Social and cultural anthropology

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By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate.

The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one.

National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies.

Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region.

Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960 offers a compelling exploration of the evolution of liberal thought in Japan during a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation.

This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path.

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.

In this second and retitled edition of Anthropology and/as Education, Tim Ingold shows that there is more to anthropology than ethnography and more to education than teaching and learning.

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

At once a social history and anthropological study of the world s oldest voluntary collective farms, All or None is a story of how landless laborers joined together in Ravenna, Italy to acquire land, sometimes by occupying private land in what they called a strike in reverse, and how they developed sophisticated land use plans, based not only on the goal of profit, but on the human value of providing work where none was available.

An essential core textbook that leads the reader from Social Anthropology's foundational approaches and theories to the fundamental areas that characterise the field today.

Updated and restructured new edition of a textbook for courses in language and gender which is accessible to non-linguists.

Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section Book Prize In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility.

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine.

Most illnesses start in the gut, including many you would not even think of!

Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home.

Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if at all), and respond to the very strict cultural norms and rules of masculinity that their androcentric social environment enjoins on them.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.

McDonald's restaurants are found in over 100 countries, serving tens of millions of people each day.

Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline.

The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe.

In the current world disorder, security is on everyone's lips.

Cancer is a major global public health problem.

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom.

Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area.

This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language Solega, and Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara from Australia.

This book is about the choices black French citizens make when they move from Martinique and Guadeloupe to Paris and discover that they are not fully French.

Individuality is often interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual.

Als Einrichtungen von Diakonie und Caritas existieren Bahnhofsmissionen an über 100 Standorten in Deutschland mit unterschiedlichen Angeboten und Schwerpunkten.

Perinatal Nutrition describes the role of nutrition in newborn growth and development, the reduction of health risks, and the prevention of morbidity in the neonatal period and infancy.

This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.

As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has become more difficult to reconcile.

Scholarly studies of Chinese culture, history and society, both within and outside of China, generally pay little attention to leisure, entertainment and amusement, though it has long been known that this aspect of life gives a deep understanding of the psyche and soul, and the hopes and fears, of a person.

How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city?

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It is now well recognised that the texture of foods is an important factor when consumers select particular foods.

This practical guide helps health or social care professionals across all settings to understand how important it is to prevent and manage their service users' overweight and obesity, and motivate them to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, so reducing their risk of associated health conditions such as diabetes and now COVID-19.

Culinary Art and Anthropology is an anthropological study of food.

This book examines alleged "e;superhuman"e; powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies.

Museum Innovation encourages museums to critically reflect upon current practices and adopt new approaches to their civic responsibilities.

Este manual de dietética tiene como objetivo poner al alcance de los médicos y los dietistas los argumentos y las claves que permiten elaborar una intervención dietética eficaz y pertinente.

This book examines how 'Therapeutic Recreation' transforms the social health of children enduring or recovering from life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and leukaemia.

Characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, metabolic syndrome is associated with the risks of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.

In the wake of tragic terrorist attacks in Western Europe, so-called parallel communities have come under increased scrutiny and pressure to be engaged and integrated in the politics and society of the country of settlement.

This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology.

Antagonistic Tolerance examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of different religious communities, using multidisciplinary research to analyze groups who have peacefully intermingled for generations, and who may have developed aspects of syncretism in their religious practices, and yet have turned violently on each other.