Sociology and Anthropology

This book examines the phenomenon of colorism in India and the Global South and critically analyses the obsession with fair skin and its associatio...

About the Book An increasing number of poor women in urban India work as maids in middle-class households. However, this sector of unorganized labo...

About the Book A timely revision of a compassionate guide to the practical and emotional aspects of divorce The first edition of Divorce and New B...

About the Book South Asia's significant water resources are unevenly distributed, with about a fifth of the population lacking adequate access. Acr...

This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulation...

Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism In New Delhi

About the Book Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, Disputed Legacies examines the situat...

About the Book This study highlights some emerging issues in the study of displaced persons in India, like the agency and voices of people who flee...

This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized ...

Disability and Care Work: State, Society and Invisible Lives explores the lived reality of children with disabilities and those involved in parent...

About the Book Through proven learning experiences that are as close to real-life practice as can be obtained from a book, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACT...

About the Book This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about ne...

This study of one of the earliest social reform movements in Kerela investigates the relationship between social reform, religion and caste.

About the Book This book addresses a gap in the academic and professional literature in the area of criminal justice social work.   This compilati...

About the Book The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the sam...

About the Book This work is about the Qureshi Muslim butchers of Delhi-an endogamous group among Muslims in India, traditionally involved in the Is...

About the Book We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigrati...

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

About the Book Language users ordinarily suppose that they know what thoughts their own utterances express. We can call this supposed knowledge min...

One in every six women in the world lives in India, more than the combined female populations of North America, the European Union and the Middle E...

About the Book Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling et...

About the Book There is a scarcity of professional literature and research that focuses on women's spiritual development and experiences and how th...

About the Book George Curzon was post-Mutiny India's most imperialistic Viceroy. From 1899-1905, he attempted to single-handedly implement a 12 poi...

About the Book How does one achieve a sense of freedom and meaning in a confusing, over-bureaucratized, and unequal world? Scott McNall offers the ...

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...