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Dairy Policy in Senegal: The Need to Overcome a Technical Mindset
Since the 1970s, the import of tax-free powdered milk has presented an easy solution to the growing demand for dairy products in West Africa. Recent...
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Women and Development: From Homemakers to Nation Builders
The twenty-first century is the century of the women. No longer restricted to gendered defined roles, women now are in the workplace in large...
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The Anthropocentric Illusion
Anthropocentrism constitutes a mix of cosmotheological, biological, and ecological beliefs that reciprocally interpenetrate, engender, and imply each...
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The Universe Is Expanding
The Universe is Expanding focuses on how assisted reproduction was made usable for the biomedical community, a process that resulted in the growth of...
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Practice of the Self: ‘Barefoot Doctors’ in Post-reform China
This chapter depicts the experience of a group of relatively disadvantaged doctors—the former ‘barefoot’ doctors. The barefoot doctors, who had been...
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The Backlash Against Israeli Human Rights NGOs: Grounds, Players, and Implications
This article examines the recent backlash against Israeli human rights and advocacy NGOs led jointly by right-wing organizations, by mainstream...
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Concluding Remarks
Zooarchaeology in Practice provides us with a stimulating account of a wide range of methods applied in zooarchaeology today. The book mainly focuses...
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Negotiating the foundations of the modern state: the emasculated citizen and the call for a post-patriarchal state at Gezi protests
Examining Turkey’s Gezi Park protests of 2013 as a representative case of the globally surging protest movements since 2011, this study claims that...
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Awareness Can Change a Society: The Link Between Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence in the Netherlands
There is a growing awareness of the relationship between animal abuse and domestic violence. In the Netherlands, the topic was unknown until research...
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Bone and Vertebrate Bodies as Uniformitarian Materials
As stipulated in Chapter 3, contemporary observations are a rich source of knowledge about functional properties of the animal remains that...
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Pastoral Nomadism and Health in Africa
Pastoral nomads constitute a distinct demographic in Africa, with distinct health characteristics and disease vulnerabilities that set them apart...
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How Does Occupational Access for Older Workers Differ by Education?
To assess the employment opportunities of older job-changers in the years prior to retirement, this study examines the how the breadth of occupations...
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Men and Women at Work: Occupational Gender Composition and Affective Well-Being in the United States
Most adults spend almost half their waking hours at work. How people feel during work can have far-reaching consequences for their quality of life....
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A Glimpse into the Use of Dogs to Address Global Poaching, Overharvesting, and Trafficking of Aquatic Species
Unsustainable harvest and illegal trade of wild flora and fauna threatens many aquatic species and ecosystems. Detector dogs can be used to quickly...
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Antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use animal monitoring policies in Europe: Where are we ?
The World Health Organization has recognized antimicrobial resistance as one of the top three threats to human health. Any use of antibiotics in...
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Restrictions on Pet Ownership in Multi-Owned Properties
Australia is a nation of pet owners with over sixty per cent of households including at least one companion animal. Yet despite the prevalence of...
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From Hípica to Cabanha: Brazilian Stable Hands in Different Cultures and Contexts
In a country characterized by extreme social inequality, historically recent processes of industrialization and urbanization as well as rich popular...
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Challenges After Natural Disaster for Rural Residents with Disabilities
Natural disasters occur frequently and displace people from their homes; disrupt work, school, and services; create high costs in damages; and cause...
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Ritual at the Cutting Edge: Everyday Animal Slaughter as Practice and Symbol
In this chapter I argue that the production and consumption of meat in Delhi’s contemporary interreligious context is differentiated by signs of...
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The use of mobile phones as a survival strategy amongst nomadic populations in the Oriental region (Morocco)
Nomadic populations are undergoing a critical transformation, induced by globalization, new forms of urban life, and climatic changes, which are...
