Sociology: Customs & Traditions

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

Women are the worlds most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distor...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

This book explores the phenomenon of anti-femail genital mutilation (FGM) social media activism. Against a backdrop of over 200 million girls and w...

Youth in Superdiverse Societiesbrings together theoretical, methodological and international approaches to the study of globalization, diversity, a...

In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st cent...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been supplemented by a...

This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars.In the twentieth century Europes borde...

What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidiscipli...