Anthropology

Transitioning: matter, gender, thought takes the body, its ontologies and temporalities, as a primary ethnographic heuristic to explore transition contexts, relations and life processes.

Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies.

The beginning of the Neolithic in Britain is a topic of perennial interest in archaeology, marking the end of a hunter-gatherer way of life with the introduction of domesticated plants and animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and a range of new kinds of monuments, including earthen long barrows and megalithic tombs.

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world?

Diccionario Bilingue de Metaforas y Metonimias Cientifico-Tecnicas presents the extensive range of metaphoric and metonymic terms and expressions that are commonly used within the fields of science, engineering, architecture and sports science.

In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

Onda compares Japan's traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nation's societal fabric, with those of other countries across Asia, including Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and the Pacific islands region, namely Palau and Pohnpei.

Forensic Taphonomy and Ecology of North American Scavengers compiles research on vertebrate scavenging behavior from numerous academic fields, including ecology and forensic anthropology.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders.

Over the past decade, much has been learned about the damaging effects that moderate to severe alcohol use has on tissue nutrient levels and dietary intake.

The old craft of the witches was a close order.

Why do we travel?

This book is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of the establishment in New Zealand of a rare case of Maori home-rule over their traditional domain, backed by a special statute and investigated by a Crown commission the majority of whom were Tuhoe leaders.

Slavs in the Making takes a fresh look at archaeological evidence from parts of Slavic-speaking Europe north of the Lower Danube, including the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.

The 5 Things You Need to Know about Statistics provides an accessible introduction to statistical thinking for anthropologists and other social scientists who feel some mixture of dread and loathing when it comes to quantification and data analysis.

Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate.

Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia's history.

The Title Ethnology of Asia, Africa & Europe (Descriptive Study of All Races & Tribes in Three Continents), 2 Vols.

This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology.

This book develops "e;organizing eating"e; as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to actively shape eating and working in the U.

By the end of the nineteenth century, William Gladstone was arguably the most popular statesman in America since Lincoln.

This book explores the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Western Europe, North America and beyond from 2001 and onwards.

In diesem packenden historischen Werk entführt Diego de Colon die Leser in die faszinierende Welt der Freimaurerei und des Papsttums.

In species with internal fertilization, sperm competition occurs when the sperm of two or more males simultaneously occupy the reproductive tract of a female and compete to fertilize an egg (Parker, 1970).

Finally, a political economist with the lived experience and academic background necessary to explain Pope Francis's disdain for today's rightwing ideologies of populism, nationalism, authoritarianism, and unrestrained capitalism, as expressed in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti.

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists.

The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life.

The mutual relationship between change in population distribution and its determinants and consequences on one hand, and social and economic development on the other, is becoming an increasingly important area of concern for researchers, policy makers and planners alike.

Based on the celebrated five-volume set published in 2005, this updated one-volume edition offers readers a concise yet complete understanding of the interplay between the major religions and human rights.

For more than half a century, Saudi Arabia--through both official and non-governmental channels--has poured billions of dollars into funding and sponsoring religious activities and Islamic causes around the world.

The landscape of the religion and health literature is littered with a plethora of models so large and so unwieldy that they are impossible to estimate empirically.

Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "e;natural"e; family home.

In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries.

First published in 1999.

This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history.

This book explores the identity of American Indians from an Indigenous perspective and how outside influences throughout history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the twenty-first century, have affected Native people.

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day.

The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction.

Health professionals are recognizing the major role that nutraceuticals play in health enhancement.

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide.

What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today?

Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment.

Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health.

This book documents the function of social science analyses in the identification and evaluation of development programs in the Middle Eastern and North African countries.