Sociology: Customs & Traditions

When you think of holiday romance in popular culture, you probably imagine the formulaic made-for-TV movies we all love to watch: a career gal m...

Return of the Jew traces the appearance of a new generation of Jews in Poland that followed the fall of the communist regime. Today more and more P...

A guide to harnessing ancestral power in the Slavic Pagan tradition Raised in the Soviet Union, where she grew up steeped in ancient Slavic magical...

With its intricate and vibrant images, this 12-month calendar is a tribute to the living folk art tradition of crafting sugar skulls. Features incl...

The Child's Interests in Conflict addresses one of the most pressing issues of any multicultural society, namely the conflicting demands on childre...

The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the my...

How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their childrenHow do American parents pass their religion on to their c...

From the late eighteenth century to the present day, public exhibitions featuring displays of human anatomy have proven popular with a wide range o...

The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the my...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

A practical guide to the ethnographic study of online cultures, and beyondEthnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kinda concise, com...

In this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks th...

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for r...

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

1990s South Korea saw the transition from a military dictatorship to a civilian government, from a manufacturing economy to a postindustrial hub, a...