From Neotraditionalism to Neofamilism

World Order after Leninism examines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. The lessons of Leninism continue to

Population and Environment

Social Dynamics of Scaling-Up Marine Protected Area Declarations and Management

Human-induced environmental disturbance – through fishery activities, coastal development, tourism and pollution – is a major challenge to the restoration and conservation of marine biodiversity. Synthesizing the latest research into

Sephardic Jews

Part of a five-volume series on ethnic groups around the world, Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia provides detailed descriptions of more than 100 European ethnic and national groups. Each

‘We are All Presidents’

These themes are especially important for understanding and evaluating the history of Latin America, where identities were forged out of the conflicts, negotiations, and intermixing of peoples from Europe, Africa,

Authenticating Indians and Movements

Ninety percent of the indigenous population in the Americas lives in the Andean and Mesoamerican nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala. Recently indigenous social movements in these countries

Ethnic Networks in Women’s Migration

All contributions to this book to this volume describe women as social actors within specific migration processes and point out women’s creativity in shaping migrant settings. This perspective counter-balances common

’On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents’

This volume expands the intellectual exchange between researchers working on the Holocaust and post-Holocaust life and North American sociologists working on collective memory, diaspora, transnationalism, and immigration. The collection is

Depopulation in the Southeast after 1492

This landmark book brings together diverse viewpoints of leading international anthropologists and demographers on the patterns of populations and disease in the Americas both before and after 1492.” “Recent demographic

Shipyard Women and the Politics of Gender

Explores gender, labor and class in Korea and Japan. This book focuses in particular on two forms of labor that have been crucial to understandings of gender, work and class