Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening?
In recent years the subject of satanic ritual abuse (SRA) has incited widespread controversy focused primarily on whether or not such abuse actually occurs.
In this groundbreaking work, urban anthropologist Rae Bridgman, in careful and intimate detail, explores the perspectives of the women who work and live at Savard's, a unique shelter for homeless women.
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations.
Based on first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author's insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations extending back to Qing Dynasty times, ancient archaeological discoveries and the legacy of Siberian peoples, this two-volume ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region's cultures.
Every day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create a kolam, an ephemeral ritual design made with rice flour, on the thresholds of homes, businesses and temples.
Zunehmende Disparitäten innerhalb von Städten, Privatisierung staatlicher Bereiche, steigende Wohnkosten - Prozesse wie diese manifestieren sich in einzelnen Stadtvierteln und schaffen Bedingungen für Initiativen der Bevölkerung.
This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes.
This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative.
Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial and material.
Choice Recommended ReadThis volume tackles the critical question of whether people change or whether they remain relatively constant across the lifespan.
Post-war Japan was often held up as the model example of the first mature industrial societies outside the Western economy, and the first examples of "e;middle-mass"e; society.
Für eine erfolgreiche Schulkooperation sollen die Schulen möglichst viele strukturelle Gemeinsamkeiten und gemeinsame pädagogische Grundvorstellungen aufweisen, so lauten bisherige Befunde aus der Schulnetzwerkforschung.
CHOICE Recommended title 2022This timely book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, to one where we think about health as a shared capacity.
Stellen Sie sich vor: Sie sind ein gestresster Manager und sollten Ihr Zeitproblem mit einer "Zeitdiät" in den Griff bekommen, also: in den nächsten Wochen möglichst wenig Zeit zu verbrauchen.
Many nutrition science and food production myths and misconceptions dominate the health and fitness field, and many athletes and active consumers unknowingly embrace a myriad of what can be deemed "e;junk science"e; which has now infiltrated many related science fields.
This wide-ranging introduction to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean offers broad coverage of culture and society in the region, taking into account historical developments as well as the roles of power and inequality.
The collection demonstrates the ways in which established traditions and scholars have come together under the umbrella of linguistic ethnography to explore important questions about how language and communication are used in a range of settings and contexts, and with what effect.
Providing an accessible and comprehensive overview, The Story of the Salem Witch Trials explores the events between June 10 and September 22, 1692, when nineteen people were hanged, one was pressed to death and over 150 were jailed for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa (1894) is an important work of in-depth research into one of the principal indigenous communities of West Africa.
The chapters in this book vary from methods of assessing and monitoring nutritional status to those of the use of intravenous and enternal nutritional support.
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging.
In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as affect theory .
