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Anthropology
IN PURSUIT OF BELONGING
Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces
Susan Beth Rottmann
Vol. 4, ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
With Study Guide
“…interestingly it makes a contribution to the literature by being an ethnography of one woman whose life story is situated in a transnational space… This is an impressive study”. • Kimberly Hart, SUNY Buffalo State
DEFIANCE AND COMPLIANCE
Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo
Heba Aziz El-Kholy
Vol. 15, NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
With Guiding Research Questions
“Dr.El-Kholy’s powerful study of labouring women in four Cairo neighbourhoods shows them vigorously confronting gender inequalities. Mindful of their sexual reputations, they see marriage less as oppression, more as a risky entry into the ‘real’ world of womanhood. These women can be strong in negotiations over marriage contracts, and wage-rates. Crystal-clear analysis, persuasive writing, and contextualised ethnography combine to make this book an intellectual and political challenge.” · Peter Loizos, London School of Economics
THE 1926/27 SOVIET POLAR CENSUS EXPEDITIONS
Edited by David G. Anderson
With Archives
“The contributors have made excellent use of recently opened archives and interviews with descendants of the people surveyed to provide a uniquely human portrait of this seminal project. While the chapters focus most thoroughly on the Nenets, Khanty, and Yakut, the analysis is of broader relevance to an understanding of Siberian peoples during the first stages of the sovietization of the Far North. This book will prove of unique value to historians of the Soviet period as well as to cultural anthropologists specializing in polar peoples. Highly recommended.” · Choice
THE FRANCE OF THE LITTLE-MIDDLES
A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris
Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, and Yasmine Siblot
Vol. 1, ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
With Sources and Interviews
“[The volume] shows the value of investigating middle-class Western neighborhoods and especially of the historical changes in such sites. The study is a contribution to the anthropology of Europe as well as to urban anthropology and to the anthropology of class, and it usefully complicates and even debunks some preconceptions about suburban life, immigration, class, and politics.” • Anthropology Review Database
EUROPEAN ANTHROPOLOGIES
Edited by Andrés Barrera-González, Monica Heintz and Anna Horolets
Vol. 2, ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
“These case studies are among the best I have ever read in the charting of the history of European national anthropologies, and of each nation’s connections to other national and international traditions.” • Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University
DEMOCRACY’S PARADOX
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Edited by Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Vol. 18, CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS: A FORUM FOR SOCIAL ANALYSIS
Bringing together different anthropological experiences of current populist movements, this volume makes a timely contribution to these questions. Contrary to more conventional interpretations of populism as crisis, the authors instead recognize populism as integral to Western democratic systems. In doing so, the volume provides an important critique that exposes the exclusionary essentialisms spread by populist rhetoric while also directing attention to local views of political accountability and historical consciousness that are key to understanding this paradox of democracy.
New!
SEARCH AFTER METHOD
Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork
Edited by Julie Laplante, Ari Gandsman, and Willow Scobie
Vol. 40, METHODOLOGY & HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Reigniting a tradition of learning from experience, Search After Method is a plea for livelier forms of anthropology. The anthropologists in the collection recount their experiences of working in the field, framed within a range of anthropological debates. The book thus provides accounts of lived experiences from both extensive and contemporary fieldwork as well as offering solutions for how to evolve the art of anthropological research beyond what is currently imagined.
MULTIPLE NATURE-CULTURES, DIVERSE ANTHROPOLOGIES
Edited by Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita
Vol. 9, STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANALYSIS
“The intersection between anthropology and STS has been one of the most fertile grounds for experimentation among critical social and cultural theorists over recent decades. Showcasing some of its most influential contributors, as well as a number of shooting stars, this volume takes this discussion to a new level of sophistication by returning to the ‘ground zero’ of anthropological (auto) critique: the nature-culture binary and its negotiation within diverse cultural and academic traditions.” • Morten Axel Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
INTRODUCTORY READINGS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited by Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown
Published in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute
With Suggestions for Further Reading
Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the organisation of social relations and practices. As a method of inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics, and as a discipline it covers a multitude of fields and themes, as shown in this selection of original writings. As an accessible entry point, for upper-level students and first year undergraduates new to the study of anthropology, this reader also offers guidance for teachers in exploring the subject’s riches with their students. That anthropology is an immensely expansive inquiry of study is demonstrated by the diversity of its topics – from nature conservation campaigns to witchcraft beliefs, from human evolution to fashion and style, and from the repatriation of indigenous human remains to research on literacy. There is no single ‘story of anthropology’. Taken together, these fundamental readings are evidence of a contemporary, vibrant subject that has much to tell us about all the worlds in which we live.
