Social and cultural anthropology

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Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind.

Pediatric Nutrition for Dietitians is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate and graduate dietetics students and an invaluable resource for all dietitians working with children.

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area.

Point Place stands near the city center of Durban, South Africa.

Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society.

Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners.

What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street?

What does it mean to pursue an intimate relationship with God?

Despite significant progress due to public health campaigns and other policy efforts, smoking continues to be a serious health threat throughout the world.

Examining changes to the institution of divine kingship from 750 to 950 CE in the Maya lowland cities, this volume presents a new way of studying the collapse of that civilization and the transformation of political systems between the Terminal Classic and Postclassic Periods.

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one expansive and wide-ranging collection.

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction-its rules, its pleasures, its secretsFrance is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre.

Two powers in East Asia today stand to define the region's economic and commercial future: Japan, which rose in a spectacular industrial burst to become at present the world's second largest economy; and China, which is rapidly advancing towards a market economy under the watchful eye of the world.

Whether you're vegan, vegetarian, or omnivore, getting your nutrition from plant-based foods is one of the best things you can do for your health-and it's easier than you might think!

People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw.

This volume investigates the use of law by ordinary individuals and groups as a form of protest against ''the state''.

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory.

This book, first published in 2006, draws on a broad range of social data collection methods to formulate a set of data collection approaches.

This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative, and policy dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian context.

A great deal has been written about the history of witchcraft, but much of what has been written is unreliable, exaggerated, or inaccurate.

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions.

The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study.

Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.

Parodi shows that boundary disputes have and continue to play a major role in creating tensions in South America.

In academic descriptions of cosmopolitanism, one particularly important distinction often recurs.

This book presents the proceedings of the 10th Central European Congress on Food (CEFood), held on June 11-13, 2020, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This book covers the research fields in biodiversity conservation, the Belt and Road eco-environmental cooperation, China's five-year plan for eco-environmental protection, sustainable development goals assessment, and human health loss assessment.

To Rise in Darkness offers a new perspective on a defining moment in modern Central American history.

Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering.

The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants.

In a valley in the eastern foothills of the central Peruvian Andes, a wealth of cocaine once flowed.

Policy situations can be understood through a relational lens, seeing policy as emerging from the working and reworking of relationships.

In a vicious cycle, poor nutritional health leads to acute and chronic disease, and disease states are catastrophic to nutritional health.

Recent years have seen a significant shift in the study of new religious movements.

Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.

Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists.

Las Vegas has long been characterized as "e;Sin City.

This book presents research findings and conclusions that has been developed as algorithms or intelligent new methods solving problems in the fields of air pollution, climate and health, natural hazards and risks, water resources, human activities and management and informatics, remote sensing, high-performance computing and GIS for environmental monitoring and management.

The population of Wales is the product of successive waves of immigration.

Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo's unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval.

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of development as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty.

New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee is a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era.

In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation.

How is meaning in our bodies constructed?

The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this region s migratory patterns.

Addresses misunderstandings about race in a rational and comprehensive way, emphasising that race is a purely social construct.

Rita Floyd traces US environmental security policies from 1993 to 2009 and proposes a revised theory of security.

The second edition of Nutrition and Metabolism in Sports, Exercise and Health offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to sport and exercise nutrition, integrating key nutritional facts, concepts and dietary guidelines with a thorough discussion of the fundamental biological science underpinning physiological and metabolic processes.