Anthropology

This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view.

Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other.

This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region).

Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other.

This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region).

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Gitano community of Mexico City.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water and associated adverse outcomes is one of the major health issues in more than 50 countries worldwide.

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with respect to remediation.

Spatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the 'Black Outdoors', a transdisciplinary spatial concept that operates beyond the planetary, stratigraphic confines of the 'Anthropocene'.

Erzählen ist eine Alltagspraxis und zugleich eine Praxis, in der Alltag (re-)produziert wird.

This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and contemporary time periods.

This book examines the pathologisation and depathologisation of mental health in Ibero-America.

This book examines the pathologisation and depathologisation of mental health in Ibero-America.

This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by heavy metals contamination of soil and plants.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

This book offers a novel examination of the relations, actions, and practices of healthcare workers, analysed in terms of collective mobilisation.

This book offers a comprehensive review of disinfection by-products (DBPs), exploring various aspects from detection methods and precursors to their potential health risks, regulation, and future implications.

This book offers a comprehensive review of disinfection by-products (DBPs), exploring various aspects from detection methods and precursors to their potential health risks, regulation, and future implications.

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia.

This book traces the history of how evolutionary biology transformed its understanding of females from being coy, reserved and sexually passive, to having active sexual strategies and often mating with multiple males.

This books presents a documentation and resulting perspectives regarding James Lovelock's multidisciplinary evolution theory.

This book offers a novel examination of the relations, actions, and practices of healthcare workers, analysed in terms of collective mobilisation.

This book presents a comprehensive guide to traditional immunity-boosting medicinal plants of the Himalayas, their traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, diversity, conversation, biotechnology, toxicology, as well as future prospective.

This book examines ways in which families' physical environments have implications for their relationships and the health and well-being of their members.

Inside you lies a precise scientific instrument - the ability to observe Nature and recall past experiences.

This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly counteract social injustices and promote healing in international settings.

The book is about Ubuntu-loosely translated-I am because we are-or, our common humanity in Zulu, about Unity, and global solidarity.

Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension.

This book explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised nursing profession.

This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwine, and transform.

One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet.

This is a collection of essays marking the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War's formal conclusion in 1991.

This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia and Japan) and inland waters (China).

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

In Family and Civilization, the distinguished Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise and fall of civilizations, particularly ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and modern Europe, and the United States.

This book invites the reader to follow seemingly unrelated paths towards the same goal: making sense of what it means to be human in a world that casually blends discourses on nature, technology, and biology with ideas of progress, optimization and their capitalization at the centre.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Global Trends in Health, Technology and Management (GTHTM-2024), held on March 15-17, 2024, in Dehradun, India.

This book explores the enduring significance of sacred landscapes in an increasingly globalized world, with a particular focus on the Christian sacred landscape and its connection to pilgrimage and rituals.

This book is an exploration of one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

This book makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship on ethnicity, conflict, nation-making, colonial history and religious minorities in the Philippines, which has been confronted with innumerable issues relating to their ethnic and religious minority populations.

This book explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised nursing profession.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

This book focuses on challenges that have arisen because of trash discharges and their potential causes and provides long-term sustainable solutions.