Berghahn Books: 740 books
Post-cosmopolitan Cities
Explorations of Urban Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized...
Women Migrants From East to West
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria...
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent...
Crafting 'The Indian'
Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects...
Markets and Civil Society
The European Experience in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The nature of the currently emerging European society, which includes the economic and social transformation of Eastern and Central European countries, has been hotly debated. At its center is the relationship between markets and civil society within political and social contexts. The contributors...
France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007
The Geopolitical Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In the second half of the twentieth century France played the greatest role - even greater than Germany’s - in shaping what eventually became the European Union. By the early twenty-first century, however, in a hugely transformed Europe, this era had patently come to an end. This comprehensive history...
Children of the Dictatorship
Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the “Long 1960s,” this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating how these...
Socialist Escapes
Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essays in this volume examine...
Economy's Tension
The Dialectics of Community and Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
As the transition from socialism to a market economy gathered speed in the early 1990s, many people proclaimed the final success of capitalism as a practice and neoliberal economics as its accompanying science. But with the uneven achievements of the “transition”—the deepening problems of “development,”...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India,...
Humour, Comedy and Laughter
Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive,...
The Mirror of the Medieval
An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the “Middle Ages” has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book...
Alsace to the Alsatians?
Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated...