Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book Humans on the Run is an attempt to preserve memories of several microscopic journeys embarked upon by humans, in time and space, oft...

The book presents good practices in humanitarian assistance and empowerment of Ukrainian refugees in various areas: emergency aid to large groups c...

Human Trafficking Amidst Interlocking Systems Of Exploitation A Focus on Pakistan by Farhan Navid Yousaf, 9381043159, 9789381043158, Frontpage

About the Book Maintaining its widely respected and unique focus on the roles/responsibilities of a variety of professionals (in education, psychol...

About the Book Home, School, and Community Relations, 6E is a comprehensive textbook designed to meet the needs of students and teachers of childre...

About the Book Through a combination of theoretical and historical analysis, the author develops the thesis that the concepts of "race" and "ethnic...

About the Book Taking the instability of all identities as its point of departure, this collection of essays probes the enigmas of identity politic...

About the Book The book is an ethnographic study of Christian groups in contemporary Goan society that come under the umbrella of Pentecostal-Chari...

This handbook comprehensively analyses trends in urbanization using the most recent census data. The study discusses trends, patterns, growth, and ...

About the Book The Handbook of Social Status Correlates summarizes findings from nearly 4000 studies on traits associated with variations in socioe...

About the Book Schools, theatres and malls used to be safe havens. Marathons were triumphal, not tragic. Today, public life is risky. Citizens are ...

About the Book Gauging and Engaging Deviance is at once a creative and challenging work. It is not just a critique of the sociological canon, but a...

Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and br...

About the Book Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people's diets, but we rarely stop to think about t...

About the Book Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globa...

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...