Anthropology

Developments in health, science and technology have long provided fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines.

This book reviews concepts and recent advances of biotechnological approaches for livestock production.

This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories from the 19th to the 21st century and their originators, as well as the links between them and their mutual influences.

At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn from the Other?

What happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education?

Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai's Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts.

Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression.

Fermented food play an important proactive role in the human diet.

Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology.

This award-winning, bestselling reference for professional counselors and graduate students is extensively updated and expanded to encompass critical developments that are immediately relevant to the counseling professions, including the 2014 American Counseling Association Code of Ethics, CACREP/CORE accreditation standards, DSM-5, the Affordable Care Act, and many other important changes.

The British and Foreign Bible Society is one of the most illustrious Christian charities in the United Kingdom.

Since the early 1980s, China's rapid economic growth and social transformation have greatly altered the role of popular religion in the country.

The Acts of Early Church Councils Acts examines the acts of ancient church councils as the objects of textual practices, in their editorial shaping, and in their material conditions.

The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men - a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston - in ways that significantly broaden our understanding of the existential situations and ethical dilemmas of those migrating from the global south.

This is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology.

The Orthodox Christian thought is the most modally rigorous way of inferring.

When originally published in 1979, this was the first comprehensive study of the Jakhanke in any language.

Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities.

This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere.

Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general.

This fascinating book takes readers inside the world of faith-based progressive community organizing, one of the largest and most effective social justice movements in the United States.

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong.

British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic 'native question', and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians.

Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country.

Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools is the definitive book on investigating and analyzing computer systems and media using open source tools.

Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked.

We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response.

This book is a detailed account of the multi-faceted history of the Deccan.

This book is an anthropologist's field study of the new court set up in Singapore to deal with matrimonial suits (chiefly divorce) among Muslims.

2021 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (Public Theology & Current Events)Southwestern Journal of Theology 2021 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Baptist Studies)Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square.

For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way.

Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing.

This edited book gives voice to previously unheard narratives on wellbeing in higher education and provides novel implications for higher education policy and practice.

In The Mediterranean Incarnate, anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the Naumachos for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia.

Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology.

How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activismUS Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixons 1974 impeachment hearings.

Bringing the image into dialogue with the imagination, mimesis and performativity, Christoph Wulf illuminates the historical, cultural and philosophical aspects of the relationship between images and human beings, looking both at its conceptual and physical manifestations.

On most continents - from the USA to Africa and Asia - various forms of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) serve men and women of the community, often as their major -- and sometimes their only -- savings institution.

The fragmented information that consumers receive about the nutritional value and health risks associated with fish and shellfish can result in confusion or misperceptions about these food sources.

Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times.

The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses.

Slavs in the Making takes a fresh look at archaeological evidence from parts of Slavic-speaking Europe north of the Lower Danube, including the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.

Brimming with interesting facts and surprising anecdotes, this scientific and cultural history opens our eyes to the wonders of one of nature's most delicate, delightful, and deadly phenomena: SNOW!

Although underwater archaeology has assumed its rightful place as an important subdiscipline in the field, the published literature has not kept pace with the rapid increase in the number of both prehistoric and historic underwater sites.

Religion has a significant effect on how Europeans feel about the European Union (EU) and has had an important impact on how people voted in the UK's 'Brexit referendum'.

For courses in evolution, creationism or as a supplemental item in biology and/or biological anthropology courses.

This translation of Rita Segato's seminal book La critica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as theorized by the Peruvian thinker Anibal Quijano.