Social and cultural anthropology

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In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse's crucially important work, Le style oral.

Coffee, tea, and chocolate are among the most frequently consumed products in the world.

Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances in a person's intake of energy and/or nutrients.

Healing Plants of Nigeria: Ethnomedicine and Therapeutic Applications offers comprehensive information on the use of herbal medicines in West Africa.

Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words?

, Epidemiological studies have estimated that approximately 35 percent of cancers are potentially avoidable by nutritional modification.

This book explores the transformation of cultural and national identity of global sports fans in South Korea, which has undergone extensive cultural and economic globalization since the 1990s.

In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.

Eating locally and developing an urban-rural food continuum is a rapidly evolving movement.

This book looks at various syncretic traditions in India, such as Bhakti, Nath Yogi, Sufi, Imam Shahi, Ismailis, Khojas, and others, and presents an elaborate picture of a redefined cultural space through them.

This volume explores the critical reactions and dissenting activism generated in the summer of 1968 when Pope Paul VI promulgated his much-anticipated and hugely divisive encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which banned the use of  'artificial contraception' by Catholics.

An up-to-date synthesis of archaeological discoveries in the upper and middle Yangzi River region of China, including the Three Gorges Dam reservoir zone.

In this book, Jonathan H.

Mehr als die Hälfte Spaniens ist leer: Die Bevölkerung verteilt sich zu etwa 75 % auf Madrid im Zentrum sowie die Küstenregionen.

From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high.

Human Milk: Sampling and Measurement of Energy-Yielding Nutrients and Other Macromolecules presents comprehensive, rigorous, state-of-the-science information on the origins, analysis, concentrations and variation in energy-yielding nutrients and other macromolecules present in human milk.

This book explores why human beings share food with others using a humanistic anthropological approach.

The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific revisits the use, growth, and potential of the cultural landscape methodology in the conservation and management of culture-nature heritage in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants.

Covering all major arthropods of medical importance worldwide, this award-winning resource has established itself as a standard reference for almost 25 years.

This book traces the toga's history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiquity.

This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender.

This edited collection addresses concepts of value and its impact on economies and economic decision-making in Mesoamerica.

Leading academic and biomedical researchers comprehensively review the status of essential fatty acids (EFA) in nutrition, medicine, psychology, and pharmacology.

This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood.

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available.

This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the "e;market"e; and capitalism by revisiting the history of Soviet reform economics.

The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand yearsFrom its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial rituals and rigorous regimes of personal austerity to psycho-spiritual experimentation and utopian visions.

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding.

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

This book gives a detailed account of the 'communal riots' between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93.

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory.

Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species.

The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities.

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Collapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of and yet cannot do without have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends.

Why do Koreans search for shamans?

Originally published in 1961, this book analyses economic changes in Africa and the restructuring of social relations to which this hs led.

Throughout Latin America, the idea of "e;justice"e; serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes.

Fairy tales are a rich element of childhood in many cultures around the world.

Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans.

From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances.

This latest edition of the most internationally respected reference in food chemistry for more than 30 years, Fennema's Food Chemistry, 5th Edition once again meets and surpasses the standards of quality and comprehensive information set by its predecessors.