Sociology & anthropology books

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Biotraffic explores the complex world of biological resource trade. It takes readers inside the contemporary Ciskei...  Read More >>

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This best-selling textbook returns for an eighth edition with material on the most fundamental issues in sociology...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream,...  Read More >>

Using an accessible, non-technical approach, the third edition of Regression Basics introduces readers to the fundamentals...  Read More >>

This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible...  Read More >>

Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and...  Read More >>

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of...  Read More >>

Elderly ex-offenders are some of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Japan today, with high levels of...  Read More >>

Based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider...  Read More >>

The author employs computing and statistics to answer two questions: What are the distinguishing features of Welles’...  Read More >>

""Originally published in German in 2022 under the title Warum Kirche? Selbstoptimierung oder Glaubensgemeinschaft.""...  Read More >>

Key writings of Alice Beck Kehoe provide students and scholars of anthropology an overview of methodological and...  Read More >>

This book examines the traumatic experiences of the elderly people whose stories make up these headlines.  Read More >>

Andrew Cowell and Terry Brockie present a tribally centered reference grammar of Aaniiih (Gros Ventre), a member...  Read More >>

Enhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty...  Read More >>

In Asia, research in human evolution has long been considered to have lagged far behind. Often this is due to the...  Read More >>

Once heralded as the """"Black Mecca of the South,"""" Atlanta’s Black community is now under threat of dislocation...  Read More >>

Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival offers critical analysis of contemporary politics and options...  Read More >>

This accessible book offers a detailed guide to a wide range of methodological concepts, both those of a more philosophical...  Read More >>

Famines and other serious food shortages have been one of the scourges faced by humanity for millennia. Plants for...  Read More >>

Tourism Geopolitics offers a unique and timely intervention into the growing significance of tourism in geopolitical...  Read More >>

Photos of the annual 'Bottle Kicking' custom at Hallaton, Leicestershire, 1973.  Read More >>