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From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth. In Bite,...
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2024-08-13
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Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Paleolithic to the present day. Contrary to earlier predictions...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-20
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The complex, highly problematic, often thorny dynamics of trust and authority are central to the anthropological study of legitimacy. In this book, this sine qua non runs across the in-depth examination of the ways in which healthcare and public health are managed by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-03
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A Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropology—the study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relatives—has undergone enormous growth in recent...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-03-10
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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There has recently been a renewed interest in both casual use of psychedelics as well as experimental use and attempts to discover therapeutic value.There is an effort to recapture the achievements and failures of past work to guide present use. This book is based...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-20
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This book examines various aspects of ethnomedicine and tribal healing practices, including its importance for inclusion and integration from a health systems perspective. Tribal healing practices is an under-studied component in healthcare system, health policy and...
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Springer
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2023-02-19
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This work focuses on the relationship between childhood socialization, masculinities, and young men’s coming of age in contemporary Jamaica. The author elucidates social, cultural, and historical dimensions of young men’s lifeworlds and theorizes on the potential...
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Springer VS
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2022-10-27
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The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical...
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Springer
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2022-10-13
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This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-23
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This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each contribution offers insights on how, in the face of uncertainty, threat and dislocation, human beings feel compelled to 'do...
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Springer
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2022-03-13
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This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples.This is where a gender-variant figure, the femminiello, has found a safe environment within the city’s historical poorest neighborhoods, the so-called “quartieri...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-26
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Der Begriff und die Inhalte der "Personalen Medizin" haben sich in den letzten Jahre etabliert. Patient*innen und Ärzt*innen verstehen darunter eine Heilkunde für Personen von Personen. In den letzten zehn Jahren haben sich die Konzepte der Personalen Medizin - ähnlich...
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Springer
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2021-09-28
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This book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function. It proposes the novel idea that near-death and out-of-body experiences (ND/OBE) engendered “a sense of the divine” in ancient man.As the author points out, key...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-10
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This book offers a 360° look at breast cancer from individuals who have intimate understanding of and experience with it: patients who have lived or are living with the disease; healthcare providers whose perspectives patients and families rarely get to know; and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-11
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This book is the first of its kind, combining international perspectives on the current ethical considerations and challenges facing bioarchaeologists in the recovery, analysis, curation, and display of human remains. It explores how museum curators, commercial...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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Explore the latest research in anthropological genetics and understand the genome’s role in cultural and social development A Companion to Anthropological Genetics illustrates the role of genetic analysis in advancing the modern study of human origins, populations,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-02-27
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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An Indispensable Resource on Advanced Methods of Analysis of Human Skeletal and Dental Remains in Archaeological and Forensic Contexts Now in its third edition, Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton has become a key reference for bioarchaeologists, human...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-08-15
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This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the research process. There is now a plethora of disciplinary engagements with ethnography around the topic of health, including anthropology, sociology,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-26
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This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth. It describes historical and cultural trajectories that have shaped the way in which birth is understood in Western, developed nations. In setting out the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-13
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This book presents an investigation of language contact, focusing on Northwestern China. It breaks down the barrier between human sciences and natural sciences in order to reconsider the diversity of languages on the basis of the latest research findings from genetics,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-05
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