Sociology & anthropology books

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and...  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic research in contexts from across the globe, the contributions to this volume engage with...  Read More >>

By asking what childhood and ageing research can learn from each other, this edited volume brings both fields into...  Read More >>

Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional...  Read More >>

This volume sets out to explain the conditions that have favoured the expansion of the European social dimension...  Read More >>

Why is it that, throughout their history, humans have repeatedly taken on the task of developing writing systems? Inventing...  Read More >>

The open access volume “Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship” presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities...  Read More >>

From the 16th century onwards, Zeybek groups could be found in western Turkey, operating as bandits and later as...  Read More >>

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics...  Read More >>

The Diversity of Exploitation presents a German audience with alternatives to liberal antiracism by introducing...  Read More >>

Corps en mouvement. Anthropologie du sensible questionne l'énonciation de la parole et la mise en acte du corps,...  Read More >>

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What is going on when the rough sex 'defence' is deployed in criminal cases?  Read More >>

In an era defined by technological breakthroughs, shifting power dynamics, and growing societal expectations, governance,...  Read More >>

Addressing the complex interplay between climate change, democratic governance, and scientific knowledge in the...  Read More >>

Through an international cohort of contributors, this book examines the rich and diverse strands of artistic and...  Read More >>

Fragmentation, simultaneity and overstimulation characterize our present-day world. Events appear in a flood of...  Read More >>

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number...  Read More >>

This timely exploration of social geography reveals how inequality and justice unfold across interconnected scales...  Read More >>

This book develops a social psychology of citizenship, pushing the boundaries of the discipline to articulate a...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on social fiction as both a methodological tool and a research product. Drawing on original...  Read More >>

This book centres the voices of a group of marginalized residents in Grenada’s ghetto to examine questions of poverty...  Read More >>

The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions...  Read More >>

Mobility and the creation of spatial and social networks among the Qom Indigenous people in Buenos Aires  Read More >>

Are aliens even out there? If so, why do we assume we can imagine what they look like, or how they will relate humanity?...  Read More >>