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• 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

• eBook available 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

• eBook available 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)

• July 1996

  The Hegemonic Male

  Masculinity in a Portuguese Town

  Vale de Almeida, M.

  
  

  Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

• 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

• eBook available 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

• eBook available 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

• eBook available 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

• 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)

• eBook available April 2012

  Differentiating Development

  Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

  Venkatesan, S. & Yarrow, T. (eds)

  
  

  Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

• 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

• eBook available 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

• April 2005

  Rights in Exile

  Janus-Faced Humanitarianism

  Verdirame, G. & Harrell-Bond, B.

  
  

  Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

• eBook available 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

• 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

• eBook available 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

• September 2012

  In Contrast

  Croatian Film Today

  Vidan, A. & Crnković, G. P. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: Film and Television Studies

• eBook available 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)

• May 2006

  Navigating Terrains of War

  Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

  Vigh, H.

  
  

  Subject: Anthropology (General)

• eBook available 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

• eBook available 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

• December 2013

  Technocrats in Office

  Virgilio, A. di & Radaelli, C. M. (eds)

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• 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

• 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

• June 2006

  Green Encounters

  Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

  Vivanco, L. A.

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies

• eBook available 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)

• May 2002

  Becoming a Subject

  Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950

  Voglis, P.

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• November 2004

  Between Utopia and Disillusionment

  A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe

  Vogt, H.

  
  

  Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

• eBook available 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

• June 2007

  Portraits of Hope

  Armenians in the Contemporary World

  Voss, Huberta von (ed)

  
  

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

• 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

• eBook available 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

• January 2007

  Crime, Jews and News

  Vienna 1890-1914

  Vyleta, D.M.

  
  

  Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies