Anthropology

Divided into four main sections, Dietary Sugar, Salt and Fat in Human Health explores the biochemical, pharmacological and medicinal aspects related to the overindulgence of dietary salt, sugar, and fat, along with possible remedies.

They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations.

First published in 2005.

This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present epoque.

From the trues of nature, man reasons his truths, the sum of which is TRUITY.

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

Colonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalize, pathologize, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well.

Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse.

Tracing the magico-religious beliefs surrounding birds as far back in time as is possible, to the cultures in which these beliefs arose.

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa.

This fully revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive look at nitrite and nitrate and their effect on human health and disease.

Relational-Cultural theory (RCT) proposes that all people grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan.

By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times.

It highlights shifts over two centuries as the geopolitical context has transitioned from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana.

This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa.

War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce.

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This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional, and folk sports and sporting cultures.

This book provides an introduction to the contemporary issues that are occurring in cultural policy in East Asia today.

Full translation together with detailed introduction, commentary and discussion of terminology.

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates.

The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character.

Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society.

This book discusses quality-related aspects of milk and milk products, covering the various analytical procedures for testing the quality and composition.

In this powerful study the distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society.

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone.

On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaima, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims.

In A Universal Theory of Pottery Production, award-winning archaeologist Richard A.

Does contemporary anti-capitalism tend towards, as Slavoj Zizek believes, nihilism, or does it tend towards, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri believe, true egalitarian freedom?

Prepare students for the WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Food Preparation and Nutrition exams with this photocopiable pack, including two full exam-style practice papers and detailed mark schemes with sample answers.

This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India.

Culinary Nutrition: The Science and Practice of Healthy Cooking is the first textbook specifically written to bridge the relationship between food science, nutrition and culinology as well as consumer choices for diet, health and enjoyment.

The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country's reform and opening in recent years.

This book examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy.

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousness and the phenomenology of self.

This volume publishes for the first time the collected journals of the East India Company's Third Voyage (1607-10), England's first to reach India, which proved pivotal to England's emergence as a global player.

Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants.

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life.

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video is a state-of-the-art book which encompasses the breadth and depth of the field of ethnographic film and video-based research.

This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture.

A fresh and comprehensive account of 21st century approaches to material culture, exploring and challenging disciplinary boundaries.

The fundamental premise of lifestyle medicine is that daily habits profoundly impact health and quality of life both in the short-term and long-term.

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The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography by fostering new links among sensory, affective, more-than-human, non-representational, and multimodal sensory research traditions and composition styles.