Anthropology

This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.In the past twenty yea...

The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view ...

A broad understanding of bone and tooth microstructure is necessary for constructing the biological profile of an individual or individuals within ...

The development of a phenomenological approach to religion and the rise of perspectivism are challenging anthropologys exclusive rootedness in the ...

The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology and his work is...

Originally published in 1979, The Idea of Welfare critically reviews the concepts of egoism and altruism as they are expressed in residual and intu...

This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and cul...

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, ...

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weathe...

This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples f...

This book explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by ex...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...

This book explores sex work in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition, it examines ch...

This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organi...

What happens when objects behave unexpectedly or fail to do what they should? Who defines failure? Is failure always bad? Rather than viewing conce...

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery....

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes...

PREDOMINANTLY A RURAL NATION, Poland is most often depicted with urban scenes: steelworkers, trade unions, Communist party members, and Solidarity ...

The most exhaustive book on forensic dentistry, the fourth edition of this volume covers the latest advances in the field, including regulations af...

At the core of African American religions response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and sp...

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns i...

The book examines the topic of paternal authority as it developed over a long period of time. The focus is on the power of fathers as manifested wi...

David Wangs Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being ...

This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have do...