Social and cultural anthropology

This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America.

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.

From the US to Nepal, author J.

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power In the sixteenth century, Q'eqchi' Maya leader Aj Poop B'atz' changed the course of Q'eqchi' history by welcoming Spanish invaders to his community in peace to protect his people from almost certain violence.

This textbook on Environmental Biotechnology not only presents an unbiased overview of the practical biological approaches currently employed to address environmental problems, but also equips readers with a working knowledge of the science that underpins them.

Das Ziel, Verurteilte wieder in die Gesellschaft einzugliedern, ist so alt wie der moderne Strafvollzug selbst.

Vegetables, fruits, and herbs have been used as cancer preventatives for millennia.

This second volume in the Food Policy series focuses on critical nutrition and dietetics studies, offering an innovative and interdisciplinary exploration of the complexities of the food supply and the actors in it through a new critical lens.

Probiotics are fermented foods cultured by beneficial microorganisms.

Magic is a universal phenomenon.

The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers' resistance against racialization.

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.

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South AmericaRichard Evans Schultes and his protg Wade Davisan epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland.

Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle.

The tribal culture of India and their traditions and practices pervade almost all of the aspects of Indian culture and civilization.

The present study was conducted by an ad hoc subcommittee of the Committee on Military Nutrition Research.

In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem.

There is a little-known tradition of witch lore in Newfoundland culture.

This edited collection addresses a growing concern in Europe and the United States about the future of the European Union, democratic institutions, and democracy itself.

This book explores the relationships between matrilineal, Islamic and state law, and investigates the dynamics of legal pluralism, governance and property relationships.

In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height.

Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production.

For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers.

In the tapestry of global queer cultures Africa has long been neglected or stereotyped.

Although most studies of rural society in China deal with land villages, in fact very substantial numbers of Chinese people lived by the sea, on the rivers and the lakes.

Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent.

How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe?

This book explores the value of duoethnography to the study of interdisciplinary practice.

An exploration of how the contemporary Roman Catholic church tackles, regulates and accommodates belief in witchcraft.

Centres community voices to analyse the contested and unintentional social impacts of water projects in rural Mozambique.

The past is always an interpretive act from the lens of the present.

While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable risk of stratospheric ozone loss.

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Charles Hill-Tout was born in England in 1858 and came to British Columbia in 1891.

The purpose of this book is to bring together the latest findings on metabolic disorders that are strongly implicated in various critically ill patients.

British Honduras (1951) examines this most neglected of the British colonies, from the early days of settlement by the logwood-cutters and buccaneers up to the post-war period.

Foodways in Southern Oman examines the objects, practices and beliefs relating to producing, obtaining, cooking, eating and disposing of food in the Dhofar region of southern Oman.

Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969 (1970) continues the sequence begun in Colonial Sequence 1930 to 1949 and presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.

What became of these millions of immigrant descendants?

'The fables of witchcraft have taken so fast hold and deepe root in the heart of man, that few or none can indure with patience the hand and correction of God.

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language.

This book introduces readers to basic studies on and applied techniques involving lactic acid bacteria, including their bioengineering and industrial applications.

"e;Mafia"e; has become an indigenous South Asian term.

Vitamin D: The Calcium Homeostatic Steroid Hormone provides a continuing coordinated group of edited critiques of the dynamic state of the science and art of nutrition.

We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'.