Social groups, communities and identities

In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam.

This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category.

This volume is the first book-length collection of research on language, gender and sexuality in the societies of central and eastern Europe.

This volume seeks to address questions of urban crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective that foregrounds the particular roles that literature and the creative arts play in both conceptualizing and addressing the multiple challenges facing cities.

It has been said that "e;a modern arrogance has blocked our access to the history of the Muslim calendar in Southeast Asia"e;.

This book is about how teen boys use their smartphones to create a world for themselves and their peers.

During the last couple of decades Afghanistan's cultural heritage has faced exceptional challenges.