Philippe Fontaine & Jefferson D. Pooley 
Society on the Edge [EPUB ebook] 
Social Science and Public Policy in the Postwar United States

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 …

Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind. Why, then, have ‘hate crimes’ only recently become recog-nized as a serious social pro …

This handbook brings together the expertise of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to offer a comprehensive overview of issues surrounding the well-being, self-determination and sustainability of …

From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords , a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade. Guns from America reach more …

As the fear of violent crime escalates, there are calls for the police to carry guns. This examination of the history of violent crime and violence against the representatives of law and order looks …

The home is, for many people, the location for their most intense relationships with visual things. Because they are constructed through the objects we choose, domestic spaces are deeply revealing of …

Mobile Citizenship addresses the crucial question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship. Engaging with debates on transnationalism, citizenship, and lifestyle migration, the book draws on ethnogra …

One of the problems facing Europe is that the building of institutional Europe and top-down efforts to get Europeans to imagine their common identity do not necessarily result in political and cultur …

In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and priv …

In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation on …