Berghahn Books: 740 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Interest in the study of kinship, a key area of anthropological enquiry, has recently reemerged. Dubbed ‘the new kinship’, this interest was stimulated by the ‘new genetics’ and revived interest in kinship and family patterns. This volume investigates the impact of biotechnology on contemporary...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across...
Peter Lorre: Face Maker
Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Peter Lorre described himself as merely a ‘face maker’. His own negative attitude also characterizes traditional perspectives which position Lorre as a tragic figure within film history: the promising European artist reduced to a Hollywood gimmick, unable to escape the murderous image of his role...
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the...
Empire and After
Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization. However, discussions of Englishness have too often been limited...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras...
Matters of Testimony
Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness...
Journeys Into Madness
Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art...
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium
Sites, Sounds, and Screens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In the last five years of the twentieth century, films by the second and third generation of the so-called German guest workers exploded onto the German film landscape. Self-confident, articulate, and dynamic, these films situate themselves in the global exchange of cinematic images, citing and...
Engaging the Spirit World
Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life. The myriad ways in which devotees engage the spirit world show the tremendous creative potential of these practices and their innate...
Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities
The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon...
Tourism
Between Place and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography...
The Long Way Home
The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific...