Social and cultural anthropology

A novel study on consciousness and the brain that places culture at the center of the analysis.

Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine.

This book highlights the impact of nutrients on early placentation processes and their relevance for fetal growth and pregnancy outcome.

In This Land Is Ours Now, Wendy Wolford presents an original framework for understanding social mobilization.

This new volume, Health Benefits of Secondary Phytocompounds from Plant and Marine Sources, looks at a selection of important issues and research topics on phytochemicals in plant-based therapeutics, covering bioactive compounds from both plant and marine sources.

The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people.

By using a linguistic and anthropological framework, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the Anthropocene.

This Brief explores the chemistry and production technology of a cheese precursor: the cow's milk curd.

This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.

Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia.

Das Weihnachtsfest gilt vielerorts als das bedeutendste Familienfest des Jahres.

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland.

US military presence in twenty-first century in Latin America has recently been characterised by rapidly intensifying militarization alongside under-supported anti-military activism.

Der Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen.

Divided Spirits tells the stories of tequila and mezcal, two of Mexico's most iconic products.

The discourse on transplantation and brain death has become emblematic of conflicts between certain perspectives on adequate medical care, death and dying.

The Advanced Dairy Chemistry series was first published in four volumes in the 1980s (under the title Developments in Dairy Chemistry) and revised in three volumes in the 1990s and 2000s.

This volume gives scholars and students a working knowledge of the procedures, challenges, and benefits of using photo methods in their ethnographic work through studies by researchers who are currently using it.

Twenty-first century Cuba is a cultural stew.

For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists.

This book examines the memories of those affected by the Palestinian war of 1948, and how it has been mythologized over time.

In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S.

Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people.

Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies.

In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture.

This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists.

Exploring the role of micronutrients in HIV, this book provides a comprehensive a review of recently published human studies and intervention trials and other important epidemiology based literature.

"e;The cumulative power of these shared stories is nothing short of astonishing.

A rich and sensitive portrait of a changing peasantry, this study is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world.

This reference book provides an overview of the active ingredients of selected plants present in beverages.

This book rejects traditional, dominant-typically reductive and anti-realist-explanations of stress, PTSD, and resilience.

There is a renewed interest in the fundamentals of energy metabolism, yet most people base their understanding on the views of generalists expressed in elementary textbooks.

This book combines various theoretical approaches to explore how Finland and its people responded to the European Union (EU) refugee crisis.

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Hector Beltran examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

Probiotics: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhance Health and Mitigate Disease is an indispensable resource for a deeper understanding of the intricate world of probiotics and their profound impact on human health.

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference.

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.

Air Pollution Reviews will provide state-of-the-art reviews of key problems in air pollution science.

Lynn Stephen's innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca-the Mixtec community of San Agustin Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlan del Valle-who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon.

Who are the people that make up London's French community and why did they choose to leave France and settle in London?

This book presents a systematic approach to the literary analysis of cultural practices.

Diet is a major factor in health and disease.

Asia has a long history of preparation and consumption of various types of ethnic fermented foods and alcoholic beverages based on available raw substrates of plant or animal sources and also depending on agro-climatic conditions of the regions.

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living.

The description of sequelae of nutritional deficien- cies was equally oversimplified.