Social and cultural anthropology

Die Chemischen und Lebensmitteluntersuchungsämter der Bundesrepublik Deutschland legen jedes Jahr Tätigkeitsberichte vor.

In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres.

This new volume explains in detail the properties of micronutrients and macronutrients and their diverse uses as nutraceuticals for their beneficial properties, such as their antioxidant activity and immunity-boosting properties and how they can be incorporated into the human diet for optimum health, for growing beneficial bacteria in the gut, and inhibition of pathogens.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy.

This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data.

Both an introduction to sensory ethnography and a bold display of the sophisticated use of the sensory for contemporary ethnography, Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses reflects both indigenous and non-mainstream takes on the sensory and the sensual in ethnographic practice.

Giulia Sissa appartient à l'école de Jean-Pierre Vernant qui a complètement renouvelé l'étude de la pensée grecque.

This book is the first of its kind to tackle in detail the nutritional requirements of the industrialized, so-called developed world.

Inside OUT: Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era focuses on the enclosed environment of fully conditioned buildings, revealing a unique ecosystem with broad implications for human life and a rapidly expanding global footprint.

This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are.

Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images.

This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the market-religion convergences in Asia.

Food Fortification: The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food critically analyses mandatory food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting public health.

Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide.

This book provides an in-depth overview of marine greens and their environmental and biotechnological applications.

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.

A classic of Brazilian literary criticism and historiography, Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization explores the unique character of Brazil from its colonial beginnings to its emergence as a modern nation.

First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed.

Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in America.

In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people s lives, practices, and stories.

This book is about the theory of Hot and Cold, a mutual fundamental base of traditional medicines all around the world.

Nutrition for Sport, Exercise, and Performance offers a clear, practical, and accessible guide to building a comprehensive understanding of sport and exercise nutrition from leading experts in nutrition and exercise science.

This book presents fluoride and fluorocarbon toxicity with respect to remediation and health issues.

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.

The ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture!

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgo presents a new way of looking at the art of European unification.

Connects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer*; Explores the many theurgic themes and events in the Odyssey and the Iliad*; Analyzes the writings of Neoplatonists Porphyry and Proclus, showing how both describe the technical ritual praxis of theurgy in Homeric terms*; Examines the methods of telestik, a form of theurgic statue animation and technique to divinize the soul, and how theurgy is akin to shamanic soul flightFirst defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ancient magic practice whereby practitioners divinized the soul and achieved mystical union with a deity, the Demiurge, or the One.

This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South.

This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA.

Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning.

Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947.

Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world.

A rapprochement between anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics incorporating cultural and biological motivation.

There are two driving questions informing this book.

In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies.

This book provides valuable coverage on various immunomodulatory research associated with nutraceutical studies, from plant to animal and marine sources.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation.

This edited book brings together experts on the sociolinguistics of immigration with a focus on the Italo-Romance dialects.

Early Years Nutrition and Healthy Weight focuses on the early years of childhood as a key period in which eating and exercise habits are formed.

This important book offers a critical and timely reassessment of one of the cornerstones of analytical psychology, Jung's concept of archetypes.

In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism.

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence?

All over the world, people get dressed, mostly for the same reasons.

In the ninth century AD, settlers from the heartland of the Wari Empire founded Quilcapampa, a short-lived site overlooking the Sihuas River in southern Peru.

Examines how social relationships are developed and maintained through language.