Anthropology

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups.

How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of Indians in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production?

The role that race and religion play in American presidential elections is attracting national attention like never before.

Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America.

Implementation of robust omics technologies enables integrative and holistic interrogation related to nutrition by labeling biomarkers to empirically assess the dietary intake.

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period.

In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs chronicles the daily existence of a range of people, from venerated lamas to humble householders.

This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the biochemical an metabolic aspects of digestion and absorption of different dietary fats and other lipids, with minimal discussion of the physical chemistry of the process, which has been covered in great detail in previous reviews.

Fully updated, the Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics, second edition is a practical quick-reference guide to the vital and valued subject of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of disease and the maintenance of good health.

Racialization has become one of the central concepts in the study of race and racism.

In this rich account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia, John Bowen describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be--as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

Dedicated to supernatural revelation and the divine governance of society, Pakistan's Ahmadi community has endured mob violence and penal sanctions for refusing to embrace the beliefs of the Sunni majority.

The American Obesity Association identifies obesity's link to numerous medical conditions, including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, several cancers, and a host of inflammatory disorders.

Many of the central results of Classical and Marxian political economy are examples of the self-organization of the capitalist economy as a complex, adaptive system far from equilibrium.

This book shows how the performance of rituals influences the understanding that Hindu women form of their own selves, their sense of femininity, identity as well as their role and position in the lived-in world, and vice versa.

This comprehensive collection offers a concise introduction to the institutional framework of the Holy See, conceptualizing papal agency and positions from a range of international theory perspectives.

Holy Men of God is a history of the kings, priests, and monks of Eastern Orthodoxy, an intriguing subject especially for Western readers.

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This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

This book explores ways in which diverse regional cultures in Indonesia and their histories have been expressed in film since the early 1950s.

Giving to Godexamines the everyday practices of Islamic giving in post-revolutionary Egypt.

Während der Weihnachtstagung zur Begründung der Allgemeinen Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft versenkte Rudolf Steiner gemeinsam mit den Anwesenden den spirituellen Grundstein dieser Gesellschaft «in die Herzen» der Menschen.

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Over the past two decades, Japan's socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s.

The popular appeal of the ballad is perennial, and few literary genres give so much pleasure to so many kinds of people.

The story of Devil from antiquity to the present.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence.

This book describes a researcher's journey to carry out an ethnographic study.

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires.

Japanese Diasporas examines the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on the political, social and economic struggles of Nikkei.

Archimedes is held in high esteem by mathematicians, physicists and engineers as one of the most brilliant scientists of all time.

A comprehensive biosocial synthesis of homosexuality in humans, other mammals and birds, reviewing current knowledge and proposing new hypotheses.

How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the state and religion?

What is tango?

In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires.

Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the Middle Ages has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination.

This book presents an introduction to strategies for qualitative digital social research on emotions in a digital world.

Bringing together original essays by distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines, this volume constitutes an important contribution to the private-public debate.

In Harmony: The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra is a stirring, historical account of these three Massachusetts ensembles.

The expansion of the European Union in May 2004 through the entry of ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe, has generated considerable media interest - interest which was revived by further expansion in January 2007 when Bulgaria and Romania became the latest nations from the east to join.

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation.

Sheds new light on the relationship between tolerance and religion, concluding that local religious minorities are most likely to protect pluralism.

This book provides an overview of various traditional Middle Eastern food products and beverages and investigates their chemical, microbial and physical profiles.

The purchase and consumption of wine, whether in hospitality environments or domestic settings, has huge anthropological significance underpinned by a discourse of wine appreciation.

This vintage book contains a fascinating and insightful account of the 'old-time' Maori of New Zealand, written by Makereti, the sometime chieftainess of the Arawa Tribe of the Maori of New Zealand.