Anthropology

Including the latest reviews of the most current issues related to food and nutrition toxicity, Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity, Volume 3 distills a wide range of research on food safety and food technology.

Increasing American fear about terrorism, environmental catastrophes, pandemics, and economic crises has fueled interest in "e;prepping"e;: confronting disaster by mastering survivalist skills.

Contemporary migration involves a dramatic paradox.

'In the globalization 'game' there are no absolute winners and losers.

For more than 50 years, it has been recognized that diet influences cancer formation both in humans and in experimental animals.

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research.

In The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism, Arthur Kroker explores the future of the 21st century in the language of technological destiny.

This volume is the masterpiece of Chao Gejin, one of the best-known Chinese scholars of epic studies, during the last several decades between the 20th and 21st centuries.

As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species.

Do you want to cast a spell on a suitor, banish a ghost, cure a toothache, or harvest protective herbs?

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation.

Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey.

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region.

Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship.

This book explores illegal forms of corruption and, more widely, moral and legal forms of corruption.

Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years' research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain.

This book explores the possibilities of intercultural training through literature, especially as related to collegiate study abroad programs.

Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust.

Focusing on everyday experiences of sexuality in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, this book considers personal narratives and other queer artefacts to shed light on linguistic and performative strategies of resistance, referred to as queer word- and world-making.

This volume is the newest release in the authoritative series issued by the National Academy of Sciences on dietary reference intakes (DRIs).

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.

How do people in poverty and homelessness change their lives and get back on their feet?

No challenge is entirely new.

The distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard explores the origins of the symbolic thought that is fundamental to human existence.

The aim of this book has been to present as accurately and completely as possible what the Kol is, does and thinks.

This book brings together scholars from various disciplines to explore current issues and trends in the rethinking of migration and citizenship from the perspective of three major immigrant democracies - Australia, Canada, and the United States.

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America.

The preparation of a volume of worldwide research contributions can be a time- consuming task which is frequently more difficult than many other types of book.

Southern-Led Development Finance examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have emerged in recent years, as countries from the Global South seek to transform their economies and to shield themselves from global economic turbulence.

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service.

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.

This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale.

International intervention is not just about 'saving' human lives: it is also an attempt to secure humanity's place in the universe.

Through an approach strongly oriented to socio-health contexts and healthcare facilities, with multidisciplinary contributions on the methodological and technical aspects, or legislative issues, the book provides tools and design strategies to plan and realize therapeutic places and healing gardens for care, rehabilitation, interaction, and social inclusion.

Drawing on current research in anthropology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the humanities, Understanding the Human Mind explores how and why we, as humans, find it so easy to believe we are right-even when we are outright wrong.

New Trends in Urban Planning: Studies in Housing, Urban Design and Planning presents the trends in urban planning with a wide array of theory and practice in various countries.

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries.

By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.

Originally published in 1978, this volume addresses the scientific, economic, and administrative aspects of the public policy problem raised by the United States' Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974.

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This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.

In 2006, scientist Richard Dawkins published a blockbuster bestseller, The God Delusion.

How does an extended stay in Japan influence Indian migrants' sense of their identity as they adapt to a country very different from their own?

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea.

Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice.

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab worldand how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society.

Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population.

From civil war to Japanese occupation and communist revolution to market transition, China has undergone and continues to experience enormous economic, political, and social change.