microhistory of the Holocaust<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"SILENCE, SCREEN, AND SPECTACLE<\/a>
\nRethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
\nEdited by Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell<\/p>\n

Volume 14, Remapping Cultural History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos<\/em> in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord\u2019s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now \u201cspectacle\u201d can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin\u2019s plea to \u201cexplode the continuum of history\u201d and bring our attention to now-time.<\/p>\n

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\"\"SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<\/a>
\nAn Appraisal from the Gulf Region
\nEdited by Paul Sillitoe<\/p>\n

Volume 19, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident. The Gulf relies on non-renewable oil and gas exports to supply the world\u2019s insatiable CO2 emitting energy demands, and has built unsustainable conurbations with water supplies dependent on energy hungry desalination plants and deep aquifers pumped beyond natural replenishment rates. Sustainable Development has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America — including social and natural scientists, environmentalists and economists, architects and planners — to discuss topics such as sustainable natural resource use and urbanization, industrial and technological development, economy and politics, history and geography.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: Sustainable Development in the Gulf: some introductory remarks<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"2014 PREMIO LIMINA PRIZE FOR BEST FILM STUDIES BOOK (IN A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ITALIAN)<\/p>\n

THE EMERGENCE OF FILM CULTURE<\/a>
\nKnowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945
\nEdited by Malte Hagener<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Film Europa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026the book offers a rich and articulated picture of the organization and building of film culture in interwar Europe, and proves to be very keen in disclosing unexplored corners of well-known national film histories (as the Italian and German ones), but also of little explored scenarios (such as Swedish film culture or the Yugoslavian case).\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction: The Emergence of Film Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

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