Social and cultural anthropology

This book presents a unique approach to person-centered anthropology, providing a new form of practice theory that incorporates and explains sources of cultural change.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

In this book Jan Blommaert discusses the changes in human language in an age of globalization.

Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition.

This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent.

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression.

Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought the material and spiritual culture of Iran to its present state even after the term was eradicated from the literary and popular language of the region.

Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers.

This book presents new perspectives on Southeast Asia using cases from a range of ethnic groups, cultures and histories, written by scholars from different ethnicities, generations, disciplines and scientific traditions.

Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside.

The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community.

Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts.

Kiss cellulite goodbye!

Recent developments in the field of nutrition have led to increased interest in herbs and medicinal plants as phytochemical-rich sources for functional food, nutraceuticals, and drugs.

This book explains how the U.

Microbiome, Immunity, Digestive Health and Nutrition: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment addresses a wide range of topics related to the role of nutrition in achieving and maintaining a healthy gut microbiome.

Dissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the continent,s past are not rooted on the continent,s value system and philosophy.

Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States.

During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and rating systems designed to summarize key nutritional aspects and characteristics of food products.

Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped explains how white supremacist extremism endures, the varied forms it takes, its relationship with systemic racism, and what to do about it.

In this ethnographic study of the small mountain village of Huta Ginjang in the Samosir area of northern Sumatra, the author pursues three main themes: the role of rice in the Batak economy of feasting, and the cultural ecology of dry- and flooded-field rice-growing.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture offers the first essential grounding of critical youth studies within sociolinguistic research.

Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists more than ever?

'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH-A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity converge.

Through unprecedented access to over 100 court files and sentences, and interviews with police and security personnel in both origin and destination countries, this book provides the most comprehensive exploration to date of human trafficking and migrant smuggling in Eastern Europe and Russia.

There is increasing evidence that even minute amounts of trace elements can have profound effects on the human body.

Studying Language in Interaction is a holistic practical guide with a hybrid purpose: To emphasize a particular approach to language in the world-a theory of language that has room for communicative repertoire and sociolinguistic diversity-and to provide a practical guide for new researchers of language in interaction.

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.

This book assesses river health in the Lancang River Basin with regard to the impacts of hydropower projects.

What does it mean to be healthy?

Currently 868 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted.

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America.

This book is the first to formulate an ideology of emancipation for women in Morocco.

This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.

Jana Türk untersucht in ihrer qualitativen Studie, wie Akteure in zwei ländlichen Alpengemeinden nachhaltige Entwicklung aushandeln.

ON THE FUTURE OF PERSPECTIVES When Patrick Bateson and Peter Klopfer offered me the editorship of Perspectives in 1992, the world of academic publishing was in one of its periodic upheavals.

Mumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past.

Prototypes have acquired much prominence and visibility in recent times.

Just who are the Malays ?

Why Sami Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sami people, living in the northernmost part of Europe.

Nearly seven million Muslims live in the United States today, and their relations with non-Muslims are strained.

The body is the canvas upon which women paint their secrets, their hopes and dreams, pain and disappointments.

Religions in Practice provides a comprehensive and primarily theme-based overview for students of the anthropology of religion.

Focusing on the importance of functional foods and their secondary metabolites for human health, this volume presents new insights with scientific evidence on the use of functional foods in the treatment of certain diseases.

From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002.

The people of South Asia includes a very large number of primitive tribes who subsists on hunting, fishing and simple form of agriculture.