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Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story

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 Celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020

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.

¶ Posted 12 October 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, indigenous, indigenous culture, indigenous people, Indigenous Peoples' Day, indigenous perspective, indigenous societies, indigenous studies

Celebrate Coming Out Day with these Archaeology Titles

In commemoration of #ComingOutDay, we are featuring 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. Browse the editors’ works below and read freely accessible excerpts by following the links.

¶ Posted 11 October 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: bisexual, coming out day, gay, lgbtq, North America, public history, queer, queer preservation, transgender, two spirit, united states

LGBTQ Community Histories

In commemoration of #BiWeek, we are featuring 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. Browse the editors’ works below and read freely accessible excerpts by following the links.

¶ Posted 23 September 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: bisexual, historic preservation, Historical Archaeology, Intersectional, lgbtq, Preservation, queer, queer preservation, two spirit, us history

Texts for Teaching

Our textbooks and paperbacks are perfectly suited for teaching beyond the traditional classroom, in remote learning environments and with large class sizes. View our list of recent and featured titles suitable for courses below (available in eBook and paperback) and visit the title links for format options and freely available introductions.

¶ Posted 11 September 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, anthropology of religion, Archaeological Fiction, books for courses, Dance and Performance Studies, environmental studies, film and television studies, film studies, Food and Nutrition, food studies, heritage, heritage studies, history, mobility studies, museum studies, new in paperback, paperbacks, sociology, textbooks, texts for teaching, travel and tourism

Celebrating the resilience of Indigenous Peoples

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 […]

¶ Posted 09 August 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: Aboriginal communities, Alaska, Amazon, Amerindian, Amerindian communities, anthropology, 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

Summer Simulated Shelves

Browse our latest in Anthropology, Archaeology, Sociology, History, Literary Studies, Film & Television Studies, and Mobility Studies/Refugee and Migration Studies below.

¶ Posted 30 June 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Free Chapter § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: abortion, Alaska, Amber Collective, American archaeology, anthropology, archaeogaming, austrian and habsburg studies, birds, Bukovina, Cambodia, circumpolar, cognitive science, cold war, Colonialism, conservation, culture and aging, death, digital archaeology, EASA, EASA Series, environmental history, Ernest Borneman, ethnicity, Eugene Boban, european anthropologies, European history, Fertility Reproduction and Sexuality Series, film and media studies, French Revolution, French Studies, GDR, genocide studies, German music, german television, ghosts, Greece, healthcare, higher education, Historical Archaeology, history, holocaust, Holy Roman Empire, hunting, industry, karen activism, lgbtq, literary studies, Marcel Mauss, media studies, medical anthropology, Memory studies, Michel Foucault, mobility studies, morality, nazi germany, oxford, protest series, public history, refugee and migration studies, refugee shelters, religion, Roma, Shakespeare, shamanism, SIMULATED SHELVES, sociology, soiot, sudan, television, time, travel and mobility, tunisia, Turkey, William Shakespeare

A place for sexually variant and gender non-conforming America

On May 17th 1990, the World Health Organization decided to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. 14 years later, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia was established to expose the relentless violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexuals, transgender, intersex people and all other people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or […]

¶ Posted 17 May 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events § Free Chapter § Journals § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: #IDAHOTB2020, bisexual, case studies, gay, Historical Archaeology, lesbian, lgbtq, place, public history, queer, queer preservation, setting, transgender, two spirit

Forethought or Afterthought: The Origins of Mixed Harvest by Rob Swigart

Mixed Harvest has received the Nautilus Book Award in the Multicultural and Indigenous category! This book award celebrates and honors books that support conscious living & green values, high-level wellness, positive social change & social justice, and spiritual growth. Audio Chapters:NEW! “Drummer,” Chapter 10“Bringer,” Chapter 2 Mixed Harvest by Rob Swigart is Berghahn’s latest feat of historical fiction, digging into the […]

¶ Posted 23 April 2020 † Berghahn Author § Blog § Free Chapter § From Idea to Book § Meet the Author ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: agriculture, anthropocene, chapter audio, Historical Archaeology, historical fiction, Mixed Harvest, Rob Swigart

Spring Simulated Shelves

Browse our February and March 2020 releases in Anthropology, Archaeology/Heritage Studies, History, Memory Studies, and Mobility Studies and see what’s new in paperback.

¶ Posted 20 April 2020 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: africa, Amazonia, anthropology, aoluguya, asia pacific, asia pacific world, auschwitz protocol, Auschwitz-Birkenau, austrian and habsburg, belize, biosocial society, children, cultural resource management, cultural studies, czech popular culture, democratization, dogme, east and west germany, economic anthropology, economics, economy, Egalitarianism, environmental history, environmental studies, estonia, ethnography, europe, ewenki, Fertility Reproduction and Sexuality Series, finland, Food and Nutrition, food studies, foreign policy, gender, german studies, habsburg, heritage, heritage studies, history, holocaust studies, human economy series, humanism, international relations, Latin America, media, medical anthropology, Memory studies, migration, military history, mobility history, mobility studies, neoliberal, peace and conflict studies, post-soviet, postwar germany, postwar history, property relations, Roma, romani, romani studies, solomon islands, South Africa, Spektrum, street vending, theory, united states, urban mobility, Vanuatu, Viktor Frankl, wildlife, wine, World War II

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