Royal Anthropological Institute Conference 2022
We are excited to have a virtual presence at the Royal Anthropological Institute Annual Conference from June 6th to 10th, 2022. Please stop by our virtual booth and explore our RAI offerings, below.
To celebrate RAI, we are offering a 35% discount on all Anthropology titles until June 30th, 2022: Use discount code RAI22 on print and eBooks ordered through our website.
Although we cannot meet you in person this year, if you are interested in learning more about Berghahn's publishing program or have a project to discuss please contact our editors Marion Berghahn (marion.berghahn@berghahnbooks.com) and Tony Mason (anthony.mason@berghahnbooks.com) to arrange for a virtual meeting.
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Featured Titles
Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African
Technology and the Common Good
The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society
The Social Origins of Thought
Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis
An International Casebook
The Precarity of Masculinity
Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Nurturing the Other
First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
A New African Elite
Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation
Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Gender, Power, and Non-Governance
Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Fire on the Island
Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
The Cracked Art World
Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
Communication
A House Seen from Everywhere
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
In Paperback
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
Self in the World
Connecting Life's Extremes
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
The Dance of Nurture
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Critique of Identity Thinking
Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Open Access Titles
Who’s Cashing In?
Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Grazing Communities
Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions
Extremism, Society, and the State
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Cyborg Mind
What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Afropolitan Horizons
Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
Books for Courses
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Berghahn Anthropology Journals
New in 2022!
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale
Editors: Laia Soto Bermant, University of Helsinki, Finland
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, the flagship journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, has moveed from Wiley to Berghahn Journals starting with Volume 30. The title will transition to Open Access beginning with Volume 30 as a part of the Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe to Open initiative.
While European in profile, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale has a global scope and publishes key contributions by both established and up-and-coming anthropologists. Journal sections include: Forums and Debates, an annual Review Essay which discusses books in adjoining disciplines or in public debate from an anthropological point of view, and a Book Reviews Section.
Current OA Issue
A Debate on Ethnographic Determination (Vol. 30, Issue 1)
Berghahn Open Anthropology
BOA/Berghahn Open Anthro - Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) was launched by Berghahn in partnership with Libraria in 2020.
BOA - S2O is a sustainable and equitable open access model which benefits all participants in the publishing ecosystem. The initiative has entered its third year in 2022 in providing full open access to all thirteen journals in the collection. View the collection
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