Social and cultural anthropology

Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa's goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world's oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa's orpaillage.

The Canadian oil sands are one of the world's most important energy sources and the subject of global attention in relation to climate change and pollution.

Researchers now recognize that silent inflammation is responsible for most chronic deseases, including heart disease, Alzheimer's, and cancer.

Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth cliches of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media.

This handbook provides key information on the clinical use of nutraceuticals, an increasingly common practice grounded in an understanding of the pharmacological activities of natural compounds and clinical evidence of efficacy and safety.

This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the intersections of religion and gender in times of populism across the EU-Mediterranean.

About 150 years ago Lewis Henry Morgan compared relationship terminologies, societal forms and ideas of property to recognize the interdependence of the three domains.

How do certain ideas and practices become socially valued in particular times and places?

Navigating Life Transitions for Meaning explores the central human motivation of meaning making, and its counterpart, meaning disruption.

The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book presents a detailed anthropology of compensation in the Iliad, with reference to the wider Homeric society.

For its annual symposium in 1984, the Food and Nutrition Board posed the key nutritional question: "e;What is America eating?

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Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries.

Am Beispiel zweier Projekte gemeinschaftlichen Bauens und Wohnens spürt dieses Buch dem Zusammenhang von Architektur und Gesellschaft nach.

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.

This is a solitary attempt to streamline all the possible information related to citrus nutrition, with emphasis on diagnosis and management of nutrient constraints, employing a variety of state-of-art techniques evolved globally over the years .

"e;The Anthropology of Stuff"e; is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence.

As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "e;Jody Williams is many things-a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Die Schulverpflegung an Berufskollegs für junge Erwachsene, die sich auf ihrem Weg in die Selbstständigkeit befinden, wird im Vergleich zur Diskussion um die Versorgung in Ganztagsschulen in der Fachwelt und in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung vernachlässigt.

Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge.

At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence.

This timely and unique edited book explores the concept of colorism, which is discrimination based on the color of a person's skin.

To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era.

Chinese Dates: A Traditional Functional Food delivers unique information on Chinese dates (jujubes) as typical ethical foods and traditional health-promoting foods.

This book is created for a diverse audience that includes geologists and Earth scientists studying the impacts of geological processes on human health, as well as health professionals and medical researchers interested in the environmental determinants of health.

In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment.

Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s.

Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and quantifying climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted perspective of ecosystem, social, and infrastructure resilience, given through a lens of statistics and data science.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource on the subject of Indigenous resilience.

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft.

Der fesselnde Abschluss des »New York Times«- und »SPIEGEL«-Bestsellers Die junge Tee-Magierin Ning ist auf der Flucht.

For several decades now, there have been calls to decolonize research on the Indigenous Sami people, and to make it accountable to the Sami society.

This volume examines the discursive construction of the meanings and lifestyle practices of the middle class in the rapidly transforming economies of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, focusing on the social, political and cultural implications at local and global levels.

Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.

Obesity has come to the forefront of the American public health agenda.

This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting 'magical' and 'shamanic' practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia.

Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms.

This Brief explores the importance of lactic acid and fermentation in the modern food industry.

Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859.

This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein.

​Wie wird Begabung im Alltag der Grundschule hervorgebracht und relevant gesetzt?

'Protection against harmful bioaerosol is one of today's major concerns.

This book explores the importance of soil health in croplands, rangelands, pasturelands, and gardens, and presents new methods and technologies for assessing soil dynamics and health in these different land types.

Leading scholars in the sociology of migration, Michaela Benson and Karen O'Reilly, re-theorise lifestyle migration through a sustained focus on postcolonialism at its intersections with neoliberalism.