Social and cultural anthropology

Was kann national und international wirklich gegen die dro-hende Klimakatastrophe getan werden?

The Tyranny of Identity is both a personal and highly interdisciplinary examination of the wide range of factors and disciplines at play in the formation of identity.

First Published in 1993.

From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands.

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

This book provides instruction for health professionals wanting to gain knowledge about the clinical aspects of cannabis medicine.

Skin diseases are highly prevalent among indigenous people, leading to low mortality but greatly impacting their quality of life.

Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa.

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available.

While previous research has explored the academic adaptation or acculturation processes of Chinese students studying abroad, limited attention has been paid to students' own perspectives and narrations of their experience.

This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia.

Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population.

From the New York Times to Gawker, a behind-the-scenes look at how performance analytics are transforming journalism today-and how they might remake other professions tomorrowJournalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares.

This original collection demonstrates the importance of sporting practices, spaces and leisure affiliations to understanding issues around identity, (post-) migration, diaspora and transnationialism for global South Asian populations.

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field.

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

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the nation' has remained.

This book sets out to document and analyse the Sami narrative tradition.

Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality.

This collection brings together recent innovative work in applied and practicing anthropology.

En esta segunda entrega de su Antropología de la comunicación, Albert Chillón y Lluís Duch ensayan una caracterización del emergente totalismo en el contexto de la sociedad mediática, así como una explicación de los derroteros que esta sociedad toma, en una época en que la tecnología digital está induciendo una metamorfosis en todos los órdenes de la cultura y la praxis humanas.

This insightful study of contemporary birthing uses the work of doulas to explore the questions raised near birth: What do we value, and how do we navigate those values when they are tangled in conflict?

Romania has a larger Gypsy population than most other countries but little is known about the relationship between this group and the non-Gypsy Romanians around them.

No culture is ever completely successful or satisfied with its synthesis of romantic love, companionship, and sexual desire.

Originally published in 1978, The Occult Sourcebook has been compiled primarily for the many people who are for the first time becoming engrossed by the numerous and often confusing possibilities underlying the occult sciences.

Culinary Medicine is a field of growing interest and importance.

This book offers an innovative new framework for reading British and settler representations of Indigenous peoples in the nineteenth century.

A critical examination of the idea that human culture changes via a mechanism similar to Darwin''s natural selection.

This informative book discusses the various spectroscopic techniques applied in the analysis of food and beverages.

This book explores one of the most discussed and investigated novel foods in recent years: edible insects.

This book provides detailed information on the various ethnic fermented foods and beverages of India.

Ecological integrity is concerned with protecting the planet in a holistic way, while respecting ethics and human rights.

Used in moderation, many oils can be beneficial to one's diet and lifestyle.

The tribal culture of India and their traditions and practices pervade almost all of the aspects of Indian culture and civilization.

Reflecting twenty years of research and experience-after working with guerrilla fighters in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, with Iranian refugees in Istanbul, with interreligious reconciliation groups in Morocco, and with former political prisoners in South Africa-Segall offers a groundbreaking study of globalization, gender, and resistance in public spaces.

First published in 1974, this book gives a detailed and thoughtful examination on immigration in Britain, specifying the experiences of non-white intellectuals.

This book explores the nature of the state-citizen societal relationship in Korea during the transition to neoliberalism, through the lenses of class and nationalism.

The Irish Potato Famine caused the migration of more than two million individuals who sought refuge in the United States and Canada.

This is a unique book which critically summarizes the current scientific knowledge concerning manifestations, mechanisms, consequences and prevention of dysfunctions of metabolism of fat, as well as the main known functional food and medicinal plants which can be and which cannot be used for prevention and treatment of obesity.

That children need nature for health and well-being is widely accepted, but what type of nature?

A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world.

On any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue jeans.

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