Anthropology

From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey information about beliefs, faith, identity, power, agency, resistance, and fashion.

Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information.

Death, Beauty, Struggle represents a long labor of love and the summation of forty years of Margaret Trawick's groundbreaking research.

This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in part through its reunification with Hong Kong.

This edited book set in the context of North East India explores issues concerning symbols, meanings, representations, and social implications of materiality and visuality, as well as the  dynamics of power, social reproduction, ideological dominance and knowledge production, from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Das Konzept der menschlichen Sicherheit hat in nur kurzer Zeit eine hohe internationale Resonanz erfahren und Eingang in die Politik gefunden.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

The Tail Wags the Dog is an intensely controversial book about Middle Eastern politics.

Police Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be improved.

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age.

This book addresses the issue of Christianity in public life in China through methodological and constructive approaches.

This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young people, culture and education; sexual and reproductive health and well-being; and belonging, connectedness and justice.

In this major work an economist with long experience as an advisor in developing countries explores the conflict between market forces and political reform that has led straight into Latin America's most serious problems.

This book discusses and analyses the ways in which fatherhood is in transition in contemporary and globalized society.

Johnny Salda-a outlines the basic elements of longitudinal qualitative data, focusing on micro-levels of change observed within individual cases and groups of participants.

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The Hebrew Bible is hardly what might be called a "e;unified"e; account of the national history of Israel.

Tom King knows cultural resource management.

The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: 'Restoring What Was Ours' offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of land restitution programs.

This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars.

Fiction Favours the Facts Book 2Some tell of little-known Bible characters, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters.

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).

Racial Situations challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting.

Het Informatorium voor voeding en diëtetiek is een systematisch naslagwerk met alles wat men moet weten op het gebied van voeding en diëtetiek.

Narrating Nomadism provides an unflinching account of ethnic groups and nomadic communities across the world that were branded as 'criminal' during colonial times.

Diet quality is a broad term that encapsulates both perceived and actual practices, personal preferences and cultural diversity.

Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis provides evidence based recommendations, established by a comprehensive, state of the art review of the available literature to help clinicians with nutritional counseling for dietary stone prevention.

Religion, Education, Dialogue and Conflict analyses the European Commission-funded REDCo project, which addressed the question of how religions might contribute to dialogue or conflict in Europe.

This book examines the origins of communal and institutional almsgiving in rabbinic Judaism.

Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses in Europe, is a collection of narratives, myths, stereotypes and symbols.

Communication is changing rapidly around the world, particularly in Africa, where citizens are embracing digital technologies not only to improve not only interpersonal communication but also the state of their financial well-being.

This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft production.

Globalization: Causes and Effects is the culmination of an eleven volume series that defines and explains the scholarly field of International Relations.

This volume explores the first four waves of a longitudinal diagnostic study of Indigenous adolescents and their families.

This is the first book to shed light on the growing presence, influence and expansion of China in the daily life of Argentina.

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized.

The unexpected death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in Paris on August 31st 1997 led to a period of mourning over the next week that took the world by surprise.

HThis book describes how a small group of anthropologists shaped American thought from the late nineteenth century until the mid-1960s.

Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa.

Nutrition and Enhanced Sports Performance: Muscle Building, Endurance, and Strength provides a comprehensive overview to understanding the integrated impact of nutrition on performance.

My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject.

This book addresses the epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges faced by African scholars in their research practices.

The Classic Edition of 'Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition', first published in 2006, includes a new introduction by the editors, describing the ongoing relevance of this volume in the context of future challenges for this vital field of study.

The most advanced and complete forensic dentistry resource of its kind, this volume provides essential guidance in all areas of forensics odontologly.

While there has been a spate of books concerned with race and ethnicity in Europe more specifically, this timely volume offers a broader perspective and positions issues of identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, xenophobia, regionalism and ethnonationalism within the wider contexts of trans- and supranationalism.

This monograph carries out an in-depth investigation into compositional processes, shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency.

States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios engages with the crisis of our capitalist world, with a view to explaining its origins, unravelling its symptoms, and demystifying the anodyne corrective solutions so far proposed.

Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion.