Social and cultural anthropology

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, officially recognizing that various risk factors for disease are present in our environment, has proposed the concept of lifestyle-related diseases.

Deutsche Migranten in den USA feierten viel und gern.

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants.

Public Opinion and Canadian Identity offers a profound exploration of the complex and evolving nature of Canadian national identity, as seen through the lens of public opinion data spanning two decades.

This book examines contamination in groundwater.

In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times.

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control.

Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release of a pathogen to the actual human infection Provides techniques on how to gather information, on how each microorganism moves through the environment, how to determine their survival rates on various media, and how people are exposed to the microorganism Explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure the impact of interventions and identify the best policies and practices to protect public health and safety Includes new information on genetic methods Techniques use to develop risk models for drinking water, groundwater, recreational water, food and pathogens in the indoor environment

A 2002 study of Mozambique''s economic transformation and the social and political forces behind it.

In her acclaimed book Soldiers in a Narrow Land, Mary Helen Spooner took us inside the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress - whether political or economic - has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new.

One major example of the synergy of bioactive foods and extracts is their role as an antioxidant and the related remediation of cardiovascular disease.

From bilingual education and racial epithets to gendered pronouns and immigration discourses, language is a central concern in contemporary conversations and controversies surrounding social inequality.

This book provides a comprehensive review of recent innovations in food science that are being used to tackle the challenges of food safety, nutritional security and sustainability.

Connect with the divine power of Mother Earth by celebrating with the wheel of the year.

First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought a massive change in every domain of life, particularly in the cultural sector, where artists were suddenly "e;free"e; from party-mandated modes of representation and now could promote and sell their work globally.

Song and music have always played an important part in the cultural identity of the mariners and coastal peoples of the Red Sea.

For the first time in a thousand years, Americans are experiencing a reversal in lifespan.

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past.

Dieses Buch soll dazu beitragen, dass Rauchmelder durch Auswahl und Montage zuverlässig Schäden und Rauchopfer, sowie Falschmeldungen vermeiden.

Engaging groups in drama is a highly effective way to break down barriers and build resilient teams.

Faunalia is a controversial Pagan festival with a reputation for being wild and emotionally intense.

Filipino migrants constitute one of the largest global diasporas today.

Saudi Arabia is a young nation with an ancient history.

The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s.

This book examines the various ways in which colonialism in Zimbabwe is remembered, looking both at how people analyse, perceive, and interpret the past, and how they rewrite that past, elevating some players and their historical agency.

Essential fatty acids are fatty acids that humans must ingest because the body requires them for good health, but it cannot synthesize itself.

Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE-2023).

In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked-despite its former place as the country's main cocaine-producing region.

The first ethnography to examine the role of urban transformation, caste and language in shaping India''s contemporary news culture.

Psychoanalytic Insights into Fundamentalism and Conviction: The Certainty Principle examines the role of, and need for, certainty in mental life, addressing questions raised by fundamentalism and extremism and exploring its relation to human nature.

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This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

The people of South Asia includes a very large number of primitive tribes who subsists on hunting, fishing and simple form of agriculture.

Research on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment.

This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science.

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation.

Cobalamin (vitamin B12) was discovered in the first half of the 20th century.

Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: Food & NutritionFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Develop your students' knowledge and food preparation skills for the new GCSE; approved by AQA, this title caters to all ability levels, offers detailed assessment guidance and draws on the expertise of the UK's leading Hospitality and Catering publisher*.