Sociology and Anthropology

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contr...

Completing a systematic review and unsure where to start or what path to take? Set out on your journey confidently with this practical guide writte...

Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the evolving landscape of online crime, this fourth edition of Cybercrime and Society is a comprehensiv...

The essays in this book highlight how education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue. Representing the transfer of kn...

This ground-breaking textbook engages readers in conversation about responding to the effects of diversity within formal criminal justice systems i...

Praise for the First Edition: "A real, combined approach of behavioural, social, biomedical, and clinical sciences is paramount. [This book] is on...

This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of t...

This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling.

A philosophical exploration of what capitalistic societies truly mean for the individual. A short vade mecum for unrepentant materialism, The Idea ...

Reveals the forgotten history of Baghdadi Jews’ journey into India through the stories of four generations of Jewish women. An invaluable cultura...

From Society to System presents an overview of sociologist Michel Freitag's (1935-2009) distinctive, multifaceted and interdisciplinary work. Elabo...

Biographical data provide unique insights into social life, but they also pose some significant challenges for social science researchers. This boo...

Finding Out, Fourth Edition introduces readers to lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer (LGBTQ) studies. By combining accessible introductory and ...

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemio...

Organizations and Society examines the costs and consequences of social life that is dominated by rational control characteristic of bureaucratic o...

This text provides a practical, hands-on introduction to data conceptualization, measurement, and association through active learning. Students get...

Cultural Politics of Popular Performances: The Structure and Representation of the Odia Jatra explores how, as a consequence of modernity, the hybr...

Inscribing Identities, Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early Historic India focuses on votive inscriptions from the second cent...

Globalization, by incessantly promoting uniformity, is not only destroying biological and cultural diversity but also leading to language shifts be...

A collection of essays on the mysteries of the body from one of Italy’s leading postwar communist intellectuals. Politician, translator, and journ...

Holly Lawford-Smith argues that gender is not something to be embraced and celebrated, but a system of oppression which should be rejected. She int...

The Endless Siege is an ethnographic study of the Vidya Bharati chain of schools in India which are run by a Hindu nationalist organization called ...

‘Lower-caste’ thinkers made a crucial intervention in the conceptualization of modern India by claiming that there could hardly be any discussion o...

Gujarat is one of the leading industrially developed states of the Indian Union. Also known as a laboratory of Hindutva in contemporary Indian poli...

This is the second volume from the authors (along with several others) of Gauging and Engaging Deviance, which is positioned between the ideas of d...

The idea of doing something to redeem the neglected village came to Rabindranath Tagore when he first went to live in his family’s agricultural est...

One of South Africa’s best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist...

Iridescent Skin is the first of its kind multispecies ethnography on humans and white sharks, entangled through the practice of cage diving at the ...

• Explores the history of chain-stitch embroidery in India and the stitch-craft of the Mochi or shoemaker community in Gujarat • Documents the pre...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocris...

Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their h...

This textbook delivers a new thematic introduction to social theory that explores theoretical issues in their contemporary social contexts.

This book identifies and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, an...

This book explores the intersection of clinical and social aspects of traumatic experiences in postdictatorial and post-war societies, forced migra...

This textbook provides students across Social Sciences, Humanities, Politics, and International Studies with an in-depth understanding of the issue...

Successfully bringing together accessible readings that cover the broad range of issues of importance to those studying politics and society, this ...

Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and u...

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya opened its doors to the public on 10 January 1922, as the Prince of Wales Museum. This commemora...

This Handbook is the first volume to address the dynamic issues related to sexuality from a social work perspective by providing a comprehensive, c...

First Love is never forgotten. It stays with you till your last breath. What if you are given a second chance at your first love. Will You leave ev...

The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the fourth edition of his best-sel...

Bringing together fresh methodological and conceptual perspectives on the way violence is understood and analysed, the contributors to this volume ...

Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall is a poetic, creative and sociological take on our contemporary silk roads and hazmat highways. Par...

Human development is the process of enlarging possibilities, to enhance human choices. In a developing country like India several initiatives have ...

Reading Max Weber's Sociology of Law serves both as an introduction and as a distillation of more than thirty years of reading and reflection on We...

This second edition of the classic textbook, The Archaeologist's Laboratory, is a substantially revised work that offers updated information on the...