Berghahn Books: 740 books
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia
Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This...
Migration by Boat
Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe...
Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks...
At Home in the Okavango
White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
An ethnographic portrayal of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their position as a European-descended minority in a postcolonial African state,...
Not Born a Refugee Woman
Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective...
Contrarian Anthropology
The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over...
Consuming the Inedible
Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological...
Food in Zones of Conflict
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In recent years the concept and study of “civil society” has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed in indigenous communities in Latin America,...
Growing Up in Transit
The Politics of Belonging at an International School
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships and...
Searching for a Better Life
Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Life in Bangkok for young people is marked by profound, interlocking changes and transitions. This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city’s slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one’s dreams. At the same time, it...
Mortuary Dialogues
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations....
Slipping Away
Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This volume...
The New Media Nation
Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures while...