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Book Preview: Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art

Did scenes in rock art create new ways of seeing the world? In commemoration of #OldRockDay on 7 January, we are delighted to provide a book preview (along with striking images) of Iain Davidson and April Nowell’s forthcoming title, MAKING SCENES: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art, available February 2021.

Editors’ Picks: Recommended reading from the Berghahn Editorial Team

Our editors have put together a list of recommendations per our updated subject categories. Bundle any of these eBooks together at a discounted price by using coupon code 2020EOY through our website. See details about this offer below.

¶ Posted 15 December 2020 † Berghahn Books § Advice from the Editors § Blog § Get to Know Berghahn ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: 18th/19th Century History, 20th Century History, anthropology, Colonialism, Early modern History, film, film & media, film and media studies, genocide, genocide studies, history, holocaust, holocaust studies, Jewish studies, Memory studies, Transport Studies, World War I, World War II

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 […]

¶ Posted 29 October 2020 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Free Chapter § Meet the Editors § New Book Releases § New to Berghahn ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: bones, case studies, federal policy, ghosts, haunting, hauntings, memory, nostalgia, public space, Salon B, urban infrastructure

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

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