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ENDS January 31st
In 2024, Berghahn Books celebrated 30 years as a family-run press. Two years on, as we move into 2026, we want to spotlight some of our bestselling titles from the year just gone by.
To celebrate the new year and thank you for all your support, we’re offering 50% off ALL Paperbacks and eBooks across the website.
In addition to this, we’re also pleased to offer 50% off all of the below bestselling titles from 2025, for a limited time only.
Both offers must end on January 31st, 2026 – so don’t miss out! Read on to find out which pioneering 2025 titles made the bestseller list...
Bestsellers from 2025...
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A German General and the Armenian Genocide
Otto Liman von Sanders Between Honor and State
Mirak-Weissbach, M.
An enlightening reassessment of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders’ life, this book uses original archival materials to present a more nuanced insight into Liman von Sanders’ role in the Armenian genocide, in order to explore wider ethical questions concerning the nature of morality and justice in military conflict.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sustainable Development Goals
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
An Anthropological Toolkit
Sixty Useful Concepts
Zeitlyn, D.
Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Animal Genocide and its Aftermath
The Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf
Chare, N.
An exacting assessment of the bounty policies that facilitated the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf, Animal Genocide and its Aftermath re-evaluates the legal, political, and social definition of animal killing, proposing it constitutes a form of genocide that requires a historical and cultural reckoning.
Subject: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
$180.00$90.00£138.00£69.00 -
Archaeogaming
An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
Reinhard, A.
Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.
Subject: Archaeology Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Mason, A. (ed)
Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Austria's Difficult Past
Memory of National Socialism and the Filmization of Television (1960-1980)
Gortat, J.
A comprehensive analysis of Austro-German historical television films released between 1961 and 1980, Austria’s Difficult Past examines television’s role in reckoning with the legacy of the Nazi regime and in mediating the burden of complicity within Austria’s and Germany’s shared histories.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Being a Sperm Donor
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark
Mohr, S.
Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory
Visible Man and The Spirit of Film
Balázs, B.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Burgundy
The Global Story of Terroir
Demossier, M.
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Cambodian Journeys
Stories of Refugees Surviving the Khmer Rouge
Mamula, S. & Sutton, E.
This book tells the survival stories of seven Cambodians who endured the Khmer Rouge Genocide, their escape to Thailand, and their difficult resettlement in the United States. It is a collection of first-person oral histories, supplemented by images of documents and photographs, highlighting journeys of resilience, survival, and adaptation while profoundly traumatized.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Children Dancing in Bali
Practice, Performance, and Power
McIntosh, J.
An illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Children Dancing in Bali examines how children navigate the nexus of power, practice, and performance through the medium of Balinese culture, in order to negotiate fluctuations in their identity and society.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development
Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)
The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Consuming the Inedible
Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice
MacClancy, J., Henry, C. Jeya & Macbeth, H. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Correcting the Record
Essays on the History of American Anthropology
Lewis, H. S.
The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Courage and Compassion
A Jewish Boyhood in German-Occupied Greece
Molho, T.
Tony Molho tells a dramatic story of survival under the most adverse conditions during the Holocaust. A historian himself now telling his own story, Molho writes an autobiographical text that speaks of a Jewish childhood in Greece during World War II and the Axis Occupation.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Critical Public Archaeology
Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century
Westmont, V. C. (ed)
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Crossing the Aegean
An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey
Hirschon, R. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Cultural Resource Management
A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists
King, T. F. (ed)
Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely “applied archaeology,” this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists.
Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Democracy in Modern Europe
A Conceptual History
Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Do Not Forget Me
Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki Ghetto
Saltiel, L. (ed)
Following the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country’s Jews as they had across occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during this period were Sarina Saltiel, Mathilde Barouh, and Neama Cazes—three women bound for Auschwitz who spent the weeks before their deportation writing to their sons.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: World War II Genocide History
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Documenting Socialism
East German Documentary Cinema
Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds)
More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism brings a fresh introduction to the field of documentary cinema and the complexities of diversity under socialism in the GDR.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Dreaming and the Imagination
Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Newsom, M. D. (eds)
Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Sociology
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany
Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging
Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)
An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial “cult of connections” that underpinned early modern Germany’s social, religious, and material culture.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Entanglements of the Maya Universe
Life, Society, and Cosmos among the K'iche' of Momostenango
Zamora Corona, A.
This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology by analysing the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the K’ich’e Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Ethnographies of Deservingness
Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality
Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)
Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Augé , C. R.
By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Fire on the Island
Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Bratrud, T.
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Food Beyond Terroir
Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective
Colquhoun, A. & Graf, K. (eds)
Through diverse ethnographic case studies, leading food scholars examine the meaning and making of place and taste. In doing so, the book challenges unsettling terroir-inspired notions of a fixed taste of place and pushes the boundaries of what we think we know about their connections.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Food, Culture and Society in India
Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives
Patgiri, R. & Lalli, G. (Eds.)
Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Sociology Anthropology (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal
Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America
Bebber, M. R. & Wolff, C. B. (eds)
In North America metal use by hunter-gatherer populations began as early as 9,000 years ago and continued into modern times. The regional and cultural diversity of research in this volume contributes to how we conceptualize hunter-gatherer innovation, technological proficiency, and complex decision-making in the past.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
From Legacies to Futures
The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe
Seidel, K., Prendergast, D., & Saris, A. J.
Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizing category of belonging.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Sociology
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews
A Documentary History of the Destruction of Hungary’s Jews, Spring-Summer 1944
Schulmann, J. F., Rich, D. A., & Molnár, J. (eds)
An illuminating chronicle of the concentration, ghettoization, and deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944-1945, Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews presents, for the first time in English, the key primary sources from the period, documenting how this genocidal program was facilitated by both the Nazi regime and the Hungarian state.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945
Lessons about Religion, Home, and Fatherland
Kennedy, K.
Analyzing the correlation between the educational system and ideas about religion, community, and nationhood, German Elementary Education from 1890 to 1945 highlights how an investment in children’s moral and national education united the Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi eras, providing a vital lens for charting the continuities and changes within German society.
Subjects: History: World War I History: World War II Genocide History
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Germany’s Struggle for Modernity
Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1789-1918
Kocka, J.
In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society, economy, culture, and politics. Innovatively resituating these developments within a wider, European context, this book provides fresh insights into the emergence of classical modernity within the nineteenth century.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Groundwater Politics
Advanced Extractivism and Slow Resistance
Babidge, S.
The expanding mining industry in the Indigenous Atacameño-Likanantay territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama in Chile are linked to the ecological harm to groundwater. The book addresses recent socioeconomic and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ and asks how both ecological harm and mining economies are sustained.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Habsburg Civil Servants
Between Civil Society and the State
Maxwell, A. & Ličen, D. (eds)
An innovative exploration of the lives of Habsburg civil servants from the nineteenth century onwards, this volume spotlights the role they played in maintaining the Habsburg Empire’s rule over geographically disparate domains. In doing so, Habsburg Civil Servants illuminates how this social group both constituted and challenged state power.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: World War I
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Hammerstein’s Daughters
An Aristocratic Family Caught Between Tradition and Resistance
Paasche, G.
An enlightening chronicle of General Kurt von Hammerstein’s daughters, Marie Louise, Maria Therese, and Helga, and their attempts to thwart Hitler’s regime, this book provides an unrivalled insight into an overlooked history of tradition, resistance, adaptation, and rebellion in Nazi Germany.
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Haunting Ruins
Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay
Gamberi, V. & Calzana, C. (eds)
Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Homo Itinerans
Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan
Monsutti, A.
This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Hunters, Predators and Prey
Inuit Perceptions of Animals
Laugrand, F. & Oosten, J.
Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
$150.00$75.00£115.00£57.50 -
Illness and Enlightenment
Exploring Tibetan Perspectives on Madness in Text and Everyday Life
Deane, S.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Tibetan region of Amdo in northwest China, Illness and Enlightenment examines Tibetan medical and religious texts, to explore the multi-faceted concept of nyoné through key Tibetan concepts of wind, heart, and mind, as well as human-spirit relationships.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East
Abu-Rabia, A.
Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to their reciprocal enrichment.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Dhillon, J.
Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History Sustainable Development Goals
$120.00$60.00£92.00£46.00 -
Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus
Film Cultures and International Reception
Van Belle, J., Arenos, F. R., & Peirano, M. P. (eds)
An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultural debates.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Bartov, O. (ed)
The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Kubrick's Mitteleuropa
The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Abrams, N. & Szaniiawski, J. (eds)
Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this as well as providing important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Lessons from Kalahari Ju/’hoan Culture
Democracy, Childrearing, Education, and Community
Heckler, M.
Juǀ’hoan collective decision-making processes epitomize direct, participatory democracy: one person/one vote, enhanced by in-depth negotiations that lead to consensus. These practices are the basis of Juǀ’hoan education and culture, resulting in anr egalitarian culture that forms the foundation of an enduring democracy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Hoggard, B.
Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Matter Out of Place
Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality
Lynch, R., Calabrese, J., & Littlewood, R. (eds)
This collection draws on classic anthropological ideas of pollution to explore bodies, dirt, and place, moral inversion and reinforcement, and disgust and taboo. The book is an invitation to consider the continued relevance of Douglas’ conceptualisation of pollution and dirt as ‘matter out of place’ in relation to contemporary circumstances.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia
Bar-Yosef, O. & Calla, F. R.
This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.
Subject: Archaeology
$179.00$89.50£132.00£66.00 -
Nearly the New World
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945
Newman, J.
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Neubau Atmospheres
East German Cultural Remediations of Modernist Architecture
Ehrig, S.
An incisive analysis of East German cinematic, literary, and architectural case studies from the 1960s to the 1980s, Neubau Atmospheres examines the creative role the urban, built environment played in mediating the emotional and social experience of its residents, highlighting how this engagement constituted a cultural genre in its own right.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Literary Studies History: 20th Century to Present
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
On the Edges of Whiteness
Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Lingelbach, J.
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of World War II in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, and Kenya. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors.
Subjects: History: World War II Refugee and Migration Studies Colonial History
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
One Hundred Years of Argonauts
Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology
Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)
Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and push back against life-threatening political purges to forge new ways of belonging.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945
New Perspectives
Huener, J. & Löw, A. (eds)
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945 explores questions of Polish-Jewish life that are rarely discussed and new methodological directions to advance debates on the complicity of Polish citizens during the mass murder of Jews under the nation’s Nazi occupation.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History Jewish Studies
$135.00$67.50£104.00£52.00 -
Political Violence in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War
Schumann, D.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region
Surface-Evans, S. L. & Jackson, M. M. (eds)
In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s implications for transforming our understanding of present-day, social justice.
Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Profiles of Anthropological Praxis
An International Casebook
Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)
The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology
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Queer and Trans Life
Anthropological Futures
Posocco, S., Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J., Aaberg, L., & Altay, T. (eds)
Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Refugees Welcome?
Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)
Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany – widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.
Subjects: Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Representations of “Japanese Nature”
A Historical Overview
Ohnuki-Tierney, E.
“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)
An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)
From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Food & Nutrition Sustainable Development Goals
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Science on Screen and Paper
Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M. & Scholz, J. (eds)
Scientific discovery and discourse were central in the making of Cold War. Spanning various media, Science on Screen and Paper seeks to embrace the medial differences during the Cold War period through intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science’s central role.
Subject: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Shared Country, Different Stories
An Anthropologist's Journey
Trigger, D.
Anthropology in Australia has been both celebrated and contested, particularly in its engagements with Indigenous people. This book delves into senses of place and belonging across diverse sectors of society with a particular focus on the intimacies and tensions of engagements with Indigenous Australia.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Sinister and Righteous
Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record
Augé, C. Riley
This research demonstrates the ubiquitous, but often overlooked, occurrence of material culture meaningfully arranged according to deeply entrenched left and right concepts and is the first to bring together and expand upon these cultural ideologies.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
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Sofia Coppola
The Politics of Visual Pleasure
Backman Rogers, A.
Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure interprets Coppola’s oeuvre to date from a resolutely feminist and philosophical perspective. Using the work of a range of feminist theorists, Backman Rogers situates Coppola’s work as a critique of postfeminist lifestyles that offer the viewer a feminist and feminine philosophy through beguilement, mood and surface.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Soho on Screen
Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963
Young, J.
Soho on Screenprovides the first history of London’s commercial and cultural center, Soho, in British cinema. It highlights forgotten British films, filmmakers, and stars in detail and introduces thoroughly researched studies that highlight not only the cultural importance of Soho as a locus for cinema but also the impact of gentrification on the cultural and social development of Soho today.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Submerged on the Surface
The Not-So-Hidden Jews of Nazi Berlin, 1941–1945
Lutjens Jr., R. N.
Between 1941 and 1945, some 6,500 Berlin Jews, in fear for their lives, made the choice to flee their impending deportations and live submerged in Nazi Germany. This book sheds light on the daily life of those who hid and on the city that was both the source of their persecution and the site of their survival.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Genocide History
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The Body in Balance
Humoral Medicines in Practice
Horden, P. & Hsu, E. (eds)
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border
Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I
Grandits, H., Murber, I., & Tyran, K. (eds)
A refreshing re-examination of the history of Austria and Hungary in the wake of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border refocuses attention on the contested region of Western Hungary/Burgenland, considering how the process of building state borders shaped the region’s political, cultural, and social dynamics.
Subjects: History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies
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The Global Pontificate of Pius XII
War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958
Unger-Alvi, S. & Valbousquet, N. (eds)
Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post-war historiography.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion
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The Herero Genocide
War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
Häussler, M.
Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History
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The Island of the Pope
Catholics in the Aegean Archipelago between Empire and Nation-State, 1770-1830
Kousouris, D.
This illuminating re-examination of Syros’s transition into a major commercial hub following the Greek War of Independence revises the conventional understanding of the island’s demographic history, highlighting how, rather than withdraw, the native Catholic community adjusted and integrated into the new Greek nation-state.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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The Journey of G. Mastorna
The Film Fellini Didn't Make
Fellini, F.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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The Law in Nazi Germany
Ideology, Opportunism, and the Perversion of Justice
Steinweis, A. E. & Rachlin, R. D. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II History: 20th Century to Present
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The Myth of Self-Reliance
Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp
Omata, N.
The Myth of Self-Reliance provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History
Protestant Memory on the Border
Funston, K. & McGrattan, C.
In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant community’s physical, economic, and cultural presence within the border counties.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Heritage Studies
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The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
The Challenge of a New World Order
Badel, L., Conze, E., & Dröber, A. (eds)
An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopolitical landscape.
Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
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The Participants
The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Jasch, H.-C., & Kreutzmüller, C. (eds)
Although the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, many of its attendees remain relatively unknown to nonspecialists. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in modern history.
Subjects: Genocide History History: World War II
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The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture
Adamowicz-Pośpiech, A. (ed)
Innovatively bringing together scholars of various nationalities and communities, The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture seeks to provide a holistic assessment of the afterlife of Conrad’s work, highlighting how his approach to questions of moral ambiguity and colonialism influence the cultural output of a modern, globalized world.
Subject: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945
Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims
Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.
The Vienna Gestapo was the most important instrument of Nazi terror on Austrian soil. Through expert historical analysis of the Vienna Gestapo in the years 1938-1945, this volume provides a comprehensive presentation of not only the victims of persecution but also of the structures, organization and individuals actively involved on the Gestapo side.
Subjects: History: World War II Jewish Studies
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Towards an Anthropology of Psychology
Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare
Bruun, M. K. & Hutten, R. (eds)
Challenging contemporary enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity, the book calls for rethinking ‘psychology’ as an anthropological inquiry. It provides ethnographic studies of talking therapies, subjects, institutions, professionals and psychological persuasions, suggesting how anthropology can improve psychological healthcare.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Tropical Nature
Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia
Blanc, G., Guérin, M., & Quenet, G. (eds)
An insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation projects, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. In doing so, this volume collection spotlights a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.
Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Understanding Social Images
Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology
Banks, M.
Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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