Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book This is a major new textbook, designed for students in all disciplines seeking an introduction to the very latest research on all as...

About the Book In fairytales, good triumphs over evil and mirrors don't lie. Reality, however, presents a different picture as fairytale marriages ...

In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist mon...

This is the first analysis of Gandhi's dressing style in terms of communication theory and an exploration of the subliminal messages that were subt...

About the Book Skill Training for Social Workers: A Manual, responds to the demand for indigenous textbooks and teaching materials for social work ...

The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The soc...

Tracing the life of Zarina Bhatty, a Muslim woman born and brought up in pre-Partition India, this memoir narrates the experiences of a woman who s...

Explores the many insights of Indian and western feminists analyses of motherhood both as ideology and as practice. Interrogating Motherhood, the f...

Womentrepreneurs tells inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs in India. These stories, based on material collected through personal interviews, s...

This volume includes 15 articles and highlights the challenges faced by the present-day sociologists in the context of development and growth of kn...

This comprehensive analysis of Indian society brings together the results of modern social research to trace the patterns that underlie social rel...

Cyber Crimes against Women in India reveals loopholes in the present laws and policies of the Indian judicial system, and what can be done to ensu...

This book studies the transition of agency and self-identity in young women aspiring for a career. Valued Daughters ;traces the spread of ambitio...

About the Book How can differences be understood in social theory through comparisons, and how should social theory relate to regional studies to d...

An ideal textbook for exploring the themes and developments of working with children, young people and families from an truly interdisciplinary per...

About the Book Working in International Health is a practical guide for UK health professionals wanting to work in low and middle income countries....

About the Book The specificities of domestic work in relation to the workplace alongside the intersections of gender, class, and caste indicate a c...

About the Book Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpa...

Womentrepreneurs tells inspiring stories of women entrepreneurs in India. These stories, based on material collected through personal interviews, s...

About the Book In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the ro...

About the Book Seeking to explore the plight of female healthcare practitioners in the country, Sara Rizvi Jafree's Women, Healthcare, and Violence...

Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns captures the evolution of key debates on women’s rights in independent India. Au...

Women in Science and Technology: Confronting Inequalities comprehensively explores women’s status in the Science and Technology (S&T) domain by...

About the Book This book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six secti...

A compilation of ancient Indian texts with feminist perspectives on women’s work Women and work is an important dimension of the ongoing debate o...

About the Book Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to...

About the Book Women and Politics examines the pursuit of gender equality from two viewpoints: the legal equality doctrine, which emphasizes gender...

Witches, Tea Plantations and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India

About the Book The post-liberalization era of the Indian economy has given birth to a burgeoning middle class who has gained increasing prominence ...

About the Book -Very few novels can traverse themes of politics, economics, personal/human emotion and love, and religion and spirituality, and nav...

About the Book Published as part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series , and through a series of thought-...

About the Book Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed...

About the Book Why do people really give? Does giving indicate a kind heart? Is altruism about feeling good or is there more to it? We regularly s...

A superb overview of cultural studies written by a world class authority this book explores where cultural studies has come from, the methodologica...

About the Book Understanding Max Weber's contribution to social theory is vital for students and scholars of social science. This insightful text o...

War Diaries Notebooks From A Phoney War 1939- 40 Book Description

In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers – sadhus or ascetics – in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox ...

About the Book People have disagreed since time immemorial. They have argued or agreed to disagree, or eventually arrived at an agreement. But we l...

About the Book In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the art...

About the Book Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in sha...

The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death of two million people and the displacement of sixteen million more. It continues to haunt contemp...

This volume shows the diversity of approaches to violence in Islamic thought between the 19th century and the present day, avoiding the limiting ch...