Berghahn Books: 740 books
Supercinema
Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here...
Religion and Science as Forms of Life
Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought...
United in Discontent
Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic penetration. Seen as the moral justification for...
Exploring Gypsiness
Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them. This book focuses on a group of Rom Gypsies living in a village in Transylvania and explores their social life and cosmology. Because...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
What happens when people “achieve”? Why do reactions to “achievement” vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the...
Hunters, Predators and Prey
Inuit Perceptions of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other...
A Creole Nation
National Integration in Guinea-Bissau
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining both contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and...
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectricity plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories. Here, agricultural work, fishing, songs, feasts and exchanges occupy the Enawenê-nawê for eight months of each year, during a season called Yankwa. Vital...
Refugees Welcome?
Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most...
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of Medieval Europeans’ use of food plants...
After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activists in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find around them....
Food Health
Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional...
Persistently Postwar
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
From melodramas to experimental documentaries to anime, mass media in Japan constitute a key site in which the nation’s social memory is articulated, disseminated, and contested. Through a series of stimulating case studies, this volume examines the political and cultural representations of Japan’s...