Sociology & anthropology books

The 13 essays that comprise this book are envisaged as a small attempt from South Asia – where communitarian postcolonialism...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume examine the cultural exchanges and encounters that have occurred in Central Asia through...  Read More >>

This book offers an ethnographic examination of the young people who serve voluntarily at a juvenile diversion program...  Read More >>

A powerful theory of the symbolic embedded within a remarkable and original theory of practice is a nodal aspect...  Read More >>

Sufism in India and Central Asia is an attempt to put into perspective the relevance of Sufism – the concept and...  Read More >>

Volume 1: Theories, Methods, and Ideas explores the mobility of ideas through time and space and how interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence and provides...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive account, using many sources including the archival materials, of the two conferences...  Read More >>

The book attempts to trace an overview of the different components that define the cultural landscape of the state...  Read More >>

This volume examines the relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology....  Read More >>

This book takes a closer look at some of the important narratives on indenture and evaluates them in order to highlight...  Read More >>

This work focusses on the first three Adivasi movements in Eastern India during Gandhi’s lifetime and the current...  Read More >>

This volume straddles between being a compilation of chapters exploring the fundamental conceptual categories within...  Read More >>

This handbook reviews, consolidates, and advances the study of ideology in international politics.  Read More >>

This book argues that Marxism needs to be extended beyond the traditional confines in order to remain relevant in...  Read More >>

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-atheism in the United States. It traces anti-atheism through...  Read More >>

This book delineates and analyses events and developments from the emergence of the Akali Dal, as a religious movement...  Read More >>

This book, result of years of painstaking research by the author, critically reviews the existing works and their...  Read More >>

Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue...  Read More >>

This volume commemorates the ten years of the eruption of Arab Spring protests. It captures some of the prevailing...  Read More >>

This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia...  Read More >>

Scrupulously based in anthropology and history – and drawing on social theory and critical thought – this book revisits...  Read More >>

This book explores the transitions in the Adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of Adivasi...  Read More >>

This book investigates the relationship of secrecy as a social practice to contemporary media, news cultures and...  Read More >>