Berghahn Books: 740 books
Performing Place, Practising Memories
Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the 1970s a wave of ‘counter-culture’ people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked...
Rescuing the Vulnerable
Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used...
Soldiering Under Occupation
Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, “rotten apples.” In this study, the author argues that this dismissal is unsatisfactory and that there is an urgent need to look at the (mis)behavior of soldiers from a...
The Ethnographic Experiment
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought...
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces
Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious...
Pilgrimage and Political Economy
Translating the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow—and sometimes create—trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and...
'For Their Own Good'
Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France...
About the Hearth
Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home. Dwellings lie at the heart of many forms of negotiation. Based on years of in-depth research, this book presents and analyzes how the people...
The Power of Death
Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power...
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation
Between Text and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century...
Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates...
Legends of People, Myths of State
Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author’s native Australia. At the time this constituted an innovative...
Vehicles
Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes of semiotic transportation...