Social and cultural anthropology

This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA).

Recent discussions of self-realization have devolved into unscientific theories of self-help.

Looking at the past from an anthropological perspective, this book deploys and analyses a variety of anthropological concepts to understand the history of Cocos Malay society.

Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology.

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective.

From intertextuality to postmodern cultural studies, narratology to affect theory, poststructuralism to metamodernism, and postcolonialism to ecocriticism, humanities adaptation studies has engaged with a host of contemporary theories.

"e;Larry Hart's Truth Aflame brings together charismatic renewal and classic evangelical faith better than anything I have read.

This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women.

This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance.

This book explores food traceability in raw materials, additives and packing of the dairy sector and it provides an accessible and succinct overview of the new Extended Traceability (ExTra) software.

Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years.

This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author's last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals.

Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents.

The Gender of Things is a highly interdisciplinary book that explores the power relationship between gender and the material culture of technoscience, addressing a seemingly straightforward question: How does a thing-such as a spacesuit, a humanoid robot, or a surgical instrument-become a gendered object?

Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "e;fundamentalist"e; Islam.

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

Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats are all actors on the international stage working for organizations and groups often scrutinized by the public eye.

In the 10 years since the first edition of Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy published, the field has changed considerably.

Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally.

This book examines the most controversial foods and ingredients, providing an objective, well-balanced look at the health benefits and risks of each.

Traits that signal belonging dictate our daily routines, including how we eat, move, and connect to others.

Encapsulating the science behind vitamins and mineralsNeed to understand how vitamins and minerals work but find dense texts difficult to absorb?

This book demonstrates how we monitor others'' rights to, and responsibilities for, knowledge in conversation, and their consequences for affiliation.

Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book will be a guiding path to understand the photocatalytic process and mechanism for the deterioration of heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and pathogens from wastewater.

Our political age is characterized by forms of description as big as the world itself: talk of public knowledge and public goods, the commons or global justice create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself.

This book discusses the natural and anthropogenic determinants of the environment and their impact on human health.

This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces.

In the 4700 years since its first recorded use, cannabis has been respected as a highly useful source of fibre, food and medicine and vilified as a social menace.

In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia.

People travel as never before.

Examines how the ancient customs of constructing and keeping a house formed a sacred bond between homes and their inhabitants *; Shares many tales of house spirits, from cajoling the local land spirit into becoming one's house spirit to the good and bad luck bestowed by mischievous house elves *; Explains the meaning behind door and window placement, house orientation, horsehead gables, the fireplace or hearth, and the threshold *; Reveals the charms, chants, prayers, and building practices used by our ancestors to bestow happiness and prosperity upon their homes and their occupants Why do we hang horseshoes for good luck or place wreaths on our doors?

Journey to the mysterious Avon valley, home of Stonehenge, with a Christchurch pensioner and our pagan ancestor from 2200 BC, and witness prehistory come alive.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.

Writing Australian History On-screen: Television and Film Period Dramas "e;Down Under"e; reveals the depths of Australian history from convict times to the present day.

Unveil the Path of the WitchEvery Witch's story begins with a step into the unknown-but you don't have to do it alone.

Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp to the more recent influx of Southeast Asian refugees and South Asian tech professionals.

This book deliberates on the various aspects of plant-based nutrition.

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.

This book presents the restoration of rural mobile cinema network in the Great Triangle region at the conjunction of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in China in the new century, which has added a new chapter to the long-standing complex relationship between cinema and social change.

This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities.

Antimicrobial resistance is recognised among the world's most challenging problems.

This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for generation of beauty, dignity and dialogues, in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence.

Written by a diverse team of experts, this third volume of A Cultural History of Youth explores themes such as rites of passage, ideas about morality, youthful engagement with religion and the Reformations, and the experiences of young people.

Over the last two decades, attempts to control the problem of tuberculosis have become increasingly more complex, as countries adopt and adapt to evolving global TB strategies.