Social and cultural anthropology

The maintenance of telomeres-repetitive sequences at the end of chromosome-is essential to health.

Co-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological SocietyWhat the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE-2023).

Sometime near the start of the 1990s, the future became a place of national decline.

Uses textual and visual materials on the ''Self'' to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love?

Obesity is considered a complex and multifactorial disease.

This book presents a unique overview of significant disparities in health, which exist within complex and multifaceted contexts across different regions.

ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ARENA A critical insider, Jeremy MacClancy celebrates maverick anthropologists who transgressed academic frontiers, and urges his colleagues to engage the public.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.

This brief explores wildlife crime and its international and culture-specific combat in South Africa from a green psychology perspective, focusing on a specific method of forensic trace recovery by analysing and evaluating the use of gelatine lifters.

“A brilliant and beautiful meditation on the nature of our attachment to things.

Extensive research on nutrigenomics has unveiled numerous epigenetic mechanisms that are influenced by our dietary signature.

Where tradition meets bureaucracy-Native students redefine education on their own terms.

India has witnessed a sea change in its social structure and political culture since Independence.

Listening to Culture presents everyday cultural activity in Indian family and community life in order to demonstrate why and how such activity must be encompassed in the study of individuals and collectives.

"e;In Our Words is a book I wish had been available when I was a teenager, grappling with issues of sexuality and disability.

Amino acids (AAs) are not only building blocks of protein, but are also signalling molecules as well as regulators of gene expression and the protein phosphorylation cascade.

Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies.

The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades.

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This volume brings together information on the available and newly emerging technologies related to using plant compounds that have a beneficial role in food production.

In Latino Professionals in America, Maria Chavez combines rich qualitative interviews, auto-ethnographic accounts, and policy analysis to explore the converging oppressions that make it difficult for Latinos to become professionals and to envision themselves as successful in those professions.

Nutrition and Health: Topics and Controversies explores in detail the relationship between diet, nutritional status, and disease, and evaluates nutritional practices intended to minimize the incidence of and slow the progress of major chronic illnesses.

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference.

Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict?

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The last decade has seen an explosion of medical information in regards to the nutrition care and management of children.

This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records.

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

This book examines the challenges posed by the largely unfamiliar culture in which the Special Court for Sierra Leone operates.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates.

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood.

In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican church in London.

This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date theoretical review and practical guide on pediatric gastrointestinal motility and functional disorders.

The unique essays in this collection use the underlying allegiance to scripture in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity to underscore the deep affinities between the three monotheistic traditions while at the same time encouraging respect for the differences between the traditions to be preserved.

This handbook provides key information on the clinical use of nutraceuticals, an increasingly common practice grounded in an understanding of the pharmacological activities of natural compounds and clinical evidence of efficacy and safety.

Elroy Bodes books on nature and life have made him a favorite of readers and critics.

This edited book assesses the impacts of various extreme weather events on human health and development from a global perspective, and includes several case studies in various geographical regions around the globe.

The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa.

This new book discusses the physiological factors that contribute to metabolic syndrome within the human body and spotlights the beneficial effects on the body of nutraceuticals and functional ingredients, botanicals and natural dietary supplements, structurally numerous antioxidants, B-vitamins, and diverse amino acids and vital nutrients.

This book takes an in-depth look at the theory and methods inherent in the tracing of riverine sediments.

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context.

Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas.

A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses.

Dancers are top performance athletes on stage - to keep fit andhealthy proper nutrition is an integral part of an optimal dancetraining.