Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, So...

About the Book During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in the ...

About the Book A global view of health offers a richer understanding of ways of measuring, improving and sustaining health both in individual natio...

About the Book Our knowledge of reproductive biology has increased enormously in recent years on cellular, molecular, and genetic levels, leading t...

About the Book Looking at the issue from a gender and human rights perspective, the book discusses provisions taken by the government in providing ...

Gender Justice Citizenship Development

Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners...

Different ideological constructions of gender through different eras have restricted women’s access to science. The second half of the twentieth ce...

About the Book Gender and Governance examines how different governance structures affect gender in five specific locations in South Asia: Swat in P...

This was the first ethnography of gay life in contemporary India. It talked about the early age of the internet in the country and the creation of ...

The present work represents an attempt by one who had the opportunity at firsthand and the insight to represent the events of Mahatma Gandhi’s life...

About the Book This new four-volume major work presents a collection of landmark studies on the topic of regression modeling, identifying the most ...

About the Book This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration control...

About the Book At the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, thousands of pro-democracy rebel groups spontaneously formed to fight the Assad regime....

About the Book There are two ways of looking at democracy. One is the view of the state, policymakers, and so on, which shows the dissemination and...

Food practices of a people is the product of multiple factors. Endogenous as well as exogenous factors influence people’s opinion and preferences a...

At the dawn of creation, girls were as desired as sons. It was a time when girls beat boys in games and races: a time when there was no gender divi...

About the Book: Fighting Eviction: Tribal Land Rights and Research-in-Action This book discusses two development themes: the land and housingrights...

Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, ...

Timely textbook to lead students through their essential fieldwork module. University level, up to date, and packed with applied content, it teache...

About the Book The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil--the devil tha...

About the Book A feminist analysis of the gendered concepts and practices of science, showing how science and technology impact women's bodies, liv...

Feminists & Science Critiques & Changing Perspectives in India by Sumi Krishna, 9381345074, 9789381345078, StreeSamya

About the Book Feminist Subversion and Complicity brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who...

Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction presents readers with the key debates and ideas central to contemporary US feminism. With a f...

About the Book Feminism is outmoded. Or so it would seem in the academy, where feminism is outflanked by issues of globalization and localization, ...

About the Book Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about th body and it's importance in western culture. They are assumed to be fi...

About the Book Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? T...

About the Book This distinctive text makes social theory accessible to and usable by students. Whereas social theory is often seen as abstract, eso...

About the Book Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an ab...

About the Book By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy d...

The unifying motif of Bimal Krishna Matilal's work is the study of rational traditions in Indian philosophical thought. With his ability to span th...

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of E...

About the Book Healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. Both the central and the...

This book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disa...

Sailing Safe in Cyberspace is an excellent resource on safe computing. It gives in-depth exposure to the various ways in which security of informa...

About the Book: Empire Calling: Administering Colonial Australasia and India The essays gathered together in this book explore the roles of the men...

About the Book Anna Verschik offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is rapidly becoming ...

About the Book Since the key developments that policy and research have undergone over the course of the past years, meeting the specific needs of ...

About the Book Introducing the concept of observation to social work students can be a complex and challenging task. Assessing their observation sk...

About the Book More than a third of out-of-school children of the world live in South Asia. The promise of universal quality education for all chil...