By: Craig Calhoun (New York University), Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York, Stony Brook) and Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653273, Pub Date RoW Jun 2013, Pub Date Aus Jun 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653266, Pub Date RoW Jun 2013, Pub Date Aus Jun 2013

Description: To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence ...

By: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) and Leonidas Donskis
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662756, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Mar 2013, Pub Date Aus Mar 2013
E-book, ISBN: 9780745669625, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the eve...

By: Marcel Fournier (University of Montreal)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646459, Pub Date US Nov 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2012, Pub Date Aus Dec 2012

Description: This book will become the standard work on the life and thought of Émile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim ...

By: Alexandra Howson
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745654416, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745664002, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. T...

By: Amy E. Guptill (The College at Brockport, SUNY), Denise A. Copelton (The College at Brockport, SUNY) and Betsy Lucal (Indiana University South Bend)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642826, Pub Date US Dec 2012, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642819, Pub Date US Dec 2012, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012

Description: This timely and engaging text offers students a social perspective on food, food practices, and the modern food system. It engages readers’ c...

By: Daniel Miller (University College London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661087, Pub Date US Aug 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745661506, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a cons...

By: Michel Wieviorka (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653938, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653921, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012

Description: In contrast to traditional systems of thought which regarded evil as a supernatural force that explained human misfortune, Michel Wieviorka develop...

By: Frederick F. Wherry (University of Michigan)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647456, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647449, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011

Description: What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations? What explains the different labor market outco...

By: Jean-Claude Kaufmann
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651545, Pub Date US Dec 2011, Pub Date RoW Nov 2011, Pub Date Aus Nov 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651538, Pub Date US Dec 2011, Pub Date RoW Nov 2011, Pub Date Aus Nov 2011

Description: The one emotion that matters most to many people is the one about which social thinkers rarely speak - love. For many people, love is the thing that ...

By: Henrietta L. Moore (Cambridge University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636467, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636450, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011

Description: How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us t...

By: Melissa Gregg
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650289, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Aug 2011, Pub Date Aus Aug 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650272, Pub Date US Sep 2011, Pub Date RoW Aug 2011, Pub Date Aus Aug 2011

Description: This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between ...

By: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) and Lydia Bauman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653556, Pub Date US Jul 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653549, Pub Date US Jul 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011

Description: In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people...

By: Paul Scheffer (University of Amsterdam)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649627, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649610, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011

Description: This book is a major reassessment of how immigration is changing our world. The policies of multiculturalism that were implemented in the wake of pos...

By: Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) and Keith Hart (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644837, Pub Date US Mar 2011, Pub Date RoW Feb 2011, Pub Date Aus Feb 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644820, Pub Date US Mar 2011, Pub Date RoW Feb 2011, Pub Date Aus Feb 2011

Description: This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologi...

By: Alexandra Ouroussoff (Brunel University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644189, Pub Date US Oct 2010, Pub Date RoW Sep 2010, Pub Date Aus Sep 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745658698, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: 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 ...

By: Daniel Miller (UCL)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644240, Pub Date US Dec 2009, Pub Date RoW Oct 2009, Pub Date Aus Oct 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654966, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of mater...

By: Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646978, Pub Date US Aug 2009, Pub Date RoW Jul 2009, Pub Date Aus Jul 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745675497, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend...

By: Daniel Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644042, Pub Date US Jul 2009, Pub Date RoW May 2009, Pub Date Aus May 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644035, Pub Date US Jul 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008

Description: What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book v...

By: Robert Ross (University of Leiden)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631875, Pub Date US Jul 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745631868, Pub Date US Jul 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008

Description: In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compell...

By: Michel Agier
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640525, Pub Date US Jun 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640518, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008

Description: Fifty million people in the world today are victims of forced relocation caused by wars and violence. Whole new countries are being created, occupied...

By: Abdellah Hammoudi (University of Princeton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745637891, Pub Date RoW Jan 2006, Pub Date Aus Jan 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745637884, Pub Date RoW Jan 2006, Pub Date Aus Jan 2006

Description: In 1999, the Moroccan scholar Abdellah Hammoudi, trained in Paris and teaching in America, decided to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. He wanted to obs...

By: Christopher M. Hutton (University of Hong Kong)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631776, Pub Date US Dec 2005, Pub Date RoW Sep 2005, Pub Date Aus Sep 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745631769, Pub Date US Sep 2005, Pub Date RoW Jul 2005, Pub Date Aus Jul 2005

Description: Race and the Third Reich aims to set out the key concepts, debates and controversies that marked the academic study of race in Nazi Germany. It looks...

