Sociology & Anthropology

The only common aspect among all definitions of Islamophobia is that all of them have something negative to say about Muslims or Islam or both. Thi...

Why is labour migration an issue of such public, social and political concern? How did it acquire such an importance? This book deals with exploita...

What do community organisations and organisers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activi...

How are religious educational institutions built? In histories of evangelical institution-building in the Victorian Indian colonial period (1858-19...

Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai...

Not your typical sociology primer, this straightforward yet challenging text begins with a discussion of foundational theories, central concepts...

Children live in rapidly changing times that require them to constantly adapt to new economic, social, and cultural conditions. In this book, a dis...

Almost four in ten graduates studied one of the social sciences. Where do they go to work? How do their employment and earnings compare to those wh...

In the sixties and seventies, the public sphere in Western countries was a place of critique. Through their activism in the public sphere, various ...

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that ...

In Algonquian folklore, the wetiko is a cannibal monster or spirit that possesses a person, rendering them monstrous. In The Wetiko Legal Principle...

'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, culture...

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'Moving and rich...overflowing with warmth and humanity' The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstru...