Social and cultural anthropology

Why does anti-Semitism seem to be so deeply engrained in our societies, our institutions and our attitudes?

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence.

What is the nature of the modern state?

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent Thousand-Year Reich ?

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived?

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived?

The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption.

Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "e;problem.

The third edition of Race: A Philosophical Introduction continues to provide the definitive guide to a topic of major contemporary importance.

What does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast?

In the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another.

In the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another.

In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success.

In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success.

Invite joy and healing into your life using your own magic with this self-help guide from the author of Witchcraft Therapy, Mandi Em.

Interact with magical fairy folk and incorporate them into your own witchcraft practice with this detailed account of the ancient wisdom and traditions of fairies and witchcraft.

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Lose weight while enjoying delicious meals with these 125 insulin resistant recipes and meal plans to improve your health and lower your risk for type 2 diabetes.

Craft your own magic with this comprehensive guide to creating, customizing, and casting unique spells, charms, and potions.

Master the magic of matchmaking in this fun and practical guide to using witchcraft to find your perfect partner.

The magic of witchcraft never dies.

Awarded with the 2018 Prose Award in Clinical Medicine, the third edition of Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine explored and described exciting new areas in biomedicine that integrated technology into the treatment of disease and the augmentation of human function.

El Curso de nutricin y salud ofrece a los chicos un conocimiento general y particular sobre diversos temas relacionados con la buena alimentacin y el estilo de vida.

Mscaras de Hatillo: un potlatch en la modernidad, es un estudio integral de la historia, economa y cultura de una manifestacin popular y comunitaria en una regin agrcola ganadera de la isla de Puerto Rico conocida como las Mscaras de Hatillo.

A travs de este libro, se concientiza a los alumnos sobre el impacto familiar y social de enfermedades derivadas de la mala nutricin y falta de ejercicio; se les informa a cerca de las acciones y medidas que han tomado diversas instituciones, como la Organizacin Mundial de la Salud entre otras, orientndoles para contribuir con ellas con proyectos o actividades especficas, generando el beneficio propio y el de los dems.

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If you're religious about your coffee, you're in holy company.

What happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not thousands of miles from their hometowns?

Examining the fundamental relationship between housing and health, this perceptive volume illuminates how the health of those living with housing instability is affected by the day-to-day issues they face.

Cereal grains are a major part of the global diet, but their nutritional benefits depend on how they are processed.

Inflammation inarguably has been identified as the father of all disease.

America is in desperate need of new ideas.

Healthy Rules of the Road educates, motivates, and inspires families to make healthy lifestyle choices and to become aware of those choices.

Avoid the rapid weight gain resulting from starving your body for longer than forty-eight hours.

When Dea Cappelli found herself lost in a diagnosis of breast cancer, she determined to take control over the situation.

The Witch of Oz has been studying and practicing Wicca for more than five decades, and she's the perfect person to explore how the ancient pagan system can lead to a reawakening.

This book explains how racial inequality in the United States is produced and perpetuated and what should be done about it.

Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s.

Three essential works that redefined the art of journalism by “one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers” (The New York Times).

The New York Times-bestselling author of Fear of Flying celebrates witches in a gorgeously illustrated brew of witchcraft lore, potions, secrets, and myth.

The “dazzling” and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times).

New York Times Bestseller: An “elegant” mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker).

Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West.

International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song—and humanity’s origins.

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance.

An enduring portrait of America's virtues and vices as seen by one of England's greatest thinkersAfter losing his brother in the Great War, a troubled and depressed G.

The groundbreaking, New York Times-bestselling book on canine behavior and how dogs become family from the author of The Hidden Life of Dogs.

Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term "e;memory"e; in re-cent decades, its definition remains enigmatic.

This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of a little known interethnic conflict in the southernmost part of the Americas: the tensions between the Mapuche indigenous people and the settlers of European descent in the Araucania region, in southern Chile.