Social and cultural anthropology

Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into "e;joking"e; and "e;avoidance"e; relations?

In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society.

Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory ('with a capital-T') in cross-disciplinary humanities education.

This book examines the lived experiences of a group of Japanese women through their thirties, revealing the dynamic of human agency responding to the social changes of Japan's 'lost decades'.

Questions of vision and knowledge are central to debates about the world in which we live.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt von Japans Folklore, wo Mythen und Legenden zum Leben erwachen!

The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information.

This book acts as a forum for investigating how African Theatre works and what its place is in this postmodern society.

WINNER - NAUTILUS GOLD BOOK AWARDWINNER - AASECT PROFESSIONALS BOOK AWARDExploring how the essentialism of the gender binary impacts on clients of all genders, this ground-breaking book examines how historical, social and culturally gendered trauma emerges in clinical settings.

This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts.

The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics offers the first and only handbook in the field of Canadian politics that uses 'gender' (which it interprets broadly, as inclusive of sex, sexualities, and other intersecting identities) as its category of analysis.

This book explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely attested in the USA during the years preceding the police raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969.

This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century.

This book explores one of the most discussed and investigated novel foods in recent years: edible insects.

This book presents recent developments involving the role of nanoparticles on plant physiology and growth.

This book traces the life course of Richard Quinney, one of the most cited authors in the social sciences and a key figure in the development of critical criminology in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

This book aims to explore counting as an often-overlooked research tool for qualitative projects.

While the term 'culture' has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention.

This book examines the interconnectedness of LGBT civil and political rights, bias, discrimination, homophobia, and LGBT health disparities both in the United States and globally.

This volume summarizes and updates information about antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)/antibiotic resistant genes (ARG) production, including their entry routes in soil, air, water and sediment, their use in hospital and associated waste, global and temporal trends in use and spread of antibiotics, AMR and ARG.

This book illustrates the role of researchers' affects and emotions in understanding and making sense of the phenomena they study during ethnographic fieldwork.

The agricultural sector of medicinal (including plant stimulants) and aromatic plants is characterized by an enormous number and diversity of species.

In 1974, the release of Dungeons & Dragons forever changed the way that we experience imagined worlds.

This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews.

This book is specifically designed to serve the community of postgraduates and researchers in the fields of epidemiology, health GIS, medical geography, and health management.

This book systematically assesses the political and social values of the more than 1.

This ethnography analyses labour relations within the export-oriented cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha in Kenya.

This book examines, within the context and concerns of education, Foucault's reflections on friendship in his 1981 interview "e;Friendship as a Way of Life.

This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period.

Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development.

Autoethnography is a unique discipline which steps inside and outside the self to experience, embody and express social and cultural meaning.

A key intervention in the growing critical literature on race, this volume examines the social construction of race in contemporary Australia through the lenses of Indigenous sovereignty, nationhood, and whiteness.

This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution.

This volume explores how linguistic and cultural diversity in Greece, caused by various waves of emigration and immigration, has transformed Greek society and its educational system.

An ethnography of urban citizenship, global belonging, and queerness in a rapidly growing provincial city in the Global South, Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense of belonging in a city understood by many to be "e;unimportant"e; and "e;in the middle of nowhere.

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s.

This book covers the complexity of diabetes and related complications and presents the socio-economic burden of the disease, taking into account the rising prevalence reaching pandemic proportions and the associated costs.

As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics.

This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities.

Advances in molecular biology and genome research in the form of molecular breeding and genetic engineering put forward innovative prospects for improving productivity of many pulses crops.

Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality.

Plants produce chemicals as part of their normal metabolic activities.

This book offers an extensive study of indigenous communities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, and their methods of forest conservation, along with an exploration of the impact of forestry operations in the islands and the wide scale damage they have incurred on both the land and the people.

This book focuses on the use of food gases in the food industry, their different applications and their role in food processing, packaging and transportation.

A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives, this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront people with decisions about life and death.

This ethnographic study of middle-class British-Pakistani women in Manchester explores the sense of belonging they create through recognition and social status.

Putting the anthropological imagination under the spotlight, this book represents the experience of three generations of researchers, each of whom have long collaborated with the same Indigenous community over the course of their careers.

This book will be a guiding path to understand the photocatalytic process and mechanism for the deterioration of heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and pathogens from wastewater.

Through an anthropological analysis, this book uncovers life stories and testimonies that relate the processes of separation as a result of the constructed political borders of nation states newly founded on the inherited territories of the Ottoman Empire.

In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies.