Social and cultural anthropology

An illuminating look at the concept of the generic and its role in making meaning in the world.

Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations.

Do you want to cast a spell on a suitor, banish a ghost, cure a toothache, or harvest protective herbs?

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean.

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor.

Since the 1970s and 1980s, the study of immigration and ethnicity has grown to become an essential aspect of North American history.

Secret Manipulations is the first comprehensive study of African register variation, polylectality, and derived languages.

Long before modern medicines became so widely available, families treated everyday illnesses with home-made remedies.

The science of nutrition has advanced beyond expectation since Antoine La- voisier as early as the 18th century showed that oxygen was necessary to change nutrients in foods to compounds which would become a part of the human body.

The original work, in Russian, appeared in 1947 and is still regarded as an important contribution to knowledge of the early history of the Eskimo.

Este libro está organizado en tres capítulos que corresponden a características geográficas, temáticas y cronológicas del Magdalena.

To Feed a Nation takes the reader on a journey over the centuries, describing the slow and arduous development of Australian food technology and science from before European settlement to the latter half of the twentieth century.

Statistics in Nutrition and Dietetics is a clear and accessible volume introducing the basic concepts of the scientific method, statistical analysis, and research in the context of the increasingly evidence-based field of nutrition and dietetics.

*; Details hands-on techniques, spells, and rituals paired with personal stories from the author's decades of magical practice *; Presents teachings on working with each element in different ways--such as divination, communication, healing, protection, manifestation, and enchantment *; Explores elemental altars, scrying and reading the bones, undines and fairies, working with runes and crystals, ancestral healing, weather sensing, fire gazing, candle magic, sex magic, and communicating with the Otherworld A Book of Shadows is a witch's sacred journal, filled with personal experiences and the intimate working of spells.

Modern Chaldeans are an Aramaic speaking Catholic Syriac community from northern Iraq, not to be confused with the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of the same name.

This book explores the lives of male sex workers living in Dublin, Ireland.

For many centuries Jews have been renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

Water pollution is one of the most serious problems plaguing China today with millions of citizens drinking water unfit for consumption.

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool.

If societies, like institutions, are built to endure, then the bond that exists between generations must be considered.

Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations.

The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists.

Bringing together historians and political scientists, this unique collaboration compares nineteenth-century civil societies that failed to develop lasting democracies with civil societies that succeeded.

The Handbook of Mental Health and Space brings together the psychosocial work on experiences of space and mental distress, making explicit the links between theoretical work and clinical and community practice.

This book was first published in French in the wake of events which have come to be known in Quebec as the 'October crisis of 1970.

While women are generally perceived to be less competitive than men, women compete in many ways and in a variety of situations.

At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the African Diaspora with all their apprehensions set out in steamships en route and carried with them a certain presence to the metropoleis of Europe and North America.

Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners.

Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar.

Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and a repository of redemptive power and wisdom.

What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide?

The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South.

This book, the third in the series Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment, is dedicated to Fukushima.

Bringing nuance, complexity, and clarity to a subject often seen in black and white, Writing Immigration presents a unique interplay of leading scholars and journalists working on the contentious topic of immigration.

Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema's century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by the cinematic apparatus.

An expert's guide to re-nourishing your mind and body through nutrition by London's leading Harley Street Nutritionist, Rhiannon Lambert (@Rhitrition on Instagram).

During the 1970s a wave of counter-culture people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia.

This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation in New York City.

In this book, Sarah E.

Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It.

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars.

Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines.

An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own makingOther species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours.

Cancer: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants, Second Edition, covers the science of oxidative stress in cancer and the potentially therapeutic usage of natural antioxidants in the diet or food matrix.

Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception.

Identifies town site locations and clarifies entries from the earliest documents and maps of explorers in Alabama This encyclopedic work is a listing of 398 ancient towns recorded within the present boundaries of the state of Alabama, containing basic information on each village's ethnic affiliation, time period, geographic location, descriptions, and (if any) movements.

China's rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world.

This timely volume provides an overview to the causes, effects on systems and clinical approaches of metabolic acidosis.

The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage.