Social and cultural anthropology

In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption, and globalisation, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities?

In this book, one of the most accomplished and thoughtful cultural commentators of the day, considers the contradictory nature of cultural relations.

There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad.

Globally, cereal grains are a staple part of the diet providing primarily carbohydrates and other phytochemical components.

In der ethnographischen Studie wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie Kinder am Angebot der institutionellen Schulvorbereitung teilnehmen bzw.

Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action is the latest volume in a highly regarded series that addresses the roles of phytochemicals in disease prevention and health promotion.

In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S.

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities?

A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play and Culture Studies series.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence.

Over half of England's secondary schools are now academies.

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places.

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations.

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This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals.

Diese philosophische, interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht, auf welche Weise Fehlfunktionen einen einzigartigen Zugang zu Daten für Entdeckung und Prüfung von Theorien in vielen Wissenschaften bieten.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of international cultural heritage law and policy since 1945.

Babies are not simply born they are made through cultural and social practices.

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world.

This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body.

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing.

In Border Lives, Sergio Chvez moves past Tijuana's notorious image as a hub of sex, drugs, and crime to tell the story of the diverse group of individuals who use both sides of the U.

Dan Rose has explored the American status system for decades.

This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals.

This book addresses pertinent issues relating to microplastic pollution including its sources and sink of the microplastics and their environmental fate.

Global food security is a challenging issue.

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA).

Incorporating Science, Body, and Yoga in Nutrition-Based Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery is a valuable, innovative guide that demonstrates how clients and clinicians can untangle, discern, and learn from the complex world of eating disorders.

This book describes life on the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context.

Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia?

Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies.

This book situates Roma mobility as a critical vantage point for migration studies in Europe, focusing on questions about Europe, 'European-ness', and 'EU-ropean' citizenship through the critical lens of Roma racialisation, marginalisation, securitisation, and criminalisation, and the dynamics of Roma mobility within and across the space of 'Europe'.

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia.

Long before modern medicines became so widely available, families treated everyday illnesses with home-made remedies.

During the last few years, there has been growing medical interest in the problem of obesity.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Sao Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil.

This book explores 'efficacious intimacy' as an embodied concept of worldmaking, and a framework for studying belief practices in religious and political domains.

This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians.

Since 1938 and 1941, nutrient intake recommendations have been issued to the public in Canada and the United States, respectively.

This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society.

Encounters, whether first or subsequent or whether cultural, economic, or ideological, mark the beginning of an acquaintance and measure both similarities and differences.

This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers.

Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century.

Since the mid-1990s, Morocco has sought to present itself as a model of genuine and gradual reform, with decentralisation as a key tenet of this.