Anthropology

This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.

Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation.

Medical professionals, social policy makers, and the media have all declared that Canada is in the grip of an obesity epidemic.

Reviews the most important topics in current primatology using research on the long-studied Arashiyama population of Japanese macaques.

First published in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L.

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India.

The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society.

This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma.

L’émancipation des mœurs, les transformations de l’entreprise et celles du capitalisme semblent affaiblir les liens sociaux ; l’individu doit de plus en plus compter sur sa « personnalité ».

Sexual Antipodes is about how Enlightenment print culture built modern national and racial identity out of images of sexual order and disorder in public life.

Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of 'liminal politics': an open-ended 'state of exception' in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible - even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a 'new normal'.

Why did orientalism emerge and how has it evolved?

In the ninth century AD, settlers from the heartland of the Wari Empire founded Quilcapampa, a short-lived site overlooking the Sihuas River in southern Peru.

One interesting feature of tribal history in India is the number of revolts and uprisings that have taken place as a result of the tribal peoples attempts to fight injustice, oppression and exploitation.

Near-death experiences are known around the world and throughout human history.

Provides answers about human memory and its role in making us who we are and societies who they are.

Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, "e;Changing Forests"e; explores how the indigenous Lenca community of La Campa, Honduras, has conserved and transformed their communal forests through the experiences of colonialism, opposition to state-controlled logging, and the recent adoption of export-oriented coffee production.

Meritocracy and Its Discontents investigates the wider social, political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Gaokao, China's national college entrance exam, as well as the complications that arise from its existence.

For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes.

How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "e;good"e; democracies and "e;bad"e; authoritarian regimes.

This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges.

Social Play in Primates provides comprehensive discussions on the social aspect of play in the behavior of primates.

This book is an extrapolation of the research I conducted for my doctoral thesis about my people's struggle to come to terms with native title claim processes, in which we are required to prove our connection to land, culture and kin.

This accessibly written, comprehensive summary of research findings on the gut microbiome and its implications for health and disease-a topic of growing interest and concern-serves as an essential resource for teachers and students.

Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile.

This handbook is a concise, thorough, and portable reference guide to the multitude of complex chemotherapy protocols and other frequently utilized medications in the field of Hematology/Oncology.

"e;The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature.

Based on ethnographic research, this book examines the paranormal investigation subculture in the US.

This volume is a vital contribution to conversations about urban sustainability, looking beyond the propaganda to explore its consequences for everyday life.

Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particular catastrophes, Disaster Research provides a much-needed multidisciplinary perspective of the area.

This study aims to sensitize those concerned with Africa's development to the scope and limits of peasant livelihood securing activities.

This book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of "e;ethnonational continuity"e; in Korea through a discursive institutional approach.

This book traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism-pogroms and blood libels-in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s.

Although humans have always migrated, the present phenomenon of mass migration is unprecedented in scale and global in reach.

Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism.

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There is an institutionalized dilemma in Europe that counteracts social cohesion and stability.

Encountering Aborigines: A Case Study: Anthropology and the Australian Aboriginal details the concerns in contemporary anthropological research of aboriginal Australians.

Mitochondrial DNA is one of the most explored genetic systems because of what it can tell us about the human past.

Over the past several years, extensive research has been done on the microbial production of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).

This book brings an innovative study of marriage migration in Australia, offering new insights into issues of intimacy and authenticity online.

Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India.

Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s.

A unique and innovative resource for conducting ethnographic research in health care settings, Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health provides a combination of ethnographic theory and an international selection of empirical case studies.

This book emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships.

In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing.

Sustainable mining is need of hour to fulfil the increasing energy demand of the country and at the same time reduction in rate of carbon emission at utmost priority.