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  • Hate Crime in India

    Understanding Nuanced Discrimination Against North-Eastern Population

    by G. S. Bajpai, Garima Pal, Tusha Singh, Advait Tambe ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book investigates perceptions against the people of north-east India, and why such prejudicial attitude exists. It subsequently quantifies and develops measures to counter such stereotypes and affiliated violence.This research examines the north-east Indian population’s and the general Indian population’s understanding of hate crime against the north-eastern population in metropolitan cities ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Sociology for Nurses

    by Shama Lohumi ...
    Brief yet containing the whole of the INC-prescribed syllabus, this book primarily aims at catering to the curricular needs of B.Sc. nursing students. It will, however, be of immense use for the GNM students and the degree students of various streams studying sociology. - Written with a view to fulfil the requirement of student nurses. - Includes substantially new approaches/aspects on the various ... Read more

    $5.07 USD

  • The Return of Polyandry

    Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

    by Heidi E. Fjeld ...
    Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan communities. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in ... Read more

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  • Buddhism in Canada

    Edited by Bruce Matthews ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Buddhism has become a major religion in Canada over the last half-century. The 'ethnic Buddhism' associated with immigrant Asian people is the most important aspect, but there is also a growing constituency of Euro-Canadian Buddhists seriously interested in the faith. This insightful study analyzes the phenomenon of Buddhism in Canada from a regional perspective. The work provides an important ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Heart of Helambu

    Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal

    by Tom O'Neill ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times.In his autoethnographic memoir, O’Neill reflects ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Challenges and Innovations

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    by Lalit K. Bansa ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    tourism and hospitality industry in the development of economies, employment generation, entrepreneurship and skill development, strengthening of culture, contribution for infrastructural development, cementing of international relations and enhancement of our environment, this book is dedicated to address a wide vista of tourism related issues that rightly acknowledge the importance of this ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • India's Middle Class

    New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity

    by Christiane Brosius ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India.Rich in ethnographic material, the work is based on empirical case-studies, research material, and illustrations. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India

    The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Colonial and Post-colonial Society

    by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Ambivalent Encounters

    Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India

    by Jenny Huberman ...
    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningful ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Places in Knots

    Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond

    by Martin Saxer ...
    Tracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping their communities tied together. Martin Saxer describes global Himalayan ventures as a form of expansion of community rather than out-migration. Moving out does not sever the bonds of community. ... Read more

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  • The Rebirth of Bodh Gaya

    Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site

    by David Geary, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Padma Kaimal, Anand A. Yang ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small town based on an agricultural economy to an international destination that attracts hundreds of thousands ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Decolonizing Psychology

    Globalization, Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities

    by Sunil Bhatia ...
    Series series Explorations in Narrative Psychology
    In recent years, the news media has directed a significant amount of attention to the effect of globalization on the second most populous nation in the world: India. With the emergence of new economic opportunities and the influx of foreign popular culture and commodities, India has experienced an enormous sea of change in the last few decades. In Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization, Social ... Read more

    $72.89 USD