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EDITOR INTERVIEW: Representing 21st-Century Migration In Europe

ANA BELÉN MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA is Associate Professor at ISSA School of Applied Management, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). She teaches Business Communication, Academic Writing, and World Literatures in English.

¶ Posted 03 May 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, books, europe, forced mobility, identity, literary studies, media, migration, Nelson González Ortega, politics, refugees

Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!

Celebrated yearly on April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, encourages local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. For […]

¶ Posted 17 April 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, archaeology, Berghahn Open Anthro, cultural heritage, heritage studies, history, international day for monuments and sites, lgbtq, Memory studies, monuments and sites, Open Access, religion, world heritage day

BOOKS FOR AUSTRALIA DAY

To mark this year’s Australia Day we present a selection of our latest titles on aspects of in Australia. Here are paperbacks, eBooks, and hardbacks on everything from health care for the elderly to film and song, the lives and struggles of the indigenous population, and how the nation has faced its colonial legacies.

¶ Posted 26 January 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, australia, books, indigenous culture, indigenous societies, indigenous studies, sociology

Neriko Musha Doerr discusses “Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus”

Neriko Musha Doerr is Assistant Professor at Ramapo College. Her publications include Transforming Study Abroad: A Handbook (Berghahn, 2020), The Global Education Effect and Japan: Constructing New Borders and Identification Practices (Routledge, 2020), The Romance of Crossing Borders: Studying and Volunteering Abroad (Berghahn, 2017, with Hannah Taïeb), and Meaningful Inconsistencies (Berghahn 2009).

¶ Posted 01 November 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, Berghahn Author, cultural and social anthropology, interview with the author, methodology, NERIKO institute, tinted glasses, unit thinking

Readings on Ukraine

In an effort to deepen knowledge in social and cultural history of Ukraine, and to show our solidarity with the Ukrainian peoples, we are offering free access to these relevant journal articles and book chapters that focus on social and historical issues in Ukraine.

¶ Posted 30 May 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, cold war, cold war history, eastern europe, education, europe, free access, Germany, historical issues, history of war, Memory studies, social issues, Ukraine, war and Genocide studies, war studies, women's history, women's studies, world war history, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII

Dance into International Dance Day

International Dance Day (April 29) was introduced in 1982 by the International Dance Council (CID, Conseil International de la Danse), a UNESCO partner NGO. The main purpose of this day is to celebrate dance, revel in the universality of this art form, cross all political, cultural and ethnic barriers, and bring people together with a […]

¶ Posted 29 April 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, dance, Dance and Performance Studies, dance day, dance studies, international dance day, live arts, movement, TURBA

Shakespeare Day

Widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist, William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. Shakespeare’s plays being translated in over 50 languages and performed across the globe for audiences of all ages. Shakespeare was also an actor and the creator of the Globe […]

¶ Posted 22 April 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: hamlet, literary studies, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

Born on April 15: Durkheim, the ‘founding father’ of sociology

“Social man…is the masterpiece of existence.” ― Émile Durkheim (April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917)

¶ Posted 15 April 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, Durkheim, Durkheimian Studies, educational studies, Emile Durkheim, film and media studies, Marcel Mauss, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, theory and methodology

The Story behind ’Crafting Chinese Memories’

by Katherine Swancutt Katherine Swancutt is the editor of Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling.

¶ Posted 15 November 2021 † Berghahn Journals § Blog § From Idea to Book § In Their Own Words § Meet the Author ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, books, Memory studies, new books

Ceri Houlbrook: Love in the Time of Covid

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 […]

¶ Posted 09 February 2021 † Berghahn Author § Blog § Meet the Author § New Book Releases ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: archaeology, bridges, COVID-19, cultural heritage, folklore, heritage, heritage studies, history, lock down, love-locks, padlocks, symbolism

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