Berghahn Books imprint: 740 books
When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue
and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
“Peasants tell tales,” one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant culturalist approach associated...
Power in Practice
The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil. He analyzes how individual power is essential for an understanding...
Multicultural Dialogue
Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managing...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees,...
Archeologies of Confession
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their...
Urban Residence
Housing and Social Transformations in Globalizing Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Riobamba and Cuenca, two intermediate cities in Ecuador, have become part of global networks through transnational migration, incoming remittances, tourism, and global economic connections. Their landscape is changing in several significant ways, a reflection of the social and urban transformations...
Melanesian Odysseys
Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This...
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions...
Religion, Politics, and Globalization
Anthropological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The complex connections between religion and politics, and the ways in which globalization shapes these processes, are central themes...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Decades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work has been done regarding radical activism in the United States and Western Europe, events in what is today known as the Global South—Asia,...
Choreographies of Landscape
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world. This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and...
Media and Revolt
Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention via visual symbols, images, and protest performances in that period? And how do mass media cover and frame specific protest issues? Drawing on contributions...
Documenting Transnational Migration
Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational...