Social and cultural anthropology

The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas.

Reimagining the garden as a vital metaphysical framework for understanding the intricate relationships between health, well-being, and the environment, the book proposes a holistic, ecologically sensitive model that integrates mind, body, nature, and community.

Each one of us comes with a history, a complex web of DNA and a library of information that shapes who we are and how we view the world.

This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation.

This book will be a comprehensive account of the various facets of nutraceuticals domain.

Based on interviews and conversations in the Bosnian Federation with women survivors of war rape, children born of armed conflict, leaders of NGOs who work with survivors, and people who lived through the war and who experienced it in different ways, this book challenges one-dimensional representations of the Yugoslav war and subsequent peacebuilding processes.

Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through toxic tours in which a guide brings participants - students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, and foreign tourists - to visit contaminated sites.

A succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times.

Using a mixed-method approach, Unintended Consequences of Human Actions documents a wide range of unintended and unanticipated consequences of human actions.

This book focuses on the work of Chinese contemporary artist Liang Shaoji and emphasises the contribution of multispecies ethnography to art criticism.

As a backdrop of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (2016-2030), the United Nations pointed out that more than 6 million children still died before the age of five by 2015.

This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings.

This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions.

Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker.

This eight-volume encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging.

Communities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial Take Charge programs of the early 1990s.

This book draws on Mark Mc Auley's wealth of experience to provide an intuitive step-by-step guide to the modelling process.

The life histories and testimonies of nine Salvadoran women from different generations shape this intimate portrayal of contemporary El Salvador.

Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N.

The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace.

Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups.

In just over a decade, the Brazilian faith healer known as John of God has become an international superstar.

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.

The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith.

Over the span of history, not all pregnancies were met with welcome and anticipation.

Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology—as the study of human beings, their culture, and society—has an interest in the role of food.

Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, thisvolume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives toexplore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe andthroughout human history.

*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry Category of the 2011 BMA Book Awards*Working with Suicidal Individuals provides a comprehensive guide to understanding suicide, the assessment of risk, and the treatment and management of suicidal individuals.

Quinoa rose to global stardom pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a bright future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglect.

Go beyond the nutritional value to discover the lesser known health benefits of certain Asian crops Several foods from the Asian culture that are not well known to other parts of the world have health benefits that stretch beyond mere nutritional value.

This book is an important contribution to our understanding of food in China through an ethnographic case study of an alternative food movement in Shanghai and the surrounding countryside.

Feeding problems in children are relatively common, and often resolve themselves with little need for intervention.

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an attractive investment destination.

The New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families offers an illuminating exploration of the societal transformations in Maharashtra during a pivotal era in Indian history.

Consumers look to health professionals for guidance on how to integrate complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies into their lifestyles, yet most health care professionals are trained only in conventional practices.

The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations.

In Harmony: The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra is a stirring, historical account of these three Massachusetts ensembles.

It is largely through the work of David Lewis-Williams that San rock art has come to be understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious beliefs and practices.

A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution.

An authoritative and comprehensive review of current research in vitamin nutrition, deficiency and metabolism.

This book addresses the numerous national movements of ethnic groups around the world seeking independence, more self-rule, or autonomy-movements that have proliferated exponentially in the 21st century.

#MeToo has sparked a global re-emergence of sexual violence activism and politics.

Winner of the IAJS Book Award 2023 for Best Theoretical BookTraditionally, alchemy has been understood as a precursor to the science of chemistry but from the vantage point of the human spirit, it is also a discipline that illuminates the human soul.

Workers from the Syrian diaspora have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades, building multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, toiling for backbreaking hours in grocery stores.

In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society's ills.

This book focuses on prehistoric East Asian maritime cultures that pre-dated the Maritime Silk Road, the "e;Four Seas"e; and "e;Four Oceans"e; navigation system recorded in historical documents of ancient China.