Anthropology

Photography, Photographic Arts and the Visual Research Process in Qualitative Inquiry is a book that introduces doctoral students and early career researchers to photography as a significant dimension of visual qualitative methods.

The first world atlas ever compiled on vernacular architecture, this comprehensive work illustrates the variety and ingenuity of the world's vernacular building traditions from a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and comparative approach, using over sixty world and regional maps.

What individuals consume in their diet has profound implications on their health.

What happens when people are reduced to products?

Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a combination of medical disorders that, when occurring together, increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Designing Questionnaires for Language Studies is a guide to the design and use of questionnaires for empirical linguistic research, particularly in the areas of dialectology, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology.

Neighboring communities who once lived together in peace have committed some of the most disturbing genocidal violence in recent decades: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia; the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda; or Sunni-versus-Shia violence in today's Iraq.

How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.

Reduced production of DHEA associated with the diseases that accompany aging has led to its use as a nutritional supplement for antiaging, metabolic support, and other purposes.

In 2010, esteemed researchers gathered at a workshop held at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

The Geography of Post-war France: A Social and Economic Approach focuses on some of the social and economic problems of post-war France and the various planning measures taken to remedy them.

Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine.

Nutritional assessment is a key to determining the health and performance efficiency of professional, collegiate, and recreational athletes.

Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, including environmental anthropology, philosophy, ethics, literature, history, science and technology studies, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene.

An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism - and how we can learn to harness this powerful instinct to improve the world around us What do you think of when you hear the word tribalism?

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.

This edited volume explores the notion of "e;artifice"e; in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe.

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.

Anemias resulting from nutritional factors constitute the largest nutrition health problem affecting populations in both developed and developing nations.

This book, available in paperback due to popular demand, is an ethnographic account of English football fans, based upon sixteen years' participant observation.

Now more than ever, culinary professionals are expected to provide cuisine that satisfies the diverse nutritional needs of a vast population of consumers.

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought has been comprehensively brought up to date for the third edition.

«Homo Natura» ofrece, sin duda, la mejor comprensión hasta la fecha de la relación de Nietzsche con la antropología filosófica.

Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways.

The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various interpretations, before endeavouring to formulate an idealist theory of evolution.

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love?

Dedicated to Charles Darwin, The Malay Archipelago- the land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise is a narrative of travel with studies of man and nature.

Vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency is a worldwide, public health problem in both developed and developing countries.

The first account of one of the world's most pressing humanitarian catastrophes.

Die Zehn Gebote – eines der bekanntesten Regelwerke der Menschheitsgeschichte.

In health care, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments.

This interdisciplinary volume attempts to gauge the individual and social issues related to memory, with an understanding of memory studies as an independent body of scholarship.