Social and cultural anthropology

This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multidisciplinary field of social research.

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

This book argues that climate justice is an urgent and defining global challenge with long-term implications for poverty reduction, livelihoods, community well-being, and sustainable development.

This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways.

Charles Hill-Tout was born in England in 1858 and came to British Columbia in 1891.

Comedy is a brutal business.

As the interest in anticarcinogenic food components increases, Carcinogenic and Anticarcinogenic Food Components provides information on cancer-promoting and cancer-preventing food components, indicating their contents in foods, biological activities, possible impact on human cancer risk, and practical implications for dietary recommendations and functional design.

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Landscapes of Power and Identity is a groundbreaking comparative history of two colonies on the frontiers of the Spanish empire-the Sonora region of northwestern Mexico and the Chiquitos region of eastern Bolivia's lowlands-from the late colonial period through the middle of the nineteenth century.

This book provides a critical introduction to the ways in which digital technologies have enabled new types of interactions, experiences and collaborations across a range of platforms and media, profoundly shaping our socio-cultural landscapes.

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items - such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport - played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "e;global trade"e; in the first millennium CE.

Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation.

EMDR Therapy is a psychotherapy approach based on standard procedures and protocols.

This book sheds light on the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship (BMF), one of North America's major Sufi movements, and one of the first to establish a Sufi shrine in the region.

For hundreds of years cannabis has been used as a therapeutic medicine around the world.

This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam.

Presenting an anthropological tool for decision makers and academics who deal with the well-known limitations of linear models of development, Cultural Rhythmics proposes future design strategies useful for business, community leaders, political decision-makers and scientists from all over the world.

This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti.

The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric.

For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine.

In this beautifully written meditation on identity and place, Talmage A.

This new book reports on the emerging and novel technologies for the development of functional foods from plants, providing a comprehensive look into their characterization, validation, and transformation into novel products.

This best-selling textbook explains the current state of research in the sociology of race/ ethnicity, emphasizing white privilege, the social construction of race, and the newest theoretical perspectives for understanding race and ethnicity.

This groundbreaking work, with its unique anthropological approach, sheds new light on a central conundrum surrounding AIDS in Africa.

David Rudners richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion.

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state?

Be the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result?

How and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love?

Legumes have high potential for improving the nutritional quality of foods, but limited data on their bioactive compounds exists.

A window into ethnic and linguistic difference among Latino/a, African American and Pacific Islander youth in contemporary US schools.

What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity?

This book critically analyzes the reasons for the lack of tangible success in preventing progressing eutrophication and its negative effects as a global environmental problem without a clear solution until now.

An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki.

The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg's printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world.

'Regardless of your starting point, past failures, or bad luck with familial genes, you can turn things around quickly - starting with your next meal and next workout.

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers.

Rabbi Chiel's history of the Jewish community in Manitoba grew out of a curiosity about the colour and vitality of Jewish life in this Canadian prairie province which was impressed upon him during a ten-year residence in Winnipeg.

For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over.

This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of "e;ethnonational continuity"e; in Korea through a discursive institutional approach.

This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema.

Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today.

This book examines the effect of whole-wheat bread on health, with evidence linking the consumption of whole-wheat products to a decrease in the relative risk of non-communicable diseases in comparison with products baked from refined flour.

The book adopts a critical cultural studies lens to explore the entanglement of government and gambling in everyday life.

Environmental bioethics addresses the environmental impact of the health care industry and climate change health hazards as two ethical issues which impact each other.