Social Groups

In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by...

Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural herita...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Since World War II, Italy has stru...

Staging an important new conversation between performers and critics, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of blackness and La...

In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plight...

This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the citys greatest growth, between the 1830s and t...

Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it h...

Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma--its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for ...

First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science and sociology) is well e...

Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it h...

In Guardians of the Buddha's Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jdo Shi...

This pioneer study presents a quantitative analysis of the civilian elite in Mamluk Cairo. Using information about 4,631 individuals drawn from two...

The Salvation Army is well known for its work with the poor and disadvantaged. There is, however, much more to the story of the Salvation Army than...

The formulation egalitarian strangeness is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990...

Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with internationa...

Costa Rica is a country known internationally for its eco-credentials, dazzling coastlines, and reputation as one of the happiest and most peaceful...

The essays in this volume, in all their astonishing richness and diversity, focus on the question of the other. Brimming with whole flotillas of ne...

Despite the broadly assumed institutional separation of church and state in contemporary Western politics, there is a trend towards renewed allianc...

The articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodol...

Colonia Hermosa, now considered a suburb of Oaxaca, began as a squatter settlement in the 1950s. The original residents came in search of transfor...

Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, ...

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institut...