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Berghahn Chapter Samplers

So far we have made available 3 samplers featuring content from some important titles in the areas of:

Title Spotlight

Value and Worthlessness

The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

Don Kalb

Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using “global ethnography” and “hidden histories” as the keys to social discovery. Kalb’s anthropology of value and worthlessness lays bare the logics that currently produce right wing, populist, and nationalist outcomes. The book also battles with the “anthropology of global systems”, financialization, and the seductive myths of global middle-class formation, while assessing the theoretical legacies of Eric Wolf, David Graeber, David Harvey, Jonathan Friedman, Marcel Mauss and “moral anthropology”, among others.

Open Access

Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.

Blog

The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey

Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III

Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director

The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial.

Podcast

Servants of Culture

Sulaiman Ahmed talks with Ambika Natarajan

In this episode Sulaiman Ahmed talks with Ambika Natarajan about her book: Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914.

FocaalBlog

Humiliation, Hubris and Hamartia: the emotional history of the Ukraine war

Chris Hann

German historian Ute Frevert (2020) has shown that humiliation is an emotion deeply rooted in European society as well as a significant political force. The cold war preserved a semblance of equivalence between the two camps, but the disintegration of the Soviet Union became a humiliation for Russia. Mikhail Gorbachev’s vision of a “common European home” was forgotten as he himself disappeared from the political scene. By the time Putin replaced Boris Yeltsin as president at the end of 1999, the Russian Federation was on its knees both politically and economically. Three former Soviet republics were on course to join NATO, which had already admitted other former satellite states to full membership.