By: Wolfgang Behringer (University of York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745627182, Pub Date US Sep 2004, Pub Date RoW Jul 2004, Pub Date Aus Jul 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745627175, Pub Date US Sep 2004, Pub Date RoW Jul 2004, Pub Date Aus Jul 2004

Description: In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropologica...

By: Abdelmalek Sayad (Algerian Sociologist and Director of Research at CNRS (National Centre for Sociological Research) ), Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France) and David Macey
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626437, Pub Date US Mar 2004, Pub Date RoW Jan 2004, Pub Date Aus Jan 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626420, Pub Date US Mar 2004, Pub Date RoW Jan 2004, Pub Date Aus Jan 2004

Description: This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of th...

By: David Inglis (University of Aberdeen) and John Hughson (University of Wolverhampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625621, Pub Date US Oct 2003, Pub Date RoW Aug 2003, Pub Date Aus Aug 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625614, Pub Date US Oct 2003, Pub Date RoW Aug 2003, Pub Date Aus Aug 2003

Description: Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible discussion and analysis of the complex field of the sociology of culture, and how it compares with ...

Edited by: David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science)
By: David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631356, Pub Date US Aug 2003, Pub Date RoW May 2003,

Description: The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the ce...

By: Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester) and Rupert Read (University of Manchester)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619293, Pub Date US Oct 2002, Pub Date RoW Sep 2002, Pub Date Aus Sep 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619286, Pub Date US Oct 2002, Pub Date RoW Sep 2002, Pub Date Aus Sep 2002

Description: Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field of intellectual inquiry. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has become a modern clas...

By: Mary Hamer (Harvard University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624167, Pub Date US May 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745624150, Pub Date US Aug 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002

Description: In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She pla...

By: Stephen M. Whitehead (University of Keele)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624679, Pub Date US Apr 2002, Pub Date RoW Mar 2002, Pub Date Aus Mar 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745624662, Pub Date US Apr 2002, Pub Date RoW Mar 2002, Pub Date Aus Mar 2002

Description: Men and Masculinities is one of the most comprehensive texts ever published on the sociology of masculinity. Wide-ranging and accessible, it consider...

By: Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin) and Allan Cameron
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623870, Pub Date US Jun 2001, Pub Date RoW May 2001, Pub Date Aus May 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745623863, Pub Date US Jun 2001, Pub Date RoW May 2001, Pub Date Aus May 2001

Description: This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccu...

By: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622651, Pub Date RoW Apr 2001, Pub Date Aus Apr 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622644, Pub Date RoW Apr 2001, Pub Date Aus Apr 2001

Description: Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectat...

By: Don Slater (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620275, Pub Date US Feb 2001, Pub Date RoW Nov 2000, Pub Date Aus Nov 2000

Description: Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets ...

By: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620152, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW Jun 2000, Pub Date Aus Jun 2000
E-book, ISBN: 9780745668642, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture ...

By: Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Manchester)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745614311, Pub Date US Feb 2000, Pub Date RoW Dec 1999, Pub Date Aus Dec 1999

Description: This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe....

By: Johan Pottier (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615349, Pub Date US Aug 1999, Pub Date RoW Jun 1999, Pub Date Aus Jun 1999

Description: In this new book, Pottier provides an incisive account of food production and famine in the world today. Drawing on the work of anthropologists and o...

By: Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621975, Pub Date US Nov 1998, Pub Date RoW Sep 1998, Pub Date Aus Sep 1998

Description: This is a concise and elegant account of the eating and drinking habits of the upper classes in the eighteenth century....

By: Ray Abrahams (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616384, Pub Date RoW Jul 1998, Pub Date Aus Jul 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616377, Pub Date RoW Jul 1998, Pub Date Aus Jul 1998

Description: Vigilantes operate in the shadows rather than the bright lights of mainstream political consensus. They have arisen at many times in different region...

By: Daniel Miller (Professor of Anthropology, UCL)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619460, Pub Date RoW Apr 1998, Pub Date Aus Apr 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619453, Pub Date RoW Apr 1998, Pub Date Aus Apr 1998

Description: A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping i...

By: Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745608884, Pub Date RoW Dec 1995, Pub Date Aus Dec 1995

Description: In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe.The Land of Hunger is a graphic and engagi...

By: Henrietta L. Moore (Cambridge University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613086, Pub Date RoW Oct 1994, Pub Date Aus Oct 1994

Description: In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about s...

By: Henrietta L. Moore (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745601137, Pub Date RoW Sep 1988, Pub Date Aus Sep 1988

Description: This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and bala...