Sociology & anthropology books

This book is the first comparative law study of collateral consequences of criminal conviction in all federally...  Read More >>

This book discusses (auto-)ethnographies of accountability, undertaken (in close collaboration) by a multinational...  Read More >>

Designing homeliness: everyday practices of care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home.  Read More >>

How to dwell in a forest alongside giants, avoid disturbing a living god, assist an animal with their manners, and...  Read More >>

This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in...  Read More >>

This handbook builds on the growing research interest in practices of valuation throughout contemporary society....  Read More >>

The text examines the impacts of human trafficking panics perpetuated by media, including understanding the origins...  Read More >>

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards...  Read More >>

This book explores the textual traditions that authorize the history, legitimacy, and authenticity of today’s physical...  Read More >>

Drawing on the author’s own experience as a student and a teacher in England and Japan, this book is a comparative...  Read More >>

This book argues that future generations of modernity as a whole will shape participatory modernization whether...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the global south are pioneering learning and...  Read More >>

Westra explores a nuanced literature on postcapitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history...  Read More >>

This volume promotes a collective approach to sustainable consumption, and combines general theoretical issues with...  Read More >>

An outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading...  Read More >>

This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate...  Read More >>

Through in-depth, critical analysis of judicial transcripts, this book demonstrates that legal understandings of...  Read More >>

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive...  Read More >>

This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating...  Read More >>

Why does hope appear in certain epochs and places, only at other times to disappear from people’s lives and from...  Read More >>

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s...  Read More >>

This volume examines the nature and significance of transformative experiences as they occur across a variety of...  Read More >>

Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how collective identities are not structurally...  Read More >>

This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise...  Read More >>

Crime, Violence and Masculinities provides insight into the long-term production of knowledge about masculinity...  Read More >>