Social and cultural anthropology

The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity and increase the impact and beauty of ethnographic study.

Through readings of novels, medical case studies, travelers' reports, photographs, and paintings, The Hypothetical Mandarin shows that in the West the connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "e;China.

Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination is a major intervention into discussions of Caribbean practices gathered under the rubric of "e;creolization.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities.

This book unearths new knowledge and challenges existing paradigms in relation to the integration of minority communities.

The new edition of Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies.

Performing Folk Songs is the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies.

This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse.

Cereals belong to the most important elements in the history of mankind.

Nutrient Metabolism, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the supply and use of nutrients in the human body and how the body regulates intake.

Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain presents the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-assess the neoliberal politics, xenophobia and racism that have undermined community cohesion in the United Kingdom since 1979, and which have continued largely unchecked through the last four decades.

Alcohol misuse is becoming an increasingly significant issue for people aged 55 and over, and providing effective counselling services to this growing client group requires a unique and specialised approach.

In the ever-growing field of sports nutrition and nutritional supplementation, it is imperative to have a comprehensive and extensive guide, which is exactly what Nutritional Supplements in Sports and Exercise provides.

Die Kategorie Race gewinnt aktuell wieder stärker an politischer Sichtbarkeit, bedingt vor allem durch die Black-Lives-Matter-Bewegung, Migration und Flucht, nicht zuletzt auch durch Theorieansätze wie Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, Intersektionalität oder Decolonizing der Gender Studies.

Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western "e;alternative"e; spiritual life.

Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia.

The Title Ethnology of Asia, Africa & Europe (Descriptive Study of All Races & Tribes in Three Continents), 2 Vols.

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

This book examines media, performance, and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage - a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals, artifacts, and cultural spaces.

In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade.

This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora.

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment.

This volume describes the ways Native American populations accommodated and resisted the encroachment of European powers in southeastern North America from the arrival of Spaniards in the sixteenth century to the first decades of the American Republic.

This book addresses the health status of both mothers and children, highlighting acute malnutrition through anthropometric indices such as weight-for-height, weight-for-age, height-for-age, and BMI.

This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia and Japan) and inland waters (China).

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

One hundred years after the publication of the great sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim s theories still resonate with the study of contemporary and historical religious societies.

This book examines the ways in which indigeneity interacts with climate change politics at multiple levels and at the same time offers a self-critical reflection on the role of ethnographic research (and researchers) in this process.

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This book explores the remarkable phenomenon of Chinese lineages - groups of people connected through patrilineal kinship ties, which have existed for centuries in China and which are currently undergoing significant revival after being suppressed in many parts of China during the cultural revolution period.

This book focuses on the use of microorganisms in relation to agriculture, aquaculture and related fields, ranging from biofertilizers to poultry production.

As organizations grow increasingly complex and unpredictable, the topic of proactivity at work has become of great importance for contemporary workplaces.

British Policy Towards the Indian States (1982) examines the concept of indirect rule in terms of both its application and consequences in the princely states of India during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

The tribal culture of India and their traditions and practices pervade almost all of the aspects of Indian culture and civilization.

The Indigenous movement in Ecuador was one of the most influential social movements in Latin America during the 1990s.

This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.

This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages.

Both nutrition deficiency and overnutrition can have a significant effect on the risk of infection.

Re-Visioning Psychiatry brings together new perspectives on the causes and treatment of mental health problems.

Now in its third edition, the best-selling Introduction to Human Nutrition continues to foster an integrated, broad knowledge of the discipline and presents the fundamental principles of nutrition science in an accessible way.

Waste Management Policies and Practices in BRICS Nations explores recent developments in waste management.

What does disgust have to do with citizenship?

This important volume provides not only an in-depth analysis of those risk communication strategies currently used to inform and educate the public around key health issues, but also the risks and effects of radon, a natural but carcinogenic gas that so far has seen relatively little wider coverage.

Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most.

Over the last few decades, there have been dramatic improvements in the understanding and research of environmental design.