Social and cultural anthropology

Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people.

This book explores the nexus of corruption, late capitalism, and illiberal politics in the Trump era.

This book focuses on Akan-speaking Ghanaians in London and explores in detail the experience of African migrants living in Britain, investigating how they construct their British citizenship through their membership of the church.

Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico.

This book examines the intersecting forces of nationalism, terrorism, and patriotism that normalize an acceptance of the global war on terror as essential to maintaining freedom and democracy as defined by white nation-states.

Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.

Through ethnographical cases, this book examines the ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, states, moralities, and local/state authorities, creating opportunities for agency.

In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison.

This ethnography analyses labour relations within the export-oriented cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha in Kenya.

Moroccan culture today is a blend of Berber, African, Arab, Jewish, and European influences in an Islamic state.

Why do humans who seem to be exemplars of virtue also have the capacity to act in atrocious ways?

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life.

"e;Mixed race"e; is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts.

The Turkish-Syrian borderlands host almost half of the Syrian refugees, with an estimated 1.

This book presents the recent findings on air quality in Africa from the virtual event of the first International Conference on Air Quality in Africa (ICAQ 2022), providing a comprehensive overview on many subjects of air pollution that affect African society.

The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples.

A key intervention in the growing critical literature on race, this volume examines the social construction of race in contemporary Australia through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and whiteness.

In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramon Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "e;society of affliction"e; that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion.

Nutrition in Infancy: Volume 1 is a very useful resource for all clinicians treating and preventing nutritional problems in infants.

This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, much of what is now the southwestern United States was known as Alta California, a remote part of New Spain.

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives.

A precise analysis of biogenic amines is important as an indicator of food freshness or spoilage that can cause serious toxicity.

This book provides a clear and detailed examination of why it is so difficult to secure comprehensive political engagement and actionable, effective policy on sexual and reproductive health rights in sub-Saharan Africa.

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The decline of the Christian churches in the West is undeniable but commentators differ in their understanding of what this represents.

This up-to-date reference on the nutrition management of inherited metabolic diseases (IMD) covers a wide range of these disorders, including phenylketonuria and other aminoacidopathies, organic acidemias, urea cycle disorders, fatty acid oxidation disorders, galactosemia and glycogen storage diseases.

The book comprehensively reviews the role of nutrition in psychiatric disorders.

Within the complex religious landscape of modern India, the community of Sindh stands out as a powerful example of interfaith relations.

This book contains the most recent papers problematizing the notions of health, vulnerability, and well-being for individuals and their environment.

Examining Internet culture in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US, this book analyzes videos which entertain both English and Chinese-speaking viewers to gain a better understanding of cultural similarities and differences.

This book applies a framework of 'trans vitalities' through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, DC.

The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine.

Scientists, health professionals, and consumers are increasingly interested in the relationships between food components and food-drug combinations as they strive to find more effective ways to prevent or treat chronic disease.

Based on a five-year research project, Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women introduces an innovative approach to overcoming the growing socio-economic burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from emotionally-driven female obesity.

Le mythe est un type singulier de représentations collectives qui se prête aux définitions les plus diverses et les plus contradictoires, aussi bien dans la littérature scientifique que dans la langue courante.

Living with Diabetes and Uncertainty in Cairo offers an ethnographic exploration of the interactions of two different understandings of type-2 diabetes: one related to the notion of daght, translated as "e;pressure"e; or "e;stress,"e; and another related primarily to obesity.

Under the weight of apparently growing consumer affluence, globalisation and post-modern social theory, many have proclaimed the declining significance of social class and place to young people's lives - and for social science.

The book offers new insight into the diversity of democracy promotion.

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

The Colonial Office (1956) examines the organisation and work of the Office as it stood in the mid-1950s.

This collection pushes migration and "e;the minor"e; to the fore of literary anthropology.

How do older queer adults navigate space, community, and social environments?

Borders of desire takes a novel approach to the study of borders: rather than seeing them only as obstacles to the fulfillment of human desires, this collection focuses on how borders can also be productive of desire.