Anthropology

America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II.

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices.

Throughout Latin America, the idea of "e;justice"e; serves as the ultimate goal and rationale for a wide variety of actions and causes.

China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known.

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The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time.

While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "e;culture,"e; has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion.

Lucid and lyricala vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization.

Within the social sciences, kinship and statehood are often seen as two distinct modes of social organization, sometimes conceived of as following each other in a temporal line and sometimes as operating on different scales.

In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigre ("e;a migrant's wife"e;) may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a nave dupe.

Jahazpur is a small market town or qasba with a diverse population of more than 20,000 people located in Bhilwara District in the North Indian state of Rajasthan.

This book explores recent developments in Institutional Ethnography (IE) and offers reflective accounts on how IE is being utilised and understood in social research.

This guide looks beyond the exotic images tracing the story of different indigenous people from their first contact with explorers and colonizers to the present day.

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America-the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status.

Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how "e;taking action"e; against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the "e;gray zone"e;, a space where legal and policy prescriptions do not hold.

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

Johnson's savagely funny [book] is a grunt's-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community.

Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century.

Images of Chinese teens with their heads buried in books for hours on end, preparing for high-stakes exams, dominate understandings of Chinese youth in both China and the West.

The field of pediatric nutrition has developed into an area essential to the components of academic pediatric programs throughout the world.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.

Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora.

Novica Tadic is Serbia's leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa.

Most of us live a life wrapped in a subjective fiction we call "e;our reality.

Contributions to Sensory Physiology, Volume 6 covers theories and research about the physiological basis of sensation.

Comparative Endocrinology, Volume II, Part One: Invertebrate Hormones: Tissue Hormones provides readers with some basic knowledge of animal morphology, physiology, and chemistry; a systematic and comprehensive account of endocrine principles from the comparative point of view.

A humorous, historical, and hirsute miscellany thats the baseball book Howard Zinn would have written, if he hated the Yankees.

This collection focuses on Ukraines ethno-cultural minorities who in recent years have undergone forced displacement, emigration, the destruction of familiar ways of life, and a transformation of identity and language behaviour.

In Bloodstain Pattern Evidence, the concepts introduced in the author's first book, Blood Dynamics, are updated and applied to provide essential answers in the resolution of actual crimes.

Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories?

Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization.

Microbial Energy Conversion documents the proceedings of a seminar in Gottingen in October 1976.

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

This book explores the theoretical contribution of peace ecology to the understanding and practice of environmental and conventional peacebuilding.

Contributions to Sensory Physiology, Volume 7, was published with two principal objectives in mind: (1) to bring together reports of current research on all of the sensory systems; and (2) to provide an opportunity for the scientist studying a sensory system to give a detailed account of a series of experiments or to present, at some length, a theory about the physiological basis of sensation.

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland.

Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.

The rainbow land of seven sister states of north eastern region of India is the homeland of large number of tribes, who lives in diverse habitat; speaks a variety of languages; have different socio-cultural heritage; and show distinction in physical features.

The book Indian Prehistoric Archaeological Anthropology is a valuable contribution in describing sites, industries, traditions and cultures of our those ancestors who were struggling hard for their survivals as hunters, gatherers, cave dwellers and parasite on nature particularly forest.

The people of South Asia includes a very large number of primitive tribes who subsists on hunting, fishing and simple form of agriculture.

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This book on Kashmir titled History of Kas\\'mira (Kashmir) is his ten years research and writing effort, which covers many facets of Kas\\'mira (Kashmir) Aryans, Naga\\'s, Evolution, Rulers from Ancient times, Religious Beliefs/Worship, Religious Era\\'s, Aberrations in Kalhan\\'s Rajatarangiri and Goddesses of Kas\\'mira (Kashmir).

This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal biomarkets crosses the humanitarian thresholds of feminism.

In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica.

This searching study of the Arabs is the work of a well-known Swiss writer and broadcaster, who has spent a large part of his life amont the people of the Middle East ans has acquired an intimate knowledge of their language, their history and literature, their beliefs, and their way of life.

This book examines the transformative power of grassroots social innovations within dynamic urban landscapes.

Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways explores how Quechua and Mori peoples describe, define, and enact wellbeing through the lens of foodways.

The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.