Social Groups

French anthropologist Jacques Dournes lived in Vietnam for 25 years, from 1946 to 1970, studying the culture of the Jarai and other highland ethnic...

Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Comp...

Fosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power.  In t...

The distinction among slaves is as marked, as the classes of society are in any aristocratic community. Some refusing to associate with others whom...

Despite a late and fitful start, democracy in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe has recently shown promising growth. Kathleen M. Fallon dis...

Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New ...

Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europ...

 How did mothers transform from parents of secondary importance in the colonies to having their multiple and complex roles connected to the well-be...

A look back at how powerful politicians, business leaders, and a diverse cast of activists used a thwarted Olympics to shape the state of Colorado ...