Sociology: Customs & Traditions

Customs play an important part in all societies and offer fascinating insights into a countrys history and culture. Scotland boasts a multitude of ...

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and...

How Brazils long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the countrys present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtur...

The volume explores how anthropological ideas emerged. First, in the writings of the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers; after that, by the Renai...

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cu...

The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these tw...

This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies...

A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat produc...

Onda compares Japans traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nations societal fabric, with those of other countries across Asia,...

This Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a rea...

Explores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who volunteer In the past two decades, medical missions have gaine...

Carving a unique space within the burgeoning field of food studies, the essays gathered in this volume position themselves at a variety of flashpoi...

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