Social and cultural anthropology

Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account.

Parent-Child Interaction: Theory, Research, and Prospects is intended (a) to provide a synthesis of a segment of this growing body of literature on interrelationships between children and their parents; (b) to examine the theoretical implications of this research; (c) to review and assess common methodological approaches to the study of home environmental influences on the development of children; and (d) to identify directions future research must take if our understanding of family influences and their place in a broader sociocultural context is to be extended.

Das  Buch möchte die theoretischen Ansätze von Helmuth Plessner und Hermann Schmitz in den Dialog bringen und für die soziologische Forschung fruchtbar machen.

Cafe culture is flourishing in cities across the world.

In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones.

How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease?

This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative account of both the science and the politics of acid rain.

Extraordinary advances in the understanding of the links between nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular disease have prompted a systematic reappraisal of knowledge in the field.

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy—in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.

A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands.

Nutrients can act as signalling molecules to initiate or mediate signalling transduction that regulates cell function and homeostasis.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society.

In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge.

Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity.

This book explores the symbiotic relationship between philosophy and culture.

Evidence-based nutritional interventions are now a critical component of preventive medicine, employed in a wide variety of medical scenarios.

In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa.

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with audiences and communities on-site, online, and in wider society.

In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

What are the potential health benefits of plant-based diets?

In recent years, trust has enjoyed increasing interest from a wide range of parties, including organizations, policymakers, and the media.

As the global population surges, the challenge of feeding the world becomes increasingly urgent.

The North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have yielded many artifacts and other clues about the prehistoric people who once lived there, but little is understood about the hunting practices that ensured their survival for thousands of years.

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This book gathers the very best academic research to date on prison regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book encapsulates a long period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics.

This book is based upon more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and personal experiences with the Teetl'it Gwich'in community in northern Canada.

Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term "e;memory"e; in re-cent decades, its definition remains enigmatic.

Being Janana focuses on same-sex desiring male-bodied subjects in Lucknow, India, and explores how they make meaning in the marginalization of their desire through language performativity.

In Seriously!

The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council's generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project (FRIPROHUMSAM 275947).

Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology.

When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed.

Contemporary feminist theory has moved into posthuman terrains as feminist theorists utilise human/nonhuman relations and a motley crew of nonhuman entities to reinvigorate feminist critique of nature/culture dichotomies.

This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Inside Out Diet"e;A gem of a book, full of helpful information.

This book comprehensively reviews various feed additives and supplements that are employed for ruminant production and health.

In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge.

This newly expanded and updated fifth edition will be the largest and most comprehensive of the five editions and new topics and chapter authors have been added.

With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant.