Social and cultural anthropology

Cereal grains are a major part of the global diet, but their nutritional benefits depend on how they are processed.

Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of "e;Englishness"e; as white, masculine, and pure and "e;Americanness"e; as black, feminine, and impure.

Research has shown that optimum maternal and child nutrition can reduce the incidence of chronic conditions ranging from obesity, food allergy and asthma, to cardiovascular disease and cancers.

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Multimodal approach to primate communication with focus on its cognitive foundations and how this relates to theories of language evolution.

This book provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices.

This book offers a unique Australian perspective on the global crisis in refugee protection.

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Peruvian cuisine's shift from a culinary to a political object and the making of Peru as a food nation on the global stage.

Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date.

How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine how a nation's account of the past shapes its actions in the present.

This book is focused on the production, cultivation, processing, composition, nutritional value, value addition, health implications, limitations and safety of nutricereals with an emphasis on their functional significance.

A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert.

This work provides comprehensive coverage of the preparation, processing, marketing, safety and nutritional aspects of traditional foods across the globe.

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What can a focus on “food projects” in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates?

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool.

This book is an anthropological investigation into the different forms the economy assumes, and the different purposes it serves, when conceived from the perspective of Islamic micro-finance as a field of everyday practice.

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad.

Sich rundum wohl und gesund zu fühlen und dabei als netten Nebeneffekt auch noch die Pfunde purzeln zu lassen - zu schön, um wahr zu sein?

Evidence-Based Nutrition and Clinical Evidence of Bioactive Foods in Human Health and Disease explores a wide range of studies from clinical investigations to mechanistic research, covering the actions of bioactives on specific tissues and cells in intestinal, neurological, immunological and cardiovascular health and disease, including cancers.

What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today?

Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and gambling on racing are global industries worth several hundred billion dollars.

Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "e;more than human.

This book focuses on the recent advances in precision agriculture and satellite farming, detailing applications for sensing, data handling, modeling, and control.

This book was written to provide a thorough overview of clinical nutrition and immunology to allow the reader to become knowledgeable in this evolving and complex area of medicine.

This book provides up-to-date information and practical approaches to Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) programs for digestive and / or cardiopulmonary surgery.

Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum traces the evolution of pervasive racial ideas, and 'post-race' allusions, over more than a century of museum thinking and practice.

Proteins are fundamental to human health, serving as building blocks for cellular structures, providing essential energy, and supporting tissue function.

The debate on health, nutrition and food security could not have arisen at a more opportune time.

This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger's writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiesis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing.

Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best speeches and writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and 1860.

This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens to the modern day.

This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

This book offers a comprehensive view of the relationship between the Indian tribes and the mainstream.

This book questions the political logic of foregrounding cultural collectives in a world shaped by globalization and neoliberalization.

People's Tribunals are independent, peaceful, grassroots movements, created by members of civil society, to address impunity that is associated with ongoing or past atrocities.

Koreans believe the adage of food as medicine.

In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.

This book is the first to examine the performance of autobiographical material as a theatrical form, a research subject, and a therapeutic method.

Originally published in 1992, this book places Cypriot migration to Britain within the context of New Commonwealth migration as a whole and within developments in the field of racial and ethnic relations.

For the first time, this singular and comprehensive text presents a focus on quantitative studies aiming to describe food digestion and the tools that are available for quantification.

This book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals in Italy, considers their training, practices, and representation, and analyses their role in national and international context.

Mother's milk provides a wide variety of health benefits for infants, which is why breast feeding is highly recommended all over the world.

This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American.

Phrases such as `corporate culture', `market culture' and the `knowledge economy', have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work.

Taiwan has been hailed as a successful case of democratization.

Examines what we know about the relationship between organic chemicals and human disease Organic chemicals are everywhere: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.