Food and Nutrition
Berghahn Series:
Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition
Edited by Janet Chrzan and John A. Brett
Published in Association with the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) and in Collaboration with Rachel Black and Leslie Carlin
With Guiding Questions and End-of-Chapter Bibliographies
“All chapters are brief and very well focused, outlining the methods and current issues with each specific approach to data collection… the presentation is clear and easy to follow, providing an excellent, if brief, professional overview of each topic with most key references at the end of each chapter… This book set will be an excellent guide for all food scholars.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
RECONSTRUCTING OBESITY
The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings
Edited by Megan McCullough and Jessica Hardin
Vol. 2, FOOD, NUTRITION, AND CULTURE
With Study Guide
“By situating this collection at the nexus of understanding of knowledge about obesity and obesity itself as contextual, sociocultural, and contested phenomena, the various authors contribute an understanding of obesity as both a local biology and a global assemblage… Highly recommended.” • Choice
RE-ORIENTING CUISINE
East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kwang Ok Kim
Vol. 3, FOOD, NUTRITION, AND CULTURE
“[The book] is very informative, and introduces material that might lead to very interesting debates in culture and foodways, as well as in the classroom.” · Merry White, Boston University
New, second edition!
BURGUNDY
The Global Story of Terroir
Marion Demossier
Vol. 43, NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
“Demossier’s engrossing analysis of Burgundy—the wine, the place, the brand—should be imbibed (pun intended!) on many levels—and sloly, for best appreciation… This excellent book is appropriate for upper division, graduate students and professionals in a number of fields—anthropology, sociology, wine studies, marketing and business and women’s studies.” • foodanthro.com
LIQUID BREAD
Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Edited by Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth
Vol. 7, ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD & NUTRITION
“This important volume sheds new light on the social, political, and economic role of beer in society and greatly increases the depth and breadth of anthropological studies on drinking. Schiefenhövel and Macbeth have compiled a holistic and to some extent comprehensive volume that embraces biological, archaeological, linguistic, and sociocultural perspectives on beer…Highly Recommended.” · Choice
Anthropology of Religion
STRAYING FROM THE STRAIGHT PATH
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Edited by Daan Beekers and David Kloos
Vol. 3, STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANALYSIS
“This most interesting book, fairly short in length but substantial in content, will undoubtedly be of interest to both social anthropologists and ethnographers of religion…this is a fascinating book which professionals in the field will undoubtedly find easier to navigate than the general reader.” • Journal of Contemporary Religion
New, revised second edition!
SHAMANISM
Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
Merete Demant Jakobsen
“The book is clearly written, and contains some wonderfully vivid quotations from texts that have never previously appeared in English … Much valuable and suggestive material … of value to scholars and students.” · Ethnos
THE LIVING ANCESTORS
Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco
Zeljko Jokic
With Glossary of Yanomami Terms
“A captivating and original ethnographic description of religious/healing practices among the Yanomani of the Upper Orinoco… The author has achieved a deep understanding of the culture, worldviews, ideologies, and cosmology during his fieldwork in two communities. The writing is articulate, fluent, and incisive, and still remains plain enough to attract a wide range of academic and non-academic public.” · Diana Riboli, Panteion University
DIFFERENCE AND SAMENESS AS MODES OF INTEGRATION
Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion
Edited by Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann
Vol. 16, INTEGRATION AND CONFLICT STUDIES
“Schlee and Horstmann as the book’s editors must be congratulated on combining a variety of perspectives from around the globe on how differences and sameness may either contribute to or prohibit unity. In this regard, Schlee’s introduction provides a helpful analysis of four models…[It] consists of proper scholarly research well substantiated by references and would therefore serve as good scholarly material. The presentation of the data is not too difficult for a non-specialist who is interested in inter-cultural engagement. In this regard, this collection should attract a wide audience.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
Archaeology
A series edited by Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate
With Worksheets, Activities, and Project Prompts
COMMUNITIES AND PLACE
A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States
“This is an exciting book that takes U.S. LGBTQ public history to the next level. Through careful historical research, the authors reveal how diverse spaces—urban gay neighborhoods, beaches, rural communes, legal jurisdictions, and more—have fostered or constrained an equally diverse population of LGBTQ Americans in the past and present.” • Scott De Orio, Northwestern University
IDENTITIES AND PLACE
Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States
“Identities and Place: Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two Spirit People in the United States is a strong and much needed volume that brings together the scholarly, preservationist, architectural, and activist voices. With a focus on the co-construction of place and identity, the authors explicate how a wide-range and variation of LGBTQ people have shaped the US and its history.” • Jack Gieseking, University of Kentucky
PRESERVATION AND PLACE
Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States
“…a critical volume for educators, students, practitioners, and activists interested in preserving LGBTQ history at the local, state, and national levels. It is well worth securing this volume in addition to accessing the online NPS study; the editors have expertly assembled an engaging mix of essays here by leading practitioners in the field. Preservation and Place now sets the standard for the emerging field of LGBTQ historic preservation and it further represents an important foundation for the queer history practices to come in the new decade.” • History News
EXPERIENCING ARCHAEOLOGY
A Laboratory Manual of Classroom Activities, Demonstrations, and Minilabs for Introductory Archaeology
Lara Homsey-Messer, Tracy Michaud, Angela Lockard Reed, and Victoria Bobo
With Instructor’s Edition, Worksheets, and Cutout Materials
From creating complex stratigraphy with piles of clothes, to illustrating optimal forging theory with nothing more than a handful of coins, as well as activities based on writing, drawing, and provided cutout sheets, there are many ways to use this book for online ‘at home’ lab classes.
AN ENCHANTMENT OF DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence
Shawn Graham
Vol. 1, DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY: DOCUMENTING THE ANTHROPOCENE
With Digitized Appendices on the Berghahn Digital Archaeology Companion Site
“The aim and personable, essayistic, almost diary-style kind of writing is simultaneously avant-garde (for academic works) and fitting for our (post-)digital times and the digital field it covers. This combination is what makes it a very worthwhile and refreshing read.” • Angus Mol, Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities
CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists
Edited by Thomas F. King
With Appendix on Legal Matters
“It is very well written, effectively organized, and spot-on: an insider’s succinct explication and critique of how 21st century CRM works, aimed at up and coming and journeyman archaeologists.” • Stephen L. Black, Texas State University
BORN A SLAVE, DIED A PIONEER
Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend
Seth Mallios
“This is a thoughtful, well-written manuscript addressing a multitude of questions relevant to historical archaeologists as well as to others interested in constructions of the past. It is also a manuscript with an important social justice angle; revealing the double consciousness DuBois speaks about in its outline of the life of Nathaniel Harrison – I think this is the most powerful aspect of all the data, photographic, documentary, archaeological. In many ways, it is a quintessential American story because of the fact that slavery was the American story.” • Julia A. King, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Archaeological Fiction
MIXED HARVEST
Stories from the Human Past
Rob Swigart
“Mixed Harvest is an unexpected take on human origins and early human societies, blending deftly written short stories with brief nonfiction segments… Readers will leave with a strong emotional grounding in the anthropological and archaeological record, and a large number of informational and thematic touchpoints for understanding this history.” • Joey Eschrich, Arizona State University
HOUSE OF THE WATERLILY
A Novel of the Ancient Maya World
Kelli Carmean
“House of the Waterlily is an excellent introduction into the world of the Classic Period Maya in large part because Carmean is a fine storyteller who weaves her narrative as beautifully as a ‘fine-spun’ huipil. This book would be an excellent addition to the course reading list for undergraduate students who are studying the ancient Maya.” · Scott Simmons, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Heritage Studies
PLAYING WITH THE PAST
Exploring Values in Heritage Practice
Kate Clark
With over 80 creative activities and games encompassing the basics of heritage practice
“As a facilitator working in the heritage sector, this book felt as though it was written for me. Once published it will quickly become my manual and should quickly become a core text for anyone working with heritage, in whatever capacity, at whatever level. This book is a tour de force, taking the reader on a journey into the theory and practice of valuing heritage; it represents for the facilitator a box of delights or a pic ‘n’ mix of games for the heritage manager, designator, funder, fundraiser, educator, regulator, policy-maker to use in their everyday work.” • Jo Robertson, Built Environment Forum Scotland
Forthcoming January 2021!
UNLOCKING THE LOVE-LOCK
The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom
Ceri Houlbrook
With Forthcoming Digital Appendices and Maps on the Berghahn Digital Archaeology Companion Site
“An eminently enjoyable and thorough investigation of a popular phenomenon through the lens of heritage and folk tradition.” • Sara De Nardi, Western Sydney University
Museum Studies
FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK DECEMBER 2020!
VISITORS TO THE HOUSE OF MEMORY
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Victoria Bishop Kendzia
Vol. 9, MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
“This is a very good ethnography of a central Berlin cultural institution. It deals with important questions of German national identity, guilt and responsibility, intergenerational transmission of memory, and museum pedagogy.” • Jackie Feldman, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
THE MAN WHO INVENTED AZTEC CRYSTAL SKULLS
The Adventures of Eugène Boban
Jane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping
“This engaging and richly documented narrative reconstructs the achievements of a controversial personality, much admired at the time, forgotten since, but now rediscovered…This groundbreaking book traces Boban’s contribution to the study and dissemination both of important genuine artefacts and of ingeniously confected ones.” • Journal of the History of Collections
MUSEUM WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws
Vol. 8, MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
“…a very accessible book aimed both at museum studies students and at museum professionals wishing to understand and engage with the use of the web and associated media platforms in museums….As someone who teaches a unit in this area, I would use it as one of the readings.” • Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University
History
THE ARTS IN NAZI GERMANY
Continuity, Conformity, Change
Edited by Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia
Vol. 3, VERMONT STUDIES ON NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST
With Additional Resources
“This slim volume accomplishes a remarkable feat. It provides concise, beautifully crafted essays that provide access to the best scholarship in Nazi cultural history even as they represent the current state of research by leading experts… Supplemented with illustrations and primary sources, this work would make an ideal addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on the Third Reich, sure to provoke lively discussion and further study on the arts in Nazi Germany.” · German Studies Review
WHEN WILL WE TALK ABOUT HITLER?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Alexandra Oeser
Vol. 1, WORLDS OF MEMORY
With Interview Resources
“Oeser’s book is destined to become a reference point in memory studies in terms of both its methodology and its nuanced conclusions.” • Critique internationale
THE BRAZILIAN TRUTH COMMISSION
Local, National and Global Perspectives
Edited by Nina Schneider
Vol. 4, STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH HISTORY
With Online Resources
“This is a very timely and relevant volume that gives an extraordinarily broad overview of the Brazilian Truth Commission and its broader political and social context. Particularly exciting are the rich insights the volume yields into the complex and ambiguous interactions between the National Truth Commission in Brazil and the many local truth commissions that were created parallel to it.” • Berber Bevernage, Ghent University
RETHINKING HOLOCAUST JUSTICE
Essays across Disciplines
Edited by Norman J. W. Goda
With Select Bibliography
“Focusing on such disparate and under-explored topics as corporate conduct during the Holocaust, the changing nature of European nations’ reparations practices, and the quality of postwar American military commission trials (as distinct from the IMT Nuremberg prosecution), Goda has assembled a fascinating and informative collection of essays. The book not only explores these matters, but each essay provides lavish footnotes and a detailed ‘select bibliography’ to facilitate further inquiry.” • American Historical Review
Forthcoming in Paperback December 2020!
