Anthropology

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 leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Nestor Garcia Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries.

Nutritional genomics, also referred to as nutrigenomics, is considered one of the next frontiers in the post-genomic era.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.

Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality.

This volume details how new theories and methods have recently advanced the archaeological study of initial human colonization of islands around the world, including in the southwest Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.

Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny.

Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II.

The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field.

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia.

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world's fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.

This book explores the experiences of Muslims in the United States as they interact with the health care system during serious illness and end-of-life care.

A Sculptor's Manual focuses on the methods involved in sculpture.

This book examines three years of Beyonce's career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.

In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to "e;salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate"e; folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine.

This edited volume comprehensively highlights recent advances in the metabolism, nutrition, physiology, and pathobiology of amino acids in all the systems of humans and other animals (including livestock, poultry, companion animals, and fish).

In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy recent political and religious conflicts, attention to religious violence has increased exponentially.

Changing one's diet not only improves physical health, but benefits mood, behaviour and cognitive function at a fundamental level.

Developed by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), The ASMBS Textbook of Bariatric Surgery provides a comprehensive guide of information dealing with the ever evolving field of bariatric surgery.

A novel and ground-breaking analysis of the prosecution of environmental harm before the International Criminal Court, addressing both the substance and procedure.

Quinoa rose to global stardom pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a bright future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglect.

The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa?

Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world.

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Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release of a pathogen to the actual human infection Provides techniques on how to gather information, on how each microorganism moves through the environment, how to determine their survival rates on various media, and how people are exposed to the microorganism Explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure the impact of interventions and identify the best policies and practices to protect public health and safety Includes new information on genetic methods Techniques use to develop risk models for drinking water, groundwater, recreational water, food and pathogens in the indoor environment

Germany has long entertained the notion that the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery involved only other European players.

This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies.

Since its first publication in 1971, Barry Cunliffe's monumental survey has established itself as a classic of British archaeology.

This lost classic by famous anthropological theorist Leslie A.

This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion.

A new, hands-on approach to social inquiry for social scientists who wish to make a difference to policy and practice.

After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight.

This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water and crops is a major health issue in many countries worldwide, threatening the health of millions of people due to arsenic's toxicity and carcinogenicity.

Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble.

In both Europe and North America it can be argued that the associational and institutional dimensions of the right to freedom of religion or belief are increasingly coming under pressure.

The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of saltwater people in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions.

Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped.

Myanmar is known for its engaging history, rich cultural heritage, and diverse ethnic communities.

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

This book presents a unique analysis of modern Russian provincial society.

Multidimensional Mathematical Demography is a collection of papers dealing with the problems of inaccurate or unavailable demographic data, transformation of data into probabilities, multidimensional population dynamic models, and the problems of heterogeneity.

John Calvin''s two kingdoms political thought offers a fresh paradigm for constructive Christian engagement in pluralistic liberal societies.

A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia.

Traditional valuation approaches are increasingly recognised as being insufficient to address the wicked valuation problems of the diverse peoples and groups that inhabit the globe from north, south, east to west.