Social and cultural anthropology

This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly style.

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services.

Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies.

An anthropologist's investigation of why some Brazilians choose to leave behind a booming economy and return to their villages.

Himalayan Fruits and Berries: Bioactive Compounds, Uses and Nutraceutical Potential presents nutraceutical fruits and berries from the Himalayan region and highlights their potential use in nutraceutical products.

The global nutraceutical and health supplement market is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by increasing consumer awareness and evolving healthcare needs.

Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses.

Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create.

In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice.

The first book to explore the sacred myths of Santera *; Includes more than 100 myths, stories, and histories about the odu and the orishas *; Reassembles the oral fragments from the African diaspora into coherent stories *; Demonstrates that the African peoples, specifically the Yoruba, were deeply spiritual At the core of the diloggn--the sacred divination system of Santera--are the sacred stories known as the pataks, narratives whose themes are as powerful and relevant today as they were in the minds of the ancient Yoruba who safeguarded them.

Holly Porter explores wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda.

This book facilitates constructive interdisciplinary dialogue among linguistics and philology specialists concerning various languages in Vietnam, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

This collection addresses the path to a new prosperity after the Great Recession.

John Millington Synge, who along with William Butler Yeats and Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory spearheaded the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century, was chiefly inspired by the four trips he took to the Aran Islands in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands.

This original and insightful book explores how horses can be considered as social actors within shared interspecies networks.

Heavy metals can be emitted into environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, mainly mining and industrial activity.

Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "e;wampum"e; to form intricately woven belts.

This book examines the legacy of a British child migration scheme that relocated British children to Southern Rhodesia between 1946 and 1962, with the aim of populating the colony with "e;fresh white stock"e;.

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Mannequins in Museums is a collection of historical and contemporary case studies that examine how mannequins are presented in exhibitions and shows that, as objects used for storytelling, they are not neutral objects.

This edited collection addresses concepts of value and its impact on economies and economic decision-making in Mesoamerica.

While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running thread can tell us about democratic theory.

Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as Ladino or non-Indian.

In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales.

The trade conflicts that the EU has faced within the EU or WTO context demonstrate that the question of how to balance trade and other societal values in situations of uncertainty has not been solved by the regulatory model evolved by the EU in the aftermath of the BSE crisis - one which privileges processes of depoliticisation and scientification.

First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness.

Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms.

This book discusses a wide range of health-related mining issues, with particular reference to occupational diseases, metal toxicity, postural injuries in miners, modern fire safety controls, noise-induced hearing loss prevention, and noise mapping.

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a diverse group of bacteria that comprise low GC content Gram-positive cocci or rods that produces lactic acid as the major end product of the fermentation process.

A sobering look at the seductive power of fascist ideas for the youngRadical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world.

Science in the Forest, Science in the Past: Further Interdisciplinary Explorations comprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity.

Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities.

Mauritian independence in 1968 marked the end of a regime favorable to the Franco-Mauritians, the island s white colonial elite.

Now more than ever, culinary professionals are expected to provide cuisine that satisfies the diverse nutritional needs of a vast population of consumers.

Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord's Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government.

Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels.

Eat Well, Age Better shows how you can recognize your nutritional shortfalls - deficits that will increase your risk of the degenerative diseases of age, including diabetes, osteoporosis, dementia, macular degeneration, heart disease, and stroke.

Cultural Compatibility in Educational Contexts examines the mechanism of control and efficacy underlying specific cultural contexts, intercultural value differences, and consequential conflicts, which invisibly and unintentionally cause communication difficulties and negative performances.

This book explores the transdisciplinary approach to general surgery for the frail patient, promoting the use of a geriatric model of care in general surgical settings and thus proposing a "e;gerosurgery"e; approach in frail persons beyond chronological age.

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A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran's criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentencesaccording to Amnesty International, the country has the world's highest rate of capital punishment per capita.

Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society.

This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.

This volume uses aerosol optical depth (AOD) analysis through mapping and remote sensing techniques to derive the relationship between aerosols and hazardous precipitation events, primarily in the form of flooding.

This book, introduced with a Foreword by Tim Ingold, offers a nuanced reflection on the meaning of making and artisan agency, demonstrating how copper-smithing produces not only objects, but also lives, worlds, meanings, and social transformation.