PROBING THE LIMITS OF CATEGORIZATION
The Bystander in Holocaust History
Edited by Christina Morina and Krijn Thijs
Vol. 27, WAR AND GENOCIDE
“Scholars interested in the conceptual and research methodological approaches to bystanders will find great sources of research inspiration in a number of chapters… This rich, multidimensional book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the limits and difficulties of categorising bystanders. It advances the field and, crucially, provides a roadmap for future research into this complex, unsettling figure, not just during the Holocaust, but also beyond.” • BMGN Low Countries Historical Review
THE ANATOMY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Selected Works from a Life of Scholarship
Raul Hilberg
Edited by Walter H. Pehle and René Schlott
Vol. 8, VERMONT STUDIES ON NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST
“This book is written in a concise and factual narrative style, with an absence of any judgement or emotion…I would recommend this book to both Holocaust historians and general readers alike. The breadth and depth of Hilberg’s research and his particular insights have not yet been surpassed by any other Holocaust scholar.” • Jewish Libraries News & Reviews
GERMAN RAILROADS, JEWISH SOULS
The Reichsbahn, Bureaucracy, and the Final Solution
Christopher R. Browning, Peter Hayes and Raul Hilberg
Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“This important book unites three prominent scholars tackling crucial questions about German railways and the Holocaust. Two essays from the late, renowned Raul Hilberg investigate their overlooked role in the extermination of the European Jews. They provide groundbreaking investigations into the German railway as the prototype of a bureaucracy and challenge its supposed banality. While Christopher Browning eloquently situates Hilberg’s essays within the historical literature, Peter Hayes makes a detailed critique of the common but false belief that the deportation and annihilation of the Jews were more of a priority for the Nazis than the war effort. This question, arising from Hilberg’s essays, demonstrates the continued significance of his work today.” • Wolf Gruner, author, The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses
NEARLY THE NEW WORLD
The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945
Joanna Newman
“In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies from the 1930s to the end of the war … Through a vivid combination of letters, memoirs and interviews, we learn of the tremendous efforts the newly arrived Jews went to in an attempt to rebuild their shattered lives and recreate something of the Europe they had left behind”. • Times Higher Education
Film and Television Studies
POLISH CINEMA
A History
Marek Haltof
With Select Filmography
“This book is as much about the history of the Polish people as it is about Polish film history. Haltof makes a special effort to point out the non-derivative character and unique national flavor of Polish cinema. His analyses are lucid, engaging, and informed by both Polish and Western film scholarship. The narrative is interspersed with film stills that facilitate understanding of the discussed works.” • Choice
DEFA
East German Cinema 1946-1992
Edited by Seán Allan and John Sandford
With Research Sources for East German Cinema
“… the lucid style of all contributions … makes this volume an accessible read to students … this volume has also the bonus of offering an excellent appendix on sources for future research … this collection of essays illustrates precisely why the quality of DEFA film-making should not be confined to the archives of history.” · Journal of European Areas Studies
A DRAMATIC REINVENTION
German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970
Stewart Anderson
With Appendices on Television Programs, Stations, and Subscriptions
“This engagingly written book presents an original take on the familiar topic of postwar Germany’s ‘coming to terms with the past,’ with a strong emphasis on television as a significant agent of change” • Paul Moore, University of Leicester
BORO, L’ÎLE D’AMOUR
The Films of Walerian Borowczyk
Edited by Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, and Michał Oleszczyk
“Boro, L’Île d’Amour will prove an essential companion for both those readers who wish to dive deeper into specific topics, and those looking to cherry-pick individual films …one of the qualities that Borowczyk valued most in film was its ability to capture perpetual motion. [This volume] does just that: it honors the artist in flux, finding fresh points of connection, without trying to pin him down.” • Cineaste
Dance and Performance Studies
COLLABORATIVE INTIMACIES IN MUSIC AND DANCE
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Edited by Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas
Vol. 10, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
“Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance is an innovative collection of sound and movement anthropologies. These interdisciplinary texts employ the timely and sharp lens of critical studies while engaging with post-colonial cultural studies. A vital, exemplary collection of ethnographic writing.” • Dena Davida, Université du Québec à Montréal
STAGING CITIZENSHIP
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Ioana Szeman
Vol. 11, DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES
“This book analyzes the social position and cultural representation of Roma in post-socialist Europe in a thoroughly original way. Few studies have so eloquently demonstrated ‘why culture matters’ in contemporary debates about exclusion, nationalism, and European minorities.” • Huub van Baar, Justus Liebig University Giessen
CURATING LIVE ARTS
Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
Edited by Dena Davida, Marc Pronovost, Véronique Hudon, and Jane Gabriels
“This is a rich, global compilation of pieces that explore issues of power, community, inclusiveness, belonging, aesthetics, history, embodiment, epistemology, and pedagogy, all within the context of performance and the live arts.” • Nicole Stanton, Wesleyan University
Sociology
THE NATURE OF SOCIOLOGY
Marcel Mauss
Translated by William Jeffrey
Introduction by Mike Gane
Published in Association with the Durkheim Press
Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. Here are two of Mauss’s most significant statements on the social sciences. The first, written with Fauconnet, outlines the methodological orientations of the school. The second examines the internal organization of sociology as a division of intellectual labor. The essays are of interest to anthropologists as well as sociologists for Mauss, like Durkheim, did not distinguish in detail the two disciplines.
TECHNIQUES, TECHNOLOGY AND CIVILIZATION
Marcel Mauss
Edited and with an Introduction by Nathan Schlanger
Published in Association with the Durkheim Press
“The appearance of these two essays… in English for the first time attests to the continuing interest in Marcel Mauss and the fact that re-readings of his work still provide not only fertile ground for new interpretations of the Durkheimian school in general, but also a source of inspiration for scholars approaching Mauss as a remarkably contemporary voice still speaking in many ways to current issues in sociology and anthropology.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Environmental Studies
DISASTER UPON DISASTER
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. Barrios
Vol. 2, CATASTROPHES IN CONTEXT
“An important contribution to the applied anthropological research on disasters, for it brings together experiences and reflections of various key players in the field—anthropologists, practitioners (e.g. local and international NGO leaders, officials of various functions, and freelance consultants), and other constituents.” • Qiaoyun Zhang, Shanghai University
UNDERSTANDING CONFLICTS ABOUT WILDLIFE
A Biosocial Approach
Edited by Catherine M. Hill, Amanda D. Webber and Nancy E. C. Priston
Vol. 9, STUDIES OF THE BIOSOCIAL SOCIETY
“This timely volume is a must read for students, academics, researchers, and conservation practitioners and wildlife managers. It not only aims to raise awareness of the human-human conflict dimensions that often underlie or aggravate people-wildlife co-existence, but provides readers with useful approaches in addressing these.” • Tatyana Humle, University of Kent
DEMOCRATIC ECO-SOCIALISM AS A REAL UTOPIA
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Hans A. Baer
“This book has great potential to be useful as a guide to thinking about the global climate crisis and the politics necessary to overcome the problems.” · Jon Marshall, University of Technology Sydney
Mobility Studies
A U-TURN TO THE FUTURE
Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850
Edited by Martin Emanuel, Frank Schipper, and Ruth Oldenziel
Vol. 4, EXPLORATIONS IN MOBILITY
With Instructor Guide and Sources for Measuring Historical Sustainable Mobility
“This is the book I’ve been waiting to read: an investigation into how our cities came to be as unsustainable as they apparently were in the recent past. It uncovers hidden histories containing important clues for how to make cities more sustainable in the future.” • Daniel Gordon, Edge Hill University
GLOBAL EXCHANGES
Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Edited by Ludovic Tournès and Giles Scott-Smith
With Web Resources
“The volume is an exciting invitation for mobility scholars to rethink the place of knowledge mobilities within their work. It also provokes readers to consider the variety of ways in which knowledges travel and the various conceptual and methodological frameworks necessary to study them. I have no doubt that Global Exchanges is a long-awaited and important contribution not only for historians of international relations but also for mobility scholars, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists alike.” • Transfers
Travel and Tourism
TRANSFORMING STUDY ABROAD
A Handbook
Neriko Musha Doerr
With End-Of-Chapter Recommended Readings, Sample Questions, and Activities
“Doerr’s work makes a unique contribution to the international education scholarship by grouping together the key terms supporting the dominant discourse and putting them under the spotlight for a closer examination. For easy practical reference, the author chooses to focus on one term in each chapter. While using theories to expose the study abroad clichés, the author manages to keep her language simple and easy to understand.” • McGill Journal of Education
THE ROMANCE OF CROSSING BORDERS
Studying and Volunteering Abroad
Edited by Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb
“This volume offers an exciting focus for scholarship, and one that definitely speaks to a growing area of interest in, and support for, study abroad as a necessary component of an undergraduate academic career… It offers tools for careful critique and consideration for study abroad at a moment when such tools are valuable and increasingly necessary.” • John Bodinger de Uriarte, Susquehanna University
TOURISM AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTERS IN CUBA
Valerio Simoni
Vol. 38, NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
“Simoni’s approach is innovative and still little explored in the anthropology of tourism, both in terms of content and method… With a dynamic and enjoyable narrative style, the author presents us a gallery of characters and feelings… a true human laboratory in which all the protagonists face a challenge: to find new vocabularies to define the nature of their relationships… the book is intended as a gradual journey: each chapter achieves a deeper understanding of the encounters, and “relational idioms” mutually enrich one another with meaning through convergences, contrasts and oppositions.” • Quaderns
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