Social and cultural anthropology

This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century.

Originally published in 1998, Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora examines the lives and the continuing ritual traditions of the Mayas in the United States.

Institutions Incorporated draws together aspects of human and organizational corporeality and links them to institutions.

Do newborns think?

Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a personof mixed European and American Indianancestry.

Ask a random American what springs to mind about Sedona, Arizona, and they will almost certainly mention New Age spirituality.

Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion.

While pundits point to multiracial Americans as new evidence of a harmonious ethnic melting pot, in reality mixed race peoples have long existed in the United States.

Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapa people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions.

This book situates Roma mobility as a critical vantage point for migration studies in Europe, focusing on questions about Europe, 'European-ness', and 'EU-ropean' citizenship through the critical lens of Roma racialisation, marginalisation, securitisation, and criminalisation, and the dynamics of Roma mobility within and across the space of 'Europe'.

On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China's Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station.

The mission of the Nutrition and Health Series of books is to provide health profes- sionals with texts that are considered essential, because each book includes (I) a synthesis of the state of the science, (2) timely, in-depth reviews by the leading researchers in their respective fields, (3) extensive, up-to-date-fully annotated reference list, (4) a detailed index, (5) relevant tables and figures, (6) identification of paradigm shifts and their consequences, (7) virtually no overlap of information between chapters, but targeted interchapter referrals, (8) suggestions of areas for future research, and (9) balanced, data- driven answers to patients' questions, which are based on the totality of evidence rather than the findings of any single study.

More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all.

This book presents recent developments involving the role of nanoparticles on plant physiology and growth.

Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015.

Food--how we produce, prepare, share and consume it--is fundamental to our wellbeing.

Originally published in 1961, this book analyses economic changes in Africa and the restructuring of social relations to which this hs led.

In Defending Rumba in Havana, anthropologist and dancer Maya J.

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

A novel study on consciousness and the brain that places culture at the center of the analysis.

This comprehensive text provides the latest research on key concepts, principles and practices for promoting healthy and sustainable food systems.

There is a great deal of consumer interest in natural bioactive substances due to their health benefits.

This book illustrates the role of researchers' affects and emotions in understanding and making sense of the phenomena they study during ethnographic fieldwork.

Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict.

The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world.

This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multidisciplinary field of social research.

Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other.

The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?

In this expansive yet concise survey, Christopher Fennell discusses archaeological research from sites across the United States that once manufactured, harvested, or processed commodities, uncovering key insights into American history.

In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of the regional resources and political culture of northern Ghana.

Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century.

Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce.

This book clarifies the cause and consequences of hypercortisolism to help readers do something about it.

This book combines media studies and linguistics with theories of national and supranational identity to offer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European identity/ies and news discourses.

Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.

Medical Geology is a rapidly growing field concerned with the relationship between natural geological factors and human and animal health, as well as with improving our understanding of the influence of environmental factors on the geographical distribution of health problems.

As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics.

Colonised subjects can play roles that sustain the power structure of coloniality.

Ethnomusicological fieldwork has significantly changed since the end of the the 20th century.

The charismatic revival movements of the 1970s in Melanesia were the most significant religious development in the region's history, but until now there has been no full-scale look at the regional upheaval or of why it occurred.

This book unearths new knowledge and challenges existing paradigms in relation to the integration of minority communities.

This edited collection offers in-depth perspectives into the emergence and development of LGBTQ+ movements in Central and Eastern Europe, including analysis of Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine.

Scholarly studies of Chinese culture, history and society, both within and outside of China, generally pay little attention to leisure, entertainment and amusement, though it has long been known that this aspect of life gives a deep understanding of the psyche and soul, and the hopes and fears, of a person.

Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the associational revolution in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia.