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This handbook makes available to students a comprehensive resource reference in the field of sociology and social anthropology.[...]

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues. It first examines the different trajectories of illness:[...]

Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and The Anti-Witch is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject is blurred - if not erased - The Anti-Witch develops [...]

"Whose life couldn't use a little change?""" In "The Way of the Belly, "Neena & Veena, known throughout the world as the Bellytwins, will show you the fun, sensual way to rediscover or enhance the real you. These dynamic sisters have developed a unique plan to becoming the person you want to be May[...]

Following the hugely successful "The Girls' Book of Glamour" and "The Fabulous Girls' Book", this is an indispensable guide for gorgeous, fun and feisty girls everywhere. Packed full of fabulous tips and glamorous tricks, from performing the perfect pedicure and creating your own costume jewellery t[...]