Social and cultural anthropology

Healing Plants of Nigeria: Ethnomedicine and Therapeutic Applications offers comprehensive information on the use of herbal medicines in West Africa.

Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, Australia and Canada.

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in a highly globalized and connected world, where language and culture contact is frequent and cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions abound.

Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the global manifestations that influenced them.

This timely and unique book explores the concept of colorism, which is discrimination based on the color of a person's skin, in a world where arguably light skin is privileged over dark, and one's wealth, health, and opportunities are impacted by skin color, sometimes irrespective of one's racial background.

This book aims to develop an account of living together with difference which recognises the tension that we are inescapably with others - both human and non-human - but at the same time are always differing from and with those with whom we find ourselves.

Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa's better future) from leading African philosophers.

This book examines the impacts that the COVID-19 lockdown has had on environmental and ecological health, with a focus on coastal ecosystems in the Lower Gangetic Delta.

Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century.

Planetary health involves complex spatial-temporal interactions among agents, hosts, and earth environment.

This book provides a clear and detailed examination of why it is so difficult to secure comprehensive political engagement and actionable, effective policy on sexual and reproductive health rights in sub-Saharan Africa.

Islamic sermon gatherings are a central form of public piety and public expression in contemporary Bangladesh.

A useful and comprehensive resource for anyone who has fallen through the medical cracks, 'Healing Is Possible' provides readers with new hope for healing.

Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural puzzles-sites at which it has become impossible to disentangle the natural from the built environment.

In this contradictory era of uneven globalization, borders multiply yet fantasies of borderlessness prevail.

Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, music and literature.

Fischer uses evolutionary psychology to explain why people''s personality and values are both similar and different across cultures worldwide.

Recent studies have raised concerns about the health effects of dietary exposure to trace elements.

This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography.

This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions.

Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisis.

Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating 'reality'.

This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America.

Food allergy is an adverse immunological reaction to allergens present in food.

Asia has a long history of preparation and consumption of various types of ethnic fermented foods and alcoholic beverages based on available raw substrates of plant or animal sources and also depending on agro-climatic conditions of the regions.

Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.

The paradox of federalism is about whether self-rule accommodates or exacerbates ethnic divisions.

This new volume discusses the valuable contribution of immune-boosting properties of nutraceuticals and functional foods toward human health, exploring dietary antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, edible microalgae, herbs, phytonutrients, omega 3-fatty acids, and probiotics.

The Color of Power is a fascinating examination of the changing politics of race in Oakland, California.

This book presents a compelling ethnography of the changes Tajikistan faces at the turn of the twenty-first century as seen through the eyes of its youth.

Nutraceuticals is a broad umbrella term used to describe any product derived from food sources with extra health benefits in addition to the basic nutritional value found in foods.

First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness.

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of modernity.

A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village; an old woman leafs through a family album.

Organic Wesley:A Christian Perspective on Food, Farming, and Faith examines the intersectionof the teachings of John Wesley with the ethics of the contemporary foodmovement.

The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking.

This book provides the latest research on the role of nutrients in the prevention and treatment of neurological disorders.

This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible.

First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City.

Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award!

In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets.

Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores "e;Rastahood"e;, a community, youth culture, and new tourist art form created by young men on the margins of the Ghanaian economy as they came of age at the turn of the millennium.

Founded in 1909 as a "e;garden suburb"e; of the Mediterranean port of Jaffa, Tel Aviv soon became a model of Jewish self-rule and was celebrated as a jewel in the crown of Hebrew revival.

Livelihood and Resistance examines a Peruvian highland community where rural resistance has been endemic for over a century.

In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand name clothing, accessories, technology, and a robust nightlife.

This book focuses on the three most important aspects of ageing research: nutrition, physical exercise and epigenetics.

The use of different foods, herbs, and spices to treat or prevent disease has been recorded for thousands of years.