Sociology and anthropology Books
Studio Orientalia A Sketch of Assam: With Some Account of the Hill
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£33.25
AVI Publishers Bodoland
Book SynopsisThe Bodo, an ancient ethnic group of Northeast India, has been resorting to a movement for autonomy. A section of the Bodo educated youth being thoroughly disillusioned with constitutional safeguards, like autonomy arrangements, joined a secessional struggle, which has not only radically transformed the character and substance of the Bodo assertion from autonomy to secession in terms of goals, but also the methods of achieving it, by showing preference to violence. Tracing the historical background of the Bodos, this book seeks to analyse the emergence of the NDFB, its support base, its demands and strategies to achieve them. It also examines the factors that persuaded the NDFB to adopt extremist methods for achieving its goals.
£34.19
Tulika Books Agrarian Relations in the Lower Cauvery Delta A
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£45.00
Tulika Books Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again The Social
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£29.75
Cappelen Damm Akademisk CSR & Beyond: A Nordic Perspective
Book SynopsisFollowing the neoliberal turn in the 1980s, leading global companies have established an influential trend in business through adoption of the doctrine of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR). This book critically explores the new megatrend and its varying interpretations and presents overviews of several fields of CSR practice: governance, business ethics, SRI/ESG investment, communication, reporting, labour relations/HR, supply chain management, life cycle analysis, climate strategy, innovation, leadership and public policy. The book also presents visions of CSR development going forward. While the book contributes to the international research frontier, it also reflects its Nordic context, both with respect to authorship and empirical focus. Chapters on leading companies and on state CSR initiatives illustrate how the Nordic tradition has fostered pioneering CSR positions both in business and public policy. In the final chapter the book engages in the broader international debate on CSR, democracy, and value creation, with leading international critical thinkers in dialogue with industrial strategists.
£47.25
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Is the Body the Temple of the Soul? – Modern Yoga
Book SynopsisThis book interprets the social significance of yoga in a world that emphasizes corporeality and the body. Immersing himself in the social world of hatha yoga participants, from an urban studio to a mountain retreat, the author's personal experience with positions and techniques, group meditation, and joint mantra is juxtaposed against interviews, photographs, video recordings on the social meaning of yoga, and philosophical analyses of where the physical and spiritual meet. This book's use of empirical qualitative research and participant observation allows for close analysis, even outright experiencing of the participants' world.Trade ReviewAn original work that brings new findings to the sociology of culture and sociology of religion. It is based on deep empirical research and diagnoses a phenomenon that is new and increasingly significant, not only in Poland. -- Grazyna Woroniecka, University of Warsaw
£32.30
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Essays on Archaeology and Ethnology of Peruvian
Book SynopsisThis volume contains revised and updated editions of articles by Andrzej Krzanowski coming from different periods of his forty-year-long research activities in Peru, from the first expedition to the Huaura Valley up to the most recent research on the Central Coast. Krzanowski is the first Pole to have conducted archaeological research in the Andes and led the 1978–1987 Polish Scientific Expedition to the Andes, which carried out interdisciplinary research (archaeology, geography, ethnography) on settlements in the high mountain region of Huaura-Checras. Since 2009, he has been focusing on pre-Columbian fortifications on the Peruvian Central Coast.
£35.70
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Visible and Invisible – Nuclear Energy, Shale Gas
Book SynopsisVisible and Invisible analyzes the mechanisms of the creation and functioning of media discourses on selected energy-related problems. The volume attempts to diagnose the communicative dimension of the public sphere in terms of its operation as a space of deliberation, with particular consideration for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of social actors, topics, and arguments.The individual chapters result from research dating from the 1980s through 2014. They demonstrate the dynamic of changes based on consistent tracking of the fields of nuclear and wind energy and shale gas. These types of energy were chosen deliberately instead of coal, the most obvious form in Poland, since they represent technologies that were seen as innovative.
