Love-locking, the attachment of a padlock to a public structure, is the forte of the traveler. Although not exclusively a tourist custom, it is a popular practice for people visiting a new place and wanting to leave their mark on it. The love-lock has become the inverted souvenir: left behind rather than taken away, but […]
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Posted 09 February 2021
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Tagged: archaeology, bridges, COVID-19, cultural heritage, cultural studies, folklore, heritage, heritage studies, history, lock down, love-locks, padlocks, symbolism
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
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.
3 October 2020 marks the thirtieth anniversary of German Unity Day. 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. In commemoration, browse and read freely available introductions to our relevant titles on the ramifications of a […]
We are pleased to invite you to visit our virtual stand at the German Studies Association annual meeting taking place online from 30 September to 4 October 2020. Please see below for information about special offers from Berghahn Books for titles purchased through our website. For anyone who would have liked to discuss their manuscript with us at the […]
Mark-Anthony Falzon My interest in, and love for, nature go back to my early childhood. There was something Victorian about the books I read on butterflies: they contained descriptions and beautiful illustrations of (British, usually) species, but they also taught you how to catch butterflies, kill them using potassium cyanide, and set them on mounting […]
We are delighted to share the following new releases in Anthropology, History, and Mobility Studies as well as titles new in paperback this month.
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Posted 21 August 2020
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Tagged: anthropology, antisemitism, austerity, austrian and habsburg studies, automobilism, Cash, Church, Colonialism, Critical Interventions, culture and aging, Dance and Performance Studies, east and west germany, economics, economy, european anthropologies, Fertility, Fertility Reproduction and Sexuality Series, finance, Galicia, Germany, Greece, Greek crisis, history, Life Course, max planck institute, medical anthropology, migration, mobility, mobility studies, performance studies, Portugal, portugese-speaking world, postsocialist, Punk, religion, religious studies, Romania, shamanism, Transport Studies, travel, travel and mobility
An interview with Ronan Hervouet following the 2020 Belarus Election 13 August 2020
August 9, 2020 The United Nations’ International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed on August 9 each year to honor the estimated 370 million indigenous people around the world. The day was established to recognize the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva in 1982. This year’s […]
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Tagged: Aboriginal communities, Alaska, Amazon, Amerindian, Amerindian communities, anthropology, archaeology, australia, Baka, Colonialism, East Cameroon, guyana, indigenous, indigenous culture, indigenous people, Indigenous Peoples' Day, indigenous perspective, indigenous societies, indigenous studies, Kerala, Kula Ring, Lewis Henry Morgan, Melanesia, Orang Rimba, siberia, south america, Sumatra, Taiga, wapishana, warlpiri
