Anthropology

The preeminent scholar of comparative studies of Indo-European society, Georges Dumézil theorized that ancient and prehistoric Indo-European cultur...

The concept of art as being purely for aesthetic contemplation, that is typical of industrial civilization, is not a very useful one for cross-cult...

In the four decades following the end of World War II, Morris Janowitz (1919-88) published major works in macrosociology, urban and political socio...

“It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in ...

Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we c...

A multi-disciplinary approach to studying ethnicity in Africa. Many of the people who identify themselves as Maasai, or who speak the Maa language...

Most interpretations of ethnicity concentrate either on particular societies or on specific dimensions of 'world society'. This work takes quite a ...

This new book draws together the work of a leading social theorist who has devoted herself to examining the intersection of cultural studies, socia...

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor. Political e...

Now available in paperback, this book provides the first systematic sociological discussion of money and develops a new interpretation of the natur...

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries.

In this new volume Pierre Bourdieu - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - clarifies and elaborates the most fundamental characteristic...

In ""Eastern Cherokee Fishing"", life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee pe...

What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian c...

Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs ...