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Monthly Archives October 2022

Celebrating World Food Day

World Food Day is celebrated each year on October 16th to promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all. To mark this date, we are delighted to feature a selection of related titles in Food and Nutrition.

¶ Posted 16 October 2022 † Berghahn Books § Blog § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Agriculture & Food, Anthropology of Food & Nutrition, Burgundy, Catalonia, Cheese, China, Environmental Biology, Food & Nutrition, Food and Nutrition, food and society, food culture, Food Health, Food Research, food studies, Italian Alps, Japan, New Zealand, Slow Food Activism, South Korea, Strachitunt, sustainability, Terroir, World Food Day

Happy International Archaeology Day!

Established in 2011 by the Archaeological Institute of America, International Archaeology Day is celebrated every third Saturday in October, commemorating the field of archaeology and its contributions to society. Local celebrations organized by the AIA and other institutions occur throughout the month of October. There are also many online activities associated with International Archaeology Day, […]

¶ Posted 15 October 2022 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events § New Book Releases § New to Berghahn ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: African American Narratives, agriculture, archaeogaming, archaeology, Aztec, Capitalism, Colonialism, counter-witchcraft, crystal skulls, cultural heritage, cultural resource management, education, educational studies, ethnoarchaeology, ethnography, Eugene Boban, excavation, heritage, heritage sites, heritage studies, Historical Archaeology, hybridization, indigenous culture, indigenous people, ingoldian, International Archaeology Day, laboratory manual, laboratory work, lgbtq, Mayan, mesolithic, museum studies, Nathan Harrison, oceans, pastoralism, power relations, Preservation, public engagement, queer preservation, two spirit, video games, witchcraft

Spotlight: Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975), German-American philosopher and political theorist, was the first to argue that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe. In her pivotal work The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), she established that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural […]

¶ Posted 14 October 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: Ernst Cassirer, ethics, genocide studies, hannah arendt, holocaust, imperialism, Jean Cayrol, Jewish studies, neoliberal, philosophy, political theory, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology

Celebrate National Coming Out Day with this great free-to-access content!

In honor of #ComingOutDay on October 11th, we present the following titles edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate that emphasize the history and preservation of two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer settings in the United States. In addition, Berghahn Journals is offering FREE access to relevant articles until October 18, 2022.

¶ Posted 11 October 2022 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: archaeology, bisexual, coming out day, gay, lgbtq, North America, public history, queer, queer preservation, transgender, two spirit, united states

Talking Ritual with Robbie Davis-Floyd

Robbie Davis-Floyd is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is the author of many books including Ways of Knowing about Birth: Mothers, Midwives, Medicine, and Birth Activism (2018, Waveland) and Birth as an American Rite of Passage (1992,2003, 2022). Her new book, […]

¶ Posted 10 October 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: anthropology, belief systems, cultural and social anthropology, customs, paperback, social theory, traditions

Discussing New Perspectives on Moral Change

In our interview with Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen, the editors of New Perspectives on Moral Change, volume 13 in the WYSE Series in Social Anthropology, they explain the thinking behind their work, how they found their contributors, and the range of issues that they tackled.

¶ Posted 04 October 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: anthropology, Berghahn Author, ethics, interview with the author, new books, philosophy, social theory, sociology of religion, wyse series in social anthropology

In commemoration of German reunification

German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3rd. Tag der Deutschen Einheit celebrates the 1990 reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic with ceremonial acts and the citizens’ festival Bürgerfest. Browse our relevant titles and journals on the ramifications of a divided Germany below.

¶ Posted 03 October 2022 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Tagged: GDR, german film, german history, German Politics, german politics and society, german studies, german television, german unification, German Unity Day, Germany

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Monthly Archives October 2022

Celebrating World Food Day

Happy International Archaeology Day!

Spotlight: Hannah Arendt

Celebrate National Coming Out Day with this great free-to-access content!

Talking Ritual with Robbie Davis-Floyd

Discussing New Perspectives on Moral Change

In commemoration of German reunification

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