Social and cultural anthropology

This book analyses how children from transnational Japanese-Singaporean families are educated.

In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra.

At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India and Cuba.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment.

This midcourse report provides an initial assessment of how the process used to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (DGA) compares to the recommendations in the 2017 National Academies report on redesigning the process for establishing the DGA.

Since 1997, the United States and Canada have adopted harmonized Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), a set of nutrient intake reference values for use in planning and assessing diets for individuals and groups in both countries.

Volume 2: Objects, People and Texts explores the movement of individuals and peoples and the circulation of material objects and books and texts.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment.

At the intersection of cultural history, material culture studies, memory studies and feminist geopolitics, Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of socialist globalisation constructed around the journeys of Cold War era Soviet objects in India and Cuba.

This edited volume discusses the rise, positioning and role of small-scale, voluntary development organisations in the Global North.

This edited volume discusses the rise, positioning and role of small-scale, voluntary development organisations in the Global North.

What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities?

In Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life.

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred.

This book brings together sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and global research to contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexities of contemporary power, violence, and justice.

Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood.

Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood.

This book brings together sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and global research to contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexities of contemporary power, violence, and justice.

British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell (1930) examines British colonial administration during the administrations of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell.

Failure to Thrive (FTT) is a multifactorial illness requiring the systematic application of evidence in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team-based approach.

This third edition brings together the latest in research and clinical practice of the expanding field of pediatric neurogastroenterology.

Understanding the causes of anemia is critical to inform appropriate strategies to prevent and treat anemia, particularly to reduce the risk of anemia and the burden of disease.

This edited book provides the first comprehensive overview on conventional and emerging processing technologies for the extraction and purification of proteins and/or peptides from plant sources with a special focus on subsequent product development.

This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation.

This book discusses many aspects of fetuses and motherhood from fields as wide as sociology and medicine.

This contributed volume, based on papers presented at a conference held in Zimbabwe in mid-2021, interrogates solutions to COVID-19-related problems and issues across agricultural, environmental and water sectors in Zimbabwe and assesses their scientific, economic and practical validity.

This contributed volume provides case studies from around the world that feature a convergence of indigenous and western knowledge in an attempt to understand complex socio-ecological systems.

In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q'ero since the 1960s.

Kompost ist zugleich eine Ontologie und eine Art und Weise des Wissens, der Wissensproduktion, die gemeinsam das vermeintlich Gegebene ‚der Welt‘ auseinanderdröseln, um daraus vielzählige Welten hervorzubringen.

Der Klimawandel gefährdet die Existenzgrundlage zukünftiger Generationen.

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of whiteness, and the devaluation of nonwhites.

Unsere westlich-bürgerliche Gesellschaft ist stolz auf ihren revolutionären Ursprung – den Sturz der traditionellen Autoritäten und Hierarchien, der selbst vor der Enthauptung von Königen nicht zurückschreckte: "All men are created equal!

Moderne Formen der Wald- und Baumbestattungen sind weit mehr als ein Trend.

Der Mensch kann bei ausgewogener Ernährung, maßvollem Einsatz von Sonnenlicht und ausreichender Bewegung seinem Körper fast alles zuführen und bereitstellen, was für ein weitestgehend krankheitsfreies Leben und ein starkes Immunsystem notwendig ist.

Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers.

Eine logische Folge unseres dauerhaften Sitzens sind Rückenschmerzen.

Unsere westlich-bürgerliche Gesellschaft ist stolz auf ihren revolutionären Ursprung – den Sturz der traditionellen Autoritäten und Hierarchien, der selbst vor der Enthauptung von Königen nicht zurückschreckte: "All men are created equal!

Mit einer dialysegerechten Ernährung können Sie Fehlleistungen Ihrer erkrankten Niere korrigieren.

Möchten Sie langfristig gesund werden oder bleiben, dann sind gesunde, frische und biologische Nahrungsmittel und die richtige Zubereitung der Nahrung unverzichtbar.

Una reflexión sobre la mexicanidad a partir de hechos históricos y sucesos actuales.

British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell (1930) examines British colonial administration during the administrations of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell.

This book provides valuable coverage on various immunomodulatory research associated with nutraceutical studies, from plant to animal and marine sources.

¿Qué significa ser humano en un mundo en el que las fronteras entre cultura y naturaleza son cada vez más porosas?

Los mitos de la hipertensiónEl lado oscuro de la sal blancaLa medicina de la sal de roca y del agua de marTal vez parezca extraño o exagerado dedicar toda una monografía para hablar de algo tan simple como la sal.

Revisión a la gestión cultural latinoamericana es un diálogo hecho libro, o un libro dialogado, producido entre dos gestores culturales latinoamericanos con una extensa trayectoria en el campo de la organización de nuestras culturas.

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "e;cropscape"e;-the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history.

A comprehensive and critical overview of how what you eat (or don''t) affects your brain and behaviour.