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 […]
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 […]
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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
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan and Wolf Gruner Raul Hilberg’s path-breaking 1961 study The Destruction of the European Jews rightfully remains on the reading list of any serious student of the Holocaust. Nonetheless, Hilberg’s insistence on European Jews‘ alleged “almost complete lack of resistance” has been subjected to frequent scholarly criticism. He partially based this claim on […]
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Posted 06 August 2020
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Tagged: archives, genocide, holocaust, holocaust studies, Jewish history, Jewish studies, petitioning, Petitions, Raul Hilberg, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, writing petitions
Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp The writing of German history since 1945 has often, if not excessively, been shaped by critical and negative attitudes; or, as Baruch Spinoza would put it, by excessive fear and sadness in the face of human suffering. Ruination, mourning, absence, destruction, and failure are the leitmotifs of postwar German historiography. Amid […]
by Davydd Greenwood, editorial board member of Learning and Teaching
We are delighted to inform you that Berghahn Books will be attending the Society for Historical Archaeology‘s annual meeting on January 8–11, 2020. Please stop by Table #23 to browse our selection of books at discounted prices and meet Archaeology, Heritage Studies and Museum Studies Editor Caryn M. Berg!
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Posted 06 January 2020
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Tagged: American archaeology, american history, archaeogaming, archaeology, Colonialism, counter-witchcraft, cultural resource management, education, heritage studies, historic preservation, Historical Archaeology, historical fiction, indigenous studies, labor history, laboratory manual, lgbtq, pedagogy, post-colonial, SHA20, SHA2020
Interview with Series Editor Sam Beck, Romani Studies Did you know Berghahn Books has over one hundred series? Covering a wide range of subjects and areas, Berghahn’s series list continues to grow as new interventions and trends in scholarship are made.
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Posted 09 October 2019
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Tagged: Activism, Contemporary Europe, Decolonizing, Faye Harrison, migration, Roma, romani studies, Romani Studies Series, romanipe, Yugoslavia, Zagreb
It is with real pleasure, but also with a little apprehension, that I introduce myself as the new editor of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. It is a very important and critical time for gender scholars, and I want to use this piece as a general announcement of this change in, or addition to, in […]
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh Creative Encounters Editor, Migration and Society In poetry we hunt down details in the hope of preserving them and, in so doing, we assert our commitment to re-reading the daily and re-inventing the becoming. In Creative Encounters, our modest aim, in this inaugural edition of Migration and Society, is to embroider the […]