£32.30
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Poverty and Social Exclusion During and After
Book SynopsisThis book is about poverty in Poland during the transition to capitalism and in the decade that followed as documented in the life courses of women living in the disadvantaged neighborhoods in the post-industrial city. The authors analyze the life histories of four generations of women. The oldest are former workers in state-owned factories in which they worked until retirement and who used to be the leaders of the female working class during the socialist period. Their daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters became redundant on the capitalist labor market and survived on social benefits. The book goes beyond the feminization of poverty as traditionally considered in monetary terms. It searches for the causes that drive and maintain poverty that are embedded in changes in industrial relations, welfare regimes, and family structures and relations. It also discusses women' efforts and capabilities to cope with disadvantages.Trade ReviewIn this important book about poverty and social exclusion, the authors apply the biographical method to get to know the life history and experiences of the members of extended families. The dynamic approach as presented in the book is unique and covers a period of almost a century. Of great theoretical importance is their revealing factors contributing to pauperization of subsequent generations ("daughters" and "grandchildren") by tracking changes in the social structure due to shifts in the global economy and the emergence of a new social class specified as precariat, of which a significant segment are the children of former workers. The book can count on a broad range of interest in academia and beyond, including local authorities, social workers, and non-for-profit organizations. -- Danuta Duch-Krzystoszek, the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw
£32.30
UCOPress, Editorial Universidad de Crdoba Comer cultura Estudios de cultura alimentaria
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£16.12
Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Mujeres quebradas: la Inquisición y su violencia
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£41.81
Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacin Cientfica de la Universidad de Mlaga Falsedad y comunicación
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£13.49
Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacin Cientfica de la Universidad de Mlaga Feminismos en las dos orillas
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£19.90
Museum Tusculanum Press Nuussuarmiut: Hunting Families on the Big
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£36.54
Museum Tusculanum Press The Byways of the Poor: Organizing Practices and
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£36.54
Museum Tusculanum Press Ethnologia Europaea vol. 30:2
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£14.40
Museum Tusculanum Press Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities
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£19.79
Peeters Publishers Paroles Et Gestuelle Un Conteur Inuit Du
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£82.65
United Nations The corporate responsibility to respect human
Book SynopsisThis Interpretive Guide on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights was developed in full collaboration with the former Special Representative. Its contents have been the subject of numerous consultations during the six years of the Special Representative's mandate and have been reflected in many public reports and speeches, but have not previously been brought together. This Guide does not change or add to the provisions of the Guiding Principles, but provides additional background explanation to the principles directed at business enterprises, to support a full understanding of their meaning and intent. In this way, it is designed to support the process of comprehensive implementation of the Guiding Principles, as well as the development of further operational guidance to put the Guiding Principles into practice. As such, this Guide is a resource not just for business, but also for Governments, civil society, investors, lawyers and others who engage with business on these issues.
£16.16
United Nations Women's rights are human rights
Book SynopsisAttaining equality between women and men and eliminating all forms of discrimination against women are fundamental human rights and United Nations values. Women around the world nevertheless regularly suffer violations of their human rights throughout their life, and realizing women's human rights has not always been prioritized. Achieving equality between women and men requires a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which women experience discrimination and are denied equality so as to develop appropriate strategies to eliminate such discrimination. This publication provides an introduction to women's human rights, beginning with the main provisions in international human rights law and going on to explain particularly relevant concepts for fully understanding women's human rights.
£16.16
United Nations Global value chains and world trade: prospects
Book SynopsisThe analysis of how Latin American and Caribbean economies participate in different segments of GVCs is at the heart of the current work agenda of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, which focuses on how structural change and productivity gains can promote economic development with equality. This volume builds on the relevant literature and suggests that the movement of firms to higher value added activities in GVCs requires them to step up their innovation efforts and develop new products and processes. Success in improving market shares and value added will depend, however, on which firms innovate most. Hence, innovation is a necessary but insufficient for increasing value added and market shares. Evidence suggests that since the 2008 economic crisis, the participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks has increased.
£25.46
International Labour Office World employment and social outlook 2015: the
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£32.00
WHO Regional Office for Europe Home care across Europe: current structure and
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£41.48
World Health Organization Gender-Based Violence in the Western Pacific
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£23.63
HarperCollins India Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories/Anti-Stories
Book SynopsisSubimal Misra, a bold anti-writer, presents a collection of 25 stories reflecting the violent history of Bengal in the 70s and 80s. Influenced by Godard, Misra's 'anti-stories' challenge traditional literature with cinematic techniques. Translated by V. Ramaswarmy, "Wild Animals Prohibited" showcases Misra's evolution in form and daring ideas.
£10.49
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Doing Theory:: Locations, Hierarchies and
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£37.99
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Who Were the Shudras
Book SynopsisHe dedicated this book to the renowned Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule (1827-1890), who established the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873 along with his wife and social reformer Savitribai Phule (1831-1897).
£48.74
Zubaan Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh – A
Book SynopsisThroughout South Asia, young men and women are pursuing new educational opportunities and getting married later. These changes, Nicoletta Del Franco contends, have cleared new paths toward adulthood - ways of passage whose complex implications have not been fully explored. In Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh, she fills this gap, documenting the realities of daily existence for young people as they navigate their lives amid the profound socioeconomic tumult of southwestern Bangladesh. Del Franco focuses on three main areas of these adolescents' lives: college and student existence, same-sex and opposite-sex friendships and relationships, and the issues surrounding marriage and the choice of a husband or wife. In the process, she sheds new light on issues that affect adolescents not only in Bangladesh but also across South Asia. One of the first books to address what it means to be young in today's Bangladesh, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, gender studies, and sociology.
