Listen to Mixed Harvest Chapter 2 here. The recently published Mixed Harvest by Rob Swigart is Berghahn’s latest feat of historical fiction, digging into the deep past of human development and its consequences through a combination of storytelling and dialogue. From the first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and a Modern Human she called Traveler […]
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Posted 16 January 2020
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Tagged: agriculture, Agriculture & Food, anthropology, archaeology, Historical Archaeology, historical fiction, Neanderthal, prehistory, Rob Swigart, Sedentary Divide, technology
The recently published Mixed Harvest by Rob Swigart is Berghahn’s latest feat of historical fiction, digging into the deep past of human development and its consequences through a combination of storytelling and dialogue. From the first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and a Modern Human she called Traveler to the emergence and destruction of the […]
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Posted 08 January 2020
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Blog § Free Chapter § From Idea to Book § Meet the Author § New Book Releases § New to Berghahn
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Tagged: agriculture, anthropology, archaeology, cave art, Historical Archaeology, historical fiction, hunter-gatherer, Neanderthal, prehistory, Rob Swigart, Sedentary Divide
Connecting German-Turkish and Syrian-Turkish Stories By SUSAN BETH ROTTMANN, Özyeğin University
Interview with Series Editor Sam Beck, Romani Studies Did you know Berghahn Books has over one hundred series? Covering a wide range of subjects and areas, Berghahn’s series list continues to grow as new interventions and trends in scholarship are made.
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Posted 09 October 2019
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Tagged: Activism, Contemporary Europe, Decolonizing, Faye Harrison, migration, Roma, romani studies, Romani Studies Series, romanipe, Yugoslavia, Zagreb
Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade BY JAN LINDSTRÖM
By Roger Canals, lecturer in the department of social anthropology at the University of Barcelona. The book A Goddess in Motion: Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza finds its origins in my vivid interest in Afro-Latin American religions, art and visual anthropology. I understand the latter in a broad sense, that is, as […]
(Originally Published 12/14/2015) To commemorate Margaret Mead’s birthday this month, we’re honored to share a short piece from her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Bateson is an anthropologist and the author of many books, including Composing a Life. As she notes below, 2015 marks the 91st anniversary of Mead’s trip to Samoa in 1925, when […]
The following is an interview with Nafisa Shah about hew new book Honour and Violence: Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan. 1) When did you begin working on Honour and Violence? Can you briefly tell us about your journey as a journalist, scholar, and politician following honor killings in Pakistan? Honour and Violence is […]