Social and cultural anthropology

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food.

Plant-Based Functional Foods and Phytochemicals: From Traditional Knowledge to Present Innovation covers the importance of the therapeutic health benefits of phytochemicals derived from plants.

The introduction of artificial lighting extends the time of wakefulness after dark and enables work at night, thus disturbing the human circadian rhythm.

An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women in the Dominican Republic.

This companion analyzes, frames, and provokes race in insightful ways that center non white communities' artistic and visual expression in the early modern period, rather than presenting the bias of European artistic and visual depictions of the colonization, enslavement, and subordination of People of Color.

Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies is rooted in the instability, inequality and liquidity of the post-industrial era.

The World Multiple, as a collection, is an ambitious ethnographic experiment in understanding how the world is experienced and generated in multiple ways through people's everyday practices.

Much of the scholarship on difference in colonial Spanish America has been based on the "e;racial"e; categorizations of indigeneity, Africanness, and the eighteenth-century Mexican castas system.

At no other time in human existence have there been so many environmental changes.

This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology.

This collection explores, from a variety of angles, the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA is having on American culture and on national solidarity.

Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.

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As seen on 60 Minutes, a thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily prescient look at ';prepper' communities around the world that are building bunkers against a possible apocalypse.

Anthropologies of Value analyses the creation of value in a wide range of political and cultural contexts.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our "e;common ground"e; - that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity.

When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation?

Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists.

This book describes in fascinating detail the variety of experiments sponsored by the U.

On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "e;The Immigration Wars"e; on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it.

The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century.

Recent advances have contributed to our understanding of how a plant-based diet confers many health advantages and how substances from plants may be effective in the prevention of specific cancers.

Doing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies and theories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography and provides an opportunity to cultivate experience with included exercises.

If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations?

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the Mexico-U.

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide.

What is human well-being?

The Irish Famine saw hapless Irish citizens starve to death and die of disease, while the population of a neighbouring country, England, lived in relative bounty and apparent disinterest.

When Ishi, "e;the last wild Indian,"e; came out of hiding in August 1911, he was quickly whisked away by train to San Francisco to meet Alfred Kroeber, one of the fathers of American anthropology.

Literacy, Information, and Development in Morocco during the 1990s offers readers a two-level investigation of the culture of literacy.

Comprehensive review of the science and practice of parenting in diverse cultural contexts, including policy implications and interventions.

The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists.

This study of early cities in Mesoamerica will contribute significantly to the world-wide discourse on early cities and urbanism.

This volume explores how linguistic and cultural diversity in Greece, caused by various waves of emigration and immigration, has transformed Greek society and its educational system.

Analysing reciprocity from a multidisciplinary perspective, Oliver considers how this concept can help to inform public policy design.

First published in 1999, The Nenets' Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Northern Eurasia, an area which is also the homeland of such widely known epics as the Finnish Kalevala and Yakut Olonkho.

Over the past two decades, the fields of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics have complicated traditional understandings of the relationship between language and identity.

Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising positive outcomes for people's health and global sustainability.

This guide brings together the varied and multiple skills and activities required of pest control practitioners, including biology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, sales, logistics, legal and accounting, presented with a primary emphasis on pest organisms at its core.

A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa.

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Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession.

It was once assumed that mitochondrial diseases were rare and that few people were affected.

Presents a major reassessment of Lévi-Strauss, the influential anthropologist regarded as a major influence on the development of structuralism.

As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants.

Corps de ballet literally means the "e;body"e; of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals.