Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought t...

About the Book Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, ...

About the Book This important new text examines the crucial social and cultural factors associated with the rise of the Asia- Pacific region at the...

About the Book Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and ...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

About the Book This far-reaching collection of essays offers a serious and thought-provoking account of the complexities spawned by cross-cultural ...

About the Book Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising the policing of protes...

About the Book Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again?Counter Re...

This third book of The Jalebi Trilogy series, Corrugated Slices: The Social Jalebi is about the feelings a jalebi evokes in us. The first, Jalebi M...

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthro...

About the Book The central argument in this collection of essays by Sudhir Chandra, written over a period of thirty-five years, is that contemporar...

Indian nationalism has been a contested space over the last century. Claims and counter-claims have been advanced regarding its nature for long now...

Japanese sociology emerged by inculcating concepts from European and American sociology. However, it evolved in its own way and has tried to theori...

Economic liberalization and globalization in India in the early 1990s resulted in a whirlwind of consumerist activities. New material and visual te...

In life there are two roads to choose from—the road of light, filled with happiness and possibilities or the road of darkness, replete with negativ...

About the Book Recent developments have made obsolete the division of the globe into three worlds of capitalist, state socialist and underdeveloped...

About the Book Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on exis...

About the Book This fascinating book analyzes 13 control failures in human history, from Robespierre's promotion of the French Revolution, to Hoove...

About the Book How can colorblindness - the idea that race does not matter - be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind...

This book presents novel approaches to collaborative learning by drawing on research and practical experiences from China , South Asia, and Southea...

Poetry has always given rise to interpretation, judgement and controversy. Indeed, the history of poetry criticism is as rich and varied a journey ...

About the Book This series of classic articles written by key sociologists will complement any introductory sociology textbook serving as a touchst...

Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan

About the Book Interest in citizenship has never been higher. Politicians of all stripes stress its importance, as do church leaders, captains of i...

About the Book Recognizing the deep relations between politics, finance, cities and citizens, this book argues for a rejuvenated account of urban t...

About the Book Circuses provide surreal, fantastic entertainment. At times magical and at others chilling, the circus is a world of magic and spect...

About the Book Chronicles from the Environmental Justice Frontline describes four cases in Louisiana in which residents were locked in struggles wi...

About the Book Originally published between 1920-70, The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was publi...

About the Book This book explores the growing interest in the way in which the state polices, and ought to police, families failing in their respon...

About the Book Since the Munro report (2011), a greater emphasis has been placed on the value of child-centred practice in social work with childre...

Child Labour: Global Challenges, Issues and Policy offers a comprehensive study on the global situation of working children and the social, politic...

About the Book Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? In Checkpoint, Temple, C...

About the Book Profiling national and international social inclusion agendas, Charity Law and Social Inclusion examines the fit between the charity...

About the Book Security has long been a central organizing concept of international relations. Until the 1980s, students of the discipline understo...

Contributed articles most on Ayurveda and other folk medicinal systems.

About the Book For a city in India's northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia's longest-running separa...

Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Village investigates and presents a holistic view of today’s ru...

A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social exclusion in India This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled T...

This collection of twelve essays foregrounds the conjunction of the social phenomenon called ‘caste’ with the genre of representation called ‘life ...

About the Book Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science's...

About the Book This volume charts recent changes and trends in various social, community and economic features of Britain's black and ethnic minori...

About the Book The amazing inter-cultural correspondence (1919-1940) between two cultural icons of the twentieth century, Nobel laureates from the ...

Outside of debates surrounding public health statistics, little has been written about the experience of motherhood in India. In Boundaries and Mot...

About the Book Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and...

About the Book Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo ...

About the Book From DNA sequences stored on computer databases to archived forensic samples and biomedical records, bioinformation comes in many fo...