Berghahn Open Access
Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.
In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors' funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles.
Additional information regarding our open access policies can be found here, under the “Open Access” tab. If open access status is required for your publication, please contact your Berghahn editor.
Open Access Books
A selection of more than 200 Open Access Books available on this site
Bush Bound
Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
Paolo Gaibazzi
From Clans to Co-ops
Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Theodoros Rakopoulos
Voices of Long-Term Care Workers
Elder Care in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond
Andrea Freidus and Dena Shenk
Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Nasima Selim
Insidious Capital
Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle
Edited by Don Kalb
Impotent Warriors
Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity
Susie Kilshaw
Postcoloniality
The French Dimension
Margaret A. Majumdar
Tangled Mobilities
Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration
Edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gracia Liu-Farrer
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Jane Murphy Thomas
A Foreign Affair
Billy Wilder's American Films
Gerd Gemünden
Remapping Knowledge
Intercultural Studies for a Global Age
Mihai I. Spariosu
Selling the Economic Miracle
Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957
Mark E. Spicka
Difficult Folk?
A Political History of Social Anthropology
David Mills
After the 'Socialist Spring'
Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR
George Last
The Surplus Woman
Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Catherine L. Dollard
The Train Journey
Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust
Simone Gigliotti
Diamonds and War
State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine
David De Vries
Optimizing the German Workforce
Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle
David Meskill
Settling for Less
The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
Steven C. Dinero
Patrons of Women
Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
Esther Hertzog
A State of Peace in Europe
West Germany and the CSCE, 1966-1975
Petri Hakkarainen
Identity Politics and the New Genetics
Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Edited by Katharina Schramm, David Skinner and Richard Rottenburg
Judging 'Privileged' Jews
Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
Adam Brown
Alienating Labour
Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary
Eszter Bartha
Screening Nature
Cinema beyond the Human
Edited by Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway
Coming of Age
Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973
Martin Kalb
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Edited by Richard F. Wetzell
Browse the full list of Open Access books here
Berghahn Open Access Collections
Introducing the 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 add 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 libraries and institutions sign up for the collection and pledge their financial support, we are able to fund the publication costs of these books, making them available as Open Access.
The collection includes titles from the Forced Migration series as well as the Integration and Conflict Studies and the Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology series, among others.
Berghahn Open Anthropology
In partnership with Libraria
Berghahn Open Anthro is a subscribe-to-open model being piloted by Berghahn Books in partnership with Libraria, a group of researchers who are also supporting a number of other publishers hoping to adopt this model should the pilot prove successful.
This model was developed in part through a 2019 ground-breaking collaborative meeting between publishers, libraries, funders, and OA experts that was held at MIT. BOA-S2O is in its third year and has added a new journal, Social Anthropology, in 2022, and Ethnologia Europaea in 2024.
Researchers can support the BOA-S2O initiative by contacting their libraries directly or filling out a recommendation form.
For more details, please read our Frequently Asked Questions.
The 2025 collection includes the following 16 journals:
Open Access Journals
Ethnologia Europaea
Editors
Patrick Laviolette, Masaryk University, Czechia
Alexandra Schwell, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
Editors
Dimitra Kofti, Panteion University, Greece
Arne Harms, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Leonardo Schiocchet, Charles University, Czech Republic
Martin Fotta, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Book Reviews Editor
Magdalena Craciun, University of Bucharest, Romania
Assistant Editor
Ville Laakkonen, Tampere University, Finland
Subjects: Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnography
Anthropology in Action
Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
Editors:
Dr. Pardis Shafafi, CNRS, Paris
Dr. Samira Marty, University of Bayreuth
Subjects:Applied Anthropology
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
Editors
Jennifer R. Cash, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Aleksandar Bošković, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies
Anthropology of the Middle East
Editor in Chief: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Subjects: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Editors
Liana Chua, University of Cambridge
Natalia Buitron, University of Cambridge
Subjects: Anthropology
Conflict and Society
Advances in Research
Editor in Chief: Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam
Managing Editor: Dastan Abdali, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Editors
Tessa Diphoorn, Utrecht University
Ana Ivasiuc, University College Dublin
Linda Musariri, University of Amsterdam
Aditi Saraf, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Atreyee Sen, University of Copenhagen
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies
Durkheimian Studies
Études Durkheimiennes
Editors: Jean-Christophe Marcel
Subjects: Sociology, Anthropology
Environment and Society
Advances in Research
Founding Editors
Paige West, Columbia University
Dan Brockington, University of Sheffield
Editors
Amelia Moore, University of Rhode Island
Jerry Jacka, University of Colorado Boulder
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography
Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Managing and Lead Editor: Luisa Steur, University of Amsterdam
Editor-at-Large: Don Kalb, University of Bergen
Subjects: Anthropology
Journal of Legal Anthropology
Editor: Narmala Halstead, University of Sussex
Subjects: Anthropology, Law
Learning and Teaching
The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
Editors
Penny Welch, Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton
Susan Wright, Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus
Subjects: Education, Social Sciences
Migration and Society
Advances in Research
Editors
Mette Louise Berg, University College London
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London
Tatiana Thieme, University College London
Creative Encounters Editor: Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, University of Oxford
Book Reviews Editors
Nassim Majidi, Samuel Hall
Olivia Sheringham, Birkbeck University of London
Editorial Assistant: Hend Aly, University College London
Museum Worlds
Advances in Research
Editors:
Alison K. Brown, University of Aberdeen
Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington
Subjects: Anthropology, Museum Studies
Religion and Society
Advances in Research
Editors
Simon Coleman, University of Toronto
Sondra L. Hausner, University of Oxford
Reviews Editors
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Seville
Eugenia Roussou, CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, University Institute of Lisbon
Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editors
Liudmila Nikanorova, The Open University, UK
Galina Belolyubskaya, University of Calgary, Canada
Subjects: Anthropology, Siberian Studies
Social Analysis
The International Journal of Anthropology
Editors:
Martin Holbraad, University College London
Anni Kajanus, University of Helsinki
Hans Steinmüller, London School of Economics
Subjects: Anthropology, Political and Social Theory, Social Sciences
Browse the Berghahn Open Anthropology journals here
Open Access Journal Articles
Additionally, there are a number of journal articles currently available as open access.