Social and cultural anthropology

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This radical book explores a new understanding of psychology based on human engagement with external contexts, rather than what goes on inside our heads.

Once the world's most technologically advanced civilisation, China is poised to yet again take this mantle, having made incredible technological strides over recent decades; but what does this in fact mean?

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time.

Understand the menopause with all its changes and challenges and choose practices and treatments, brought to you by a team of experts, to make this next stage in your wellness journey healthy and positive.

In the last few decades the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality.

Widely regarded as the classic reference work for the nutrition, dietetic, and allied health professions since its introduction in 1943, Recommended Dietary Allowances has been the accepted source in nutrient allowances for healthy people.

The chapters within this volume comprise selected papers from the 5th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Irish Association (A.

This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives.

Arlene Davila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption, where Latinos are now the biggest minority group.

The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws.

Probiotics: Advanced Food and Health Applications presents the functional properties and advanced technological aspects of probiotics for food formulation, nutrition, and health implications.

Food Lipids: Sources, Health Implications, and Future Trends presents specific and updated details related to human health and emerging technologies to obtain valuable lipids and lipid analysis of food products.

Public agencies and industry will probably spend tens of billions of dollars on new water pollution abatement facilities in the next few decades.

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Economic and social difficulties at the beginning of the 20th century caused many Japanese to emigrate to Brazil.

Dietary factors have been implicated in at least four of the ten leading causes of death in the U.

Adolescents have unique nutritional needs when compared to young children and adults.

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements.

Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.

Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico-from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help-Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.

Animals are conscious beings that form their own perspective regarding the lifeworlds in which they exist, and according to which they act in relation to their species and other animals.

Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "e;happy are those who sing and dance,"e; and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource.

The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations.

Specialist dietitians, Isabel Skypala and Carina Venter assemble a team of expert authors to separate fact from fiction and provide the reader with an authoritative and practical guide to handling the difficult issue of food hypersensitivity.

Sexuality is an integral part of our lives, and our identities.

This volume examines the role of gestures in past societies, exploring both how meaning was communicated through bodily actions, and also how archaeologists can trace the symbolism and significance of ancient gestures, ritual practices and bodily techniques through the material remnants of past human groups.

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire.

Does kinship still matter in today's globalized, increasingly mobile world?

This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond.

The effect of nutrition on the vital process of brain development has received increased attention in the last two decades.

Food Phytates takes a new look at phytates, including their potential health benefits.

This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project.

Explores how language is used in a contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations.

This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately.

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words.

The phenomenon of bankonka - 'postponement of marriage' - is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition.

Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of 'subalternity' and 'difference' simultaneously constitute and interrupt each other.

First published in 1989, What's New?

Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels.

In Race Becomes Tomorrow Gerald M.

Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases.

Recent large-scale epidemiological studies have confirmed the pre-eminence of the Mediterranean diet for reducing the risk of primary and secondary heart disease and cancer.

This book provides an insight into girls' cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls' dressing in Singapore.

Now in its fourth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology.

>Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both high- and low-tech.