This comprehensive volume explores the role that nutraceuticals can play in addressing obesity, shedding light on their potential as tools to promote sustainable weight management strategies as well as addressing associated health risks.
Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought offers an introduction to the history of anthropological thought, encompassing eleven concise chapters that revolve around the concept of human alterity.
Exploring the meanings in the intricate symbolism of a rare PrecolumbianmanuscriptThisbook explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbianart dating to the fifteenth century, one of the few surviving books from beforethe Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Día a día los ciudadanos encaran la necesidad de tramitar documentos de diverso tipo para acreditar su identidad, conducir un automóvil o certificar una condición determinada; deben pagar los recibos de servicios públicos o asegurar la inscripción de una firma, un sello o un número en un papel que, de no encontrarse "en regla", puede obstaculizar su salida del país, el acceso a algún beneficio o servicio o la compra de un inmueble.
The role of place-making and architecturein mobile culturesTherelationship of hunter-gatherer societies to the built environment is oftenoverlooked or characterized as strictly utilitarian in archaeological research.
This comprehensive volume explores the role that nutraceuticals can play in addressing obesity, shedding light on their potential as tools to promote sustainable weight management strategies as well as addressing associated health risks.
Theinfluence of baseball heritage in society and cultureBaseballspast has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been writtenabout both the sport and its history.
In Ancient Andean Houses, Jerry Moore offers an extensive survey of vernacular architecture from across the entire length of the Andes, drawing on ethnographic and archaeological information from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia to the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile.
Varied approaches to an overlooked timeperiod in the history and archaeology of the MediterraneanThisbook presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, andSicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time inthe history of the central Mediterranean.
Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.
Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers-and interactions between them-in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust.
Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers.
Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego is an ethnographic exploration of the lives, work, and cultural systems of the high-seas tuna fishermen from San Diego, California.
Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego is an ethnographic exploration of the lives, work, and cultural systems of the high-seas tuna fishermen from San Diego, California.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades.
Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture.
In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change.
Destination Anthropocenedocuments the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago.
The origins of many Scottish festivals, such as Beltane and Hallowe’en, lie deep in the pagan past, and although the significance of many festivals may now be long forgotten, they have continued to evolve and evolve to satisfy the needs of the time.
Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905-1960 offers a compelling exploration of the evolution of liberal thought in Japan during a period of profound social, political, and economic transformation.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States.
Morality and Power in a Chinese Village: The Peasant as Moral Philosopher delves into the intricate interplay of moral philosophy, communal values, and political transformations in Chen Village, a small farming community in Guangdong Province, China.
From the fashion label Dior being accused of cultural appropriation after using American Indian imagery in an ad campaign for its "e;Sauvage"e; fragrance, to the backlash against Kendall Jenner's afro-esque hairstyle in Vogue, debates about cultural appropriation have reached a fever pitch.
Morality and Power in a Chinese Village: The Peasant as Moral Philosopher delves into the intricate interplay of moral philosophy, communal values, and political transformations in Chen Village, a small farming community in Guangdong Province, China.
Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.
Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other.
The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty offers a rigorous constitutional and methodological rethinking of the United States' relationship to Indigenous polities.
Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives.
