Social and cultural anthropology

Stolz auf sich selbst und andere oder Nationalstolz: In diesem Band nähert sich der Autor dem vielfältigen Phänomen Stolz aus einer kulturanthropologischen Perspektive.

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras.

With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H.

In Pediatric Behavioral Nutrition Factors: Environment, Education, and Self-Regulation, the editor carefully selected each chapter individually to provide a nuanced look at how environment, education, and self-regulation impact pediatric nutrition.

The most numerous of the world's invasive species, rodent pests have a devastating impact on agriculture, food, health and the environment.

This volume explores the 'Mimetic Theory' of the cultural theorist Rene Girard and its applicability to Islamic thought and tradition.

The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign-including the large population of Korean American students-come from nearby metropolitan Chicago.

Obesity has become the most common chronic disease of the present day, with significant increases in prevalence in populations across the world and all age groups.

Yanagita Kunio almost singlehandedly initiated the serious study of folklore in Japan.

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening?

This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin.

This book describes the history in late 19th-century Russia and immigration to Canada of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers.

This book considers theoretical issues of the ethnocultural landscape concepts at large as well as examples of its practical application in ethnic communities of Siberia.

Nutrition and Diet in Menopause is a single comprehensive source that will provide readers with an understanding of menopause.

This first volume of the Trilogy of Traditional Foods, part of the ISEKI Food Series, covers general and consumer aspects of traditional foods.

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system.

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.

Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements.

Immunity and Inflammation in Health and Disease: Emerging Roles of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Immune Support provides a comprehensive description of the various pathways by which the vertebrate immune system works, the signals that trigger immune response and how fnew and novel nutraceuticals and functional foods, can be used to contain inflammation and also to boost immunity and immune health.

Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies.

Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated.

The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history.

More than 20 million childhood deaths occur every year due to the micronutrient deficiency and diet-related non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes).

This book is specifically designed to serve the community of postgraduates and researchers in the fields of epidemiology, health GIS, medical geography, and health management.

Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population.

Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in The Moral Neoliberal morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensible tool for capitalist transformation.

In this powerful study the distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society.

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility.

Water is recognized as being an important factor in numerous pheno- mena connected with the quality of food.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource on the subject of Indigenous resilience.

Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary practices of social inclusion and national belonging.

Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

At present, Roma are an integral part of Europe, though they face structural and social inequalities and different forms of exclusion and discrimination.

The delivery of health care can present a minefield of communication problems, particularly in cross-cultural settings where patients and health practitioners come from dissimilar cultures and speak different languages.

"e;An Ethnography of the Goodman Building vividly incorporates a wide variety of methods to tell the story of class struggle in a building, neighborhood, and city that is replicated globally.

What does it mean to grow up as an evangelical Christian today?

Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners.

The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day.

This book provides a complete practical guide of processing data in public health with R language.

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This book describes a ubiquitous and potent emotion that has only rarely and recently been studied in any systematic manner.

Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground.

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

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia, and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation.

This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.

As a young man, American Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination.