Anthropology

Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration.

In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas.

Thanks to increased knowledge about nutrition, many threats to human health have been curbed.

In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C.

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Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus.

Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society?

Based on a critical Marxist ethnography, conducted at a state primary school in a former coalmining community in the north of England, this book provides insight into teachers' perceptions of the effects of deindustrialisation on education for the working class.

Gallons of ink have been used analyzing Adm.

This book explores how, unlike in the West, the daily religious life of most Chinese people spreads without institutional propagation.

This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship --not only theologically, but also politically.

This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a "e;post-racial"e; or "e;color blind"e; era, color still matters in the lives of people of mixed ethnic descent.

The sense that well-being remains elusive, transitory, and unevenly distributed is felt by the rich as well as the poor, and in all societies.

The relationship between Law and Anthropology can be considered as having been particularly intimate.

An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Africa's richest, most populous country cannot be trusted to ensure even the most basic infrastructure needs of their people.

The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top.

Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams.

"e;The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man.

The reconnaissances of this book are ventures in the deep analysis of the unconscious as testified to by world ethnography.

The role of women in politics in the Gulf is a much-debated and often little-understood subject in the West.

Ideology dominates social research, encouraged by rejections of nature and the past, and often ignores the direct experience of actual people.

If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal.

Anthropologist practitioners work outside the confines of the university, putting their knowledge and skills to work on significant problems in a wide variety of different contexts.

Exploring the relationship between gender and events, this book delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebration of gender equality in the context of the culture-led event.

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.

Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms.

By accepted standards of tradition, Calvert's culture is declining.

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal.

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development.

The High North in a Time of Transition collects multiple perspectives on the lives of people in the High North of Norway at a point when the petroleum boom is no longer the dominant cultural feature of the region.

Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery discusses nutritional deficiencies and requirements that are often present with diverse bariatric techniques as main mechanisms for weight loss.

The Symposium on Radionuclides in the Food Chain, sponsored by the Interna- tional Life Sciences Institute in association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, was intended to bring together policymakers and other representatives of the food industry with radiation experts involved in measuring and assessing radioactivity in foodstuffs.

Workplace bullying, a pattern of persistent and targeted emotional abuse within the context of an evolving unequal interpersonal relationship, has so far not received academic attention in India.

It is a case study in environmental history, multispecies history, more-than-human history, posthumanism, and environmental humanities.

Within contemporary Western European academic, media, and socio-political spheres, Muslims are predominantly seen through the lens of increased religiosity.

Deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha (or Kocha) people, one of India;s indigenous peoples, traditionally practising shifting cultivation in the jungle tracts situated where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal.

Changes in the orientation of archaeological research in the post-World War n period affected Maya studies.

The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment, and is often perceived to be the 'Somalia' of the country.

"e;Embodiment"e; is a concept that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The period 1928-1942 saw some of the greatest political and social upheavals in modern British history.

Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children.

The Mediterranean Basin: Its Political Economy and Changing International Relations examines the political economy and changing international relations of the Mediterranean Basin.

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state's work of nation building.

Death, Decomposition, and Detector Dogs: From Science to Scene, Second Edition is designed to help canine handlers, detectives, death investigators, crime scene personnel (including forensic laboratory personnel, technicians, and supervisors), and attorneys understand the science involved when utilizing human remains detector (HRD) canines as a locating tool.