Sociology: Customs & Traditions

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...

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 18251878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a ...

Focusing on the conflict and coordination between social development and political order in social governance, this book investigates the causes, e...

Narrating the realities of teacher burnout, the reception of a Black intelligentsia, and HIV awareness in local communities, Black Americans in Hig...

This collection explores, from a variety of angles, the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA...

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulentstruggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seenas opaq...

The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the gr...

Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spains eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Intro...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

Originally published in 1923, the following papers contain the results of investigations concerning religion and custom in Borneo and the Malay Pen...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with a...

This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and cul...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes...

Originally published in 1911, this edition published in 1920, this text comprises of an excerpt from Carpenters Adams Peak to Elephanta, originally...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with a...

Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of ...

Did You Know? No one knows the origin of the word Hogmanay. Until late in the twentieth century, Hogmanay was celebrated on two distinct dates, ...

Born Catholic. Raised Catholic. Americans across generations have used these phrases to describe their formative days, but the experience of growin...