Anthropology

Dow Chemical developed the Chemical Exposure Index to help its engineers design and operate safer facilities.

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life.

Young people in East Asia are increasingly experiencing a prolonged transition to adulthood.

This book situates Australian Muslim experiences of religious authority within the global context of Islam in the modern world.

Las diferentes contribuciones que forman parte de este libro ofrecen ejemplos históricos y etnográficos, relatos y narraciones en donde los sentidos aprehenden el mundo y su estructura social "a su manera", mediante palabras, textos, músicas, comidas, sueños, relatos, enfermedades, terapias, alucinógenos, transformismo animal, películas de cine o movimientos religiosos de supuesta ancestral tradición.

Energy is central to the fabric of society.

Sustainability is not unique to health, yet sustainability is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values.

Who believes in conspiracy theories, and why are some people more susceptible to them than others?

The Islamic Middle East is a rare, thought-provoking account of the origins, nature, and evolution of Islam that provides a historical perspective vital to understanding the contemporary Middle East.

This volume examines the ways in which the violent legacies of the twentieth century continue to affect the concept of the nation.

Identifying himself as both an Indian and a Canadian but first and foremost a Sikh, Tara Singh has shuttled back and forth between Canada and India for most of his life, finding personal harmony while incorporating two very different countries and cultures into his life.

With all the enormous resources that are invested in medicine, it is sometimes a mystery why there is so much sickness still in evidence.

How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art?

Originally published in 1961, this study of the indigenous system of government in Ruanda-Urundi until the beginning of the 20th century, describes the complex relationship between the Tutsi and the Hutu and shows how the Tutsi succeeded in maintaining their political dominance without endangering the unity and efficient working of Ruanda society.

In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to "e;salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate"e; folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine.

Birds have colonized almost every terrestrial habitat on the planet - from the poles to the tropics, and from deserts to high mountain tops.

The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'.

It is the purpose of this book to try to offer a modern perspective on the importance of vitamins in human biology and medicine.

Situating Maori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we live in our world (our world views), and in turn, the ways in which humans adapt to climate change.

This book familiarises readers with a new way to treat the subject of gender, foregrounding the real voices of women, their experiences doing ethnographic work, and their courage in sharing their stories publicly for the first time in the context of India.

How can one story of a Black family, a community and their relationship to home develop our understanding of lived experience in segregated North Omaha?

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries.

Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "e;right of return.

Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.

The Caribbean history provides a rich study of the different forms of labour systems that have historically marked the politics of the coloniser and the colonised.

President Barack Obama's mother, S.

Issues of religious diversity in the workplace have become very topical and have been raised before domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights.

Religio-political organisations in Zimbabwe play an important role in advocating democratisation and reconciliation, against acquiescent, silenced or co-opted mainstream churches.

Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives.

A simple way to achieve lasting overall fitness.

Equal Time, Equal Value is the first systematic investigation of Time Banking in the United States.

This book explores how insights from evolution can transform our understanding of mental health and mental disorder.

The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes.

The Islamic positioning of Islamophobia is presented in this book.

Over half of England's secondary schools are now academies.

Advances in Food and Nutrition Research recognizes the integral relationship between the food and nutritional sciences and brings together outstanding and comprehensive reviews that highlight this relationship.

This volume introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM), a visual tool for studying the exchanges that take place between different cultures in borderland areas or across long distances.

Third edition of leading textbook offering an advanced overview of all major perspectives of research in cross-cultural psychology.

This book provides a comprehensive account of language management and planning at Confucius Institutes in the UK, implementing an ethnographic approach grounded in language management theory.

In recent years the concept of 'diversity' has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide.

This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia.

This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement.

Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the contribu- tions that the social sciences might make to the epidemiological study of patterns of health and disease.

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern.

Exploring the distinctive nature and role of local pilgrimage traditions among Muslims and Catholics, Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices draws particularly on south central Java, Indonesia.