Sociology: Customs & Traditions

Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are...

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...

Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are...

Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America's workers. In this innovative volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the rel...

Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It is home to the dark goddess ...

Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been ...

Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, there has been ...

The Native American Contest Powwow introduces Cultural Tethering Theory to convey the importance of the contest powwow in the celebration and prese...

The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the prese...

Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do n...

Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are...

Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors an...

This book explores the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshir...