Sociology and Anthropology

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Updated June 29, 2025
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Supply Chain Justice : The Logistics of British Border Control
Bosworth, Mary.
Ebook
How the UK's immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK's fully outsourced "immigration detainee escorting system," private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national...
Class Dismissed : When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
Jack, Anthony Abraham.
Ebook
Urban Power : Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg
Bradlow, Benjamin H.
Ebook
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life--including...
Charm : How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics
Sonnevend, Julia.
Ebook
The utilization--and weaponization--of charm in contemporary global politics Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the...
Inheritance : The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
Whitehouse, Harvey.
Ebook
"An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity's evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures." --Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens The ancient inheritance that made us who we are--and is now driving us to ruin....
People, Power, Change : Organizing for Democratic Renewal
Ganz, Marshall.
Ebook
QUEER ARAB GLOSSARY
Paper Book
A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activists, The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind surveyof the linguistic landscape surrounding...
Resistance As Negotiation : Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India
Chandra, Uday.
Ebook
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Creating Meaning in Funerals : How Families and Communities Make Sense of Death
Hoy, William G.
Ebook
Intersectionality, Political Economy, and Media
Byerly, Carolyn M.
Ebook
ENDING THE PURSUIT: ASEXUALITY, AROMANTICISM & AGENDER IDENTITY
PARAMO, MICHAEL
Paper Book
A groundbreaking deep dive into the history, politics and lived experiences of three often-misunderstood identities: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender. How did asexual identity form? What is aromanticism? How does agender identity function? Researcher and writer...
Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization
Bates
Ebook
The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 320 - 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. Located at the cross-roads of Asia, in modern Pakistan and India, it encompassed ca. one million square kilometers, making it one the largest  and most ecologically, culturally,...
Our New Social Life : Science-Backed Strategies for Creating Meaningful Connection
Kerr, Natalie.
Ebook
Negotiating Migrations : The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility
Hofmann, Daniela
Ebook
As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great...
Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America
Joy M. Giguere
Ebook
At the Edge of AI : Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations
Veprek, LibuSe Hannah.
Ebook
How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuse Hannah Veprek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the...
The Fourth Invasion : Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala
Batz, Giovanni.
Ebook
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The...
From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
Paper Book
The Hour of Absinthe : A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink
Studer, Nina S.
Ebook
At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it was banned in 1915, the famous green fairy had become the green peril, feared for its connection with declining birth rates...
Oaths and Vows : Words As Genesis
Seligman, Adam B.
Ebook
Oaths, vows, promises, curses - all share family resemblances. They are performatives, carrying illocutionary force. Oaths have rightly been termed, "conditional self-curses", promises have been argued to be but a more developed form of vows, and oaths and vows are often used interchangeably....
Theories of Alienation : From Rousseau to the Present
Henning, Christoph.
Ebook

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