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Published August 2011 Ecofeminism and Rhetoric
Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse
Vakoch, D. A. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published September 2011
Civilizations Beyond Earth
Extraterrestrial Life and Society
Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)
“For years sections of the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community have bemoaned the fact that the social sciences are often sidelined in favour of the hard sciences when it comes to SETI discussion. Civilizations Beyond Earth starts to redress the balance, edited skillfully by Douglas Vakoch, the only sociologist on staff at the SETI Institute in California, and Albert Harrison, a psychologist from the University of California.” • Astronomy
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Archaeology
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Published May 2019
Political Networks and Social Movements
Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016
Valdivia Rivera, S.
Political Networks and Social Movements examines the relationship between the State and social movements under the administration of current Bolivian president Evo Morales. Author Soledad Valdivia Rivera analyzes how this linkage has come to transform the essence of the Bolivian political process as we know it.
Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)
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Published July 1996
The Hegemonic Male
Masculinity in a Portuguese Town
Vale de Almeida, M.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2004
An Earth-colored Sea
'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World
Vale de Almeida, M.
Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Forthcoming March 2025
Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus
Film Cultures and International Reception
Van Belle, J., Arenos, F. R., & Peirano, M. P. (eds)
An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultural debates.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2017
The Dance of Nurture
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.
Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published February 2021
More than Mere Spectacle
Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Van Gelder, K.
More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous coronations and inaugurations in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy, examining why so many of them still took place, what political, legal, social, and cultural significance they bore, and how they adapted to actual circumstances. It takes the flexibility of their format as the key to understanding their lasting relevance.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Forthcoming January 2025
Girls Take Action
Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women
Vanner, C. (ed)
An illuminating examination of activism networks run for, by, and with girls and young women globally, Girls Take Action highlights the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising their agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role collaboration plays in creating a more transnational understanding of girlhood.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published December 2016
The Monumental Nation
Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary
Varga, B.
In a quixotic episode in nineteenth-century Hungary’s attempts to spread nationalist sentiments, monuments were erected near small towns commemorating the medieval conquest of the Carpathian Basin—the supposed origin of the Hungarian nation. This study recounts the troubled history of this plan, which provoked resistance and even hostility among provincial Hungarians.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published October 2000
Reynard the Fox
Cultural Metamorphoses and Social Engagement in the Beast Epic from the Middle Ages to the Present
Varty, K. (ed)
Subjects: Literary Studies History (General)
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Published April 2012
Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Venkatesan, S. & Yarrow, T. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2021
Peripheries at the Centre
Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe
Venken, M.
Peripheries at the Centre reveals how Prussia, and later the German Empire, used educational policy to promote national identity along its geographical margins. It shows how policymakers sought to cultivate ideal German students who, it was hoped, would help to usher in a new, peaceful era in European history while reinforcing their status as German citizens.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published August 2020
Punks and Skins United
Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
Venstel, A.
Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2005
Rights in Exile
Janus-Faced Humanitarianism
Verdirame, G. & Harrell-Bond, B.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2006
The Romani Movement
Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe
Vermeersch, P.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published December 1993
Islands in the Interior
The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia
Veth, P. M.
In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid interior of this continent.
Subject: Archaeology
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Published December 2018
Democracy Struggles
NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Vetta, T.
This book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. It traces the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of Aid, neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, and unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2024
Unexpected Encounters
Migrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean
Vietti, F.
Exploring different dimensions of the intersection of migration and tourism in the Mediterranean, this book is the result of extensive ethnographic research carried out over a decade in the Mediterranean region. It shows how migration and tourism play complementary roles in boosting the global dynamics of cultural, social, economic and political transformation in the Mediterranean.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published August 2014
Talking Stones
The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Viggiani, E.
Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.
Subjects: Memory Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2006
Navigating Terrains of War
Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau
Vigh, H.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History
Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)
Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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Published August 2018
Healthcare in Motion
Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access
Vindrola-Padros, C., Johnson G. A., & Pfister, A. E. (eds)
Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and examining the day-to-day practices of patients and professionals. It considers how the need for health services engenders particular (im)mobility forms, and how mobility is experienced and imagined when it is required for healthcare.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Medical Anthropology
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Published December 2013
Technocrats in Office
Virgilio, A. di & Radaelli, C. M. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2023
Silences and Divided Memories
The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society
Virloget, K. H.
Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
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Published August 2006
Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist
...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
Vivanco, L. & Gordon, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2006
Green Encounters
Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica
Vivanco, L. A.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published August 2021
Living Like a Girl
Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond
Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)
With a particular focus on girls who have experienced interventions by social services, the contributions in Living Like a Girl expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2002
Becoming a Subject
Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950
Voglis, P.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2004
Between Utopia and Disillusionment
A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe
Vogt, H.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2024
Stories between Tears and Laughter
Popular Czech Cinema and Film Critics
Vojvoda, R.
Stories between Tears and Laughter strikes new ground in the history of Czech cinema focusing on the historically underrepresented post-socialist era following the 1960s to reveal the discourse of cultural value through which popular Czech films were being evaluated.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Forthcoming January 2025
Desert Entanglements
The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara
Volpato, G.
The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees’ agency.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2019
Escapees
The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
von Fransecky, T.
Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children escaped from deportation trains bound for extermination camps by making a dangerous leap from the moving train. Drawing from extensive interviews and new sources, Tanja Fransecky sheds light on a hitherto neglected chapter of Jewish resistance to the National Socialist extermination policy.
Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies Mobility Studies
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Published June 2007
Portraits of Hope
Armenians in the Contemporary World
Voss, Huberta von (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2002
Class and Other Identities
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History
Voss, L. Heerma van & Linden, M. van der (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published March 2012
Cold War Cultures
Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies
Vowinckel, A., Payk, M. M., & Lindenberger, T. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2007
Crime, Jews and News
Vienna 1890-1914
Vyleta, D.M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
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