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30 Years of Independent Publishing!

Berghahn Books was founded in 1994 by Marion Berghahn; however, the roots of the firm go back much further and continue to influence our mission to this day. In celebrating where we are today, we do so by not only looking ahead, but also by looking back on the journey that has taken us where we are today and laid the foundations that guide us into the future.

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Open Access

Berghahn Migration and Development Studies Collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year we will be adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the cost of making the books available as Open Access.

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Blog

The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey

Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III

Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director

The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial.

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Between Confrontation and Silent Discipline: Working-Class Dilemmas under Javier Milei’s Far-Right Government in Argentina

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Between Confrontation and Silent Discipline: Working-Class Dilemmas under Javier Milei’s Far-Right Government in Argentina

Julia Soul

With the triumph of Javier Milei in Argentina’s November 2023 national election, the country has followed the contemporary global trend of electing far-right governments.

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The Horse in My Blood

Featured Series

Interspecies Encounters

The last decade has seen significant theoretical advances in critical animal studies, posthumanism, science and technology studies, perspectivism, and multispecies anthropology. This groundbreaking series offers innovative works in the social sciences, which have risen to the challenge of engaging across species boundaries: humans, animals, insects, plants, and microbes, and expands methodological and theoretical approaches in the course of ethnographic engagements with other species.

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EnviroSociety

Rising from the Ashes: Rural Communities in Portugal’s Fiery Landscapes

Filipa Soares, Luísa Schmidt, & Ana Delicado. Instituto de Ciências

On June 17th, 2017, Ferraria de São João (hereafter Ferraria), a small-sized village in central Portugal remotely located at the top of a hill, was encircled by flames.

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Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Open Access

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

Special Issue

Materialities of Age and Ageing.
Guest Editors: Cordula Endter, Anamaria Depner and Anna Wanka

Against the backdrop of demographic change and its effects on our everyday lives, social and cultural anthropology is increasingly paying attention to the specific ways in which people grow old(er).

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Last Month's Top Journal Articles

  1. Data management in anthropology: The next phase in ethics governance?
  2. Multispecies Interferences: Taxidermy and the Return of Wolves
  3. Mother Cultures: Skyr Microbes, Dairy Maids and Super Women
  4. The ‘age of the market’ and the regime of debt: The role of credit in the transformation of pastoral Mongolia
  5. Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice
  6. Cuts of Meat: Disentangling Western Natures-Cultures
  7. Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement
  8. The AfD and the End of Containment in Germany?

New Paperbacks

Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
March 2025

Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)
Borders in East and West
March 2025

Borders in East and West

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

Berger, S. & Hashimoto, N. (eds)
PC Worlds
March 2025

PC Worlds

Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony

Friedman, J.
Democracy in Modern Europe
March 2025

Democracy in Modern Europe

A Conceptual History

Kurunmäki, J., Nevers, J., & te Velde, H. (eds)
Screened Encounters
March 2025

Screened Encounters

The Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, 1955-1990

Moine, C.
One Hundred Years of Argonauts
March 2025

One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)
Helmand Baluch, The
April 2025

The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.
Vienna Gestapo 1938-1945, The
April 2025

The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims

Boeckl-Klamper, E., Mang, T., & Neugebauer, W.
Archaeologies of Rules and Regulations
April 2025

Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Between Text and Practice

Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)
Island Historical Ecology
April 2025

Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Siegel, P. (ed)
German Rule, African Subjects
April 2025

German Rule, African Subjects

State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia

Zimmerer, J.

Open Access Titles

Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

Beyond the Euromissile Crisis

Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War

Brunet, L.-A. & Karamouzi, E. (eds)
Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking

Lubit, A. J.
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging

Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)
Market and Monastery

Market and Monastery

Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora

Ratanapruck, P.
Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities

Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities

Contours of Trusteeship and Organized Infantilism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mfum-Mensah, O.
Value and Worthlessness

Value and Worthlessness

The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

Kalb, D.
(Un)Settling Place

(Un)Settling Place

Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Winters, N., Drotbohm, H., & Guevara González, Y. (eds)
Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia

Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty

Kneebone, S., Mariñas, R., Missbach, A. & Walden, M. (eds)
Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion

Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion

The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro

Brodersen, M. B.
Calibrated Engagement

Calibrated Engagement

Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar

Huard, S.
Voices in the Dark

Voices in the Dark

The Energy Lives of Refugees

Rosenberg-Jansen, S.
Performing State Boundaries

Performing State Boundaries

Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China

Lammer, C.
Unexpected Encounters

Unexpected Encounters

Migrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean

Vietti, F.
Vanquished and Victorious

Vanquished and Victorious

World War One Veterans in Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938

Šmidrkal, V., Cole, L., Leidinger, H., Kučera, R., Walleczek-Fritz, J., & Šustrová, R.
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)
Governing Migration Through Paperwork

Governing Migration Through Paperwork

Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation

Andreetta, S. & Borrelli, L. M. (eds)
Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen

Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen

Trandafoiu, R. (ed)
New Anthropologies of Italy

New Anthropologies of Italy

Politics, History and Culture

Heywood, P. (ed)
Egalitarian Dynamics

Egalitarian Dynamics

Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)
Lives in Limbo

Lives in Limbo

Syrian Youth in Turkey

Bryant, R., Abdulla, A., Nimer, M., & Üstübici, A.
Rest in Plastic

Rest in Plastic

Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

Bredenbröker, I.
Black Schoolgirls in Space

Black Schoolgirls in Space

Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain

Ohito, E. O. & Mock Muñoz de Luna, L.
Crypto Crowds

Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)
Urban Displacement

Urban Displacement

Syria's Refugees in the Middle East

Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)
Political Friendship

Political Friendship

Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866

Weaver, M.

Berghahn Journals

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)

Anthropology in Action

Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice

Anthropology of the Middle East

Aspasia

The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History

Boyhood Studies

An Interdisciplinary Journal

Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

Conflict and Society

Advances in Research

Contention

The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest

Contributions to the History of Concepts

Critical Survey

Democratic Theory

An Interdisciplinary Journal

Durkheimian Studies

Études Durkheimiennes

Environment and Society

Advances in Research

Ethnologia Europaea

Journal of European Ethnology

European Comic Art

European Judaism

A Journal for the New Europe

Focaal

Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

French Politics, Culture & Society

German Politics and Society

Girlhood Studies

An Interdisciplinary Journal

Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques

International Journal of Social Quality

(formerly The European Journal of Social Quality)

Israel Studies Review

An Interdisciplinary Journal

Journal of Educational Memory, Media, and Society

Journal of Legal Anthropology

Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities

Learning and Teaching (LATISS)

The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences

Migration and Society

Advances in Research

Museum Worlds

Advances in Research

Nature and Culture

Projections

The Journal for Movies and Mind

Regions and Cohesion

Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion

Religion and Society

Advances in Research

Sartre Studies International

An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture

Screen Bodies

The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology

Sibirica

Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies

Social Analysis

The International Journal of Anthropology

Social Anthropology

Anthropologie sociale

Theoria

A Journal of Social and Political Theory

Transfers

Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies

Turba

The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation

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