Anthropology

This book presents a systematic approach to the literary analysis of cultural practices.

Dispatches on nationalism and religionAs an insider to church politics and a scholar of contemporary Orthodoxy, Cyril Hovorun outlines forms of political orthodoxy in Orthodox churches, past and present.

This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work - identity, discourse, normativity and relationality.

This book shows the various evolutionary forces which have converged from different directions to effect human disintegration.

Dedicated to Charles Darwin, The Malay Archipelago- the land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise is a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature.

Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing.

Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?

Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict.

Diet is a major factor in health and disease.

Asia has a long history of preparation and consumption of various types of ethnic fermented foods and alcoholic beverages based on available raw substrates of plant or animal sources and also depending on agro-climatic conditions of the regions.

Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance!

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

How does religious healing work, if indeed it does?

Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living.

The description of sequelae of nutritional deficien- cies was equally oversimplified.

Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies.

Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, thisvolume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives toexplore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe andthroughout human history.

This handbook provides an all-inclusive insight into biomarkers assessing the impact of nutrition on human health.

As Eurasia and the adjacent territories become more important to the world, there is increasing interest from international powers, accompanied by attempts to give institutional form to traditional economic and security links within the region.

In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America.

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity.

This book throws new light on the study of India's development through an exploration of the triangular relationship between federalism, nationalism and the development process.

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This book discusses management philosophy based on case studies in companies in Japan, Korea and China.

Advances in Communication Systems: Theory and Applications, Volume 2 focuses on laser transmission, stochastic approximation, optical techniques, adaptive compression, and synchronous satellite and manned space-flight communication systems.

Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations.

This book assesses whether a new category of religious actors has been constructed within international law.

On June 2122, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board convened a workshop in Washington, DC, to explore the range of policies and programs that exist at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels to limit sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in children birth to 5 years of age.

This edited volume contains valuable information for museums and academic institutions concerning the care and conservation of human remains.

This book explores the interplay between African archaeology and geospatial methods from three broad perspectives.

The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective.

This concise and accessible introduction establishes the relevance of cultural anthropology for the modern world through an integrated, ethnographically informed approach.

This is the first transnational history of IVF and assisted reproduction.

Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity.

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion.

This cross-disciplinary collaboration offers historical and contemporary scholarship exploring the interface of Christianity and international law.

This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa.

Brings together significant studies on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger.

This book offers a new mythic perspective on the secret of the allure and survival of a current-archaic institution-the Western theatre-in an era of diverse technological media.

Approaching Haitishistory and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haitis complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives.

This volume engages with issues of moral responsibility and multiethnic co-existence in the context of contemporary Africa.

The volume draws from Ren, Devisch,s encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily.

Critics of the ecosystem concept have noted the tendency of ecosystem-based studies to overemphasize energy flow, to rely on functionalist assumptions, to neglect historical and evolutionary factors, and to overlook the role of individuals as the locus of natural selection and decision making.

A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.

At the turn of the century, America is both retrenching and expanding, becoming more restrictive and more expansive, more utilitarian and, more value- and religion-oriented.

The contents of this book are the proceedings of the ACS symposium, "e;Impact of Processing on Food Safety,"e; which was held April 16-17, 1997, at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.