Social and cultural anthropology

This volume investigates the ubiquitous education of everyday life as people contest the normal, settle on a new convention, and deal with the difficulties that arise.

The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of ethnographic representation.

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent.

Although toxic in large doses, selenium is an essential trace mineral in the animal diet and in some plants.

Primarily intended for physicians and health care professionals who are treating obese patients, this book explores current and future options for drug treatment of obesity puts them into perspective against available alternative treatments.

Used in moderation, many oils can be beneficial to one's diet and lifestyle.

With the goal of building more inclusive working, learning, and living environments in higher education, this book seeks to reframe understandings of forms of everyday exclusion that affect members of nondominant groups on predominantly white college campuses.

Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention in June 2013 to examine income, race, and ethnicity, and how these factors intersect with childhood obesity and its prevention.

With this expaned revision of the 1982 classic, The Sugar Trap, Beatrice Trum Hunter, noted writer on food issues, brings readers invaluable help for avoid the sweetener trap.

Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century is a cultural history of diversity in the United States over the past 100 years.

This book presents comprehensive coverage on the importance of good nutrition in the treatment and management of obesity, cancer and diabetes.

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease, Third Edition is a comprehensive clinical nutrition textbook that integrates food issues with nutrition to provide a unique perspective to disease prevention/control.

This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food.

Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored.

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia.

This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood.

Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a "e;one nation"e; social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people.

Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian womens political activism.

As yet, flow cytometry is not used so widely in microbiology as in some other disciplines.

Widely believed to be the oldest Indian dance tradition, odissi has transformed over the centuries from a sacred temple ritual to a transnational genre performed and consumed throughout the world.

Over the past decade, Laos' exposure to global capitalism has resulted in extensive economic and social transformations.

Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society.

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, and then adapting to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered.

Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems.

Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "e;Where are you from?

Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of Latin America.

Looking for a book to answer the why, what, and how related to functional foods and nutraceuticals?

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

Childhood obesity is a serious health problem that has adverse and long-lasting consequences for individuals, families, and communities.

The book presents a detailed assessment of the health science of lead and the human health risk assessment models for lead's human health impacts, followed by an account of various regulatory efforts in the United States and elsewhere to eliminate or reduce human toxic exposures to lead.

Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia.

Since 1997, the Institute of Medicine has issued a series of nutrient reference values that are collectively termed Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs).

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money.

From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion.

Americans are feeling insecure.

Daily Life in the American West details the lives of American Indians, miners, cowboys, immigrants, and settlers who, together, populated the unique region that is the American West.

Originally published in 1924, Dudley Buxton explores the evolution of primitive societies in relation to labour.

This volume is the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive iconoclasts.

This book examines the controversial global phenomenon of skin bleaching.

What can the lived experiences of Czechoslovak Cold War refugee children tell us about the lifetime impact of childhood forced migration?

Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states - from the pre- to the post- industrial - and explores topics as diverse as bureaucracy, infrastructure, surveillance, securitization, and public health.

New and Future Developments in Catalysis is a package of books that compile the latest ideas concerning alternate and renewable energy sources and the role that catalysis plays in converting new renewable feedstock into biofuels and biochemicals.

This book describes key methods and instruments for assessing diet-related factors, physical activity, social and environmental factors, physical characteristics and health-related outcomes in children and adolescents.

An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth.

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This Handbook analyzes cutting-edge consumer psychology research through individual, interpersonal, and societal lenses and considers future directions for the field.