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THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS TODAY

The team at Academic Influence recently published their list of the most influential anthropologists today, featuring 25 academics from across the globe. As a publisher of Anthropology for over 25 years we at Berghahn Books were delighted to find a number of our authors featured. The complete list is well worth reading in full, but below we are pleased to share 5 anthropologists who have a particularly close connection with the Berghahn family, presented in the order they appear on the Academic Influence list:


Ulf Hannerz

Taking the top spot on Academic Influence’s list is Ulf Hannerz, currently emeritus professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. He has been working in the field of anthropology for over 50 years, focussing particularly on urban societies.  He first contributed to a Berghahn title in 2003, when he provided the foreword to Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology, the opening volume in our EASA series. Since then he has contributed chapters and afterwords to five other Berghahn collections and in 2014 we published a collection of essays in his honour: Anthropology Now and Next.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORIES OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited by Dorle Dracklé, Iain R. Edgar and Thomas K. Schippers
Foreword by Ulf Hannerz

NEO-NATIONALISM IN EUROPE AND BEYOND
Perspectives from Social Anthropology
Edited by Andre Gingrich & Marcus Banks
Epilogue by Ulf Hannerz

IT HAPPENS AMONG PEOPLE
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Edited by Keping Wu and Robert P. Weller
Afterword by Ulf Hannerz

OTHER PEOPLE’S ANTHROPOLOGIES
Ethnographic Practice on the Margins
Edited by Aleksandar Boškovic

THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS WRITER
Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Helena Wulff

Marcia C. Inhorn

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. One of our most prolific collaborators, she has edited no fewer than 8 collections for us, with the latest due out in May 2021 on the topic of Middle Eastern refugees. As well as sitting on the editorial board of our journal Anthropology of the Middle East. Marcia is also one of the three series editors, along with Soraya Tremayne and Philip Kreager, of the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality, which next year will be celebrating its 20th anniversary.

WAITHOOD
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

RECONCEIVING MUSLIM MEN
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib

REPRODUCTIVE DISRUPTIONS
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn

ASSISTING REPRODUCTION, TESTING GENES
Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies
Edited by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn

Christopher Hann

Chris Hann is a British anthropologist and Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle, as well as editor with Stephen Gudeman of the series Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy. He also edited four collections within that series, the latest, Financialization: Relational Approaches, was published in August this year. Chris is a consulting editor for the journal Focaal, for which he has also provided three articles, including a piece on the concept of civilisation, available to read for free here.

FINANCIALIZATION
Relational Approaches
Edited by Chris Hann and Don Kalb

INDUSTRIAL LABOR ON THE MARGINS OF CAPITALISM
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Edited by Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry

OIKOS AND MARKET
Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism
Edited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann

ECONOMY AND RITUAL
Studies of Postsocialist Transformations
Edited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, his research in complex societies ranges from identity politics to the cultural implications of new information technology, and he now studies local responses to global crises. Thomas Hylland Eriksen was one of the editors of the collection of essays in honour of Ulf Hannerz, mentioned above. In addition, he has provided chapters, introductions and epilogues to 7 Berghahn volumes, the latest being Indeterminacy: Waste, Value, and the Imagination, released in paperback this month. He has also written articles for three Berghahn journals: Focaal, Anthropology in Action, and the Journal of Legal Anthropology.

ANTHROPOLOGY NOW AND NEXT
Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten and Shalini Randeria

INDETERMINACY
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
Edited by Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez

Marilyn Strathern

Last and certainly not least is Marilyn Strathern, who has been involved in an impressive 11 Berghahn Books projects, running from 2004 when she co-edited Transactions and Creations to this year’s Selfishness and Selflessness in which she has a chapter. In 2017 we published Redescribing Relations: Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics, comprising a number of essays in her honour, a complete list of her publications, and an afterword by Marilyn herself. As if that wasn’t enough, she has also provided articles for four separate Berghahn journals, most recently in the Journal of Legal Anthropology.

TRANSACTIONS AND CREATIONS
Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia
Edited by Eric Hirsch and Marilyn Strathern

REDESCRIBING RELATIONS
Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics
Edited by Ashley Lebner
Afterword by Marilyn Strathern


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