" This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and
outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors …

Abstract Objectives Gullah African Americans are descendants of formerly enslaved Africans
living in the Sea Islands along the coast of the southeastern US, from North Carolina to …

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) results from a mutation in the β‐globin gene, leading to the
production of mutant hemoglobin, known as hemoglobin S (HbS). Despite being a genetic …

In 1956, the British colonial administrators in Sierra Leone organized an operation of mass
expulsion of migrants that aimed to solve the problems of health and security in the country's …

Almost every day, and especially during summer, European countries bordering the
Mediterranean are bombarded with radio news about boats full of migrants from Africa who …

This chapter examines the influence of individual agency on social structure. On the side of
agency, choice is given a privileged position and the structures examined in this context are …

Immigration is often understood as a phenomenon involving people from the peripheral
countries migrating to the 'centre'in pursuit of a better life. Common media narratives, for …

Recentemente, ainda no ano de 2016, Wilson Trajano Filho tornou-se Professor Titular do
Departamento de Antropologia Social da Universidade de Brasília (dan-unB), consagrando …

Irrespective of what the 1948 Shoppers boycott suggests about dependency on expensive
imported goods, the main argument of this chapter is that foodways on the Gold Coast were …

Sixteenth-to nineteenth-century images depicting the east–from the Benin bronzes and the
quilts à la manière des Indes to the Namban byōbu screens and Thai and Cambodian …