Anthropology

This book explores how generations of caste prejudice have impacted the health of India’s Hadi Caste. It examines their occupations, customs, and social interactions to reveal the deep link between the community’s socio-cultural life and their well-being.

This book reveals how Australia’s asylum seeker policy plays out on Christmas Island. It examines how islanders responded to strangers in need and provides insights into why humans help or turn them away, encouraging a future of hope and solidarity over border deaths.

This book explores women, social and cultural change in twentieth-century Ireland. The interdisciplinary work gathered here challenges monolithic representations of Irish female identity, exposing women’s disparate backgrounds and varied experiences.

This 15-year study destroys the clichés of creative processes and inaugurates a reflective sociology on serendipity. By surveying 200 techniques, it presents common meta-rules of opposition, combination, and separation that determine creative behavior.

A Siberian indigenous poet, reindeer herder, and activist chose to live in the forest, where he fought an oil giant to save his way of life. These essays explore his native spirituality, his struggle, and a new vision for indigenous leadership in post-Soviet Russia.

This book uniquely explores clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural perspective. It covers topics from personality disorders and suicide to cultural emotions and dream interpretation, offering vital insights for psychologists and culture enthusiasts alike.

This book discusses key problems in contemporary social-scientific theory, focusing on fundamental contradictions in concepts like social action, institutions, and systems. Despite dealing with abstract problems, the book’s argument is clear, accessible, and understandable.