Anthropology

This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available.

Originally published in 1995.

China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life.

This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years.

Archaeology in the Middle East and the Balkans rarely focuses on the recent past; as a result, archaeologists have largely ignored the material remains of the Ottoman Empire.

While the importance of food to health and well-being is clear, the specific ways in which food systems contribute to individual and community health are not well understood.

This is the first book to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of Southern Africa and the phenomenon of Israelite identity.

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This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire.

This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin American Social thought in the 20th century.

"e;Will be a very useful tool for any student trying to make sense of the vast expanses of contemporary cultural theory and criticism.

It has long been accepted that the social and cultural meanings of the car far exceed the practical need for mobility.

A country marked by controversy, Iran's social, cultural and political dynamics are too often reduced to a few misleading cliches.

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people-as if they were standing right next to them?

As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.

Edited overview of the development, function and evolution of vertebrate teeth.

This essential and timely text looks at the ways in which various identities are socially constructed by students, exploring and comparing multiple dimensions of diverse identities, and the various ways students try to fit in when faced with prejudice and discrimination.

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements.

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed.

This book is based on selected papers from keynote and symposium sessions given at the 16th International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) World Congress, held in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil August, 2012.

Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial.

Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world's poor.

Milwaukee's small but vibrant Mexican and Mexican American community of the 1920s grew over succeeding decades to incorporate Mexican, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, and Caribbean migration to the city.

This book is an introduction to right-wing populist movements outside the West, looking at four key case studies, their commonalities and differences.

This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography.

National Matters investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice.

Food is a major health issue; the links between diet and health are dominant in nutrition discourse and practice.

David Rudners richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion.

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914.

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.

In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements.

This book challenges the adult-centric tendencies of migration research and policy which often overlooks children and young people's own experiences of migration.

Winner of the 2021 New Voices Book Award by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote, rural areas of Venezuela, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the creation of the 'magical state'.

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with some basic information applicable to cattle feeding.

Figurines dating from prehistory have been found across the world but have never before been considered globally.

As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is possible.

What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?

Adolescent and Pre-Adolescent Psychiatry covers the observations, concepts, and treatment approaches for adolescent and pre-adolescent psychiatric cases derived from clinical experience combined with information from the relevant journals.

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

This book provides a fresh, engaging multi-disciplinary introduction to religion in contemporary America.

Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'.

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem.

This teaching novel is an archaeological suspense story set in northeast China at a site that is called the Goddess Temple.

First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books.

The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies.

This book provides clinicians (particularly those specialising in DBT) with music activities and creative ideas to implement with existing practices, to strengthen what clients are being taught in DBT skills groups.

Little attention had been paid to the realities of life in the Savanna-Sahel of West Africa before the drought of 1968-74, but this book, originally published in 1984 provides a set of authoritative accounts of the way in which the inhabitants cope with what outsiders perceive as a harsh environment.

In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists.

Forensic Engineering: The Art and Craft of a Failure Detective synthesizes the current academic knowledge, with advances in process and techniques developed in the last several years, to bring forensic materials and engineering analysis into the 21st century.