Social and cultural anthropology

South Africa is widely recognised as a middle-income, industrialised nation, but it also ranks amongst the most unequal countries in the world in terms of its income distribution and human development.

This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.

Institutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism.

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

Movement-inspiring activities reinforce good nutrition, health and motor skills!

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.

Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients.

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

Every aspect of immune function and host defense is dependent upon a proper supply and balance of nutrients.

This book explores the concept of cyberplace as a mode of inhabiting the contemporary world.

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously.

The current situation regarding labeling and defining dietary fiber in the United States and many other countries is arbitrary due to its reliance on analytical methods as opposed to an accurate definition that includes its role in health.

Ethnography is a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies.

This edited volume draws from health communication scholars and offers a depthful examination of the roles vaccination have played and continue to play in contributing to human, community, and transnational protection against infectious diseases.

The book offers a multi-scale, epistemically diverse, and sense-making perspectives on the food system.

In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use of agrochemicals, and biodiversity in order to challenge popularly held notions of environmental crisis.

Re-riting Woman presents the first in-depth ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca.

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern European countries in the absence of the old communist social and ideological frameworks.

In Genomics with Care Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, statistics, and ethics.

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments.

Standing at the intersection of immigration and welfare reform, immigrant Latin American women are the target of special scrutiny in the United States.

Dieses Buch entstand aus Vorlesungen für Studenten der Lebensmitteltechnologie an der TU Berlin.

Historically, nutrient deficiencies have been of greater concern than dietary excess.

This book integrates the research progress of Tryptophan (Trp) and its metabolites in animal nutrition and human health.

Places That Count offers professionals within the field of cultural resource management (CRM) valuable practical advice on dealing with traditional cultural properties (TCPs).

With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge.

This updated second edition of Mark Moberg's lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory.

This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland.

In this gripping tour de force of investigative reporting, an award-winning journalist travels through America and beyond to understand the brutal reality—and consequences—of a world in which twelve billion bullets are produced every year for almost a billion guns.

Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances.

Analyzes how the technology and commercial practices of cultivation affect the nutritive value of certain fish, molluscs, crustacea, and freshwater plants.

While the study of ancient civilizations has often focused on holy temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world.

Is the restaurant an ideal total social phenomenon for the contemporary world?