£26.11
Tulika Books Similarities – A Paradigm for Culture Theory
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£40.00
Bloomsbury India Bonding with the Lord: Jagannath, Popular Culture
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£80.75
Niyogi Books Art for tribal rituals in South Gujarat, India::
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£74.62
Bloomsbury India In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings
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£80.75
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Society & Social Institutions
Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide a clear understanding of different types of societies and their social institutions. Besides discussing the concept of socials institutions, it explains important social institutions such as marriage, family, kinship, economic organization, political organization, religion, and the caste system. An independent chapter on some important basic concepts being used in sociology and anthropology like globalization, post-modernism, ethnicity, diaspora, multiculturalism, rural-urban continuum, social exclusion, and empowerment, help the reader get a better understanding of the various social institutions. This book will be of great help to the students sociology, anthropology, and social work at the UG and PG levels as well as those appearing in UPSC Civil Services, State Civil Services and NET/JRF examinations.
£9.49
Leuven University Press Working Through Colonial Collections: An
Book SynopsisReckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin's Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum's various work practices, this book highlights the Museum's embeddedness in colonial logics and shows how these unfold in the Museum's everyday activity. It addresses the diverse areas of expertise in the Ethnological Museum - the preservation, storage, curation, and research of collections - and also draws on archival research and oral history interviews with current and former employees. Working through Colonial Collections unravels the ongoing and laborious processes of reckoning with colonialism in the Ethnological Museum's present - processes from which other ethnological museums, as well as Western museums more generally, can learn. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR, Project Muse, and Open Research LibraryTrade ReviewImpressive. This research spans a crucial decade of critique, debate, and change in Europe’s ethnological museums. The fieldwork offers a rich 'inside' view of the choices facing museum professionals working under unprecedented pressures and constraints. Von Oswald’s attitude of 'observant participation' dissolves the binaries that can orient understandings of a controversial project like the Humboldt Forum. The book’s detailed ethnographic accounts are effectively articulated with analyses pitched at wider institutional, national and international levels. The organizing concept of 'working through' denotes acting within-and-against institutional structures, working toward a transformation without guarantees. Von Oswald argues for more open, responsive, decolonizing developments, without ever grasping for easy alternatives or final solutions.James Clifford, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsA visual introduction Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter One Learning about German colonialism: On memory, activism, and the Humboldt Forum Chapter Two Being affected: A methodological approach to working through colonial collections Chapter Three Expanding collection histories: The museum as peopled organisation Chapter Four Troubling epistemologies: On the endurance of colonial discrimination Chapter Five Managing plethora:Caring for colonial collections Chapter Six Researching provenance: The politics of writing history Chapter Seven Probing materiality: Collections as amalgams of their histories Chapter Eight Repairing representations: Curatorial cultures and change in the Ethnological Museum Conclusion Timeline References cited
£46.55
Ateneo de Manila University Press Preserving and Transforming Philippine Identity
Book SynopsisPhilosophers tell us that all human beings seek to make sense of their lives and their circumstances. The particular culture we are in offers us a menu of options with which to make sense of the various and disparate events in our lives. Culture therefore cannot be ignored for being ""unimportant,"" for, through it, the lives that we lead acquire a shape that gladdens us. In the heightened competition that characterises globalisation, knowing one's culture and keeping in touch with its most intimate values and aspirations can give the individual plenty of needed comfort. Without a sense of inner security that our culture, values and aspirations provides, it is easy to succumb in the heat of battle. —From the Introduction by Fernando N. Zialcita
£27.16
University of the Philippines Press An Isteytsayd Life: Not-So-Random Thoughts from a
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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Wards of Hanoi
Book SynopsisIn this book, the author marshals evidence to support an arena-specific approach towards viewing Vietnam's state-society relations. In practice, the Vietnamese party-state's relations with society vary from the hard and uncompromising state, with the bureaucracy getting its way, to society's ability to negotiate the state's boundaries and regimes to make them less harsh. Any analysis of Vietnam's state-society relations needs to recognize and demonstrate both elements of dominance and accommodation, as well as specify the context in which either or both are seen. Alone, neither is adequate. In particular, the idea of the ""state"" needs to be disaggregated because ""state"" is not a singular actor that is coherent or uniform through time and space. To demonstrate how state-disaggregation can make our view more nuanced, this book analyses state-society interaction at the ward level of Hanoi, an urban local authority.
£37.20
NUS Press New God in the Diaspora Muneeswaran Worship in
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£32.30
Hong Kong University Press A Chinese Melting Pot: Original People and
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£58.00
Academic Studies Press Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917
Book SynopsisDefining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region. In the case of Russia, the formulation of these binary definitions – sometimes taking a form of enemy images – can be traced all the way to medieval texts, in which religion represented the dividing line. Further, the ongoing expansion of the empire transferred numerous “external others” into internal minorities. The chapters of this edited volume examine the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.Trade Review“This timely volume brings together exciting new research on the perception of ‘others’ during four centuries of Russia’s imperial history. While older research often highlighted adherence to Orthodoxy as the main marker of Russianness, this volume’s case studies provide a far more nuanced picture. They demonstrate that different—and often contradicting—markers of identity existed side by side and that perceptions of internal and external ‘others’ were inextricably interwoven. Processes of incorporation and differentiation took place simultaneously and led to a constant shifting of borders between those perceived as ‘Russians’ and the ‘others.’ Ultimately, this book indicates that these contradictions resulted from the ambiguities of Russia’s own identity as a multiethnic state oscillating between empire and nation, with consequences to the Soviet era and beyond.”— Ulrich Hofmeister, University of Munich“From pre-Petrine depictions of steppe dwellers to eighteenth-century categorizations of foreigners and non-Orthodox people, from Pushkin’s encounters with Circassians to imagined Crimean Tatars, from early photographs of the multi-ethnic Caucasus to zoomorphic depictions of the enemy around 1900—this book has it all. Starting in the sixteenth century, it provides a rich tableau of images and imaginations that populate the extensive canon of Russian perceptions of otherness, exoticism, xenophobia, and plain national stereotypes before 1917. At a time when Russian concepts of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ loom large again and dehumanization of the ethnic or religious other has become daily currency, this collection of articles provides historical depth to how Russianness was construed through the ages.”— Hubertus F. Jahn, Professor of the History of Russia and the Caucasus, University of Cambridge“Hegel wrote that subjective Spirit comes to recognize its existence outside itself by meeting itself in the minds of others. More recently, Axel Honneth has examined the construction of our social world as a sequence of recognition relations, often protracted and contentious, some achieving mutual recognition through the acceptance of difference and the according of respect, some refusing such recognition. This is one of the most important subjects for the writing of cultural history, and Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917 engages it directly. The book is impressive in its breadth: it deals with a half-millenium of the successive image construction of a wide range of peoples encountered in the course of expansion of the Russian Empire—Crimean Tatars, indigenous Siberians, Central Asian Turkic peoples, Caucasus mountaineers, the Jews, the political and racial ‘enemies’ of the late Empire (such as the Germans and the ‘Yellow Peril’). It is also attentive to the successive cultural and legal categories used to classify these Others (inozemtsy, inorodtsy, inovertsy), the interests such classification served, and how it shaped Imperial policy.”— Brian Davies, University of Texas at San AntonioTable of ContentsPrefaceKati Parppei and Bulat RakhimzianovIntroduction: Images, Otherness, and Images of the OthersKati Parppei and Bulat RakhimzianovPart One: Creating PrototypesSection SummaryDavid M. GoldfrankVarieties of Otherness in Ivan IV’s Muscovy: Relativity, Multiplicity, and AmbiguityCharles J. HalperinThe Depiction of “Us” and “Them” in the Illuminated Codex of the 1560s–1570s Jaakko LehtovirtaThe Image of the Other: The Perception of Tatars by Russian Intellectuals and Officials in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Chroniclers, Diplomats, Voivodes, and Writers)Maksim MoiseevFrom Inozemtsy to Inovertsy and Novokreshchenye: Images of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Russia Ricarda VulpiusPart Two: Categorizing the “Internal Others”Section SummaryMichael KhodarkovskyFrom “Sovereign’s Strangers” to “Our Savages”: Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia Yuri Akimov The Russians and the Oirats (Dzungars) in Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Contacts and Images of the “Other” in the Era of Empire BuildingVladimir Puzanov “In a Menagerie of Nations”: Crimean Others in Travelogues, c. 1800Nikita KhrapunovVisually Integrating the Other Within: Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1864–1915)Dominik Gutmeyr-SchnurPerception of Others within One Ethnic Minority: Jewish Ethnographic Studies in the Late Russian EmpireMarina ShcherbakovaPart Three: The Other in Times of Conflict and CrisisSection SummaryStephen M. Norris The Russian Imagological Bestiary: The Zoomorphic Image of the Enemy (“Other”) at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1905Anna Rezvukhina, Alena Rezvukhina, and Sergey Troitskiy Hungry and Different—“Otherness” in Imperial Famine Relief: 1891–1892Immo Rebitschek “Agitators and Spies”: The Enemy Image of Itinerant Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1899–1900 Johanna Wassholm The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906–1908) Oleg Minin The Construction of the Image of the “Other” in the Discussion of the “Yellow Peril”: Chinese People in Late Imperial RussiaAndrey Avdashkin “Own” and “Other”: Soldiers, Officers, and the Fatal Zigzags of the Russian Revolution in the Last Year of the Life of General L. G. Kornilov (1870–1918)Il'ia Rat'kovskiiContributors
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