Sociology & anthropology books

Built on original ethnographic research, this book offers a comprehensive account of funerary history and practices...  Read More >>

This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative...  Read More >>

Das Bild schildert, hinter dem Vorhang der Erscheinung als Scheinbarkeit des Realen, das Geschehen: Die Chimären,...  Read More >>

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted...  Read More >>

This book explores social citizenship through the lens of investigating local compulsory education policy targeting...  Read More >>

This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked social practice, performed between people within...  Read More >>

The widening of income and wealth inequality has become one of the most important obstacles on the road to China’s...  Read More >>

This book explores social and political issues and trends emerging around the UEFA European Football Championships....  Read More >>

This edited volume examines how transnational English language assessment practices are envisioned, enacted and...  Read More >>

This book examines how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined and explored by social researchers...  Read More >>

This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century,...  Read More >>

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity,...  Read More >>

This book examines the nature of ethnopolitics evolving in the Darjeeling hills, located in the Eastern Himalayas....  Read More >>

This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and...  Read More >>

This book examines Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka, how Tamil nationalism has survived the destruction of the Tamil...  Read More >>

This book examines the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global sport and the varying consequences of...  Read More >>

Economic development depends heavily on the growth of social sectors like education, healthcare, gender equality,...  Read More >>

Viewing the plurality of creativity in music as being of paramount importance to the field of music education, The...  Read More >>

This book focuses on Sikh communities in east and northeast India. It studies settlements in Bihar, Odisha, West...  Read More >>

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy...  Read More >>

Drawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between social mentality, public opinion, media, and other factors through mixed...  Read More >>

This book investigates the notion of silence as both an oppressing instrument and a powerful tool of resistance...  Read More >>

This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers...  Read More >>

Intersectionality and Crisis Management: A Path to Social Equity aims to embed the social equity discourse into...  Read More >>