Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? England's military heartland provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military pr...

The second edition of Problems of Working Women in Karachi, Pakistan is the result of extensive original research on working women in Karachi. The ...

Drawing insights from intensive empirical investigation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in various Southeast Asian countries, this b...

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant wor...

Following in the footsteps of Frazer, Freud, and Burke, René Girard proposes a novel hermeneutic theory of the of scapegoating which not only gives...

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation. This s...

How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 millio...

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India. Going beyond anecdotal accounts, it addresses the issues and concerns of arre...

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sust...

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Pea...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of current formations of publics that is informed by in-depth knowledge of affect and emotion theory...

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysi...

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined an...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and...

Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the...

First published in 1951, Man into Wolf attempts to suggest the possibility of historical, or rather prehistorical, evolutionist derivation of all c...

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put...

Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumars 2013 seminal work Soil, Soul and Society, this book rethinks education in line with thou...

The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between...

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool. In its inception, public theology was largely contextualized as the public church. However, this ...