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October 2023
Alienating Labour
Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary
Bartha, E.

October 2023
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Nahum-Claudel. C.

October 2023
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.

October 2023
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Mattes, D.

November 2023
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics
Wüstenberg, J. & Sierp, A. (eds)

November 2023
In the Shadow of the Great War
Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Böhler, J., Konrád, O., Kučera, R. (eds)

October 2023
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

November 2023
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?
Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted
Hadley, R. A.

October 2023
Poverty Archaeology
Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law
Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.

October 2023
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Newell, S. (ed)

October 2023
Assembling Financialisation
Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment
Langford, Z.

October 2023
Foreigners in Their Own Country
Identity and Rejection in France
Martin, L. M.

October 2023
The Amazonian Puzzle
Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations
Boyer, V.

October 2023
The Subject of Sovereignty
Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism
Feldman, G.

November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?
Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus
Pilkington, H. (ed)

November 2023
Other Borders
History, Mobility and Migration of Rudari Families between Romania and Italy
Tosi Cambini, S.

November 2023
The Familial Occult
Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography
Coțofană, A. (ed)

November 2023
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
Joshi, M.

November 2023
Individually Ourselves
Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
Winkler-Reid, S.

November 2023
The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis
The Making of the International Refugee Regime
Scalettaris, G.

November 2023
Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience
Case Studies from the African Diaspora
Waldron-Moore, P. (ed)
Anthropology-Related Journals

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
ISSN Print: 1755-2923
ISSN Online: 1755-2931

Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
ISSN Print: 0967-201X
ISSN Online: 1752-2285

Anthropology of the Middle East
ISSN Print: 1746-0719
ISSN Online: 1746-0727

Conflict and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2164-4543
ISSN Online: 2164-4551

Environment and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2150-6779
ISSN Online: 2150-6787

Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0920-1297
ISSN Online: 1558-5263

Journal of Legal Anthropology
ISSN Print: 1758-9576
ISSN Online: 1758-9584

Learning and Teaching
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
ISSN Print: 1755-2273
ISSN Online: 1755-2281

Migration and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2574-1306
ISSN Online: 2574-1314

Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2049-6729
ISSN Online: 2049-6737

Religion and Society
Advances in Research
ISSN Print: 2150-9298
ISSN Online: 2150-9301

Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
ISSN Print: 1361-7362
ISSN Online: 1476-6787

Social Analysis
The International Journal of Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0155-977X
ISSN Online: 1558-5727

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
ISSN Print: 0964-0282
ISSN Online: 1469-8676

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
ISSN Print: 0305-7674
ISSN Online: 2047-7716
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Interview with an author – Peer Review Week
Berghahn Books has been a rigorous peer-reviewed press since its inception in 1994 and has always considered this essential both for assuring the quality and scholarship of our titles but also for providing insightful feedback for our authors to enable them to improve, refine and develop their work. Supporting early career academics is an important […]
Interview with a Journal Editor – Peer Review Week
As a peer-reviewed press, our journals are committed to instituting a thorough review process that is thoughtfully mediated by our journal editors to be inclusive, constructive, and ethical. Our journals pride themselves on being especially supportive of the innovative insights of early career researchers and it is thanks to the peer review process that up-and-coming […]
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