Social and cultural anthropology

This book tells the incredible true story of Ranulfo Juarez, a Mexican immigrant.

A Delaware Album, 1900-1930 contains over 300 postcard photographs from the entire state taken during the period from 1900 to 1930.

The Role of Alternative and Innovative Food Ingredients and Products in Consumer Wellness provides a guide for innovative food ingredients and food products.

Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements.

These three volumes provide valuable information to help bring rational and scientifically feasible solutions to petroleum contaminated soils.

This classic on shamanism pioneered the modern shamanic renaissance.

In recent years the Cochuah region, the ancient breadbasket of the north-central Yucatecan lowlands, has been documented and analyzed by a number of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists.

What information is available to inform the planning of a nutrition research agenda for the United States and Canada?

Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents.

Whether as sources of joy and pleasure to be fed, counted, and watched, as objects of sport to be hunted and killed, or as food to be harvested, wild birds evoke strong feelings.

Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence.

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations.

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well.

Drawing from an interdisciplinary body of research and data, Women of Piracy employs a criminological lens to explore how women have been involved in, and impacted by, maritime piracy operations from the 16th century to present day piracy off the coast of Somalia.

This book successfully represents the indispensable interdisciplinarity of viewpoints by its authors combining legal perspectives with architectural and anthropological approaches.

An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world.

Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day.

Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations.

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787-1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century.

This book develops a philosophy of aesthetic experience through two socially significant philosophical movements: early German Romanticism and early critical theory.

Oaxaca is known for many thingsits indigenous groups, archaeological sites, crafts, and textilesbut not for mental health care.

This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians.

Esta obra se generó alrededor de una preocupación común por la violencia de género, sus significados, alcances y estrategias jurídicas para abordarlo, conjuntamente con la necesidad de un enfoque relacional, atento a los contextos en los que se gesta la violencia.

A sports nutrition guide and recipe book rolled into one, Food for Fitness dispels popular myths and gives you the tools you need to reach your maximum performance.

Kinetic models are becoming standard tools in the research of biological systems.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

Adopting an evidence-based approach, this book uses two state-of-the-art experimental studies to explore nature's therapeutic benefits in healthcare environments, emphasizing how windows and transparent spaces can strengthen people-nature interactions.

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted with the Thai migrant community in Hong Kong between 2016 and 2020, this book provides original insights into the complexity and diversity of identity negotiation, ethnicity navigation, and womanhood reinvention of Thai migrant women in Hong Kong.

This book explores how Esperanto - often regarded as a future-oriented utopian project that ended up confined to the past - persists in the present.

The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations.