Did scenes in rock art create new ways of seeing the world? In commemoration of #OldRockDay on 7 January, we are delighted to provide a book preview (along with striking images) of Iain Davidson and April Nowell’s forthcoming title, MAKING SCENES: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art, available February 2021.
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Winner of the American Anthropological Association’s Executive Director’s Award of Excellence for Publishing in Anthropology, Berghahn Books is proud to remain “absolutely essential to scholarly communication in the field of Anthropology.”
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The team at Academic Influence recently published their list of the most influential anthropologists today, featuring 25 academics from across the globe. As a publisher of Anthropology for over 25 years we at Berghahn Books were delighted to find a number of our authors featured. The complete list is well worth reading in full, but below we are pleased to share 5 anthropologists who have a particularly close connection with the Berghahn family, presented in the order they appear on the Academic Influence list:
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In recognition of its Halloween release date, our premiere episode of Salon B is themed around bones, featuring bones both real and fabricated as well as the bone-like structure of a now ghostly bridge. Listen to “Bones” here.
Follow along with A.E. Garrison as she recounts the ghosts within the capitalist landscapes of late modernity in her illustrated chapter, “Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story,” brought to life through the author’s narration and visualization (below).
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Posted 29 October 2020
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Tagged: archaeology, bones, case studies, federal policy, ghosts, haunting, hauntings, memory, nostalgia, public space, Salon B, urban infrastructure
Our growing collection of Open Access content is available to meet your remote learning and online teaching needs during these trying times. Berghahn Journals invites you to share this list with your students and colleagues.
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Posted 22 October 2020
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Tagged: Anthropological Journal of European Cutlures, anthropology, anthropology in action, anthropology of the middle east, applied anthropology, aspasia, Berghahn Open Anthro, boyhood studies, conflict and society, Contention, contributions to the history of concepts, Democratic Theory, environment and society, european comic art, Focaal, gender history, gender studies, girlhood studies, history, journal of legal anthropology, journeys, learning and teaching, migration and society, migration studies, museum worlds, nature and culture, Open Access, Regions and Cohesion, Religion and Society, siberian studies, sibirica, social analysis, social protest, the cambridge journal of anthropology, women's history
A striking feature of accounts of and literature on miscarriage is the trope of silence. The slogan of Baby Loss Awareness Week, which began in the UK sixteen years ago, is ‘Break the silence’. . . Approaches to miscarriage have changed dramatically and the silence has steadily eroded in much of Euro-America, as evidenced not only by the introduction of such awareness days and other public forums to articulate feelings of loss, but also by recent campaigns to provide certificates of life for miscarried foetuses under 24 weeks’ gestation; a growing market for miscarriage memorials; and shifts in medical practice, including changes to disposal practices. Read more.
From the introduction of Navigating Miscarriage, “Ambiguities and Navigations” by Susie Kilshaw
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October 12, 2020
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is observed every second Monday of October in many states in the U.S. to honor the estimated 370 million indigenous people around the world. Replacing Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that celebrating the life of Christopher Columbus is the same as celebrating the erasure of Indigenous existence.
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