Social and cultural anthropology

In India, the practice of jugaad-finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems-emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation.

The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents and provides innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity.

This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges.

In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world.

This book provides a practical overview of the treatment and management of celiac disease.

The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments.

This comprehensive volume focuses on anti-inflammatory nutraceuticals and their role in various chronic diseases.

Even though the Portuguese are relatively new to Canada, they have made major contributions to the cultural mosaic of the country.

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level.

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal.

This book provides a review of therapeutic foods and diets for aging patients.

Matupit: Land, Politics, and Change among the Tolai of New Britain provides an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay between land, politics, and social change in the Matupit community on the Gazelle Peninsula, Papua New Guinea.

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient that occurs in almost all foods and is important for many normal physiological functions.

'Deserves to sell like hot cakes' - Allan Massie, The ScotsmanShortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the YearFrom the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a 'nice cup of tea' has been a stock British response to a crisis.

Meat and Meat Replacements: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Current Status and Future Directions provides an interdisciplinary view on the production and consumption of food, challenges to the traditional meat industry, and potential meat replacements.

It is reported Functional foods are highly nutritious and associated with a number of powerful health benefits.

Weve all heard the risk factors for cardiovascular disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle.

Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public, and Argentina's president himself.

Microbial Pigments: Applications in Food and Beverage Industry offers a comprehensive and updated review of the impact of microbial pigments as value-added products in the food and beverage industry.

Using the case of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala, constructed between 1978 and 1983, this book examines the effects of displacement on the former residents of Rio Negro, a community forcibly evicted and nearly eliminated by the military and paramilitary.

This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world.

This pioneering book homes in on repair as an everyday practice.

Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.

Asia's Population Problems (1967) features papers written by specialists - demographers, economists and sociologists - examining the various population issues facing different Asian countries in the decades following the Second World War.

Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have?

This fascinating and revealing work examines the incredible power of junk food and fast food-how nostalgic we are about them, the influence of the companies that manufacture or sell them, and their alarming effect on our country's state of health.

In the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists, or gringos, in a situation often referred to as "e;sex tourism.

The first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.

This book represents the first anthropological ethnography of Ikea consumption and goes to the heart of understanding the unique and at times frantic popularity of this one iconic transnational store.

An ethnographic study set in Uzbekistan which shows how Muslims practise and celebrate their religion despite a repressive government.

Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline.

The world is overheated.

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.

There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity.

With 66,000 members the Japanese-Canadian community is one of the smallest ethnic communities in Canada.

This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences.

An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions-and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger.

This textbook for undergraduate students aims at providing an in-depth understanding of the relationship between diet, nutrients, health, diseases, and drug treatment.

This is the first comprehensive text on African Mathematics that can be used to address some of the problematic issues in this area.

Honorable Mention for the 2018 American Ethnological SocietySenior Book PrizeHonorable Mention for the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing presented by the American Anthropological Association In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule.

This volume is initial reflections on the meaning and the implications of Yuk Hui's notion of cosmotechnics, which opens up an anti-universalist and pluralist perspective on technology beyond the West.

While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West, the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy.

Research training is challenging, and the attrition rate of doctoral students has been increasing in Canada, the UK, the USA and Australia.

Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.

This book tells the story of a Chinese family owned shophouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, through the lens of petite capitalism.

In Unconsolable Contemporary Paul Rabinow continues his explorations of "e;a philosophic anthropology of the contemporary.