Social and cultural anthropology

Marja-Liisa Swantz has spent a lifetime conducting participatory action research in Tanzania, and In Search of Living Knowledge encapsulates her reactions.

Handbook of Molecular Gastronomy: Scientific Foundations and Culinary Applications presents a unique overview of molecular gastronomy, the scientific discipline dedicated to the study of phenomena that occur during the preparation and consumption of dishes.

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

Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these individuals.

This book begins by outlining the common design mistakes with the modern open plan office and the industry focus on cost that has resulted in the ill-fated Workplace Zoo.

With the renewed interest in the history of witches and witchcraft, this timely book provides an introduction to this fascinating topic, informed by the main trends of new thinking on the subject.

Wild Edible Underutilized Plants explores the role of wild plants in human nutrition-a topic that continues to take precedence in various fields of research.

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry.

Originally published in 1982, The Masterpiece of Nature examines sex as representative of the most important challenge to the modern theory of evolution.

In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong?

The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.

Have slums become 'cool'?

Deciding what to eat and how to eat it are two of the most basic acts of everyday life.

The term 'Bedouins' was given to nomads who came from or lived in the desert, and consisted of a sedentary population (from the badia - desert).

This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia.

The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea.

In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic.

This book centres the voices of a group of marginalized residents in Grenada's ghetto to examine questions of poverty and survival and how, within this context, residents are able to focus on improvement and equity for their children through education.

This detailed and comprehensive overview of meat-free diets introduces readers to their long history in human cultures and analyzes some of the important questions and issues surrounding their practice in today's world.

Soil is a complex system of inorganic and organic materials, living organisms, water, and air.

In March 2020, the World Health Organization designated the viral disease COVID-19 a pandemic.

Holly Porter explores wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda.

This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia.

Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science, especially nowadays, with the growing popularity of evolutionary psychologies.

This book explores attitudes towards migrants and refugees from North Africa and the Middle East during the so-called migration crisis in 2015-2016 in Poland.

Phrases such as `corporate culture', `market culture' and the `knowledge economy', have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work.

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

Animals are biological transformers of dietary matter and energy to produce high-quality foods and wools for human consumption and use.

A tender account - by turns cultural exploration and memoir of a young womans firsthand experience of change and continuity in one of the worlds most remote regions, through the lens of the horse and horse culture.

Cet ouvrage examine une violence silencieuse dont sont victimes les jeunes d’aujourd’hui, en prenant à témoin l’exemple de ceux et de celles qui s’engagent dans la défense de l’environnement.

Sarcopenia: Molecular, Cellular, and Nutritional Aspects describes the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, defined by Rosenberg in 1997 as a hallmark of aging and referred to as "e;sarcopenia.

The description for this book, Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain, will be forthcoming.

At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central Appalachian multiracial group believed to be of Native American, African and European origins--remains controversial.

This novel treatment of barter represents a topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology.

This book explores the possibilities of intercultural training through literature, especially as related to collegiate study abroad programs.

This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

This book offers the first interdisciplinary survey of community research in the humanities and social sciences to consider such diverse disciplines as philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, disabilities studies, linguistics, communication studies, and film studies.

This book offers a new physical chemistry perspective on the control of lipid oxidation reactions by antioxidants, and it further explores the application of several oxidation inhibition strategies on food and biological systems.

Borders of desire takes a novel approach to the study of borders: rather than seeing them only as obstacles to the fulfillment of human desires, this collection focuses on how borders can also be productive of desire.

This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar.

This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-years that saw the emergence of new fields and subfields (cultural studies, the new cultural history, literary new historicism, as well as ethnic and minority studies) and came to be called "e;the cultural turn.

In 1900, Sheffield was the tenth largest city in the world.

What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities?

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

After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis.

Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements.