African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) Conference 2021
We are excited to have a virtual presence at the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD) Conference 7th to 11th June, 2021. Please stop by our virtual booth and explore our VAD offerings, below.
To celebrate VAD, we are offering a 35% discount on all African Studies titles until June 30th, 2021: Use discount code VAD2021 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 and Tony Mason to arrange for a virtual meeting.
We hope to see you in person in 2022, meanwhile let's stay connected! Sign up for our email newsletters to get the latest on new Berghahn publications.
Featured titles
Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
On the Edges of Whiteness
Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War
Nourishing Life
Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
We Come as Members of the Superior Race
Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Commerce as Politics
The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence
South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
The Herero Genocide
War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum
Spaces, Temporalities, and Identities from Separation to Revolution
NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa
Transdisciplinary Perspectives
German Rule, African Subjects
State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia
After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Afropolitan Horizons
Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
New Paperbacks
Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana
Who Knows Tomorrow?
Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
When They Came for Me
The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
Violent Becomings
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
The State and the Social
State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies
On the Path to Genocide
Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined
The Nature of German Imperialism
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
The Myth of Self-Reliance
Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp
Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011)
Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities
Making Ubumwe
Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project
Life as a Hunt
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
Imperial Projections
Screening the German Colonies
Foucault's Orient
The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
The Decolonial Mandela
Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Crude Domination
An Anthropology of Oil
Children of the Camp
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Bush Bound
Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Books for Courses
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Berghahn Open Anthropology
In partnership with Libraria
In a ground-breaking initiative, Berghahn Journals has flipped 13 core anthropology journals to Open Access using the subscribe-to-open (S2O) model. S20 is an equitable and sustainable model which makes works publicly available and can be realized across a more diverse publications landscape.
Researchers can support the BOA-S2O initiative by contacting their libraries directly or filling out a recommendation form.
Berghahn Anthropology Journals
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Anthropology in Action
Anthropology of the Middle East
Boyhood Studies
Girlhood Studies
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Conflict and Society
Durkheimian Studies
Environment and Society
Focaal
Journal of Legal Anthropology
Journeys
Learning and Teaching
Migration and Society
Museum Worlds
Nature and Culture
Regions and Cohesion
Religion and Society
Sibirica
Social Analysis
Transfers
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Winner of the American Anthropological Association’s Executive Director’s Award of Excellence for Publishing in Anthropology, Berghahn Books is proud to remain “absolutely essential to scholarly communication in the field of Anthropology.”
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