In the early 1970s at Papunya, a remote settlement in the Central Australian desert, a group of Indigenous artists decided to communicate the sacred power of their traditional knowledge to the wider worlds beyond their own.
Phytonutrients in the Treatment of Breast Cancer delves into the evolving role of phytonutrients as powerful therapeutic agents in the fight against breast cancer.
Population movements on a large scale have been a prominent feature of modern society, but there have been as yet few attempts to look beneath the surface of mass movements of people.
The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop series that gathered researchers, government officials, and other global leaders in nutrition research and policy.
Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep the gig economy running.
The notion of matching diet with an individual's genetic makeup is transforming the way the public views nutrition as a means of managing health and preventing disease.
In an era where digital devices increasingly mediate our perception of reality, this book explores the tension between the richness of direct sensory experience and the allure of the screen.
In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey-a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail.
Timely in its contribution to on-going debates on the decolonization of education, this novel volume charts the development of a scheme of postgraduate transnational education that saw British students sent to Indian and South Asian Universities while political decolonization was still ongoing.
The charismatic revival movements of the 1970s in Melanesia were the most significant religious development in the region's history, but until now there has been no full-scale look at the regional upheaval or of why it occurred.
Social scientists have generally remained impervious to a major economic and cultural adaptation-namely, the peripatetic lifestyle-although this adaptation has been an integral part of developments within the socioeconomic and cultural networks that social scientists study.
From top hats to top secrets, this book is a celebration of illusion technology and mechanisms of trickery through a genre-crossing selection of films.
From top hats to top secrets, this book is a celebration of illusion technology and mechanisms of trickery through a genre-crossing selection of films.
The book unravels the complexity of Pakistan's physical terrain, from the Arabian Sea coast to the Himalayan heights, focusing on its bio-climatic environment.
Adults living in certain olive-growing areas of the Mediterranean Basin display high life expectancies and rates of chronic disease that are among the lowest in the world.
« Le très beau texte, de facture socio-anthropologique, de Faye nous rappelle les monographies fort intéressantes et devenues classiques des grands auteurs africanistes, européens et africains comme D.
Advances in DNA technology have expanded such that forensic DNA profiling is now considered a routine method for identifying victims of mass fatalities.
This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement.
This book centres the voices of a group of marginalized residents in Grenada's ghetto to examine questions of poverty and survival and how, within this context, residents are able to focus on improvement and equity for their children through education.
This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of nonhuman relations.
*; Examines the Path of Souls or Trail of Ghosts, a Native American model for the after-death journey*; Demonstrates how psychoactive plants were used to evoke the liminal state between life and death in initiatory rites and spirit journeys*; Explores the symbology of the large earthwork mounds erected by the Indigenous people of the Mississippi Valley and how they connect to the Path of SoulsThe use of hallucinogenic substances like peyote and desert tobacco has long played a significant role in the spiritual practices and traditions of Native Americans.
Handbook of Nutritional Disorders is a comprehensive handbook covering topics in nutrition, malnutrition, and the clinical disorders associated with nutrition from deficiency to toxicity.
This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal peoples in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India.
