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Karina Lickorish Quinn
Sweeping from the bustling beaches of contemporary Lima to local ceviche bars crammed with fishermen, music and folklore; from the rise and fall of the Inca Empire to a civil war that will devastate a nation, The Dust Never Settles …
Alexandra Horowitz
This middle grade adaptation of Our Dogs, Ourselves is an eye-opening, entertaining, and beautifully illustrated look at humans complicated and sometimes contradictory relationship with mans best friend by New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog.We keep dogs …

View book details for Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context
Ton Salman, Salvador Martí i Puig, Gemma van der Haar
Berghahn Books
Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed …

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Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)
David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Jon Mathieu
Berghahn Books
Since the publication of Philippe Ariess 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 …
David Zeitlyn
Presenting sixty theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument. David Zeitlyn has written a wryly engaging, short book on, essentially, why we should not become theoretical partisansthat, indeed, being a …

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Bolivian StateSociety Relations under Evo Morales, 20062016
Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Berghahn Books
After a landslide electoral victory in 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia. Moraless stunning ascent was mirrored by the rising fortunes of his political party, the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo, which today continues to challenge the …

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference
Herrick Chapman, Laura L. Frader
Berghahn Books
Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, …

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Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers
Cecilia Sem Obeng, Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, …

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Development, Desires and Dilemmas
Tanja Winther
Berghahn Books
How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some groups tend to embrace this icon of development while other groups actively fight against it? This book examines the …

View book details for Animism beyond the Soul

Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Katherine Swancutt, Mireille Mazard
Berghahn Books
How might we envision animism through the lens of the anthropology of anthropology? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists …

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Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
Janet Chrzan, John Brett
Berghahn Books
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 connections, this volume provides …
Karin Bauer, Jennifer Ruth Hosek
Berghahn Books
Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the New Berlin is …

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Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver
Andrew Wisely
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor examines the life of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor with assignments in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Stutthof, Ravensbruck, and Sachsenhausen. Covering his career during the Third Reich and then his prosecution after 1945, …

View book details for Multidimensional Change in Sudan (19892011)

Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities
Barbara Casciarri, Munzoul A. M. Assal, François Ireton
Berghahn Books
Based on fieldwork largely collected during the CPA interim period by Sudanese and European researchers, this volume sheds light on the dynamics of change and the relationship between microscale and macroscale processes which took place in Sudan between the 1980s …

View book details for Twilight of the Merkel Era

Power and Politics in Germany after the 2017 Bundestag Election
Eric Langenbacher
Elections always have consequences, but the 2017 Bundestag election in Germany proved particularly consequential. With political upheaval across the globenotably in Britain and the USAit was vital to European and global order that Germany remain stable. And it did through …
Andrés Barrera-González, Monica Heintz, Anna Horolets
Berghahn Books
In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic Other at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the …

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Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul
Henry Rutz, Erol M. Balkan
Berghahn Books
Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Focusing on families of the new middle class in …

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Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Rosita Henry
Berghahn Books
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 …

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DEFA Coproductions and International Exchange in Cold War Europe
Mariana Ivanova
From their very inception, European cinemas undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to cultivate a transnational Film-Europe. In the postwar era, it was DEFA, the state cinema of East Germany, that emerged as a key site for cooperative practices. Despite …
Christina Toren, João de Pina-Cabral
Berghahn Books
Epistemology poses particular problems for anthropologists whose task it is to understand manifold ways of being human. Through their work, anthropologists often encounter people whose ideas concerning the nature and foundations of knowledge are at odds with their own. Going …

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The Geopolitics of Rudolf Kjellen
Ragnar Björk, Thomas Lundén
Rudolf Kjellen, regularly referred to as the father of geopolitics, developed in the first decade of the twentieth century an analytical model for calculating the capabilities of great-power states and promoting their interests in the international arena. It was an …

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German Responses to Economic Crisis
Jill E. Twark
German economic crises from the past two hundred years have provoked diverse responses from journalists, politicians, scholars, and fiction writers. Among their responses, storylines have developed as proposals for reducing unemployment, improving workplace conditions, and increasing profitability when stock markets …
Joshua A. Fogel
Berghahn Books
Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights …

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Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia
Selcen Küçüküstel
Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the …

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Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Bernhard Gissibl
Berghahn Books
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 …
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