Society & culture: general books

Indian Village is considered as a “classic"". It has received immense acclaim since its publication, especially...  Read More >>

This original collection explores critically sporting practices, spaces and affiliations in order to understand...  Read More >>

Aiming to expand our comprehension of the complex structures and cultures that influence reproductive choice, this...  Read More >>

This collection aims to address the marginalization and under-theorization of sexuality and sexual identity in social...  Read More >>

Identity and Transnationalism discusses the identity and transnational experiences of the new second-generation...  Read More >>

An ethnography of the lives of the super-rich housewives of Delhi, this book delineates the ways in which these...  Read More >>

This book focuses on research strategies and methods for analyzing social media and will be of interest to researchers...  Read More >>

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this...  Read More >>

In her study of the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended Great Britain’s amassing...  Read More >>

Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as...  Read More >>

This book critically engages with the role sporting organisations play in the maintenance and development of communities...  Read More >>

Street Computing develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents help themselves. Metaphorically speaking,...  Read More >>

American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism...  Read More >>

This investigation of Jewish spatial practices explores two groups of house symbols: ritual objects that are based...  Read More >>

Michèle Alexandre’s innovative study examines how sexual profiling represses, oppresses, and hinders various aspects...  Read More >>

These essays tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the...  Read More >>

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history...  Read More >>

This book offers perspectives by Africans on the idea of cultural studies in Africa. The percpectives are both local...  Read More >>

Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from...  Read More >>

Focusing specifically on semi-religious women, this volume addresses a number of provocative questions about gender...  Read More >>

Informed both by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the anthropology of science, Barcoding Nature analyses...  Read More >>

This volume discusses how public cultural policies relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Contributors...  Read More >>

Design at Home brings together etiquette, homemaking and home decoration sources in the first systematic demonstration...  Read More >>

This edited volume’s chief aim is to bring together, in an English-language source, the principal histories and...  Read More >>

This volume explores the relationships between economic development and community development practice and research....  Read More >>