Social and cultural anthropology

This edited volume applies the analytic notions of paradox and play to the ethnographic manifestation of spirits, angels, and demons in different locations around the world.

As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health.

Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada.

Are superfoods just a marketing device, another label meant to attract the eye?

The role of nutrition in improving quality of life and combating disease is undeniable - and researchers from different disciplines are bringing their perspectives to bear on this fundamental topic.

This book is focused on the production, cultivation, processing, composition, nutritional value, value addition, health implications, limitations and safety of nutricereals with an emphasis on their functional significance.

This book reviews concepts and recent advances of biotechnological approaches for livestock production.

Building upon presentations given during the conference on 'Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice', held at University College London in November 2009, the articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards research is accessed and used by practitioners and decision-makers, and conversely, how policy and practice inform research.

With this eye-opening book in hand, readers will learn to forget everything they think they know about aging and to stop blaming their genes for their health issues.

This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group - Gujarati Indians - born and brought up in two different countries.

This book is intended as a source of information for the many scientists who now enter the growing research field of vitamin A in health and disease, reviewing the epidemiological aspects related to vitamin A.

This book examines international post-9/11 policies by connecting them to the US violations of Japanese Americans' human rights during World War II.

This book offers a comprehensive view of the relationship between the Indian tribes and the mainstream.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the "e;International Study Group for Tryptophan Research"e; (lSTRY), held at the University of Hamburg, Germany, from October 10 to 14, 1998.

This book focuses on the study of chemical dust suppression in mine dust pollution control by means of theories, experiments, computer simulation, and case application, aiming at providing chemical dust suppression solutions for mining worksites.

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

This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives.

Based on the everyday experiences of Uyghur business migrants, this book investigates how individuals embody and deploy minzu, one of the fundamental concepts in political and socioeconomic discourses in China after 1949, and how this concept travels to Australia with the migrants.

Nutritional Influences on Bone Health presents a collection of papers from the 8th International Symposium on Nutritional Aspects of Osteoporosis, the primary forum for and only regular meeting exclusively devoted to the topic of nutritional influences on bone health.

Constructing Race on the Borders of Europe investigates the visual imagery of race construction in Scandinavia, Austro Hungary, Germany, and Russia.

The main focus of The Palestinians in Israel (1979) is the position of the Arab minority in Israel, from being a majority to becoming a minority.

Philosophical thinking allows itself to be nourished by seemingly non-committal exercises of thought but at the same time seeks forms of irrefutable knowledge.

This book offers a fascinating new perspective on language, boundaries, and speakers'' impact on individuals'' capital and opportunities.

The largest social movement by people of Mexican descent in the U.

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

Overeating and obesity are on the rise.

Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time.

This is not just another book about crisis in Haiti.

Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency.

Ghrelin, the endogenous ligand for the growth hormone secretagogue (GHS) receptor, is critical in the control of food intake and energy balance.

In this thought-provoking book, a diverse range of educators, activists, academics, and community advocates provide theoretical and practical ways of activating our knowledge and understanding of how to build a human rights culture.

Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of the field of feminist anthropology.

This book discusses the colonial history of Tribe-British relations in India.

This book, based on field research in the West African country of The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by international efforts and how local actors interact with international organizations or opt not to do so.

Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son:"e;Why do we play ball?

Esta obra de Frankl presenta una imagen global, pero bien articulada del hombre.

For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the heart of their social life.

Multilevel marketing and pyramid schemes promote the idea that participants can easily become rich.

This unique work compiles the latest knowledge around veterinary nutraceuticals, commonly referred to as dietary supplements, from ingredients to final products in a single source.

Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community.

First published in 1957 ,and reprinted with a new introduction in 1986, Michael Young and Peter Willmott's book on family and kinship in Bethnal Green in the 1950s is a classic in urban studies.

Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems.

This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars.

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture.

Say the words "e;evangelical worship"e; to anyone in the United States -- even if they are not particularly religious -- and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white, middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to the sky.

Originally published in 1968, this book gave a rounded picture of some of the problems which were facing the Highlands of Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century.