Sociology and anthropology

Providing an indispensable resource for students investigating sexual harassment in the United States, Sexual Harassment: A Reference Handbook is a comprehensive summary of history, current events, possible solutions, and resources.

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.

Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative dominated by the fear-and wish fulfillment-of the breakdown of authority and terror itself.

An indispensable resource for readers interested in Venezuelan history, this book analyzes Venezuela's economic crisis through the context of its political and social history.

This book comprehensively examines the practice of female genital mutilation and proposes new intervention programs and community-based initiatives that protect the rights of children and women who live with the serious risks and long-term consequences of the practice.

This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.

What is the relationship between sports and society?

This book covers a wide range of issues and controversies within the world of sports-including drug use, economics, ethics, ethnicity, gender, globalization, politics, race, sexuality, and technology-from both a U.

This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines.

At a time when divorce and suicide rates are at record levels in the military, The Military Marriage Manual: Tactics for Successful Relationships is an invaluable aid to members of the military and their spouses and families.

Transitioning: matter, gender, thought takes the body, its ontologies and temporalities, as a primary ethnographic heuristic to explore transition contexts, relations and life processes.

How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine?

This one-stop guide to getting published in anthropology gives graduate students and young professionals the crucial information and tools they need to tackle the all-important requirement to publish.

In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality.

Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft.

Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results.

This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies.

The Chinese have been one of the oldest and largest ethnic communities across the world with well over 35 million people living overseas.

Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning.

The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution.

In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.

Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, costs less, and requires a fraction of the energy inputs.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

What do Germany's memorials, films, artworks, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today?

The Concept of Resistance in Italy brings together experts from different fields to reflect in a new, comprehensive critical approach, on an event that has shaped the young Italian nation from the onset of Fascism in the early 20s.

What for decades could only be dreamt of is now almost within reach: the widespread provision of free online education, regardless of a geographic location, financial status, or ability to access conventional institutions of learning.

The expanding interdependencies of the world's diverse and divided populations have created a world society.

Disrupting Maize undertakes a critical interrogation of the symbol and the staple food of the Mexican nation.

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is one of the most influential and best-known sociologists of the past century.

Head Games is focused on the way in which ethnocentrism and cultural bias can impact public health, and in this case, psychotherapeutic process.

How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society?

A quarter of a century ago, Heather Joshi edited a landmark volume (sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research) entitled The Changing Population of Britain.

Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal-a notional and perfected femininity.

Globalization can sometimes seem like an abstract concept, an unconscious aspect of our everyday existence.

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people.

This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory.

From the Arab uprisings to the indignados movement and the global Occupy sit-ins, recent protests and civil unrest have sparked new debates about political organisation, media representation and the nature of contemporary citizenship.

Why is the Golden Rule so central in almost every culture and religion?

Silent Grief is a book for and about "e;suicide survivors"e; - those who have been left behind by the suicide of a friend or loved one.

Americanizing Japanese Firms examines the concept of corporate social responsibility in Japanese manufacturing companies within the United States.

One of anthropology's leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies.

This publication was made possible by the Rector's Fund in support of publications and books, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a "e;machine made up of flesh and bones.

Hidden Threads: A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory, provides a framework for making sense of the social world.

We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality.

How the Sun Lost Its Shine: A Newsroom Memoir is award-winning journalist Elaine Tassy's no-holds-barred account of her four years working as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun.

Synergistic Collaborations is a valuable resource for Christian ministers and social workers seeking to extend outreach ministries and new ways to collaborate with community organizations as they serve hurting people.

This ethnographically based murder mystery is set within New York City's Indian community.

This is a practical guidebook for conducting field research on cultural issues.