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Originally published in 1960, this book is a study of religion among the Tlhaping, a rural Bantu society who were the first among the Tswana tribes to come into contact with Europeans. The religious …

Friction is what keeps us from realizing our goals. It is what compromises all of our plans, sometimes making them unrecognizable. It defies our wish for perfection and constantly surprises us with n …

Praise for Fast Food, Fast Track ‘A fine ethnography with both theoretical and advocative significance, representing the best qualitative sociology.’ — Choice ‘Explores the intimate realities and beh …

For more than two thousand years Christian expansion and proselytizing was couched in terms of ”defending the faith”. Until recently in the United States, much of that defense came in the form of r …

In Betrayals and Treason Nachman Ben-Yehuda identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty and charts the different manifestations and constructions of these vi …

Status, Power, and Legitimacy presents methodological, theoretical, and empirical essays by Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr.—two of the leading contributors to the Stanford tradition in the stu …

This is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations–the United States, Sweden, and England. The author focuses on how environment and culture interact to …

Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of ‘warfare’ between sci …

This book discusses more general consideration of marginalized urban spaces and peoples around the globe. It considers the question: Is the formation and later dissolution of the Jewish ghetto an app …

This is Volume IV in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1947, in this study is an attempt to sum up the lessons offered by co-operative communities of …