Social and cultural anthropology

Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.

The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their strong influence on political identity and the social infrastructure.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

While he is more commonly known for his Trinitiarian works and theology, this study assesses mid-fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers' view of the human condition.

This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics.

India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world.

Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union s most marginal and disenfranchised communities.

Why do Koreans search for shamans?

Dieses interdisziplinäre Handbuch rekonstruiert Optimierung als ein Phänomen, das konstitutiv in aktuelle Entwicklungen der Gegenwart eingeschrieben ist.

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The Paris Review has published a dozen poems from this leading Danish poet's surreal, harrowing prose poetry collection.

What did people eat in the Middle Ages, and why and how did that affect cuisine and culture in later years?

Meat and dairy production and consumption are in crisis.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of gut microbiome/microflora in nutrition, metabolism, disease prevention and health issues, including farm animal health and food value, and human gastrointestinal health and immunity.

Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire's ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977.

An approachable and original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology.

This 2007 text examines the problem of national identity formation in the context of globalization.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage.

First published in 1967, this book gives some of the fruits of the author's study of Tikopia ways of thought as the result of three field expeditions.

This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment.

This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them.

They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fieldstakes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry.

Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated.

Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, rotten apples.

This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap in sensory research while offering new approaches to Chinese Studies.

This book discusses globalization and its impact on human health.

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region.

Activate your 'skinny gene' with The Alternate-Day Diet, by James B Johnson.

Crossing continents and centuries Stephen Arnott brings us invaluable information about all kinds of bizarre regional customs - from sexual practices to the received wisdom on cannibalism - that could save you from embarrassing local faux pas while travelling.

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices.

In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on "e;doing nothing,"e; Billy Ehn and Orvar Lofgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening.

In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works.

The current practice of the cult of Maria Lionza is one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture.

Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures?

This is a book about the intersections of three dimensions.

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise.

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of Israel.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives.

How do British pavements remain free of dog mess?