Social and cultural anthropology

Evangelical Protestantism has arguably become the fastest-growing religion in South America, if not the world.

Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.

In 2010, esteemed researchers gathered at a workshop held at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes.

Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically.

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell.

This book investigates and establishes a theoretical framework for the study of the social production of religious compassion in the era of shale modernity among Chinese communities in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.

Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with brand new chapters on affective bodies, indeterminate bodies, assemblaged bodies and a new conclusion, and featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up-to-date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture.

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies.

The nutritional benefits of marine flora and fauna are well known.

The volume draws from Ren, Devisch,s encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily.

Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances.

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been 'Aboriginalized'.

'A different level of insight to anything I've read for a long time about Russia.

Quinoa rose to global stardom pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a bright future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglect.

Trust highly experienced teacher and author Helen Buckland to guide you through the latest NCFE Level 1/2 Technical Award in Food and Cookery (for first teaching from 2022 onwards).

With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "e;manifesto"e; shows how to account for cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development.

The role of the body and the concept of embodiment have largely been neglected in anthropological studies of tourism.

Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence.

Explores the concept of waste from fresh historical, cultural, and geographical perspectives.

The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending.

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger.

`A Short Histrory of Cultural Studies will prove a seminal text for its author's erudition, wit and unmatched ability to re-embed abstract concepts and debates where they belong - in rich historical, political and cultural contexts' - Cultural Studies Review'Hartley's book is refreshing, breathtaking, and quite a lot of fun.

A people's lifestyle is one thing, their death-style another.

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Malnutrition is a global health problem and results in significant clinical and financial consequences for people, communities, and healthcare institutions.

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India.

Rigorous exploration of the Trump administration''s pro-fossil fuel policy and its lasting impact on public health, the economy, and the environment.

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life.

Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa.

In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption.

Drawing on successful practice, and relating such practice to theoretical insights, this comprehensive treatment of the challenge of educating children spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally offers enlightenment for individual teachers' classroom practice as well as for whole-school approaches.

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions.

Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas.

This book covers the nutritional and nutraceutical profiles of a wide range of popularly consumed vegetables and nuts.

Learn the foundations of climate science and human health Global Climate Change and Human Health examines the environmental crisis from a public health and clinical health perspective, giving students and clinicians the information they need to prepare for the future of health care.

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This volume provides case studies conducted in Malaysia based on environmental management and the sustainable development of human and ecological systems.

This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective projects that grapple with the relationship between past, present, and future towards confronting structural inequalities.

Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in the Balkans s introduces and analyzes traditional foods from the Balkans.

Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India.

This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds.

This collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples (Canadian Inuit, Norwegian Sami, Yupiit from Alaska, and Inuit from Greenland), places, and practices in the Circumpolar North from colonial times to our post-modern era.

Provides concise, up-to-date overviews of key topics, a variety of staggered tasks, and 18 case studies for in-depth discussions and more.

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order.

This book opens new pathways for decolonial autoethnography, presented as a series of reflective stories that showcase how Maori have negotiated and navigated their personal and professional identities within contemporary society.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting.