Berghahn Books: 740 books
Spirits and Letters
Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise ‘the Spirit’ and ‘the Letter’ as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of writings. This book challenges prevailing...
by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern...
The Nature of German Imperialism
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full...
Alarming Reports
Communicating Conflict in the Daily News
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News...
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Popular presentations of history have recently been discovered as a new field of research, and even though interest in it has been growing noticeably very little has been published on this topic. This volume is one of the first to open up this new area of historical research, introducing some of the...
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected...
Affective States
Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as ‘affect theory’. These range from psychological and social-constructivist approaches to emotion to feminist and post-human perspectives. Covering a wide...
Nazi Paris
The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht’s triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Although...
Rebordering the Mediterranean
Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Offering a rich ethnographic account, this book traces the historical processes by which Andalusians experienced the shift from being poor emigrants to northern Europe to becoming privileged citizens of the southern borderland of the European Union, a region where thousands of African immigrants have...
Cutting Cosmos
Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
For the first time in over 30 years, a new ethnographic study emerges on the Bugkalot tribe, more widely known as the Ilongot of the northern Philippines. Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around...
Boundless Worlds
An Anthropological Approach to Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote. "Space" and "place" are also often analyzed without grappling much (if at all) with the social, political, and historical roots of spatial...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment...
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
A Beauvoirian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Simone de Beauvoir’s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the gendered ‘othering’ gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue...
Kinship in Europe
Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Since the publication of Philippe Ariès’s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household. A central aspect of the debate relates the story of the family to implicit notions of modernization, with the...