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• March 2015

  From Virtue to Vice

  Negotiating Anorexia

  O' Connor, R. A. & Esterik, P. van

  The recovered hold the key to overcoming anorexia. This volume weaves together sufferers’ stories to reveal two accidental afflictions: misdirected development and an activity disorder. Also, as the recovered know anorexia from the inside, they can offer solutions to help other sufferers recover.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition

• February 2016

  Transactions with the World

  Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood

  O'Brien, A.

  One of the less explored dimensions of the “New Hollywood” canon of the 1960s and 1970s has been its profound environmental sensibility. This engaging study examines how a number of factors made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General)

• January 2001

  Hunting the Gatherers

  Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

  O'Hanlon, M. & Welsch, R. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Museum Studies Theory and Methodology Colonial History Heritage Studies

• June 1998

  Partners in Production?

  Women, Farm, and Family in Ireland

  O'Hara, P.

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

• eBook available March 2009

  Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development

  Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century

  O'Kane, D. & Hepner, T. R. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available January 2008

  The New Face of Political Cinema

  Commitment in French Film since 1995

  O'Shaughnessy, M.

  
  

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

• eBook available April 2020

  Rhetorical Minds

  Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion

  Oakley, T.

  As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

• eBook available November 2020

  Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories

  Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers

  Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)

  Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

  Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology

• December 1996

  Stone Tools and Mobility in the Illinois Valley

  From Hunter-Gatherer Camps to Agricultural Villages

  Odell, G. H.

  A detailed comparative analysis of standardized lithic data from 10 Illinois Valley components spanning 7500 years from the Early Archaic through the Mississippian is presented in this volume. The results provide significant information on prehistoric mobility and technological organization in mid-continental North America, revealing clearly for the first time a number of significant behavioral trends.

  Subject: Archaeology

• eBook available December 2022

  The Servants of Empire

  Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

  ODonnell, K. M.

  In the late 1890s through the 1940s, Germany enacted race-based population policies in Southwest Africa which instrumentalized German women as colonists. The Servants of Empire engages the history of these colonial operatives, mostly comprised of poor, white women, as they became an unsettling force in colonial settlements and contributed to the rise of the German embrace of genocide, National Socialism, and apartheid.

  Subjects: Colonial History History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available April 2020

  Beyond Wild and Tame

  Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

  Oehler, A. C.

  Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.

  Subject: Environmental Studies (General)

• April 2007

  The Pleasure of a Surplus Income

  Part-Time Work, Gender Politics, and Social Change in West Germany, 1955-1969

  Oertzen, C. von

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

• eBook available August 2019

  When Will We Talk About Hitler?

  German Students and the Nazi Past

  Oeser, A.

  What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.

  Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

• December 2011

  Holocaust Survivors

  Resettlement, Memories, Identities

  Ofer, D., Ouzan, F. S., & Baumel-Schwartz, J. D. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Memory Studies

• December 2011

  Education Policy and Equal Opportunity in Japan

  Okada, A.

  
  

  Subjects: Educational Studies History (General) Sociology

• eBook available December 2015

  Cycling and Recycling

  Histories of Sustainable Practices

  Oldenziel, R. & Trischler, H. (eds)

  In recent years, activists and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability, and waste recycling and bicycles both exemplify this development. This series of fascinating case studies traces the twin histories of biking and recycling, providing valuable context for today’s policy challenges.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies

• eBook available December 2022

  Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas

  Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals

  Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.

  There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us than that divides us.

  Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

• eBook available November 2022

  Pepsi and the Pill

  Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

  Oliver-Powell, M.

  With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Europe.

  Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

• eBook available September 2018

  Cash Transfers in Context

  An Anthropological Perspective

  Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)

  Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

• eBook available September 2016

  In the Name of the Great Work

  Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe

  Olšáková, D. (ed)

  Following Stalin’s lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total “transformation of nature” in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

• January 2015

  Tailoring Truth

  Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 1945-1990

  Olsen, J. B.

  By looking at state-sponsored memory projects, such as memorials, commemorations, and historical museums, this book reveals that the East German communist regime obsessively monitored and attempted to control public representations of the past to legitimize its rule.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available January 2012

  History in the Plural

  An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck

  Olsen, N.

  
  

  Subject: History (General)

• eBook available May 2019

  Engaging Evil

  A Moral Anthropology

  Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

  Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

  Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

• eBook available June 2017

  The Myth of Self-Reliance

  Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp

  Omata, N.

  The Myth of Self-Reliance provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available February 2018

  Managing Northern Europe's Forests

  Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology

  Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)

  Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century

• March 2000

  Common Destiny

  A Comparative History of the Dutch, French, and German Social Democratic Parties, 1945-1969

  Orlow, D.

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available March 2014

  The Demons of Modernity

  Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema

  Orr, J.

  "On the evidence of this brilliantly allusive study of Ingmar Bergman, John Orr, had it not been for his premature passing, would have become one of the world's most influential of film analysts. Even beneath the shadow of the plethora of books on Bergman, Orr's approach is distinctive… He emphasizes the maestro's courageous leap into Modernism in the early 1960's, and the profound influence he exerted on his contemporaries. It is a pleasure to read Orr's elegant prose, which eschews the obtuse terminology of semiotics in favor of a lucid, almost passionate approach to the material.  Bergman, one feels, would have enjoyed this book."  ·  Peter Cowie, author of Ingmar Bergman, A Critical Biography.

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

• November 2016

  Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities

  Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change

  Orttung, R. (ed)

  Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

  Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available June 2020

  Urban Sustainability in the Arctic

  Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities

  Orttung, R. W.

  Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Urban Studies

• eBook available June 2016

  Sweden after Nazism

  Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War

  Östling, J.

  World War II—and particularly the specter of Nazism—changed Swedish society profoundly. This definitive study follows Swedish culture from its affinity for Germany to a framing of Nazism as a discredited, distinctively German phenomenon rooted in militarism and Romanticism.

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• July 2008

  Beyond Prison

  The Fight to Reform Prison Systems around the World

  Othmani, A.

  
  

  Subjects: History (General) Sociology

• May 2006

  The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America

  The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley

  Otto, P.

  
  

  Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

• eBook available April 2020

  Permeable Borders

  History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States

  Otto, P. & Berthier-Foglar, S. (eds)

  This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.

  Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)

• September 2012

  Bridging Divides

  Ethno-Political Leadership among the Russian Sámi

  Overland, I. & Berg-Nordlie, M.

  
  

  Subject: Development Studies

• eBook available February 2011

  Avant-garde to New Wave

  Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties

  Owen, J.

  
  

  Subject: Film and Television Studies