Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, m...

About the Book Sketching an ethnographic portrait of the village ion its own terms, and as an integral part of larger political and historical inst...

About the Book The second edition of this text has been substantially revised and updated to include six new chapters including knowledge work, rep...

Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks sinc...

About the Book What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in th...

About the Book Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity? Religious diversity ...

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerfu...

About the Book Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In th...

About the Book How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled...

About the Book In this book, Sumanta Banerjee analyzes the development of the folk culture of Calcutta’s urban poor following the establishment o...

About the Book Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide t...

About the Book Social tensions between majority and minority populations often center on claims that minorities are largely responsible for crime a...

About the Book Crime and punishment fascinate. Overwhelming in their media dominance, they present us with our most popular television programs, fi...

About the Book Through a comprehensive collection of articles, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication explores the origin and evol...

The city has had a long history in India, from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 BCE to the megalopolis found in contemporary Indi...

About the Book This book covers how Internet of Things (IoT) has a role in shaping the future of our communities. The author shows how the research...

Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or ‘smart’ results. These Smart Busin...

About the Book This volume is an account of the Naga ethnic movement going on in India since 1918, covering both historical and contemporary aspect...

About the Book The “Modern Sovereign,” a notion indebted both to Hobbes’s Leviathan and Marx’s conception of capital, refers to the power t...

About the Book A Swedish teenager, Greta Thunderberg, has become the poster girl for the Climate Change and Sustainability movement across the worl...

A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times. In "The Last Resistance," Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and ...

About the Book In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthus...

About the Book This book is a collection of Devaki Jain's writings and lectures related to the women's movement in India and interventions in polic...

About the Book The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology ist das ausf�1/4hrlichste Referenzwerk f�1/4r die Anthropologie und zugeh�rige ...

About the Book The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet ...

Social media and the digital revolution have fundamentally changed the meaning of “social” and “work.” Social work, like all other professions, wil...

About the Book Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed...

From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies...

About the Book In recent years, the Leveson Inquiry in Great Britain, as well as the EU High-Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, have stirr...

While the right to adequate food is often discussed in the context of developing countries, especially in situations where access to adequate food ...

About the Book Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from a central discipline of the social sciences to an ideological outpost of p...

About the Book A rich selection of readings that expose the shadowy underworld of critics, bloggers, tweeters and stylists who have become essentia...

The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity and increase the impact and beauty of ...

About the Book At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologis...

About the Book A roadmap to improve corporate social responsibility The 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign focused a good deal of attention on the rol...

About the Book This definitive handbook uniquely documents the 2001 UK Census from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Collating a wide ra...

This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, line...

About the Book The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity,...

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation o...

For the Tamils in modern-day South India and Sri Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, th...

About the Book Recent government initiatives and developments in professional practice have been designed to help families in difficulty effectivel...