Social and cultural anthropology

Icelandic Folk Magic: Witchcraft of the North is Albert Bjorn's second book.

This volume puts ambiguity and its generative power at the centre of analytical attention.

Onda compares Japan's traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nation's societal fabric, with those of other countries across Asia, including Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and the Pacific islands region, namely Palau and Pohnpei.

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Food Phytates takes a new look at phytates, including their potential health benefits.

This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings.

Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences.

Con este libro, más que exponer lo que es el Caribe como concepto o percepción, lo que se quiere es mostrar que, con relación al espacio Caribe, existen distintas posturas, que van desde el hecho de aceptar su categoría como región de regiones hasta la que plantea que no existe dicha condición; es más, se aduce con respecto a la identidad de sus miembros que, a pesar de contar con algunas características que los hacen afines, dista mucho de conformar una unidad.

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known as magical thinking.

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers.

This book presents accounts of fieldwork conducted in French Louisiana by anthropologists and folklorists between the 1970s and 2000 and looks at the personal, ethical, political, and scientific issues researchers need to confront and resolve when they attempt to explain a modern complex culture by using the traditional tools and methods of anthropology, participant observation, and interviews.

This internationally renowned author team provides a unique and thorough analysis and distillation of the endocannabinoid system and its relationship to abdominal obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

This book explores gender topics related to social transitions and social struggles in the context of the urban transformations accompanying the evolving political economy of China's New Era, here defined as the period since 2017.

This book offers strategies and solutions for rural communities dependent on fossil fuel economies to enable them to transition to sustainable development.

This book explores the multifaceted realities of religious conversion, challenging conventional notions of faith, identity, and change.

This book explores the multifaceted realities of religious conversion, challenging conventional notions of faith, identity, and change.

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The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are integral to dietary recommendations across federal food and nutrition programs and serve as a resource for developing food and nutrition policies and regulations as well as development of national dietary guidelines.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

*; Presents magickal techniques with crystals for warding off harmful energies, binding, and curse breaking, including crystal grids, amulets, spells, and rituals*; Explains how to discern the symptoms of psychic attack and offers multiple methods for cleansing your energy field and your crystals*; Includes an in-depth directory of 145 of the most powerful and effective crystals and gemstones for protection, banishing, and recovery from psychic attackIn this full-color guide, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson shows how crystals are ideally suited for confronting negative energies and providing enduring protection as he demonstrates how to partner with the mineral kingdom for protection, cleansing, and countermagick.

In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism, Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century.

This innovative book documents border porosities that have developed and persisted between Greece and North Macedonia over different temporalities and at different localities.

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