Social and cultural anthropology

Peoplehood-everyone's talking about it.

Ethnic Community Builders: Mexican-Americans in Search of Justice and Power is an oral history of Mexican-American activism in San JosZ, California, over the last half century.

In this book Tatiana Zachar Podolinska explores how post-modern Marian devotion represents both the continuation and restoration of tradition in the modern world.

Die weltweit renommierte Virologin Isabella Eckerle über die Sprengkraft von Virus-Infektionen - ein hochaktuelles Wissenschafts-Sachbuch über Zoonosen, Pandemien und die globale Gesundheit.

While many books explore such specific issues as gun violence, arson, murder, and crime prevention, this encyclopedia serves as a one-stop resource for exploring the history, societal factors, and current dimensions of violence in America in all its forms.

Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home.

In 1497, explorers from the confident world of Renaissance Europe sailed, under Captain Giovanni Caboto, into what are now Canadian waters.

This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of-or refusal to adopt-same-sex marriage laws.

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The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.

Although the phrase "e;the American Dream"e; dates from the 1930s, the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country.

Entangled Things takes the concept of entanglement as its starting point in investigating the relationship between us and the material things we engage with.

This book, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the Palestinian West Bank from 1995 to 1996, aims to provide an honest, authentic, and accurate accounting of the nitty-gritty, day-to-day challenges, rewards, failures, and successes of doing fieldwork in a conservative village setting.

This book focuses, in seven chapters, on the perspectives and solutions that different research groups offer to try to address problems related to SDG 14: Life Below Water.

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This book examines the role of fermented foods on human gut health and offers a unique contribution to this rapidly growing area of study.

In the 1880s an oracle priest, Navosavakadua, mobilized Fijians of the hinterlands against the encroachment of both Fijian chiefs and British colonizers.

This edited volume expands on what Aoyagi Hiroshi intended in the first decade of the new millennium to establish as a subfield of symbolic anthropology called "e;idology.

What will the world look like in the future?

The rapid trend of globalization has brought with it a variety of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty, and social inequalities, which are problems with unclear boundaries, complicated interrelated components, undefined parameters, contradictory values, and no single solution.

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use.

This volume is the first handbook to explore existentialism as epistemology and method.

Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions.

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor.

This book examines the contemporary one-size-fits-all model of treatment for sexual offenders and challenges the confrontational approach to working with this group.

Assesses the achievements of world societies, the trends and dangers, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century.

The complete mapping of the human genome, along with the development of sophisticated molecular technologies, has accelerated research on the relationship between nutrients and genes.

Discovering Nutrition offers a concise look at the science of nutrition through the lens of today's issues and hot topics.

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.

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This book examines international post-9/11 policies by connecting them to the US violations of Japanese Americans' human rights during World War II.

In the Philippines, a dramatic increase in labor migration has created a large population of transnational migrant families.

This lively book examines recent trends in animal product consumption and diet; reviews industry efforts, policies, and programs aimed at improving the nutritional attributes of animal products; and offers suggestions for further research.

International peace parks-transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries-have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development.

Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience.

In this sweeping chronicle of guarana-a glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plant-Seth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.

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

This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices.

This book provides a contemporary review of the social practices and representations of flirting.

Secrecy is a central and integral component of all religious traditions.

The European Cancer Prevention Organization (ECP) was established in 1981 with the objective of developing studies of the aetiology and preven- tion of cancer through concerted-action European collaborative studies.

First published in 1929, Raymond Firth's original and insightful study offers an incredibly detailed account of the social and economic organisation of the Maori people before their contact with Western civilisation.

There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary.

Increasing fiber consumption can address, and even reverse the progression of pre-diabetes and other associated non-communicable diseases.

Originally published in 1985.

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease provides valuable insights for those seeking nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver and/or related gastrointestinal disease including Crohn's, allergies, and colitis among others.

Focusing on the region of the Arab world--comprising some two hundred million people and twenty-one sovereign states extending from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf--this book develops a theory of social change that demystifies the setbacks this region has experienced on the road to transformation.