Berghahn Series

Social Identities

This series has been discontinued

Founding Editors:
Shirley Ardener, Founding Director, International Gender Studies Center, University of Oxford
Tamara Dragadze
Jonathan Webber

Based on a prominent Oxford University seminar founded over two decades ago by the social anthropologist Edwin Ardener, this series focuses on the ethnic, historical, religious, and other elements of culture that give rise to a social sense of belonging, enabling individuals and groups to find meaning both in their own social identities and in what differentiates them from others. Each volume is based on one specific theme that brings together contemporary material from a variety of cultures.

• Volume 8
  

  Humour, Comedy and Laughter

  Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

  Edited by Lidia Dina Sciama

  Published: 2016
  
• Volume 7
  

  Youth Gangs and Street Children

  Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia

  Paula Heinonen

  Published: 2011
  
• Volume 6
  

  Out of Place

  Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

  Michael Goddard

  Published: 2011
  
• Volume 5
  

  Where Humans and Spirits Meet

  The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar

  Kjersti Larsen

  Published: 2008
  
• Volume 4
  

  The Discipline of Leisure

  Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'

  Edited by Simon Coleman and Tamara Kohn

  Published: 2008
  
• Volume 3
  

  Professional Identities

  Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy

  Edited by Shirley Ardener and Fiona Moore

  Published: 2007
  
• Volume 2
  

  Medical Identities

  Healing, Well Being and Personhood

  Edited by Kent Maynard

  Published: 2007
  
• Volume 1
  

  Changing Sex and Bending Gender

  Edited by Alison Shaw and Shirley Ardener

  Published: 2005