Social and cultural anthropology

This analysis of deliberative transformative moments gives deliberative research a dynamic aspect, opening practical applications in deeply divided societies.

In this book, Dale Hutchinson traces the history of American healthcare and wellbeing from the colonial era to the present, drawing on evidence from material culture and historical documents.

Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced.

Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status.

This book explores the traditional use of Ilex paraguariensis, a plant that is widely distributed in South America.

This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation.

South Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially.

Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life.

HThis book describes how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s.

The moments in Christ's human life noted in the creeds (his conception, birth, suffering, death, and burial) are events which would likely appear in a syllabus for a course in social anthropology, for they are of special interest and concern in human life, and also sites of contention and controversy, where what it is to be human is discovered, constructed, and contested.

Phenolic compounds are structures found in plant-based foods that play an important role in regulating health and disease.

Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging social and moral protocols across homes, classrooms, church halls, and the streets.

Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK.

Witches, ghosts, fairies.

What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy?

This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon-aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language-to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies.

This book illustrates the recent advancements in the role of functional foods in preventing age-related disorders.

This book offers a diverse set of solid concerted strategies in the development and implementation of specific "e;climate actions,"e; in natural and built places where we all live.

This volume carries the proceedings of the Vahouny Fiber Symposium, which took place in Washington DC, in March of 1996.

This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications.

Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia breathes new life into the age-old human preoccupation with how to create a happier society.

Cross-cultural psychology has come of age as a scientific discipline, but how has it developed?

Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century.

In Search of the Afropolitan explores human encounters and moments that speak to the challenges of being a 21st century African of the world.

First published in 1983, Race, Ethnicity and Power focuses on contemporary race and ethnic relations in six countries and looks at the historical context by tracing how various forces and factors, such as group power capabilities, shaped present-day ethnic and race relations.

Nutrition manuals and textbooks are usually written to meet the needs of nutritionists or would-be nutritionists.

In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to define the norms of reproduction, and where the boundaries of Orthodox Judaism begin and end.

Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals covers basic ideas and research in medical anthropology.

Nutritional Composition of Fruit Cultivars provides readers with the latest information on the health related properties of foods, making the documentation of the nutritive value of historical cultivars especially urgent, especially before they are lost and can't be effectively compared to modern cultivars.

Highly recommended by CHOICE, Oct 2018Extremophiles are nature's ultimate survivors, thriving in environments ranging from the frozen Antarctic to abyssal hot hydrothermal vents.

This edited collection, including contributors from the disciplines of art history, film studies, cultural geography and cultural anthropology, explores ways in which islands in the north of England and Scotland have provided space for a variety of visual-cultural practices and forms of creative expression which have informed our understanding of the world.

This book brings together Sociologists, Computer Scientists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people.

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.

Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions.

This book theorizes a philosophical framework for educational policy and practice in the southern Philippines where decades of religious and political conflict between a minority Muslim community and the Philippine state has plagued the educational and economic development of the region.

A syncretistic and millenarian religious movement, the Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) was one of the major redemptive societies of Republican China.

At a time when diversity is taking an increasingly prominent place in public and academic debate, Situational Diversity offers a new perspective by understanding diversity framed in the local context, characterised through different forms of social differentiation.

This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala.

Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam.

Every year, the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar sees its population of 20,000 swell by two million visitors.

Discovering Nutrition offers a concise look at the science of nutrition through the lens of today's issues and hot topics.

With the global expansion of reproductive technologies, there are ever more ways to create a family, and more family types than ever before.

Parents and ancestors are always important: they endow us with a genetic inheritance for better or for worse, for the balanced diet, for overfeeding or for starvation.