Berghahn Books imprint: 740 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements...
Ambiguous Pleasures
Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a ‘modern’ identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an ‘African’ identity with the new...
Politics of Innocence
Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology,...
A Walk to the River in Amazonia
Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality — the flow of moment-to-moment existence — and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study. In this work, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality for the Mehinaku Indians, an Amazonian...
The Ways of Friendship
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men. Its grounded and comparative empiricism provides the opportunity to move beyond statistics, moral panics, or gender stereotypes in order to explore specific aspects of life course transitions,...
Remembering Violence
Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly. However, comparatively little research has been done on the transgenerational...
The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East
Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials, representations...
Economic Citizenship
Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
With the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Businesses, municipalities, grassroots activists, and state functionaries share in projects meant to help vulnerable populations become self-supportive....
Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies...
Reproductive Disruptions
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Nominated for the 2007 Book Prize by the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (AAA)
Reproductive disruptions, such as infertility, pregnancy loss, adoption, and childhood disability, are among the most distressing experiences in people’s lives. Based on research by leading medical anthropologists...
Extreme Collecting
Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting ‘difficult’ objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those...
International Organizations and Environmental Protection
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This...