Anthropology

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

A compilation of management, medical, nutrition, psychological, and physical activity facts, models, theories, interventions, and evaluation techniques, the Handbook of Pediatric Obesity: Clinical Management is the most clinically appropriate and scientifically supported source of information available for pediatric health care and research profess

The attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015 once again brought to the fore the place of Islam in Western secular democracies, and the questioning of Muslim citizenship.

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn.

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities.

This work presents an account of what it means to perform theatre and live by theatre, grounded in ethnographic research.

Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering anthropological work.

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the International Declaration of Human Rights, a document designed to hold both individuals and nations accountable for their treatment of fellow human beings, regardless of religious or cultural affiliations.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleBetween 1990 and 1996, the U.

Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world but what are the health advantages or disadvantages from consuming it?

This book mainly focuses on advances made over the past 10 years regarding the exposure, metabolism, transformation, toxicity, molecular mechanism and biomarkers for emerging chemicals in humans.

A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond.

If you feel like the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, you're not alone.

Stephen Steinberg offers a bold challenge to prevailing thought on race and ethnicity in American society.

This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states.

As environmental management becomes of increasing concern to both industrial and developing societies, it is instructive to look at the fundamental relationship between man and environment as exemplified by the hunter-gatherer cultures, in which resource management was and is vital to the very existence of human life.

Welchen Herausforderungen zum Umgang mit religiöser Vielfalt müssen sich Praktiker*innen in ihrer alltäglichen Arbeit stellen?

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.

This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social protection, educational training, and human security of its overseas citizens.

This book presents the state of the art on cultural heritage and tourism globally.

Negotiated agreements play a critical role in setting the conditions under which resource development occurs on Indigenous land.

The living practice of Daoist ritual is still only a small part of Daoist studies.

"e;Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North.

Although tobacco is a legal substance, many governments around the world have introduced legislation to restrict smoking and access to tobacco products.

Die Erfolgsformel für ein entspanntes Abnehmen und ein gesundes LebenAbnehmen – wir wissen alle, was wir theoretisch dafür tun müssen: weniger essen, mehr bewegen.

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago.

Migrant City tells the story of contemporary London from the perspective of thirty adult migrants and two sociologists.

Among the main questions relating to the interpretation of popular religiosity phenomena there are those on the usefulness of historical sources (archaeological and documentary) for the purposes of understanding the mythical-ritual present, on the presumed chronological continuity of practices and beliefs and on the legitimacy and effectiveness of historical-comparative method.

This book considers how a young child becomes a member of culture through the practices and procedures of everyday conversation.

Written as the First World War was finally drawing to a close, A.

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives?

This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards.

This book is a contribution to the history of ethology-not a definitive history, but the personal view of a major figure in that story.

Inner Democracy: Empowering the Mind Against a Polarizing Society investigates the psychological backgrounds of contemporary societal problems such as hate speech, authoritarianism, and divisive forms of identity politics, and how we can counter such destructive forces.

Der vorliegende Band enthält siebzehn Untersuchungen zur Anthropologie und Sozialpsychologie.

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The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscapenorthern New Mexico's Espaola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States.

The third volume of Advances in Nutritional Research continues the precedent set in previous volumes of providing authoritative reviews on the current state of knowledge with respect to major topics of ongoing nutritional research.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

Decision makers interested in going beyond their own personal and professional interests and involving themselves in humanising their organization, community and society should read Remaking Ourselves, Enterprise and Society.

This book provides a strong multidisciplinary examination of the links between migration, remittances and sustainable development in Africa.

This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi.

After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan chose a path of economic and political liberalization.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

This volume offers a powerful account of youth agency and young people''s rich relationship with the natural world.

This book examines the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats.

Called "e;the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted"e; by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families.