Social and cultural anthropology

Calcium plays an enormous and varied role in living systems now widely appreciated by clinicians.

This book argues for the importance of omega-3 fatty acids in our diet.

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the science and clinical applications of fasting, with a particular focus on its effects on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors.

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives.

This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint.

Dwelling is both an action and a location; it combines the spatial idea of habitation (dwelling in) with the temporal idea of lingering (dwelling on).

This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-for-height, weight-for-age, height-for-age, and BMI.

Dwelling is both an action and a location; it combines the spatial idea of habitation (dwelling in) with the temporal idea of lingering (dwelling on).

As food safety concerns become increasingly prevalent, understanding the physiological implications of foodborne pathogens, contaminants, and additives is essential for safeguarding public health.

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.

This book provides an overview of AI-powered nutritional interventions for the management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

This book presents the latest information on the biomolecules derived from the coconut and their prominent roles in human well-being.

This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by heavy metals contamination of soil and plants.

This book presents evidence-based translational research in Nutri-Ayur through the integration of traditional knowledge of Ayurveda, Genomics, and modern medicine.

This book introduces a pathbreaking approach called ‘Avoidable Disaster Deaths’ (ADD) to reduce disaster deaths.

Moving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process.

Moving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process.

Erzählen ist eine Alltagspraxis und zugleich eine Praxis, in der Alltag (re-)produziert wird.

This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects.

A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.

The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace.

Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

This book presents evidence-based translational research in Nutri-Ayur through the integration of traditional knowledge of Ayurveda, Genomics, and modern medicine.

This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Dieses Buch vereint langjahrige praktische Erfahrung in der psychosomatisch-psychotherapeutischen Versorgung mit aktuellen neurowissenschaftlich-fundierten Erkenntnissen.

This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis.

This book is devoted to phytopharmaceuticals and their role in managing human disorders.

Dieses Buch vereint langjahrige praktische Erfahrung in der psychosomatisch-psychotherapeutischen Versorgung mit aktuellen neurowissenschaftlich-fundierten Erkenntnissen.

Roy L.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water and associated adverse outcomes is one of the major health issues in more than 50 countries worldwide.

This book provides an overview of AI-powered nutritional interventions for the management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

This textbook for undergraduate students aims at providing an in-depth understanding of the relationship between diet, nutrients, health, diseases, and drug treatment.

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.

In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.

The world is flat?

The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace.

This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by chromium contamination of soil and plants.

This book brings together a diverse group of researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by fluoride contamination of water bodies.

This book presents the most up-to-date information on the effects of nutrition and food on cancer prevention and management.

This book explores the enduring significance of sacred landscapes in an increasingly globalized world, with a particular focus on the Christian sacred landscape and its connection to pilgrimage and rituals.

This book is moved by two main questions.

In a compelling scholarly journey, this book unfolds the intricate narratives of human progress and its environmental repercussions catalyzed by the Industrial Revolution.