Social and cultural anthropology

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States.

With little existing scholarship on LGBT diaspora from Asia, this groundbreaking book examines the intersectionality of migration, sexuality, and gender, as well as race and ethnicity, through an analysis of the transnational experiences of Japanese LGBT diasporas in the USA, Canada and Australia.

This book of interdisciplinary readings on Gypsies is sensitive to the Romani point of view and avoids exoticizing or patronizing the Gypsies and their culture.

The period between the 16th and 18th centuries witnessed the expansion of European travel, trade and colonization around the globe, resulting in greatly increased contact between Westerners and peoples throughout the rest of the world.

Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography is a state-of-the-art introduction to this dynamic and growing subject.

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest.

This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization.

The book summarizes the latest research and developments in dairy biotechnology and engineering.

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo.

This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions - theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and critical.

Forced Migration, first published in 1982, examines the impact of the slave trade on Africa.

This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "e;psych"e; disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine.

A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health.

Studying people's lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning.

Western aid is in decline.

This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods.

The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time.

"e;An insightful collection, rich in new data and insights; at once the harvest of a generation of fieldwork and the foundation for work to come.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India.

This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds.

Timely and insightful study of Czech nationalism and identity in the post-communist period.

The increased presence of Somalis has brought much change to East African towns and cities in recent decades, change that has met with ambivalence and suspicion, especially within Kenya.

This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America.

The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity.

What if we modeled our churches after what Jesus intended His church to look like?

The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrantsvoluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized.

As many visitors to Ocracoke will attest, the islands vibrant dialect is one of its most distinctive cultural features.

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time.

Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled.

Fair Trade Enclaves tells the story of exploitation and inequality in the production of Fair Trade bananas.

An easy-to-use book with questions on clinical nutrition clearly posed and answers based on real-life studies, this is a ready reference for the busy healthcare professional.

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations.

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world.

Ethnography familiarizes readers with ethnographic research and writing traditions through detailed discussions of ethnography's history, exploratory design, representational conventions, and standards of evaluation.

In the early 1980s, in a rural village in South India, a Dalit woman miscarried.

Belian is an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo.

This book provides a model for the creation of sustainable and healthy cities in the Mediterranean region.

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

This volume is a compilation of results from sessions of the Second International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place between November 30 and December 6, 2014, in Hokkaido, Japan.

This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy.

Each year 300,000 pilgrims embark on a pilgrimage to the remote Indian village of Gugudu.