Social and cultural anthropology

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

 This book provides a sociological analysis of the controversy surrounding GM crops in Telangana, India.

Whilst there is an extensive body of research exploring the barriers to gender equality and female empowerment in high-income states, there are far fewer systematic analyses within lower-income settings.

Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities.

This is the first authoritative reference work to map the multifaceted and vibrant site of citizen media research and practice, incorporating insights from across a wide range of scholarly areas.

Germany has one of the liveliest and well-developed punk scenes in the world.

A comprehensive and practical guide to ethnographic research, this book guides you through the process, starting with the fundamentals of choosing and proposing a topic and selecting a research design.

Increased oxidative stress due to the production of excessive amounts of free radicals along with the effects of chronic inflammation plays a major role in the initiation and progression of most chronic diseases.

Theravada Buddhism has experienced a powerful and far-reaching revival in modern Nepal, especially among the Newar Buddhist laity, many of whom are reorganizing their lives according to its precepts, practices and ideals.

Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras, provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide.

Over the past decade, much has been learned about the damaging effects that moderate to severe alcohol use has on tissue nutrient levels and dietary intake.

Anxious Politics argues that political anxiety affects the news we consume, who we trust, and what public policies we support.

This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.

Bridging the gap in expertise between coal and coalbed gas, subfields in which opportunities for cross training have been nonexistent, Coal and Coalbed Gas sets the standard for publishing in these areas.

The concept of Third Culture Kids is often used to describe people who have spent their childhood on the move, living in many different countries and languages.

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Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers.

How do certain ideas and practices become socially valued in particular times and places?

This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam's work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist's critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology.

Argues that shifts in the marriage customs of ancient Palestine were directly related to wider social changes.

A study of the lives of popular theater artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage is the first in-depth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance unique to the southernmost Indian state of Tamilnadu.

This book provides a practical overview of the treatment and management of celiac disease.

Caffeine-found in tea, coffee, mate, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products-is an integral part of the diet of many people.

Thanks to increased knowledge about nutrition, many threats to human health have been curbed.

In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C.

Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus.

This book explores how, unlike in the West, the daily religious life of most Chinese people spreads without institutional propagation.

This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a "e;post-racial"e; or "e;color blind"e; era, color still matters in the lives of people of mixed ethnic descent.

The sense that well-being remains elusive, transitory, and unevenly distributed is felt by the rich as well as the poor, and in all societies.

An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Africa's richest, most populous country cannot be trusted to ensure even the most basic infrastructure needs of their people.

The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top.

The reconnaissances of this book are ventures in the deep analysis of the unconscious as testified to by world ethnography.

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal.

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal.

The High North in a Time of Transition collects multiple perspectives on the lives of people in the High North of Norway at a point when the petroleum boom is no longer the dominant cultural feature of the region.

Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery discusses nutritional deficiencies and requirements that are often present with diverse bariatric techniques as main mechanisms for weight loss.

The Symposium on Radionuclides in the Food Chain, sponsored by the Interna- tional Life Sciences Institute in association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, was intended to bring together policymakers and other representatives of the food industry with radiation experts involved in measuring and assessing radioactivity in foodstuffs.

It is a case study in environmental history, multispecies history, more-than-human history, posthumanism, and environmental humanities.

Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state's work of nation building.

The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second World War.