Social and cultural anthropology

Obesity affects 17 percent of children and adolescents and almost 36 percent of adults in the United States.

"e;[A] master class in American cultural and intellectual history.

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them.

'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other.

When over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple religious group committed suicide in 1978, they left a legacy of suspicion and fear.

The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.

This volume provides a contemporary and historical overview of infant nutrition in Europe, North America, and the Third World.

Completely revised and updated, Nutrition Support for the Critically Ill Patient: A Guide to Practice, Second Edition presents an unbiased, evidence-based examination of critical nutrition across the life cycle.

Islands have been at the heart of our desires, and our fears, forever.

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year.

Drawing upon perspectives from across the globe and employing an interdisciplinary life course approach, this handbook explores the production and reproduction of different types of inequality across a variety of social contexts.

This book offers an interdisciplinary study of hip-hop music written and performed by rappers who happen to be out black gay men.

Lack of proper nutrition can severely impact the immune system, especially when it is already compromised.

This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives.

This collection brings together recent innovative work in applied and practicing anthropology.

This ''collective remembrance'' of the Great War reassesses one of the critical episodes in twentieth-century cultural history.

Ethnographic writing has become all but ubiquitous in recent years.

This is the first volume to explore clinical and applied sociology in Aotearoa New Zealand, while also providing unique insights into the practice of sociology internationally.

The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living.

On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney's annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway.

Vunamami attempts to isolate the dynamic that produces economic development by analyzing the interplay of forces over a ninety-year period in a village in the Tolai area of New Guinea.

International markets have emerged as the favoured way of achieving not only economic growth and efficiency but also political freedom and social justice.

Illuminating the Dark Side's Spirits, Fiends, Devils, and Demons.

Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth cliches of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media.

What is the valuereligious, political, economic, or altogether socialof getting on a bus in Tehran to embark on an eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine outside Damascus?

Elroy Bodes books on nature and life have made him a favorite of readers and critics.

Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund werden in der deutschen Berichterstattung zahlreichen Analysen zufolge überproportional in Problemzusammenhängen dargestellt.

First published in 1982: This publication should be an invaluable tool to food technologists, dieticians, and nutritionalists, as well as to livestock producers and persons engaged in production, processing, and formulation of animal feeds.

Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state.

Drawing on a wide range of social science disciplines and approaches, each chapter in this book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protest, political dissent and collective action.

The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car.

This edited book engages with the rapidly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, that is, the interlinkages between sexual lives, material and virtual geographies and digital practices.

Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge.

Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal superstition , the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of structural health monitoring, as presented at the 9th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (CSHM-9), held in Kuwait on February 12-14, 2024.

Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called dark times.

This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of urban lifestyles.

At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums.

Caffeine-found in tea, coffee, mate, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products-is an integral part of the diet of many people.

Diet Evaluation: A Guide to Planning a Healthy Diet provides knowledge about diet and health along with an accurate and convenient way to assess the nutritional adequacy of individual and family diets.

Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events.

What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments?

This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes.

Domination and Cultural Resistance examines the social life of the Yura, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group of central Bolivia, and focuses especially on their indigenous authorities, the kuraqkuna or elders.

Warum verstoffwechseln wir dieselben Mahlzeiten so unterschiedlich?

The demographic phenomena of increased life expectancy, increasing global population of older adults, and a larger number of older people as a proportion of the total population in nations throughout the world will affect our lives and the life of each person we know.

The factors affecting blood vitamin C levels are described in detail in this series.

Reckoning with Change in Yucatan engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating local belonging and a force of transformation in its own right.

The changes that are engulfing the world today - the fall of nation-states and dictatorships, migrations and border crossings, revolution, democratization, and the international spread of capital - call for new approaches to the subject of crime.