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Berghahn Books 2024 Best Seller Sale
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In 2024, Berghahn Books celebrated 30 years as a family-run press. As we move into 2025, we want to bring light to some of our bestselling Hardback and Paperback titles from the year just gone by.
To celebrate the new year, we’re also offering 25% off all of these bestselling titles with code BESTSELLER25, valid until February 14th 2025.
Read on to find out which pioneering 2024 titles made the bestseller list...
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25% Off 2024 Best Sellers in Anthropology and Sociology
Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Nasima Selim
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00
Nourishing Life
Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
Arianna Huhn
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent
Reorienting Anthropology for the Future
Edited by Irfan Ahmad
Afterword by TIm Ingold$120.00/£92.00$90.00/£69.00$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96
A Taste for Oppression
A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Ronan Hervouet
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$24.95/£19.95$18.71/£14.96$24.95/£19.95$18.71/£14.96
Collaborative Happiness
Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities
Catherine Kingfisher
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Trevor H. J. Marchand
$180.00/£138.00$135.00/£103.50$45.00/£36.00$33.75/£27.00$45.00/£36.00$33.75/£27.00
Wine Is Our Bread
Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking
Daniela Ana
$120.00/£92.00$90.00/£69.00$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96
Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe
Performing Borders, Identities and Texts
Edited by Nelson González Ortega and Ana Belén Martínez García
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis
An International Casebook
Edited by Terry M. Redding and Charles C. Cheney
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen
$180.00/£138.00$135.00/£103.50$45.00/£36.00$33.75/£27.00$45.00/£36.00$33.75/£27.00
Fragile Futures
Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso
Helle Samuelsen
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa
An Axel Sommerfelt Collection
Axel Sommerfelt
Edited by Tone Sommerfelt, Marek Jakoubek, Thomas Hylland Eriksen$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Immigrant Industry
Building Postwar Australia
Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
One Hundred Years of Argonauts
Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology
Edited by Chris Hann and Deborah James
$150.00/£115.00$112.50/£86.25$39.95/£31.95$29.96/£23.96
25% Off 2024 Best Sellers in History
The Legacy of Serbia's Great War
Politics and Remembrance
Alex Tomić
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945
New Perspectives
Edited by Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Annika Elisabet Frieberg
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Don't Need No Thought Control
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Gerd Horten
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Political Graffiti in Critical Times
The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Edited by Ricardo Campos, Andrea Pavoni, and Yiannis Zaimakis
$155.00/£115.00$116.25/£86.25$24.95/£19.95$18.71/£14.96$24.95/£19.95$18.71/£14.96
Nordic War Stories
World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory
Edited by Marianne Stecher-Hansen
$150.00/£115.00$112.50/£86.25$39.95/£31.95$29.96/£23.96$39.95/£31.95$29.96/£23.96
The Herero Genocide
War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
Matthias Häussler
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Janik$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Israel-Palestine
Lands and Peoples
Edited by Omer Bartov
Afterword by Alon Confino$180.00/£138.00$135.00/£103.50$45.00/£36.00$33.75/£27.00$45.00/£36.00$33.75/£27.00
Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline
Ben Lewis
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Thinking Europe
A History of the European Idea since 1800
Mats Andrén
$150.00/£115.00$112.50/£86.25$19.95/£16.00$14.96/£12.00
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky
Into Germany at the End of World War II
Edited by Charlotte A. Lerg
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Fascist Europe
From Italian Supremacy to Subservience to the Reich (1932-1943)
Monica Fioravanzo
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
The Trial of a Nazi Doctor
Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and Deceiver
Andrew Wisely
$150.00/£115.00$112.50/£86.25$39.95/£31.95$29.96/£23.96
25% Off 2024 Best Sellers in Film and Media Studies
East German Film and the Holocaust
Elizabeth Ward
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Hotbeds of Licentiousness
The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society
Benjamin Halligan
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Edges of Noir
Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s
Michael Mirabile
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Cinematically Transmitted Disease
Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Barbara Hales
$120.00/£92.00$90.00/£69.00$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96
Enchanted by Cinema
Wilhelm Thiele between Vienna, Berlin, and Hollywood
Edited by Jan-Christopher Horak and Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert
$150.00/£115.00$112.50/£86.25$39.95/£31.95$29.96/£23.96
25% Off 2024 Best Sellers in Cultural Studies
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Katja Müller
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$19.95/£16.00$14.96/£12.00
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Joshua M. Bluteau
$120.00/£92.00$90.00/£69.00$24.95/£19.95$18.71/£14.96$24.95/£19.95$18.71/£14.96
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Jeffrey Abt
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Contested Femininities
Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960
Jennifer Lynn
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Beyond Pain
The Anthropology of Body Suspensions
Federica Manfredi
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
25% Off 2024 Best Sellers in Archaeology
Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology
Essays and Other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot
Edited by Seth Mallios, Sara L. Gonzalez, Michael Grone, Kathleen L. Hull, Peter Nelson, and Stephen W. Silliman
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
C. Riley Augé
$120.00/£92.00$90.00/£69.00$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96
Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette
Protective Marks in Gravestone Art
Robyn S. Lacy
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Critical Public Archaeology
Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century
Edited by V. Camille Westmont
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
Culturing the Body
Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality
Edited by Benjamin Collins and April Nowell
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$34.95/£27.95$26.21/£20.96
25% Off 2024 Best Sellers in Environmental Studies
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Edited by Paul Sillitoe
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$19.95/£16.00$14.96/£12.00
Times of History, Times of Nature
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Edited by Anders Ekström & Staffan Bergwik
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$19.95/£16.00$14.96/£12.00
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Arne Aleksej Perminow
$135.00/£104.00$101.25/£78.00$19.95/£16.00$14.96/£12.00
Animals, Plants and Afterimages
The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
Edited by Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare
$180.00/£138.00$135.00/£103.50$19.95/£15.95$14.96/£11.96
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Edited by Arthur Mason
$120.00/£92.00$90.00/£69.00$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96$29.95/£23.95$22.46/£17.96
