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New & Recent Anthropology titles
November 2019
Social Im/mobilities in Africa
Ethnographic Approaches
Noret, J. (ed)
November 2019
Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer
Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend
Mallios, S.
November 2019
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)
November 2019
Privileges of Birth
Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa
Rogerson, J. J. M.
November 2019
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)
November 2019
Brazilian Steel Town
Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class
Mollona, M.
November 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space
Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Reed-Danahay, D.
November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Case of France and Belgium
Merchant, J. (ed)
November 2019
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Fahy, J.
November 2019
Atlantic Perspectives
Places, Spirits and Heritage
Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)
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
Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
January 2020
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)
January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams
The Art of Managing Foreign Aid
Drążkiewicz, E.
January 2020
The Devil is Disorder
Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village
Lynch, R.
January 2020
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia
Curran, G.
January 2020
Money Counts
Revisiting Economic Calculation
Schmidt, M. & Ross, S. (eds)
January 2020
Jaguars of the Dawn
Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer
Pierini, E.
January 2020
Management and Morality
An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars
Henningsen, E.
February 2020
Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
Schraten, J.
February 2020
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise
Affect, Tourism, Belize
Little, K.
February 2020
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe
Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)
March 2020
Postwar Soldiers
Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945–1955
Echternkamp, J.
March 2020
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Leask, P.
March 2020
Navigating Miscarriage
Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives
Kilshaw, S. & Borg, K. (eds)
March 2020
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities
Non-media-centric Perspectives
Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)
March 2020
Not Even Past
How the United States Ends Wars
Fitzgerald, D., Ryan, D., & Thompson, J. M. (eds)
March 2020
After the Pink Tide
Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America
Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)
March 2020
Space, Place and Identity
Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century
Köhler, F.
March 2020
The Children of Gregoria
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family
Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.
April 2020
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Layne, L. L. (ed)
April 2020
Rhetorical Minds
Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion
Oakley, T.
April 2020
Protest, Youth and Precariousness
The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal
Carmo, R. M. & Vasconcelos Simões, J. A. (eds)
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
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure
Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History
Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)
May 2020
Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Politics, Medicine and Morality
Maffi, I.
May 2020
Finding Ways Through Eurospace
West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
Schapendonk, J.
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.
May 2020
Structures of Protection?
Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)
May 2020
States of Imitation
Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Ladwig, P. & Roque, R. (eds)
May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity
Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands
Sharples, R.
June 2020
Pacing Mobilities
Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements
Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
June 2020
Ours Once More
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
Herzfeld, M.
June 2020
Time Work
Studies of Temporal Agency
Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
June 2020
Urban Sustainability in the Arctic
Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
Orttung, R. W.
June 2020
Borders across Healthcare
Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Sahraoui, N. (ed)
July 2020
Tides of Empire
Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia
Work, C.
July 2020
Who’s Cashing In?
Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness
Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)
July 2020
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics
Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)
July 2020
After Society
Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford
Pina-Cabral, J. de & Bowman, G. (eds)
July 2020
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)
July 2020
Birds of Passage
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Falzon, M.-A.
July 2020
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology
Raising the Dead with Agent Based Models, Archaeogaming, and Artificial Intelligence
Graham, S.
July 2020
Facing the Crisis
Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism
D'Aloisio, F. & Ghezzi, S. (eds)
July 2020
Financialization
Relational Approaches
Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)
August 2020
On Mediation
Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives
Härter, K., Hillemanns, C. & Schlee, G. (eds)
August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men
Schuber, V.
August 2020
Under the Sign of the Cross
The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania
Tateo, G.
August 2020
Collective and State Violence in Turkey
The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)
August 2020
Punks and Skins United
Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
Venstel, A.
August 2020
Reconciliation Road
Willy Brandt, Ostpolitik and the Quest for European Peace
Schoenborn, B.
August 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine
Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
Skrzypek, E. E.
September 2020
Nourishing Life
Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
Huhn, A.
September 2020
What Now
Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Dalley, C.
September 2020
Search After Method
Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork
Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)
September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)
September 2020
Heirs of the Bamboo
Identity and Ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese
Gaspar, M. C.
September 2020
Moebius Anthropology
Essays on the Forming of Form
Handelman, D., Shapiro, M. (ed), & Feldman, J. (ed)
October 2020
The Mobility of Memory
Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders
Passerini, L., Proglio, G., & Trakilović, M. (eds)
October 2020
Nature Wars
Essays Around a Contested Concept
Ellen, R.
October 2020
We Come as Members of a Superior Race
Distortions and Education Policy Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mfum-Mensah, O.
October 2020
Waithood
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Inhorn, M. C. & SMith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)
October 2020
Politics of the Dunes
Poetry, Architecture, and Coloniality at the Open City
Woods, M.
October 2020
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia
Values, Family, and Identity
Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)
October 2020
Preventing Dementia?
Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age
Leibing, A. &Schicktanz, S. (eds)
October 2020
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe
Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
Å Ãstek, F. (ed)
October 2020
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)
November 2020
Invisible Faces - Hidden Stories
Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers
Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)
November 2020
Homo Itinerans
Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan
Monsutti, A.
November 2020
Dust Inside
Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil
Mazzeo, A.
November 2020
Embodying Borders
Migrants' Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies
Ferrero, L., Vargas, A. C., & Quagliariello, C. (eds)
November 2020
Rhetoric and Social Relations
Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)
November 2020
The Sea Commands
Community and Perception of Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village
Mendes, P.
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The Children of Gregoria
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family Now available, THE CHILDREN OF GREGORIA: DOGME ETHNOGRAPHY OF A MEXICAN FAMILY, by Regnar Kristensen and Claudia Adeath Villamil, is the latest volume in the ETHNOGRAPHY, THEORY, EXPERIMENT series. It portrays a struggling Mexico told through the story of the Rosales family. Regnar Kristensen expands on the authors’ process […]
World Anthropology Day
All Anthropology titles are discounted 25% from now until March 1st! 2/20/20 We are delighted to share our latest contributions to the field of Anthropology in honor of World Anthropology Day. Receive 25% off all Anthropology titles from February 20, 2020 to March 1, 2020. Use discount code ANTH20. Please consider recommending these titles to your […]
MINDS: THE ORIGINS OF MIXED HARVEST BY ROB SWIGART
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 […]
Meet the Author: Venetia Johannes
Dr. Venetia Johannes’s recent ethnographic monograph Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia explores the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia through the lens of food. As an everyday object of consumption, food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity […]
THE ORIGINS OF MIXED HARVEST BY ROB SWIGART: Climate
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 […]
THE ORIGINS OF MIXED HARVEST BY ROB SWIGART: Context
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 […]
See you at AAA!
We are delighted to inform you that we will be attending the American Anthropological Association‘s annual meeting on November 20–24, 2019. Please stop by booth #308 to browse our selection of books and pick up free journal samples. See a sneak peak of our AAA offerings here.  Please join us on Thursday, November 21st at 3:30 PM for a wine reception at the Berghahn […]
TRANSFORMING STUDY ABROAD
Neriko Musha Doerr’s recent monograph Transforming Study Abroad gives a thought-provoking and insightful look into the practice of study abroad, and discusses how employing theoretical frameworks that elucidate global power structures can deepen experiences and give new meaning to buzzwords like “global citizen” and “cultural competence.” What is your personal experience with study abroad? Do you think these experiences influenced your […]
Leyla and Eman
Connecting German-Turkish and Syrian-Turkish Stories By SUSAN BETH ROTTMANN, ÖzyeÄŸin University As my new book on German-Turkish return migrants, In Pursuit of Belonging (2019), is hitting shelves, I am researching Syrian migration to Turkey and Europe as part of an EU Horizon 2020 grant. The grant, called RESPOND-Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and […]
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