Sosiologia ja antropologia

Mitä ihmiselle tapahtuu kuoleman jälkeen? Jatkuuko elämä toisella tasolla vai sammuuko kaikki sillä hetkellä kun ruumiin elolliset toiminnat lakkaavat? Toimittaja ja kirjailija …

This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first …

I was called to flying-foxes. My research questions led me into multispecies ethnographic work involving wildlife carers and academically trained scientists in eastern Australia. …

We all want more free time. But do we know how to use it?'Illuminating and thought-provoking' Darian Leader'I feel renewed and accompanied by Singh's tender self-explorations and …

A landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the WestThe idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely …

‘Fabulous.’ Dan Richards, author of Holloway ‘Terrifically strange and thrilling.’ Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley 'A modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of …

Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back …

Hyvinvointi on eräs yhteiskuntatieteen ja -politiikan avainkäsitteistä, mutta sitä lähestytään useilla eri tavoilla. Hyvinvointi-teoksessa kartoitetaan hyvinvointitutkimuksen …

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a …

'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the …