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Tag Archives: economic anthropology

Happy Birthday, Keith Hart!

22 June 2023 is Keith Hart’s 80th birthday and all at Berghahn wish him many happy returns of the day! Keith Hart has edited, authored, or contributed to more than a dozen Berghahn titles, which is quite a record. He is also the founding editor of The Human Economy series, which has just published John […]

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, […]

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. 

World Anthropology Day

All Anthropology titles are discounted 25% from now until March 1st!

Changes in the Uses and Meanings of Money

By Smoki Musaraj and Ivan Small   How we think about and what we think of as money is constantly changing. And in many cases, those changes are driven in locales that are not necessarily centers of global capital. Consider for the instance of the relatively recent introduction of “mobile money”. In 2007, the Kenyan […]