Anthropology

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change.

The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use.

Primatologists have long viewed small fruiting trees, like figs, as the reason for gibbons' territorial and monogamous behavior.

Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century's most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and beyond.

This book offers unique insights into the use of Facebook after the 2016 US presidential election, interrogating how users in private groups draw on individual experiences in movement building and identity construction while also critically reflecting on ethnographic practices around social media.

Co-written by a professor and 10 students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives.

This edited volume concerns a group of devastating neurological disorders that share a common pathological mechanism, namely the aggregation and deposition of insoluble, proteinaceous lesions, termed 'amyloid'.

Indigenous groups are not often recognized as driving forces in the push for economic development.

This book uses the Historic Urban Landscape - the most recently codified notion of international urban heritage conservation - to demonstrate why it is necessary to demarcate history from cultural heritage and what consequences the increasing popularity of the latter have on history.

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization.

Many rural areas in the United States find themselves struggling to build local assets and create wealth, and, when this wealth is created, they often struggle to hold on it.

Charles Lyell's argument in this classic volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old.

This title was first published in 2003.

Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same analytic frame-brothels, streets, and public day-wage labor markets (nakas), where sexual commerce may be solicited discretely alongside other income-generating activities.

This book presents the multidisciplinary field of forensic archaeology as complementary but distinct from forensic anthropology.

Winner of the 2023 Marc Raeff Book Prize; A 2023 REFORC Book Award Longlist TitleThis book highlights the main features and trends of Russian political thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated.

The resistance topic is timely given current events.

First published in 1906, these four lectures were originally delivered in the Vacation Term for Biblical Study at Cambridge.

English Consonant Clusters focuses on the phonetic transcription, stress, and tone of English consonants and consonant clusters.

Gerade die jüngsten Fälle von Lebensmittelrückrufaktionen haben die Brisanz von fehlerhaften Lebensmitteln - die Gesundheitsgefährdung für den Verbraucher sowie die nachteiligen finanziellen und Image-Folgen für die lebensmittelherstellenden Unternehmen - gezeigt.

The articles included in this volume were all presented at the 15th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference held at the University of York on the 13th and 15th of September 2013.

This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization.

This collection of essays is a representative sample of the current research and researchers in the fields of language and social interactions and social context.

Why have large numbers of the Bajju people of the Middle Belt of Nigeria become Christians?

With socialism in eclipse and market economies gaining acceptance worldwide, a new kind of ethics is needed to address social injustice and inequity.

Getting Ahead Collectively: Grassroots Experiences in Latin America is a seven-chapter book that first discusses certain types of developmental sequences in Latin America.

A richly empirical discussion of ethnic identity formation in the ancient world, presenting the peoples of China''s southern frontier.

Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.

Raccoons are not the only bandits wearing masks in the wilderness.

Microbiota are a promising and fascinating subject in biology because they integrate the microbial communities in humans, animals, plants, and the environment.

Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, this book provides a nuanced picture of the everyday identifications experienced and expressed among the superdiverse Tamil migrant population in Britain.

This is a detailed ethnographic study of a therapeutic prison unit in Canada for the treatment of sexual offenders.

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May Edel's The Chiga of Uganda is in the grand tradition of Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Leslie Spier.

In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if society, public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue.

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?

This book explores the ways in which non-government organisations have contributed to the reconstruction of, and care for populations in, Western European countries including but not limited to Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the World Wars.

This book focuses on the way in which public debate and legal practice intersect when it comes to the value of free speech and the need to regulate "e;offensive"e;, "e;blasphemous"e; or "e;hate"e; speech, especially, though not exclusively where such speech is thought to be offensive to members of ethnic and religious minorities.

Globally climate-induced disasters have been impacting marginalised communities' lives, livelihood and gendered relations.

Archaeology's Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory.

Now in its 29th edition, the Europa International Foundation Directory 2020 provides an unparalleled guide to the foundations, trusts, charitable and grantmaking NGOs, and other similar not-for-profit organizations of the world.

This book correlates different minerals and lipids serum profiles with the prevalence of cardiovascular disorders in South Asian countries with special emphasis on Pakistan.

Pulsed Electric Fields to Obtain Healthier and Sustainable Food for Tomorrow illustrates innovative applications derived from the use of pulsed electric fields beyond microbial inactivation.

This is a book on the state of social anthropology as an academic discipline in contemporary Zimbabwe.

In Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, in both in the spiritual and political realms, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.

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