Sociology & anthropology books

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and...  Read More >>

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced...  Read More >>

As the first volume of a two-volume set, this book systematically examines the process of rural reconstruction in...  Read More >>

This book illustrates tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research – experiences that are...  Read More >>

This book explores the social, ethical and legal implications of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Providing...  Read More >>

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests...  Read More >>

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary...  Read More >>

This title investigates China’s network society, both its online cyber society and offline real world society, by...  Read More >>

This book presents a multidimensional framework for re-thinking femininity. Moving beyond seeing femininity as a...  Read More >>

This book is a significant new contribution to understanding both sports and the arts, not just in their separate...  Read More >>

This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims’ rediscovery...  Read More >>

This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship...  Read More >>

This book uses a combination of business history and political economy to chart the development of Indian business...  Read More >>

This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem...  Read More >>

"Celebrated radio announcer and 15-year funeral home veteran A.L....  Read More >>

With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility and...  Read More >>

Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations...  Read More >>

An in-depth investigation of political modernity, Political Modernity and Social Theory proposes an encompassing...  Read More >>

Affect in Organization and Management asks how affect theory understands everyday working lives through embodied,...  Read More >>

This volume examines the diversified and challenging experiences of Chinese international STEM doctoral students...  Read More >>

Jewish Self-Defense in South America charts the ways in which Jewish youth in Argentina and Uruguay organized self-defense...  Read More >>

Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir,...  Read More >>

Family Business and Management: Objectives, Theory, and Practice characterizes the specificity of the functioning...  Read More >>

This work approaches, from dual perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced perspective...  Read More >>

Leadership and China: Philosophy, Place and Practice explores the impact of the radical change undergone in China...  Read More >>