Sociology: Customs & Traditions

This book is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. Starting from his studies of the Melanesian society on the Trobriand Islands o...

In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas ...

In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas ...

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of le...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societi...

A sociological study of public restrooms So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, an...

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide. Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was...

'A wonderful book' Chris Evans From the author of the million-copy bestseller, The Little Book of Hygge, comes a beautifully designed guide on how ...

This edited book focuses on the ways in which contemporary societal challenges are constructed, mediated and lived through language and other semio...

The chapters in this volume concentrate on the mundane and ordinary eating practices of the everyday, showing how these are linked to change in mod...

Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of...

Unique in its cultural and religious makeup, medieval Iberia represented a crossroads of cultures. This crossroads was reflected in large and small...

This book explores the histories and presents of gender dysphoria and euphoria as clinical and theoretical concepts as well as lived experience. It...

A stunning bilingual, illustrated, and photographic account of a celebrated Mexican tradition The lively Mexican holiday of Dia de Los Muertos (Day...

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world ...

This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global in...