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  • Clinical Anthropology 2.0

    Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience

    by Heather Henderson, Emily Holbrook, Kilian Kelly, Carlos Osorno-Cruz, Seiichi Villalona, Jason W. Wilson, Roberta D. Baer ...
    Series series Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
    Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care delivery and patient experience, public health, as well as the education and training of physicians. In this book, Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer highlight the key role that medical anthropologists can play on interdisciplinary care teams by improving ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Cooking and Coping Among the Cacti

    Diet, Nutrition and Available Income in Northwestern Mexico

    by Roberta D. Baer ...
    Series series Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology
    Using data collected from 105 households in Sonora, Mexico, the author combines detailed ethnographic research with quantitative analyses of income, diet, and nutritional status to examine the dietary patterns of residents who "cook and cope among the cacti." Employing a new analytical concept of "available income" - which can differ greatly from total income and provide valuable insight into why ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Food Policy

    Human Dimensions of Food Policy in Africa and Latin America

    by Jeanne Harlow, Jeanne Harlow, Roberta D. Baer, David Barkin, Billie R. DeWalt, Kathleen M. DeWalt, Paul L. Doughty, Art Hansen, J. Terrance McCabe, Edward B. Reeves ...
    Addressing broad issues of production, distribution, and consumption, the seven essays in this volume introduce readers to anthropological work in food policy. They show how information gathered from fieldwork—especially at the individual, family, and community levels—can help professionals plan and assess policies. ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

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  • Migration Between Mexico and the United States

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Agustín Escobar Latapí, Claudia Masferrer ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the ... Read more

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  • The Neoliberal Diet

    Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People

    by Gerardo Otero ...
    This "remarkable, comprehensive" study of neoliberal agribusiness and the obesity epidemic "is critical reading for food studies scholars" ( Contemporary Sociology).Obesity rates are rising across the United States and beyond. While some claim that people simply eat too much "energy-dense" food while exercising too little, The Neoliberal Diet argues that the issue is larger than individual ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Owners of the Sidewalk

    Security and Survival in the Informal City

    by Daniel M. Goldstein ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    by Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Read more

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  • Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

    Class and Culture on the South Texas Border

    by Chad Richardson, Michael J. Pisani ...
    This updated edition of the classic study examines life on the Texas-Mexico border, including the effects of NAFTA, drug violence, and immigration crises.Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados offers an authoritative portrait of the people of the South Texas/Northern Mexico borderlands. First published in 1999, the book is now extensively revised and updated to cover developments since 2000, ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for Maize

    Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside

    by Elizabeth Fitting ...
    When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on the extent to which gene flow from transgenic to local varieties threatens maize biodiversity, anti-GM ... Read more

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  • Food in Cuba

    The Pursuit of a Decent Meal

    by Hanna Garth ...
    Food in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional dimensions of shifts in access to food.Based on extensive fieldwork with families in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city, Hanna Garth examines Cuban families' attempts to acquire and assemble "a ... Read more

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