Social and cultural anthropology

As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peace.

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision.

It has become popular to blame the American obesity epidemic and many other health-related problems on processed food.

From ancient to contemporary times, music in the area known as Nigeria has passed through different stages of transmutation.

In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins.

Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East.

Institutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism.

There are two main reasons for pursuing research in the Sports Sciences.

Talk of the Devil has become distinctly unfashionable.

This book discusses and analyses the ways in which fatherhood is in transition in contemporary and globalized society.

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future.

Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to access treatment abroad, including surgeons and facilitators.

Every summer, thousands gather from around the world in the blistering heat of Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the seven-day celebration of art, community, and fire known as Burning Man.

A study of class and inequality from an anthropological perspective, bringing together an international team of researchers.

What do Americans think "e;race"e; means?

An anthropological theorization of the unity and diversity of Christianity, this book focuses on Christian communities in Nanping, a small city in China.

This book describes a researcher's journey to carry out an ethnographic study.

The use of different foods, herbs, and spices to treat or prevent disease has been recorded for thousands of years.

Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

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

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean (1986) is a comparative and systematic study of the legacies bequeathed by British and French colonial rule in the Caribbean.

This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films.

This book includes a collection of chapters illustrating the application of geochemical methods to investigate the interactions between geological materials and fluids with humans.

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man's land between slavery and freedom.

This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland.

This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period.

This book serves as a drive and medium for constructive analysis, critical thinking, and informed change in the broad area of cultural heritage studies.

Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities - of class, status, and gender.

This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.

With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S.

The Spanish Civil War left a legacy of destruction, resentment and deep ideological divisions in a country that was attempting to recover from economic stagnation and social inequality.

This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.

This book covers the latest environmental issues based on current research objectives.

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists.

Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste.

The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), a nonprofit, public foundation, was established in 1978 to advance the sciences of nutrition, toxicology, and food safety.

This book explores the multifaceted experiences of British Turks, particularly focusing on how they navigate and negotiate Islamophobia in contemporary British society.

Geoffrey Saxe traces the emergence of numerical representations and ideas as people participate in collective practices of daily life.

The Canadian oil sands are one of the world's most important energy sources and the subject of global attention in relation to climate change and pollution.

How is global togetherness possible?

Facing Mount Kenya, first published in 1938, is a monograph on the life and customs of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya prior to their contact with Europeans.

A new diet-based approach to beauty from the author of Strong, Slim and 30!

Based on long-term ethnographic research, the book chapters explore the intersection of 'gender' and 'modernity' as they are mediated in the lives and subjectivities of diverse individuals and groups.

The cultural developments of Early Christian Ireland have long been recognised and described.

The book presents a detailed assessment of the health science of lead and the human health risk assessment models for lead's human health impacts, followed by an account of various regulatory efforts in the United States and elsewhere to eliminate or reduce human toxic exposures to lead.

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian.

The feats of the hero Mwindo are here glorified in the bilingual text of an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.