Effective urban governance is essential in responding to the challenges of inequality, migration, public health, housing, security, and climate change.
Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.
This chronological reference compendium traces accusations, punishments, and the investigation of occultism from sorcery inquiries in 323 BCE Athens to the modern day.
How middle-class families in Nepal pursue "e;well-being"e; in a rapidly changing social landscapeModern Dharma asks how middle-class Nepalis pursue an ethical, good life in a rapidly evolving society.
This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Peruvian cuisine's shift from a culinary to a political object and the making of Peru as a food nation on the global stage.
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war isNostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement is an accessible primer on the contemporary US militia movement.
This authoritative reference work presents a full image of the Prince of Darkness as he appears throughout traditional theology, mythology, art and literature, and popular culture.
A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFrom angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere.
Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.
Since the nation's independence, the union and state governments of India have employed a variety of development strategies, some of which have evolved over time.
This book is a unique study of the historical, theoretical, and cultural interpretations of 'madness' including interviews with those who have experiences of 'madness'.
Navigating Colour-Blind Societies is a comparative ethnography of racialisation, class, and gender in the lives of young Muslims coming of age in societies where race is deemed insignificant.
Achieving integral health is a challenge that necessitates a diversified approach from different disciplines to achieve a coordinated impact on people's health.
Dietas extremas para entrar en la ropa de fiesta, alimentos que evitas para no escuchar que tienes "alma de gordo/a", calorías que cuentas porque alguien lo hacía en tu familia.
This book is a unique study of the historical, theoretical, and cultural interpretations of 'madness' including interviews with those who have experiences of 'madness'.
An intimate account of an anthropologist's relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.
Human heritage is an endless mine of knowledge, skills, ethos and accomplishments, which visualize and examine the power of human creativity and innovation throughout the history.
In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250 years of Black displacement, enslavement, death, and chronic war.
This authoritative exploration of the ethnic history of the former Yugoslavia traces the roots of the conflicts that convulsed the region in the 1990s.
The role of cultural heritage and museums in constructing national identity in postcolonial CubaDuring Fidel Castro's rule, Cuban revolutionaries coopted and reinterpreted the previous bourgeois national narrative of Cuba, aligning it with revolutionary ideology through the use of heritage and public symbols.
Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice.
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Amy Cooter of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies about how realistic an idea of a second civil war isNostalgia, Nationalism, and the US Militia Movement is an accessible primer on the contemporary US militia movement.
A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFrom angiotensin to cortisol, testosterone to xenoestrogens, and dopamine to endocrine disruptors, hormones are everywhere.
Navigating Colour-Blind Societies is a comparative ethnography of racialisation, class, and gender in the lives of young Muslims coming of age in societies where race is deemed insignificant.
Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts.
