Social and cultural anthropology

This book presents evidence-based translational research in Nutri-Ayur through the integration of traditional knowledge of Ayurveda, Genomics, and modern medicine.

Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India.

The Elites of Barotseland: 1878-1969 offers a comprehensive political history of Zambias Western Province, focusing on the Lozi people and their interactions with imperial powers, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

What happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not thousands of miles from their hometowns?

In Queer Emergent, Justin Perez explores how advances in HIV prevention work alongside broader economic and political shifts in global health to shape queer subjectivities.

A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands.

This first of two volumes presents groundbreaking information on sleep apnea in children and youths.

The Hamadsha: A Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry examines the unique religious brotherhoods of Morocco, tracing their origins to two saints from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Sidi Ali ben Hamdush and Sidi Ahmed Dghughi.

Can We Trust Technology?

This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes.

Reimagining the garden as a vital metaphysical framework for understanding the intricate relationships between health, well-being, and the environment, the book proposes a holistic, ecologically sensitive model that integrates mind, body, nature, and community.

In recent years the Cochuah region, the ancient breadbasket of the north-central Yucatecan lowlands, has been documented and analyzed by a number of archaeologists and cultural anthropologists.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.

Written by a diverse team of experts, this third volume of A Cultural History of Youth explores themes such as rites of passage, ideas about morality, youthful engagement with religion and the Reformations, and the experiences of young people.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

This book explores cooperation between humans and animals in extreme environments and contends that understanding domestication is crucial to explaining how life is possible in such conditions.

Drawing insights from intensive empirical investigation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in various Southeast Asian countries, this book assesses and analyzes the continuing impact of China's BRI on Thailand and ASEAN at a critical period of Southeast Asian history.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that "e;disabled"e; and "e;anthropologist"e; belong together.

This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St.

First published in 1992, Revitalizing European Rituals explores why revitalization of celebrations is taking place in communities throughout Europe.

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi year, systematic, quantitative assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well being changes over time in a small scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.

Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences.

Molas, the distinctive blouses made and worn by Kuna women in Panama, are collected by thousands of enthusiasts as well as by anthropological museums all over the world.

The domestic yak (Bos grunniens), a species of long-haired domestic cattle, is found in India, Nepal, China, Pakistan, Mongolia, Russia, and Serbia.

Seafood--including marine and freshwater fish, mollusks, and crustaceans--is a healthy food choice, but it can also contain contaminants.

Much of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States.

In the spring of 2013, televisions across Venezuela announced the death of then-president Hugo Chavez, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution and key political actor in Latin America's "e;turn to the left.

This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes.

A novel methodology is put forward in this book, which empowers researchers to investigate and identify potential spatial processes among a set of regions.

The obesity crisis in the United States disproportionately affects some demographic groups more than others.

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

Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India.

Change in Contemporary South Africa examines the intricate and often contradictory realities of South Africa during a period of significant political and social tension.

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.