Social and cultural anthropology

Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age.

Why should we study language?

This handbook of nutrition and diet provides information on food nutrients and their functions; food safety and distribution; food composition, consumption and utilization; adequacy of diet; and the nutritional management of diseases and disorders.

Consumers look to health professionals for guidance on how to integrate complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies into their lifestyles, yet most health care professionals are trained only in conventional practices.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Truffles are hypogeous ectomycorrhizal ascomycetous edible mushrooms distributed worldwide in terrestrial ecosystems, including deserts, as non-timber forest products.

El autor reunió en dos años más de 600 objetos etnográficos, 250 muestras botánicas, más de 3 mil fotografías etnográficas, así como importantes datos en lengua huasteca.

While the science of yogurt is nearly as old as the origin of mankind, there have been rapid changes in yogurt development since the turn of the 19th century, fueled by continuing developments in biological sciences.

Cell signaling is at the core of most biological processes from the simplest to the most complex.

Oxidative Stress and Age-Related Neurodegeneration brings together researchers from a variety of fields to compare normal aging and disease-related neurodegeneration in terms of susceptibility to and effects of oxidative stress.

This book examines how vision impaired walkers experience and engage with the English countryside through five sensory activities: walking, seeing, listening, seeing in the mind's eye, and touching.

En 1952 Alberto Ruz Lhuillier descubrió en Palenque la tumba de K'inich Janaab' Pakal, el más grande soberano de aquella antigua ciudad maya, además del rico ajuar con el que había sido ataviado: orejeras, anillos, pulseras, complejos collares y adornos, así como una magnífica máscara de mosaico, todo ello tallado en jade verde de distintas tonalidades.

This book considers the challenges posed by fieldwork in centres of power to researchers in the social sciences, with a focus on deliberative assemblies.

In the historical record there is abundant evidence that obesity was a medical and health concern as long as medicine has been practiced.

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings.

A complex disease entity, intestinal failure (IF) has only recently become accepted as a distinct clinical syndrome.

Characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, metabolic syndrome is associated with the risks of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.

This book comprehensively accounts the current understanding of genetic mechanisms of obesity by analyzing obesity phenotypes and genotypes and, gene polymorphisms and mutations, and current results from animal model research and genetic studies in human models.

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings.

This concise handbook provides evidence-based, practical horse nutrition accessible to all readers.

It is no surprise that women and men experience biological and physiological differences fundamentally and throughout the lifecycle.

This book provides a detailed and a clear picture about the impact of climate changes on all aspects of our lives.

This book explores, from a feminist sociological viewpoint, the ways gender is constructed in the priesthood in the Church of England, and the political, emotional, and spiritual resources generated by women priests in their resistance praxis against a discriminating structure.

In this second and retitled edition of Anthropology and/as Education, Tim Ingold shows that there is more to anthropology than ethnography and more to education than teaching and learning.

In Deconstructing Purity Culture to Embrace Sexual Pleasure, certified sex therapist Andreya Jones explains how purity culture came to fruition and how its teachings have affected the sexuality and pleasure of generations of women.

Bone health is one of the most widely discussed topics in pediatric nutrition.

In this second and retitled edition of Anthropology and/as Education, Tim Ingold shows that there is more to anthropology than ethnography and more to education than teaching and learning.

The One Health Case Studies book is a collection of international case studies showcasing the work of One Health practitioners and their projects.

This book considers the challenges posed by fieldwork in centres of power to researchers in the social sciences, with a focus on deliberative assemblies.

An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.

In Deconstructing Purity Culture to Embrace Sexual Pleasure, certified sex therapist Andreya Jones explains how purity culture came to fruition and how its teachings have affected the sexuality and pleasure of generations of women.

Nutritional genomics, also referred to as nutrigenomics, is considered one of the next frontiers in the post-genomic era.

During the past decade since the first edition of this practical work was published, global prevalence of obesity has increased by epic proportions, and physical fitness levels have continued to decline.

Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age.

Amplia investigacion sobre la indumentaria indigena en Mexico tanto prehispanica y colonial como la existente hasta hoy dia.

Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor.

This handbook is a concise, thorough, and portable reference guide to the multitude of complex chemotherapy protocols and other frequently utilized medications in the field of Hematology/Oncology.

Understanding the biochemistry of food is basic to all other research and development in the fields of food science, technology, and nutrition, and the past decade has seen accelerated progress in these areas.

Since its discovery in 1957, Coenzyme Q has piqued the interest of scientists from a wide range of disciplines because of its bioenergetics, vitamin-like behavior, and interactions with antioxidant vitamins E and C.

This book explores, from a feminist sociological viewpoint, the ways gender is constructed in the priesthood in the Church of England, and the political, emotional, and spiritual resources generated by women priests in their resistance praxis against a discriminating structure.

Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared obesity a global epidemic.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

Truffles are hypogeous ectomycorrhizal ascomycetous edible mushrooms distributed worldwide in terrestrial ecosystems, including deserts, as non-timber forest products.

An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.