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Living Language. An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Laura Ahearn M.
Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic...
Still Life. Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions
Henrietta Moore L.
How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'....
The World. A Beginner's Guide
Goran Therborn
What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times?...
Cities of Tomorrow. An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880
Peter Hall
Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the...
Maulana Karenga. An Intellectual Portrait
Molefi Asante Kete
In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only...
The Sociology of Gender. An Introduction to Theory and Research
Amy Wharton S.
Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling...
Double Vision. Anthropologists at Law
Randy Kandel Frances
NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed...
Sinews of the Nation. Constructing Irish and Zionist Bonds in the United States
Dan Lainer-Vos
Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms – ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to...
From Health Behaviours to Health Practices. Critical Perspectives
Simon Cohn
A wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and conduct research into what people do and don’t do, in relation to their health and experiences...
Mysteries and Conspiracies. Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies
Luc Boltanski
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology...
Making Knowledge. Explorations of the Indissoluble Relation between Mind, Body and Environment
Trevor H. J. Marchand
Making Knowledge presents the work of leading anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding the nature and social constitution of human knowledge. The book offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the subject and...
Apocalypse. From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity
John Hall R.
Winner of the American Sociological Association's 'Distinguished Book Award' in the Religion category. For most of us, «Apocalypse» suggests the cataclysmic end of the world. Yet in Greek «apocalypse» means «revelation,» and the real subject of...
Iron Curtains. Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City
Sonia Hirt A.
Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for...
Working Lives. Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007
Linda McDowell
Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women’s employment in post-war Britain. A first-rate...
AIDS, Sex, and Culture. Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa
Ida Susser
AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author’s own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the...
The Creative Capital of Cities. Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation
Stefan Kratke
This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class Presents an alternative...
Place. An Introduction
Tim Cresswell
Thoroughly revised and updated, this text introduces students of human geography and allied disciplines to the fundamental concept of place, combining discussion about everyday uses of the term with the complex theoretical debates that have...
Creating Prehistory. Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War Britain
Adam Stout
Creating Prehistory deals even-handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars. Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during...
Inside Concentration Camps. Social Life at the Extremes
Maja Suderland
Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading...
Banking Across Boundaries. Placing Finance in Capitalism
Brett Christophers
This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual ‘placement’. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking...
Careers in Anthropology. Profiles of Practitioner Anthropologists
Paula L. W. Sabloff
NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed...
44 Letters From the Liquid Modern World
Zygmunt Bauman
This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing – the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we...
Handbook of HIV and Social Work. Principles, Practice, and Populations
Cynthia Poindexter Cannon
Praise for Handbook of HIV and Social Work «Cynthia Cannon Poindexter has given us a remarkable edited volume that contains much information on HIV that every professional social worker needs to know in order to practice competently in today's...
The Secular State Under Siege. Religion and Politics in Europe and America
Christian Joppke
Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is...
Modern Environments and Human Health. Revisiting the Second Epidemiological Transition
Molly Zuckerman K.
Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, Modern Environments and Human Health demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines...
Collateral Damage. Social Inequalities in a Global Age
Zygmunt Bauman
The term ‘collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed interventions, consequences that are unplanned but nevertheless damaging and often very costly in human...
Contested Knowledge. Social Theory Today
Steven Seidman
In the fifth edition Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates. Responds to current issues,...
Reinventing Political Culture. The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power
Jeffrey Goldfarb C.
The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their political culture does not only restrict imagination and action – it is also a resource...
Wall Street at War. The Secret Struggle for the Global Economy
Alexandra Ouroussoff
Many of the problems that lie at the heart of the current financial crisis stem from a significant but little-known development that occurred in the early 1980s: investors changed their investment criteria. This change gave rise to a conflict –...
Introduction to Sociological Theory, eTextbook. Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century
Michele Dillon
Combining carefully chosen primary quotes with extensive discussion and everyday illustrative examples, this book provides an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary theory. Uses a wide range of newspaper examples to illustrate the...
Subcultural Theory. Traditions and Concepts
J. Williams Patrick
Subcultural phenomena continue to draw attention from many areas of contemporary society, including the news media, the marketing and fashion industries, concerned parents, religious, and other citizen groups, as well as academia. Research into...
Alternative and Activist New Media
Leah Lievrouw
Alternative and Activist New Media provides a rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative...
Diasporas in the Contemporary World
Milton Esman J.
Throughout human history people have moved across national borders. With the advent of globalization, they are now moving in record numbers in search of greater security or better livelihoods. Diasporas have become an ever important and visible...
This is not a Diary
Zygmunt Bauman
This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our times in their movement – possibly at birth, at a...
Women's Human Rights
Niamh Reilly
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences...
Children and the Internet
Sonia Livingstone
Is the internet really transforming children and young people’s lives? Is the so-called ‘digital generation’ genuinely benefiting from exciting new opportunities? And, worryingly, facing new risks? This major new book by a leading researcher...
Work's Intimacy
Melissa Gregg
This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew «knowledge» economy to provide intimate insight...
The Autism Matrix
Gil Eyal
Today autism has become highly visible. Once you begin to look for it, you realize it is everywhere. Why? We all know the answer or think we do: there is an autism epidemic. And if it is an epidemic, then we know what must be done: lots of money...
Gender and Culture
Anne Phillips
The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate. Yet discussion of these tensions is marred by exaggerated talk of cultural difference, leading to ethnic...
Crying Shame. Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament
James Wilce M.
Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent. Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a...
Allah Made Us. Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City
Rudolf Gaudio Pell
A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic law requires strict separation of the sexes and different rules of behavior for women and men in virtually every facet of life. The...
Modernity
Peter Wagner
We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book. Wagner begins...
Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others
James Gilligan
Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly. James Gilligan has discovered a devastating truth that has been «hiding in plain sight» for the past century – namely, that when America's...
Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All?
Zygmunt Bauman
It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that in the final analysis the richness of the few...
Case Studies in Social Work Practice
Craig LeCroy W.
A practical approach to understanding social work concepts in action that integrates theory and practice In this updated edition of the classic social work text, students and instructors have access to real-world demonstrations of how social...
The Misguided Search for the Political
Lois McNay
There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to ‘real’ politics. Echoing these debates, Lois McNay examines in this book some theories of...
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth – the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on...
A Companion to Forensic Anthropology
Dennis Dirkmaat
A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts. Highlights the...
A Companion to Moral Anthropology
Didier Fassin
A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various currents, approaches, and issues in this...
A Companion to Chinese Archaeology
Anne Underhill P.
A Companion to Chinese Archaeology is an unprecedented, new resource on the current state of archaeological research in one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It presents a collection of readings from leading archaeologists in China and...
