Social and cultural anthropology

Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard explores the evolution of language by investigating the lives and languages of modern hunter-gatherers.

This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China.

This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land.

This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.

The Maya of the Yucatan have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos).

The book provides a thorough examination of the crucial connection between diet, cognitive aging, and dementia using a multidisciplinary approach.

The European Cancer Prevention Organization (ECP) was established in 1981 with the objective of developing studies of the aetiology and preven- tion of cancer through concerted-action European collaborative studies.

This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum institutions.

A small town struggling with how to remain vital and vibrant in the 21st century, took on another problem altogether: the difficulty of homecoming for Iraq, Afghanistan and other war veterans.

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.

Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents.

In this monograph, the ethical implications of engaging in research with vulnerable populations is explored and demonstrates how Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) both enhances the research while addressing these ethical complexities.

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY ("e;do- it- yourself"e;) music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales.

This book is an exploration of how Chinese communites in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity.

How we dispose of our rubbish, choose the foods we buy, enjoy art, relate to our families, and think about ourselves are just a few of the ways that ideas about nature shape our everyday ethical decisions.

This book examines the low birth weight and infant mortality in high-altitude Indian region Ladakh.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

This book explores the role of aggression in primate social systems and its implications for human behavior.

What can bones tell us about past lives?

Everybody passes.

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom.

Made-from-Bone is the first work to provide a complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigenous Arawak-speaking people of South America.

The Ways We Stretch Toward One Another is a collection of essays on the work of Pamela Reynolds.

Lilith – eine der faszinierendsten und umstrittensten Gestalten der Menschheitsgeschichte.

Featured prominently in the Netflix series Narcos, Badiraguato is known as the birthplace of Mexicos most notorious criminals, from Caro Quintero to El Chapo.

A tribute to Jane C.

The Theosophical Society (est.

Este libro aborda los temas de la colonización, la resistencia y el mestizaje en las Américas, entre los siglos XVI y XX, desde las problemáticas y los métodos combinados de la antropología y la historia y desde una aproximación a la vez estructural y dinámica.

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s.

"e;It is clear that serious research, as well as much imagination, went into every page.

Nutritional Ergogenic Aids provides an up-to-date review of what is hypothetical and what is known about the most extensively used nutritional ergogenic aids; dietary supplements to enhance physical and athletic performance.

Periodically, in Australian society racial chasms emerge portraying the great divide between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians, exposing the sustained influence of the doomed race protective myth and its residue.

This new volume, edited by industrial and organizational psychologists, will look at the important topic of cyber security work in the US and around the world.

In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity.

Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities - of class, status, and gender.

Policy situations can be understood through a relational lens, seeing policy as emerging from the working and reworking of relationships.

This book provides an overview to researchers, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as academicians who are interested in arsenic.

The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'.

Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations.

This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees.

This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia.

Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the 'rationality debate' has developed over the last century, from E.

Over the past several years, extensive research has been done on the microbial production of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers.

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