Social and cultural anthropology

The English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century (1983) explores the impact of a changing society on the legal profession.

This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones.

This book discusses the indigenous people of Tecpan Guatemala, a predominantly Kaqchikel Maya town in the Guatemalan highlands.

Focusing on the lives of first- and second-generation British Pakistani young adult men and those approaching middle age who offend or have offended and the experiences of their fathers bringing them up in a de-industrialised city, this book examines the influence of social relations on their moves toward and away from crime, particularly the impact of father-son relationships.

This book recounts the author's fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples.

Explores how analyses of legal processes can inform the theorization of the role of local governments in migration governance.

The people of South Asia includes a very large number of primitive tribes who subsists on hunting, fishing and simple form of agriculture.

A large amount of research effort goes into assessing the health benefits of a plant-based diet, resulting from human desire to consume a more sustainable diet that is less destructive of the earth's natural resources.

First published in 1982: This publication should be an invaluable tool to food technologists, dieticians, and nutritionalists, as well as to livestock producers and persons engaged in production, processing, and formulation of animal feeds.

Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves.

Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual's behavior.

Wenn eine große Zahl von Menschen an einem Ort zusammenkommt, kann dies zufällig oder beiläufig geschehen wie in den Einkaufsstraßen der globalen Metropolen.

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue.

Snakebite may sound like a rare and exotic phenomenon, but in India it is a problem that affects 1.

In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor.

Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others.

Globalization is a highly debated term, and struggles over its meaning are played out in a variety of ways, from academe and the media to the streets of Seattle, Melbourne and Genoa.

This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia.

How do children construct, negotiate and organize space?

The federal government requires that most packaged foods carry a standardized labelthe Nutrition Facts panelthat provides nutrition information intended to help consumers make healthful choices.

The Arawete are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism.

Not long after becoming public health concerns in the 1980s, HIV and AIDS were featured in a number of works of fiction, though such titles were written primarily for adult readers.

This book brings together the diverse narratives of researchers' personalized stories about the process of doing doctoral research (PhD) in the field of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and about the life after the completion of such life-forming experience.

In Infertile Environments, Janelle Lamoreaux investigates how epigenetic research into the effects of toxic exposure conceptualizes and configures environments.

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.

This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Marsden''s 2005 book is a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion in the Muslim societies of southern Asia and beyond.

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Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century presents a critical approach to the study of anthropological theory for the next generation of aspiring anthropologists.

What is the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Indonesia?

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.

First published in 1992, Wedding Cakes and Cultural History is a unique contribution to the anthropology of food, tracing the fascinating history of wedding cakes, from late medieval feasts and rites, through the Victorian wedding breakfast and into the 1990s.

Neuropsychedelia examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "e;Decade of the Brain.

Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not.

Improving wellbeing and sustainability are central goals of government, but are they in conflict?

*; Details the rise and fall of this famous and infamous Order, including its penetration of Bavarian society and its destruction by the Bavarian government *; Explains the Bavarian Illuminati's grades, rituals, ceremonies, and fundamental philosophies and examines the leaders of the Order *; Contains the only surviving record of documents that were destroyed during the two World Wars The Bavarian Order of the Illuminati is the most celebrated secret society in the world.

Demossier s engrossing analysis of Burgundy the wine, the place, the brand should be imbibed (pun intended!

This accessibly written book examines the most commonly taken dietary supplements, exploring what they are and what they're purported to do, and summarizing key research findings regarding their potential health benefits and risks.

The original, clinically proven plan from the creators of the world-renowned FODMAP DietThis clear, accessible guide to the FODMAP elimination diet is the only medically proven programme to treat IBS.

Following a history of racial oppression and segregation, Black Americans were able to move in greater numbers into previously all- or predominantly-White colleges and universities.

This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West.

La filosofía, afirmó Sócrates, es el arte de morirEl entierro, con sus rituales, es la práctica cultural-simbólica documentada más antigua: todos los humanos han desarrollado técnicas para cuidar y relacionarse con los muertos.

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The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998).