We are delighted to inform you that we will be present at the RAI – Art, Materiality, Representation conference at the British Museum, London, June 1-3, 2018. Please stop by our table to browse the latest selection of books at discounted prices & pick up some free journal samples.
If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount on all titles listed below. At checkout, simply enter the discount code RAI18.
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Here is a preview of some of our newest releases on display:
 WAITING FOR ELIJAH
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape Safet HadžiMuhamedović NEW SERIES: Volume 1, Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Read Introduction |
 HEADING FOR THE SCENE OF THE CRASH
The Cultural Analysis of America Lee Drummond Volume 3, Loose Can(n)ons
This collection of essays aims to refashion cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, addressing topics including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides. Read Introduction |
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Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge Edited by Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard Volume 6, Studies in Social Analysis
The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors. |
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CONTEMPORARY PAGAN AND NATIVE FAITH MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses Edited by Kathryn Rountree Volume 26, EASA Series
“The reviewed book presents an outstanding effort in researching contemporary Paganism and Native Faith movements in Europe nowadays.” • Pantheon Journal Read Introduction: Context is Everything: Plurality and Paradox in Contemporary European Paganisms
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Authenticity and the Interview Edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples and Nigel Rapport Volume 28, Methodology & History in Anthropology
“…a diverse group of scholars who have a broad range of experience as ethnographers and whose work with interviews, life stories and biography highlight the extraordinariness of social encounters.” · Tamara Kohn, University of Melbourne |
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TOURISM AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTERS IN CUBA Valerio Simoni Foreword by Nelson Graburn Volume 38, New Directions in Anthropology
“Simoni’s work represents a valuable contribution to a better understanding of the role of tourism in contemporary Cuban society. Particularly noteworthy is the quality of his ethnographic work.” • Mondes du Tourisme |
 THE WITNESS AS OBJECT
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums Steffi de Jong Volume 10, Museums and Collections
With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time the new global phenomenon of the “musealization” of the witness to history, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits. This edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched. Full Text. |
 VISITORS TO THE HOUSE OF MEMORY
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin Victoria Bishop Kendzia Volume 9, Museums and Collections
Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum’s evocative architecture, its cultural-political context, and its narrative of Jewish history? Read Introduction |
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‘Normal Lives’ and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex Stef Jansen Volume 15, Disclocations
“This is an impressive, exceptionally intelligent book that offers many productive starting points for the anthropological discussion of the conditions of ‘hope’, of statehood, of the transformation of contemporary Europe as well as of the fundamental question about the relationship between everyday life and the political.” · H-Soz-Kult Read Introduction: [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns] |
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Human Universals Revisited Christoph Antweiler Translated from the German by Diane Kerns
“Antweiler’s is a quite meticulous and lucid study of human universals in the discipline of anthropology after more than a century of neglect in favor of the particularistic, relativist study of human cultures through the method of ethnography. His review is comprehensive and searching.” • Choice Read Introduction |
 RETURNING LIFE
Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro Knut Christian Myhre Volume 32, Methodology & History in Anthropology
As this vivid ethnography explores how life projects through beings of different kinds, it brings to life concepts and practices that extend through time and space, transcending established analytics. Read Introduction |
 SINGING IDEAS
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry Tríona Ní Shíocháin Volume 12, Dance and Performance Studies
This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society. |
Berghahn Journals
Museum Worlds is a multidisciplinary, refereed, annual journal that publishes work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies, and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.
Featured Article: Decolonizing Research, Cosmo-optimistic Collaboration?: Making Object Biographies
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Featured Article: Hope and Sorrow of Displacement: Diasporic Art and Finding Home in Exile
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Special Issue: A Journey to Australia
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Featured Article: Eskimo Art Prototypes in the Chinese Neolithic: A Comparison of Okvik/Old Bering Sea and Liangzhu Ritual Art
The International Journal of Anthropology
Free Access: What Is Analysis?: Between Theory, Ethnography, and Method
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Featured Article: Mobilizing a “Spiritual Geography” The Art and Child Artists of the Carrolup Native School and Settlement, Western Australia
View our full collection in the 2018 Anthropology Catalog!
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