Social and cultural anthropology

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Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen s prayers and sailors rituals the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions.

In which part of North London were wild beasts once thought to roam the sewers?

E-mails proposing an "e;urgent business relationship"e; help make fraud Nigeria's largest source of foreign revenue after oil.

Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today.

How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary LebanonSouth Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafes and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious.

Why do British pubs have such curious names?

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people.

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORHere is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war.

Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks.

With his acclaimed Eat Right 4 Your Type diet series, Dr Peter D'Adamo started a health craze which proved that when it comes to dieting, one plan does not fit all.

Do you know why Africa is so poor?

Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures?

Pregnancy and childbirth remains a mystical and magical time, characterised by feelings of hope, uncertainty and worry.

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Embrace a healthy and natural lifestyle in 2020 with this delicious collection of over 110 paleo-inspired recipes __________This is heavenly food which is also incredibly good for you; the type of food that your body was designed to eat.

Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds.

This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art.

Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present.

A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses.

This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world's most distinguished scholars of Japan.

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking.

With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi'i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East.

How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the state and religion?

On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shari?

Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past.

For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice.

A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species.

The meaning of our concern for mortal remains-from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge.

Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia?

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring.

A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health.

An intimate portrait of the Big AppleAs a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "e;Last Stop.

Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations that they were destroying nature.

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

In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations.

Since the 1990s, suicide in recession-plagued Japan has soared, and rates of depression have both increased and received greater public attention.

The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.

A vivid portrait of India's outsourcing industryIn the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "e;dead ringers"e; for the more expensive American workers they have replaced-complete with Westernized names, accents, habits, and lifestyles that are organized around a foreign culture in a distant time zone.

Gaming the language of addiction treatmentScripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment.

How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually?

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms.

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

In The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights.

Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community.

The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries.

Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today.

In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies.