Sociology: Customs & Traditions

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...

Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an i...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program for monographs. Vis...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neig...

Before the Second Vatican Council, Americas Catholics operated largely as a coherent voting bloc, usually in connection with the Democratic Party. ...

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...

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...

This nostalgic collection of Irish ballads and poems celebrates the rich history and culture of the Irish-American experience.  Spanning the early ...

The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic...

In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s pet boom. Blu...

In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s pet boom. Blu...

ENGThe Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over t...

Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the...