Social and cultural anthropology

Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals.

Mindful Eating Embrace mindful eating and be a whole new you Are you struggling to lose weight?

Biofortification, which can be defined as the process of increasing the content/density of essential nutrients and/or its bioavailability of food with valuable compounds, is a promising means of increasing nutrient intakes.

Foot and mouth disease, CJD, GM, and fears about modern methods of food production have put food safety in the spotlight.

They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory.

Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise.

Vegan Witchcraft is the first book to blend theories of animal rights, feminism, and modern witchcraft in pursuit of total liberation.

This book proposes a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies.

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This book provides an up-to-date overview of the current knowledge and research concerning domestic pets as sentinels, forecasters and promoters of human health.

This book aims to delve into the application of feminist ethnography by engaging with the lived experiences of vulnerable workers, occupied by India's informal workforce, across its deeply stratified labour-market landscape.

Die Ethnologin und Soziologin Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg analysiert in dieser Untersuchung allgemeinverständlich die Ausformung der sexuellen, sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und kultischen Rolle der Frau im europäischen Kulturkreis.

What does imagination do for our perception of the world?

Engaging Cultural Ideologies offers a recontextualization of the effects of Poland's cultural practices, especially those concerning issues such as nationalism, elitism, and race, on the genesis and performance of contemporary Polish compositions from 1918 to 1956.

What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education?

The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China's visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion.

This volume discusses the reduction, recycling, and reuse of industrial and agricultural biomass wastes to develop value-added products using environmentally sustainable practices and technologies.

In the early 1980s, in a rural village in South India, a Dalit woman miscarried.

An important collection of essays and scholarship by Cuban archaeologists about precontact human settlement on the island.

This book argues for the importance of omega-3 fatty acids in our diet.

This Brief examines the impact of the Oxford Transport Strategy in central Oxford as a means of assessing the effect of reduced traffic congestion in the city centre on its sustainability.

There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring.

Yanagita Kunio almost singlehandedly initiated the serious study of folklore in Japan.

This book presents a comprehensive guide to traditional immunity-boosting medicinal plants of the Himalayas, their traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, diversity, conversation, biotechnology, toxicology, as well as future prospective.

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

Der NRKP umfasst alle der Lebensmittelgewinnung dienenden, lebenden und geschlachteten Tierarten sowie Primärerzeugnisse vom Tier wie Milch, Eier und Honig.

In Yemen, where current poverty is combined with a rich cultural heritage, the distinctions between the traditional and the modern are particularly difficult.

This volume focuses on how Indigenous communities of the Americas have long recognized degrees of personhood within their landscapes, and its case studies show how researchers can incorporate this worldview in archaeological investigations, community relations, and interpretations.

The World Health Organisation estimates that, by 2030, six out of every ten people in the world will live in a city.

Die moderne Lebensweise entfernt uns immer weiter von unserem natürlichen Biorhythmus.

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people.

This book is designed to meet the needs of nurse practitioners, other advanced practice nurses, and allied health professionals working in women's health, primary care, and other specialties.

For centuries we have known that fruit is important for health, but we are only just beginning to fully understand why.

Learn the secrets of The Witch of the Forest in this stunning follow-up to Natural Magick, and channelthe elemental forces which are all around you to master the practice of earth magick.

What information is available to inform the planning of a nutrition research agenda for the United States and Canada?

Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence.

In these talks, written and presented to a variety of audiences between 2001 and 2010, John Michael Greer explores the forgotten history of occultism and its unexpected possibilities in our time.

Hitherto, cultural theory and empirical work on culture have outstripped cultural policy.

In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn.

Chromium nutritional supplements are the second best selling mineral supplements after calcium as chromium is found in pills, sports drinks, chewing gums, smoothies, and numerous other products.

Adam's Bridge offers the first comprehensive transdisciplinary study of the famous eponymous tombolo (also known as Ram Setu) combining its sacral, historical, geological, political, performative, and heritage aspects into one framework, viewed under the critical lenses of island studies and cultural theory.

For hundreds of years cannabis has been used as a therapeutic medicine around the world.

Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders.

Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications is essential reading for medical and allied health practitioners who want to bring scientific insights of the importance of fascia to human health into their clinical practices.

Further Developments in the Theory and Practice of Cybercartography, Third Edition, Volume Nine, presents a substantively updated edition of a classic text on cybercartography, presenting new and returning readers alike with the latest advances in the field.

How to use information and communication technologies in organizations and how to manage their impact has been the traditional domain of computer specialists and management consultants.