Social and cultural anthropology

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997-2001).

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one expansive and wide-ranging collection.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 in Nutrition**Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, Fourth Edition, a Four Volume Set, provides updated information on the foundations of nutrition science, along with the biology and functions of vitamins and other essential nutrients present in the human diet.

Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media.

Originally published in 1915, this pioneer study has long occupied an important place in the literature of sociology.

Rita Floyd traces US environmental security policies from 1993 to 2009 and proposes a revised theory of security.

This enlightening auto-ethnography examines how social class (and other social institutions and structures) affect how people grow up.

A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - andthe impact of African child migration globally.

This international and interdisciplinary volume explores the relations between translation, migration, and memory.

Yoga has come to be an icon of Indian culture and civilization, and it is widely regarded as being timeless and unchanging.

Have you ever wondered what makes the Mediterranean diet so healthy?

Originally published in 1945, this book was written at a time when an increasing European influence was affecting customary law in what was Tanganyika and this volume records different aspects of customary law such as inheritance, matrimony, divorce, property and the courts.

Clive, Proconsul of India (1976) examines the life of the man held by many to be one of the main originators of European imperialism in Asia in the eighteenth century.

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.

Recent global events, including the 'Arab Spring' uprisings, Occupy movements and anti-austerity protests across Europe have renewed scholarly and public interest in collective action, protest strategies and activist subcultures.

This book examines the critical issue of environmental pollutants produced by the textiles industry.

>Human reproduction is mediated through many technologies, both high- and low-tech.

Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally.

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This book serves as a definitive nutritional reference for medical practitioners who care for patients with digestive diseases.

It is often claimed that humans are rational, linguistic, cultural, or moral creatures.

The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "e;a dog pissing at the edge of a path.

Kenya, a land of safaris, wild animals, and Maasai warriors, perfectly represents Africa for many Westerners.

Much has been written on witchcraft by historians, theologians, philosophers, and anthropologists, but nothing by scientists.

This book is a major intervention in the understanding of the dynamics of internal migration in South Asia.

This book examines the issue of solid waste generation and management as a worldwide phenomenon, focusing on strategies that facilitate the disposal and utilization of waste while ensuring environmental integrity and meeting the needs of future generations.

In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as it is felt and sensed by the racialized subjects.

There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage.

This unique book - the first ever on bariatric endocrinology - is a comprehensive endocrine and metabolism approach to the diseases that result from excess fat mass accumulation and adipose tissue dysfunction.

Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and political power in Italy, Spain, and Greece.

Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) Chemistry, Production, Products, and Utilization assesses the Hibiscus sabdariffa plant for food and nonfood uses, as well as for its use as fixed or essential oils.

This volume gathers a variety of applications for remote sensing of vegetation health (VH) and concretely shows how this information can be used in service of ending hunger and of ensuring future food security.

This timely publication concentrates on the exposure to pesticides by agricultural workers and residential users of pesticides through inhalation and physical contact.

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts.

Much of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States.

Sex in Development examines how development projects around the world intended to promote population management, disease prevention, and maternal and child health intentionally and unintentionally shape ideas about what constitutes "e;normal"e; sexual practices and identities.

Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers?

This book examines international post-9/11 policies by connecting them to the US violations of Japanese Americans' human rights during World War II.

Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion.

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience.

How you can solve the climate, energy and air pollution crises, without relying on ''miracle technologies''.

Drawing on--but also extending--the theories and methods of applied linguistics, this book demonstrates how scholars of language might work together and with non-language specialists to address pressing concerns and issues of our time.

This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo.

According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order.