Berghahn Books imprint: 740 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations....
Latin America Facing China
South-South Relations beyond the Washington Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The last quarter of the twentieth century was a period of economic crises, increasing indebtedness as well as financial instability for Latin America and most other developing countries; in contrast, China showed amazingly high growth rates during this time and has since become the third largest economy...
Rethinking the Informal City
Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities...
Unsafe Motherhood
Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to...
Tourism Imaginaries
Anthropological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only...
The Cult and Science of Public Health
A Sociological Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In contemporary manifestations of public health rituals and events, people are being increasingly united around what they hold in common—their material being and humanity. As a cult of humanity, public health provides a moral force in society that replaces ‘traditional’ religions in times of...
Collaborators Collaborating
Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science...
Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work....
The End of the Refugee Cycle?
Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped,...
Screening Nostalgia
Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
"In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its significance in theory and practice. She offers a lucid analysis of the development of nostalgia in American society and culture,...
Adventures in Aidland
The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists...
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given...