Social and cultural anthropology

This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the country's new security, political and social environment since 1994.

Leili could not have imagined that arriving late to Islamic morals class would change the course of her life.

"e;A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research.

This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organization of our time.

Pflanzen und Zubereitungen daraus stellen einen wichtigen Teil der ausgewogenen Ernährung dar.

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s.

In the popular imagination, the Caribbean islands represent tropical paradise.

This book explores attitudes towards migrants and refugees from North Africa and the Middle East during the so-called migration crisis in 2015-2016 in Poland.

Over the last 30 years, the U.

Parliament as an Export (1966) deals with the adoption of overseas countries and particularly the Commonwealth countries of the British Parliamentary system.

This comprehensive and updated book focuses on breastfeeding and its long-term effects which affect health and development, providing a protective metabolic programming against chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and hypertension.

The appeal of sacred sites remains undiminished at the start of the twenty-first century, as unprecedented numbers of visitors travel to Lourdes, Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela, and even Star Trek conventions.

Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South.

A new reading of Panama's nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism Based on long-term ethnographic and archival research, From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions: Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building.

This work offers detailed coverage of the biochemical and metabolic framework that forms the basis for the current theory of nutrition support.

Divided into five sections, Agri-Food Industry Strategies for Healthy Diets and Sustainability: New Challenges in Nutrition and Public Health provides an overview of the challenges and future perspectives related to nutrition, public health, and sustainability.

This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988.

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Palestine is often characterised, from afar, as being plagued by insurmountable difference and violent conflict along religious and ethnic lines.

A fun and practical guide for adopting Paleo diet principles into your daily life The human body survived for more than 2 million years with the food found in nature: game meat, fish, vegetables, wild fruits, eggs, and nuts.

Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline.

A human being consists of a mammalian component and a multiplicity of microbes, collectively referred to as the "e;microbiota"e; or "e;microbiome,"e; with which it has a symbiotic relationship.

Throughout recorded history, people have placed wagers on all manner of unpredictable outcomes.

First published in 1981, Ethnic Segregation in Cities argues that race and ethnicity are fundamental to writing about the city, and that economic patterns adapt themselves to race and ethnicity rather than vice versa.

Originally published in 1978, this book explores the relationship between the Gaelic and English spheres of life, from the life of the bilingual Gael, in the confrontation of Highland and Lowland Scotland and the literary expressions of these.

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world.

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi year, systematic, quantitative assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well being changes over time in a small scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.

This book presents data on Ugandan khat within the context of international debates on the drug, and the proposed ban in 2009.

This volume gives scholars and students a working knowledge of the procedures, challenges, and benefits of using photo methods in their ethnographic work through studies by researchers who are currently using it.

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live.

Physical fitness affects our ability to function and be active.

The modern world may believe that authenticity empowers us to be our true selves.

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East.

Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from 'demystifying the Japanese', to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture.

This is the first book to summarize all aspects of allergenic pollen: production, atmospheric distribution, and health impacts, as well as the means of monitoring and forecasting these phenomena.

This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intertwining impact of violent trauma, culture, and power through case studies of two ministries serving in different demographic contexts within the United States.

A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets.

The first guide for adults struggling with picky eating, fears of choking or vomiting, or lack of interest in eating.

The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history.

Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples.

This book examines the ways that political agency can be understood in digitally dominated media environments.

Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this Festschrift.

Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township.

One of the most common questions Dr Michael A.

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.

Globally climate-induced disasters have been impacting marginalised communities' lives, livelihood and gendered relations.

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.