Sociology & anthropology books

This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the United States during...  Read More >>

This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous...  Read More >>

This book explores and examines human trafficking in Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines, and the social conditions...  Read More >>

This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically...  Read More >>

Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, athletes have demonstrated...  Read More >>

This book is about older women’s strength, freedom, tenacity, determination, resilience, independence, social and...  Read More >>

This innovative work combines a rigorous academic analysis of the political economy of organ supply for transplantation...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture is an intersectional, diverse and comprehensive collection...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering...  Read More >>

The book examines the challenges related to civil-military interaction in international interventions by taking...  Read More >>

Using comparable survey data on these schooling, skills, and labour market outcomes from 13 developing and emerging...  Read More >>

This volume brings together interviews with leading scholars to discuss some of the most important issues associated...  Read More >>

An unprecedented exploration of the intersection of events and family studies, Family Events uses events as a lens...  Read More >>

Interweaving ethnography and autoethnography, this book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals...  Read More >>

Building on archival work undertaken in France and fieldwork undertaken in Southeast Asia, Museum-Making in Vietnam,...  Read More >>

This Handbook offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing...  Read More >>

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human...  Read More >>

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the ‘caribbeanization’ of archives in the region, considering what those...  Read More >>

Based on ethnographic research among African Pentecostal Christians living in the United Kingdom, this book addresses...  Read More >>

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows...  Read More >>

This book identifies the differences in growth and development, and the various factors lying behind them, across...  Read More >>

Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyses social struggles over damaging...  Read More >>

This book offers ground-breaking insights on how the dynamics of conditional inclusion and “good” citizenship play...  Read More >>

Drawing on cases from the world of ‘free software’, this book examines Rousseau’s conception of freedom and its...  Read More >>

Examining the ideas, philosophies, beliefs and fears that are expressed in Greta Gerwig's film, this is a detailed,...  Read More >>