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Published March 2014 Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Uekötter, F. & Lübken, U. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General)
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Published December 2005
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
Ulijaszek, S.J. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published July 2024
Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State
Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923
Ülker, E.
In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national movement in the middle of 1922.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
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Published September 2012
Narrating the Future in Siberia
Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny
Ulturgasheva, O.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published August 2022
Risky Futures
Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North
Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)
Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2024
The Global Pontificate of Pius XII
War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958
Unger-Alvi, S. & Valbousquet, N. (eds)
Following Vatican archives opening up access to materials on the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the contributors to this volume were amongst the first to access these long-awaited records. They have analyzed them here to present a nuanced and revitalized approach to religious, modern post-war historiography.
Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology of Religion
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Published April 2003
Water for People – Water for Life
United Nations
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published August 1997
Identity, Gender and Poverty
New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan
Unnithan-Kumar, M.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2004
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Unnithan-Kumar, M. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published November 2014
The Cultural Politics of Reproduction
Migration, Health and Family Making
Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Khanna, S. K. (eds)
Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume examines the relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South and East Asia, Canada and Northern America, the chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are embedded in their own worldviews and influenced by wider state systems.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published July 2011
Fatness and the Maternal Body
Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy
Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published February 2022
Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Urciuoli, B.
Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published May 2018
The Experience of Neoliberal Education
Urciuoli, B. (ed)
The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2018
From Storeroom to Stage
Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
Urdea, A.
Tracing in reverse the journey of a collection of Romanian folk objects from a museum in London back to the villages where they were made, From Storeroom to Stage explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies
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Published May 2015
Fellow Tribesmen
The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany
Usbeck, F.
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 2007
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany
Usborne, C.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
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Published November 2003
Remembering and Forgetting Nazism
Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria
Utgaard, P.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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