Sociology and Anthropology

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...

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are p...

Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in...

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and ide...

The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. Inter...

Dangerous outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reorder...

A groundbreaking book that reveals, for the first time, the crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control needs to know

Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration into Modern Day Slavery by Wendy Stickle, Shelby Hickman, and Christine White examines the legal, so...

Anurima Banerji is an associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA.

In recent years India has seen remarkable growth in the GDP. Despite this, the country continues to face high levels of indebtedness and poverty, a...

A majority of people living in rural areas and urban slums worldwide have minimal access to healthcare. Without information about what to give a ch...

Politics of precarity presents an analysis of contemporary labour politics that emerges with information and Privatisation of crucial social sector...

A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape Thanks to Title IX cases, #MeToo, and #Times Up, the issue of rape see...

India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically po...

The Paradox of Populism: The Indira Gandhi Years studies the changing dynamics of politics brought about by the eclipse of Congress hegemony, cause...

Adivasis have principally been studied in the context of rebellion, environmental history and the politics of identity. However, preoccupations wit...

Post India’s economic liberalization in the 1990s, the village ceased to be central to ongoing sociological concerns. As a result, the period saw a...

Breaching the Citadel is part of Zubaan’s Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series. It showcases new and path breaking research on the str...

The connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways. This ...