Social and cultural anthropology

This book introduces readers to the rich discipline of Africana Studies, reflecting on how it has developed over the last fifty years as an intellectual enterprise for knowledge production about Africa and the African diaspora.

Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments.

This book examines the future in Indigenous North American speculative literature and digital arts.

A novel study on consciousness and the brain that places culture at the center of the analysis.

The book is designed to help the reader gain a better understanding of the selected aspects of health and food.

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, gender, and class studies from a multidisciplinary perspective.

As peace activists have faced increased government repression and accusations of being unpatriotic since 9/11, Toussaint examines how current attempts to control dissent impact the peace movement.

The Indigenous movement in Ecuador was one of the most influential social movements in Latin America during the 1990s.

Dangerous Crossings interprets disputes in the United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of nonwhite peoples.

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia.

This book covers the latest environmental issues based on current research objectives.

This text examines the intersection of youth civic engagement, identity, and protest in Hong Kong, through the lens of education.

In Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore, cultural anthropologist Robert Phillips provides a detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study that looks at the changes in LGBT activism in Singapore in the period 1993-2019.

Abuhav brings a firsthand perspective to the crises and the highs, lows, and upheavals of the discipline in Israeli anthropology, which will be of interest to anthropologists, historians of the discipline, and scholars of Israeli studies.

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how the humanities, social sciences, and health sciences can contribute to addressing the pressing challenges of the Anthropocene.

Despite being one of the most important meals of the day, breakfast is also the most neglected meal of the day, and this practice increases progressively with age because of lack of time, organization, or individual's preference.

A novel that tells a four-hundred-year-old tale of witchcraft and intrigue, reimagining the life of a servant girl who accuses her neighbors of being witches.

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment.

This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide to the practical aspects of risk assessment.

This book explores the environmental and ecological wisdom inherent in some of the indigenous traditions of traditional communities from developing societies like, Argentina, Brazil, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes makes high-performance nutrition simple for running, cycling, triathlon, and swimming.

This book advances the "e;strong"e; programme that sociology and anthropology provide a scientific foundation for arguing that God and the gods are human creations.

Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessment of the indoor air contaminants that contribute to building-related illness in commercial buildings, institutions, and residences.

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Neronian representations of magic, a practice prevalent in the everyday life of the period and a central topic in its literary production, are characterized by unprecedented accuracy and detail.

For most people, grief is an inevitable part of life and if you're a wellness practitioner, then the likelihood is that you will at some point work with a bereaved client.

United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 17 Goals blends the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.

Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing.

Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War.

Digitale Assistenztechnologien sollen ältere Menschen   unterstützen, auch bei altersbedingten Einschränkungen möglichst lange selbstbestimmt leben zu können.

Contemporary challenges related to walls, borders and encirclement, such as migration, integration and endemic historical conflicts, can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective.

En este estudio, el prestigioso historiador Peter Burke analiza, con una visión de largo recorrido de extraordinaria erudición, la contribución que exiliados y expatriados han hecho a la historia intelectual y cultural de Occidente.

Legumes are an important source of protein for humans and animals.

While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable risk of stratospheric ozone loss.

Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health.

Citizenship, Belonging, and Nation-States in the Twenty-First Century contributes to the scholarship on citizenship and integration by examining belonging in an array of national settings and by demonstrating how nation-states continue to matter in citizenship analysis.

This novel treatment of barter represents a topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology.

A global examination of what influences women''s participation in computing and what can be done to fix the gender gap.

This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chado) practitioners in Japan.

This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.

This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspective.

Quickly and easilyfind anti-aging and health strategies on the Internet Even the most sophisticated Web surfer can become frustrated searching for specific health information on the Internet.

Since the Intangible Heritage Convention was adopted by UNESCO in 2003, intangible cultural heritage has increasingly been an important subject of debate in international forums.

Examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance.