Social and cultural anthropology

The increasing prevalence and burden of obesity transcends borders, straining populations worldwide.

This book focuses on anthropology's ambition for comprehensiveness and its interdisciplinary nature.

This book examines the ways that political agency can be understood in digitally dominated media environments.

This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over "e;culture"e; and narrative form from the modernist period to the present.

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

This book takes readers on a journey from the very fundamental and chemical beginnings of amino acids on Earth to their role in human metabolism.

This book uses an ethnography of the migratory route from Sudan to the EU to understand how undocumented migration experiences take place and breed underground forms of mobilities and survival strategies.

Esta publicación contiene investigaciones de campo que se desarrolló principalmente en Madrid – España, donde durante dos años – 2004 y 2005 – se siguió el rastro y se estableció contacto con varias personas de la comunidad kichwa-otavaleña de Madrid.

The book sheds light on the worldwide movement of indigenous people in India.

This book considers the historical and spatial dimensions of civil society in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland region, an area suffering from severe development and democratic deficits over many decades.

The Indigenous movement in Ecuador was one of the most influential social movements in Latin America during the 1990s.

This book focuses on the indirect effects on environmental resilience.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine last reviewed the state of the science on nutrition during pregnancy and lactation 30 years ago.

The Human Skeleton: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the basic characteristics of the human skeleton that can be used to understand the life and (sometimes) death of persons represented only by their skeletons.

This book introduces a pathbreaking approach called ‘Avoidable Disaster Deaths’ (ADD) to reduce disaster deaths.

In the light of the impact of extreme weather events, declining agricultural productivity and child malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, this book explores the potential for sustainable agriculture to better respond to climate-related threats.

This book provides an overview of AI-powered nutritional interventions for the management of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

The book sheds light on the worldwide movement of indigenous people in India.

Deutsche Migranten in den USA feierten viel und gern.

This book provides an ample overview of the current state of research on nutrition's influence on the human microbiome and how it can be leveraged in personalized diets.

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how the humanities, social sciences, and health sciences can contribute to addressing the pressing challenges of the Anthropocene.

Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.

In response to a request from the US Department of Agriculture, the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies established the Standing Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) Framework.

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils.

Finding all the information necessary to treat or meet the nutritional requirements of patients who are severely ill or establish new protocols has historically been problematic.

In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora.