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New & Recent Anthropology titles
November 2018
Artifak
Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu
DeBlock, H.
November 2018
The CSCE and the End of the Cold War
Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990
Badalassi, N. & Snyder, S. B. (eds)
November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
November 2018
Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)
December 2018
Contemplating Historical Consciousness
Notes from the Field
Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)
December 2018
Law, History, and Justice
Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century
Weinke, A.
December 2018
Conceptualizing the World
An Exploration across Disciplines
Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)
December 2018
Democracy Struggles
NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Vetta, T.
December 2018
Europeanization in Sweden
Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations
Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)
December 2018
From Storeroom to Stage
Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
Urdea, A.
December 2018
Of Life and Health
The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System
Tengan, A. B.
December 2018
Transforming Study Abroad
A Handbook
Doerr, N. M.
January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self
The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
Hopkins, J.
January 2019
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State
Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries
Edling, N. (ed)
January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.
January 2019
Refugees Welcome?
Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)
February 2019
At Home on the Waves
Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)
February 2019
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Marsh, D. E.
February 2019
Going to Pentecost
An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.
March 2019
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)
March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Habermas, R. (ed)
March 2019
Party Responses to Social Movements
Challenges and Opportunities
Piccio, D. R.
March 2019
Fate Calculation Experts
Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
Li, G.
March 2019
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.
March 2019
Beyond the Border
Young Minorities in the Danish-German Borderlands, 1955-1971
Wung-Sung, T. H.
March 2019
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)
March 2019
Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
March 2019
Rampart Nations
Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)
March 2019
Categories in Context
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present
Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)
March 2019
Playing the Marginality Game
Identity Politics in West Africa
Schroven, A.
April 2019
Magical House Protection
The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft
Hoggard, B.
April 2019
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Anderson, W., Roque, R., & Ventura Santos, R. (eds)
April 2019
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)
April 2019
Cyborg Mind
What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics
MacKellar, C.
April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Argenti, N. (ed)
April 2019
On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification
Chun, A.
April 2019
Planning Labour
Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania
Cucu, A.-S.
April 2019
The Engaged Historian
Perspectives on the Intersections of Politics, Activism and the Historical Profession
Berger, S. (ed)
May 2019
Shakespeare and War
Gray, P. (ed)
May 2019
Marketing Hope
Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia
Schiffauer, L.
May 2019
Management by Seclusion
A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty
Cochrane, G.
May 2019
Political Networks and Social Movements
Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016
Valdiva Rivera, S.
May 2019
Engaging Evil
A Moral Anthropology
Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)
May 2019
The Brazilian Truth Commission
Local, National and Global Perspectives
SChneider, N. (ed)
May 2019
The Girl in the Text
Smith, A. (ed)
June 2019
Twilight of the Merkel Era
Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election
Langenbacher, E. (ed)
June 2019
Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Pickles, A. J.
June 2019
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Kasstan, B.
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
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
June 2019
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)
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
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)
July 2019
The Anti-Social Contract
Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Højer, L.
July 2019
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
July 2019
Articulate Necrographies
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
Panagiotopoulos, A. & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
July 2019
Critique of Identity Thinking
Jackson, M.
July 2019
The Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Burt, B.
July 2019
From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen
How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces
Agyekum, H. A.
July 2019
Muted Memories
Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade
Lindström, J.
July 2019
Mobile Urbanity
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)
August 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons
Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
Pfeffer, G.
August 2019
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Mattes, D.
August 2019
Not Even Past
How the United States Ends Wars
Fitzgerald, D., Ryan, D., & Thompson, J. M. (eds)
August 2019
Civil–Military Entanglements
Anthropological Perspectives
Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)
August 2019
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.
September 2019
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Ethnographic Responses
Martínez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)
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.
October 2019
Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
October 2019
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa
Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)
October 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space
Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Reed-Danahay, D.
October 2019
Sometime Kin
Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography
Wallman, S.
October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Risk and Disaster Knowledge
Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)
October 2019
Inward Looking
The Impact on 'Romanipe' from the Romani Perspective
Marinov, A. G.
October 2019
Claiming Homes
Confronting Domicide in Rural China
Bruckermann, C.
November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Case of France and Belgium
Merchant, J. (ed)
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
The Devil is Disorder
Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village
Lynch, R.
November 2019
Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
November 2019
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Heritage Movements in Asia
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
Atlantic Perspectives
Places, Spirits and Heritage
Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)
November 2019
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)
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Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
Editor: Christine McCourt, City, University of London
ISSN Print: 0967-201X
ISSN Online: 1752-2285
Volume 26/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Conflict and Society
Advances in Research
Editor in Chief: Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam
ISSN Print: 2164-4543
ISSN Online: 2164-4551
Volume 5/2019, 1 issue p.a. (summer)
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Environment and Society
Advances in Research
Editors: Paige West, Barnard College, Columbia University and Dan Brockington, University of Sheffield
ISSN Print: 2150-6779
ISSN Online: 2150-6787
Volume 10/2019, 1 issue p.a. (autumn)
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Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
Editor: Patrick Laviolette, University College London, England
ISSN Print: 1755-2923
ISSN Online: 1755-2931
Volume 28/2019, 2 issues p.a. (spring, autumn)
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Anthropology of the Middle East
Editor in Chief: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
ISSN Print: 1746-0719
ISSN Online: 1746-0727
Volume 14/2019, 2 p.a. (summer, winter)
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The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Editor: Andrew Sanchez, University of Cambridge, UK
ISSN Print: 0305-7674
ISSN Online: 2047-7716
Volume 37/2019 2 issues p.a. (spring, autumn)
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Durkheimian Studies
Études Durkheimiennes
Editor: W. Watts Miller
ISSN Print: 1362-024X
ISSN Online: 1752-2307
Volume 25/2019, 1 issue p.a. (winter)
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Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Managing & Lead Editor: Luisa Steur, University of Amsterdam
ISSN Print: 0920-1297
ISSN Online: 1558-5263
83, 84 & 85/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Girlhood Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University
ISSN Print: 1938-8209
ISSN Online: 1938-8322
Volume 12/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Journeys
The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing
Editors: Maria Pia Di Bella, CNRS-IRIS-EHESS, Paris and Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso
ISSN Print: 1465-2609
ISSN Online: 1752-2358
Volume 20/2019, 2 issues p.a. (summer, winter)
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Learning and Teaching
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
Editors: Penny Welch, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communication, University of Wolverhampton and Susan Wright, Danish School of Education, University of Århus
ISSN Print: 1755-2273
ISSN Online: 1755-2281
Volume 12/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Nature and Culture
Editors: Sing C. Chew, Humboldt State University, USA, and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and
Matthias Gross, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and University of Jena, Germany
ISSN Print: 1558-6073
ISSN Online: 1558-5468
Volume 14/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Regions and Cohesion
Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion
Editors: Harlan Koff, Université du Luxembourg, and Carmen Maganda, INECOL
ISSN Print: 2152-906X
ISSN Online: 2152-9078
Volume 9/2019, 3 issues pa. (spring, summer, winter)
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Social Analysis
The International Journal of Anthropology
Editor: Martin Holbraad, University College London
ISSN Print: 0155-977X
ISSN Online: 1558-5727
Volume 63/2019, 4 issues p.a. (spring, summer, autumn, winter)
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Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: Matthew Romaniello, University of Hawaii
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787
Volume 18/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Editor: Dagmar Schfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
ISSN Print: 2045-4813
ISSN Online: 2045-4821
Volume 9/2019, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)
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Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
Editors: Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester, and Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington
ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737
Volume 7/2019, 1 issue p.a. (summer)
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