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...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

Women are the worlds most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distor...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

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...