Sociology and Anthropology

About the Book India has the largest number of child labourers in the world and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in th...

About the Book Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? In Checkpoint, Temple, C...

About the Book Profiling national and international social inclusion agendas, Charity Law and Social Inclusion examines the fit between the charity...

About the Book Security has long been a central organizing concept of international relations. Until the 1980s, students of the discipline understo...

Contributed articles most on Ayurveda and other folk medicinal systems.

About the Book For a city in India's northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia's longest-running separa...

Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Village investigates and presents a holistic view of today’s ru...

A comprehensive assessment of the broad issues that underpin social exclusion in India This book posits the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled T...

This collection of twelve essays foregrounds the conjunction of the social phenomenon called ‘caste’ with the genre of representation called ‘life ...

About the Book Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science's...

About the Book This volume charts recent changes and trends in various social, community and economic features of Britain's black and ethnic minori...

About the Book The amazing inter-cultural correspondence (1919-1940) between two cultural icons of the twentieth century, Nobel laureates from the ...

Outside of debates surrounding public health statistics, little has been written about the experience of motherhood in India. In Boundaries and Mot...

About the Book Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and...

About the Book Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo ...

About the Book From DNA sequences stored on computer databases to archived forensic samples and biomedical records, bioinformation comes in many fo...

From being a tiny, non-descript village of the Malwa region in the ancient times, a strife-torn principality under the tutelage of a Pathan dynasty...

Beyond the Woman Question both revisits and interrogates some of the central tenets of the ‘woman uestion’ as it emerged in colonial India andshape...

About the Book Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898–1948). Not o...

About the Book The knowledge disseminated by universities and mobilized by states to govern populations has been globally dominant for more than a ...

About the Book K. G. Subramanyan is one of the most influential Indian artists, teachers, and theorists of the twentieth century. Born in 1924, Sub...

About the Book Social work practice with children, young people and families is complex, highly skilled - and fascinating. Writing about social wor...

About the Book - Beads of Arunachal Pradesh describes the cultural importance of different beads among the people of north-east India in general an...

About the Book Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left. Now Peter Hain revisits this ...

About the Book Chris Beckett′s new book on assessment and intervention in social work practice covers the core topics for qualifying social work st...

About the Book Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experienc...

About the Book Over the last three decades, Sheba Chhachhi has developed an art practice that traverses the fields of documentary photography, inst...

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This volume consists of nine case studies which collectively illustrate that the course and outcome of capitalist modernization has not been the sa...

About the Book Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A ne...

About the Book Many people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issu...

This innovative textbook introduces the readers to key theories, themes, and concepts in the discipline of sociology and helps them to develop as a...

This book is an authentic interpretation of over 400 Indian concepts and practices derived from a personal exploration of India, over a period of 5...

About the Book American Technology brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the...

About the Book With more than one million people currently infected and half a million already dead, the U.S. ranks among the top ten most severe A...

In this imposing new volume, Saurabh Dube writes against the grain of understandings which often set up objects of intellectual inquiry as the sing...

About the Book What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question...

About the Book Abortion has remained one of the most volatile and polarizing issues in the United States for over four decades. Americans are more ...

About the Book Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of In...

India has made remarkable headway in reducing the prevalence of infectious diseases and extending people’s life expectancy. But despite all the pro...

About the Book French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered h...

About the Book French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered h...

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term et...

About the Book The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author...

A People`s History of India 7 - Society and Culture in Post-Mauryan India, C. 200 BC-AD 300 [Paperback] Irfan Habib