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New & Recent Anthropology titles
June 2019
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Armstrong, A. B.
June 2019
The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere
From the Enlightenment to the Indignados
Jiménez Torres, D. & Villamediana González, L. (eds)
June 2019
Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Pickles, A. J.
June 2019
Market Frictions
Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border
Endres, K. W.
June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging
Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces
Rottmann, S, B.
June 2019
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)
June 2019
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)
June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.
July 2019
Mobile Urbanity
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)
July 2019
Articulate Necrographies
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
Panagiotopoulos, A. & EspÃrito Santo, D. (eds)
July 2019
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
July 2019
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
July 2019
Civil–Military Entanglements
Anthropological Perspectives
Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)
July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons
Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
Pfeffer, G.
July 2019
The Girl in the Text
Smith, A. (ed)
July 2019
From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen
How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces
Agyekum, H. A.
July 2019
Critique of Identity Thinking
Jackson, M.
July 2019
The Anti-Social Contract
Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Højer, L.
August 2019
Muted Memories
Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade
Lindström, J.
August 2019
The Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Burt, B.
August 2019
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)
August 2019
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Mattes, D.
August 2019
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.
September 2019
Shakespeare and the Ethics of War
Gray, P. (ed)
September 2019
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
September 2019
Water, Life, and Profit
Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger
Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M
September 2019
The Vampire
Origins of a European Myth
Bohn, T. M.
September 2019
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Ethnographic Responses
MartÃnez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)
October 2019
Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer
Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend
Mallios, S.
October 2019
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa
Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)
October 2019
Claiming Homes
Confronting Domicide in Rural China
Bruckermann, C.
October 2019
Inward Looking
The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective
Marinov, A. G.
October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)
October 2019
Sometime Kin
Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography
Wallman, S.
November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)
November 2019
Brazilian Steel Town
Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class
Mollona, M.
November 2019
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Fahy, J.
November 2019
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)
November 2019
Social Im/mobilities in Africa
Ethnographic Approaches
Noret, J. (ed)
November 2019
Privileges of Birth
Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa
Rogerson, J. J. M.
November 2019
Atlantic Perspectives
Places, Spirits and Heritage
Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)
November 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space
Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Reed-Danahay, D.
November 2019
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Case of France and Belgium
Merchant, J. (ed)
December 2019
A Human Garden
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
Rosental, P.-A.
December 2019
Nationalism Revisited
Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age
Karner, C.
January 2020
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia
Curran, G.
January 2020
The Devil is Disorder
Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village
Lynch, R.
January 2020
Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
January 2020
Management and Morality
An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars
Henningsen, E.
January 2020
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)
January 2020
Money Counts
Revisiting Economic Calculation
Schmidt, M. & Ross, S. (eds)
January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams
The Art of Managing Foreign Aid
Drążkiewicz, E.
January 2020
Jaguars of the Dawn
Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, E.
February 2020
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe
Barr, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)
February 2020
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise
Affect, Tourism, Belize
Little, K.
February 2020
Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
Schraten, J.
March 2020
Space, Place and Identity
Woɗaaɓe of Niger in the 21st Century
Köhler, F.
March 2020
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Leask, P.
March 2020
The Children of Gregoria
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family
Kristensen, R. & Adeath Vilamil, C.
March 2020
Not Even Past
How the United States Ends Wars
Fitzgerald, D., Ryan, D., & Thompson, J. M. (eds)
March 2020
Postwar Soldiers
Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955
Echternkamp, J.
March 2020
After the Pink Tide
Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America
Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)
March 2020
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities
Non-media-centric Perspectives
Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)
March 2020
Navigating Miscarriage
Social, Medical, and Conceptual Perspectives
Kilshaw, S. & Borg, K. (eds)
April 2020
Protest, Youth and Precariousness
The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal
Carmo, R. M. & Vasconcelos Simões, J. A. (eds)
April 2020
Rhetorical Minds
Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion
Oakley, T.
April 2020
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Layne, L. L. (ed)
April 2020
Total Atheism
Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India
Binder, S.
April 2020
Theorising Media and Conflict
Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)
May 2020
Forced from the Forest
Mobile Indigenous Peoples, Gender Equality and the Forest Rights Act
Sigamany, I.
May 2020
Finding Ways Through Eurospace
West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
Schapendonk, J.
May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity
Karen Activism in the Thai–Burma Borderlands
Sharples, R.
May 2020
Structures of Protection?
Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)
May 2020
Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Politics, Medicine and Morality
Maffi, I.
May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
June 2020
Time Work
Studies of Temporal Agency
Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
June 2020
Borders across Healthcare
Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Sahraoui, N. (ed)
June 2020
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic
Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
Orttung, R. W.
June 2020
Ours Once More
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
Herzfeld, M.
June 2020
Pacing Mobilities
Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements
Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
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Open Access Week is Here!
Berghahn Open Anthro Happy International Open Access week! This year’s theme is: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge.” In recognition, Berghahn is excited to introduce Berghahn Open Anthro, a subscribe-to-open pilot launched in partnership with Libraria and Knowledge Unlatched to convert 13 core anthropology journals to open access in 2020! This model was developed […]
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Muted Memories
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BROWSE THIS MONTH’S NEW BOOKS & JOURNALS We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Environmental Studies, History, and Museum Studies along with our new in paperback titles and new Berghahn journal issues published in August. Anthropology MUTED MEMORIESHeritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan TradeJan Lindström In […]
Introducing the AJEC Blog!
Academic Research in the Anthropology of Europe Berghahn Journals is delighted to announce the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (AJEC) Blog! This blog will highlight the research of authors published in AJEC by giving them space to reflect on different aspects of their research and include photos and stories not included in their scholarly journal […]
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORLD’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
August 9, 2019 The United Nations’ International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on August 9 each year to honor the estimated 370 million indigenous people around the world. The day was established to recognize the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva in 1982. This year’s […]
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Volume 26/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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