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Immigrant families --- Transnationalism. --- Families --- Emigrants and Immigrants. --- Family. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Ethnic Groups. --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Migration. Refugees --- Ethnicity. --- Emigrants and Immigrants --- Family --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Famille --- Immigrés --- Transnationalisme --- Études transculturelles --- Grande-Bretagne

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In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition. Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands over the last two decades, Alexandra A. Brewis addresses such critical questions as why obesity is defined as a problem and why some groups are so much more at risk than others. She suggests innovative ways that anthropology and other social sciences can use community-based research to address the serious public health and social justice concerns provoked by the global spread of obesity.

Health Behavior. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Body Image. --- Obesity. --- Medical anthropology. --- Obesity --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Obesity Management --- Body Weight --- Hyperphagia --- Weight Gain --- Bariatrics --- Body Representation --- Body Schema --- Body Identity --- Body Images --- Body Representations --- Body Schemas --- Identity, Body --- Image, Body --- Representation, Body --- Schema, Body --- Physical Appearance, Body --- Self Concept --- Health-Related Behavior --- Behavior, Health --- Behavior, Health-Related --- Behaviors, Health --- Behaviors, Health-Related --- Health Behaviors --- Health Related Behavior --- Health-Related Behaviors --- Healthy Lifestyle --- Health Promotion --- Life Style --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Social aspects. --- Anthropological aspects --- Obésité --- Anthropologie médicale --- Aspect social

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Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the "trial communities" produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiogra

Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa. --- Medical ethics. --- Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Africa. --- Medicine --- Human experimentation in medicine --- Medical ethics --- Research --- Culture --- Investigative Techniques --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Ethics --- History --- Science --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Sociology --- Humanities --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Human Experimentation --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- History, 20th Century --- Ethics, Research --- Biomedical Research --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Medical Ethics & Philosophy --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Experimentation on humans, Medical --- Medical experimentation on humans --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Medicine, Experimental --- Clinical trials --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Health Workforce --- history, 20th century --- biomedical research/history --- africa --- cross-cultural comparison --- human experimentation/history --- ethics, research/history --- history --- 20th century --- ethics --- research/history --- Field research --- Kenya --- Kinship --- Kisumu --- Malaria --- Mosquito --- Public health --- Yellow fever

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Beer is an ancient alcoholic drink which, although produced through a more complex process than wine, was developed by a wide range of cultures to become internationally popular. This book is the first multidisciplinary, cross-cultural collection about beer. It explores the brewing processes used in antiquity and in traditional societies; the social and symbolic roles of beer-drinking; the beliefs and activities associated with it; the health-promoting effects as well as the health-damaging risks; and analyses the modern role of large multinational companies, which own many of the breweries

Drinking customs --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Beer --- Brewing --- Boissons --- Consommation d'alcool --- Bière --- Brassage --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Social aspects --- Fonctions sociales --- Etudes transculturelles --- Aspect social --- Beer -- Social aspects. --- Brewing -- Social aspects. --- Drinking customs. --- Drinking customs -- Cross-cultural studies. --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Cross-. --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies. --- Culture --- Drinking Behavior --- Alcoholic Beverages --- Beverages --- Sociology --- Behavior --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Food and Beverages --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Alcohol Drinking --- Manners & Customs --- Social aspects. --- Bière --- Alcohol consumption --- Alcohol drinking --- Alcohol use --- Alcoholic beverage consumption --- Consumption of alcoholic beverages --- Drinking problem --- Liquor problem --- Social drinking --- Fermentation --- Liquors --- Malt liquors --- Ale --- Alcoholic beverages --- Alcoholism --- Temperance --- Manners and customs --- anthropology of food. --- beer culture. --- beer. --- brewing. --- culinary tradition. --- cultural heritage. --- food heritage. --- food studies. --- history of beer.

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Cultural neuroscience combines brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related brain potentials with methods of social and cultural psychology to investigate whether and how cultures influence the neural mechanisms of perception, attention, emotion, social cognition, and other human cognitive processes. The findings of cultural neuroscience studies improve our understanding of the relation between human brain function and sociocultural contexts and help to reframe the “big question” of nature versus nurture. This book is organized so that two chapters provide general views of the relation between biological evolution, cultural evolution and recent cultural neuroscience studies, while other chapters focus on several aspects of human cognition that have been shown to be strongly influenced by sociocultural factors such as self-concept representation, language processes, emotion, time perception, and decision-making. The main goal of this work is to address how thinking actually takes place and how the underlying neural mechanisms are affected by culture and identity.

Cognition and culture -- Congresses. --- Cognitive neuroscience -- Congresses. --- Ethnopsychology -- Congresses. --- Thought and thinking -- Social aspects -- Congresses. --- Mental Processes --- Culture --- Psychophysiology --- Central Nervous System --- Perception --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Sociology --- Physiology --- Behavioral Sciences --- Nervous System --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Anatomy --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Cultural Characteristics --- Social Perception --- Neuropsychology --- Brain --- Cognition --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Neuroscience --- Psychology --- Social perception. --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Life sciences. --- Neurosciences. --- Neurobiology. --- Anthropology. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Cross-cultural psychology. --- Life Sciences. --- Cross Cultural Psychology. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Cognitive science --- Interpersonal relations --- Social cognitive theory --- Applied psychology. --- Consciousness. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Philosophy --- Spirit --- Self --- Human beings --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Neurosciences --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- National characteristics --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences