Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate ...

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies ...

Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances ...

Extensive social science research, particularly by anthropologists, has explored women's reproductive lives, their use of reproductive technologies ...

In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies, there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people, how and why they eat what ...

There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject ...

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination ...

Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity ...

The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained ...

Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include ...