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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Theodoros Rakopoulos on From Clans to Co-ops.

To mark the the first publication in paperback of his acclaimed From Clans to Co-ops: Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily, Theodoros Rakopoulos kindly agreed to discuss his work, the fieldwork behind it, and how co-ops came to assume a role in the rejection of the mafia. THEODOROS RAKOPOULOS is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the […]

¶ Posted 24 January 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology of europe, co-ops, Italy, land, legal anthropology, mafia, political and economic anthropology, sicily

For course adoption and reading lists: our latest paperbacks!

We’re publishing twelve paperbacks in just two months. See them all here.

¶ Posted 17 January 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: berghahn books, books for courses, new in paperback, Open Access, reading lists

FIRE ON THE ISLAND: FEAR, HOPE AND A CHRISTIAN REVIVAL IN VANUATU

By TOM BRATRUD Since Fire on the Island was one of our most popular and well-received titles in 2022, we are delighted that its author Tom Bratrud has kindly contributed this exclusive article describing his fieldwork, events on the island, and the aims of his book.

¶ Posted 12 January 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: Ahamb, anthropology, anthropology of religion, anthropology of the Pacific, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), author interview, Christian movements, fieldwork, revival, social anthropology, Vanuatu

Land and the Mortgage

We are pleased to feature a collection of blog posts from the authors of our new book, “Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging” (edited by Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Parker Shipton). Land and the MortgageDaivi Rodima-Taylor and Parker Shipton The mortgaging of land, a risky practice usually treated as just an economic and legal contract, […]

¶ Posted 16 March 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, economic anthropology, political and economic anthropology, political anthropology

Chapter Excerpt: Exoticizing the Familiar, Domesticating the Foreign

Ethnic Food Restaurants in Korea Written by Sangmee Bak Excerpted from RE-ORIENTING CUISINE: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Kwang Ok Kim A food connoisseur whose job allows him to travel abroad frequently, Mr. Lee telephoned an Indian restaurant near a university in Seoul to make a reservation for dinner with a […]

¶ Posted 28 April 2021 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Chapter Excerpt ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, East Asian Foodways, ethnic food, ethnic restaurants, food, Food and Nutrition, food culture, food studies, foodways, heterogenization, homogenization, hybridization, Seoul, South Korea

Most Popular #BerghahnOpenAnthro Articles of 2020

Berghahn Open Anthro is a subscribe-to-open model being piloted by Berghahn Books in partnership with Libraria, a group of researchers who are also supporting a number of other publishers hoping to adopt this model should the pilot prove successful. This model was developed in part through a 2019 ground-breaking collaborative meeting between publishers, libraries, funders, and OA experts.

¶ Posted 17 February 2021 † Berghahn Books § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: #anthroday, Anthro, anthropology, berghahn journals, Berghahn Open Anthro

Berghahn’s Best-selling Books in Anthropology

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.”

¶ Posted 03 November 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Get to Know Berghahn ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, anthropology of religion, applied anthropology, ethnography, Fertility Reproduction and Sexuality Series, forced migration, Forced Migration series, medical anthropology, refugee and migration studies

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS TODAY

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 […]

¶ Posted 03 November 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § In the News § Journals § Meet the Author § Meet the Editors § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology

A Taste for Oppression

An interview with Ronan Hervouet following the 2020 Belarus Election 13 August 2020

¶ Posted 14 August 2020 † Berghahn Author § Blog § From Idea to Book § In the News § In Their Own Words § Meet the Author § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, anthropology of europe, Belarus, dictatorship, Lukashenko, postsocialist, Romania, Tocqueville

SIMULATED SHELVES

We’re delighted to offer a selection of latest releases from our core subjects of Anthropology, Archaeology, Film, and History along with our new-in-paperback titles and new Berghahn journal issues released in October.

¶ Posted 19 November 2019 † Berghahn Books § Blog § New Book Releases § New Journal Issues ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology journals, archaeology, environmental studies, film and media studies, german studies, heritage studies, history, laboratory manual, Open Access, Open Anthro, romani studies, SIMULATED SHELVES

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