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Seeking Allah's Hierarchy
Caste, Labor, and Islam in India
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828498
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
252 Pages
Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy probes the existence of hierarchical practices prevalent among Muslims, focusing on Muslim barbers and their work relations in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. It complicates the question of “caste” by showcasing the specificity of hierarchical practices among Muslims, despite the egalitarianism of their religion.
The Social Philosophers
Community and Conflict in Western Thought
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781606180389
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
The Social Philosophers argues that Western social philosophy emerged during the disintegration of the ancient Greek and Roman communities. Robert Nisbet contends that Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality take on their distinctive character as aspects of humankind’s search for community.
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Japan, Making Meaningful Lives provides an intimate anthropological account of the existential concerns of elderly Japanese women and men.
Seeking Allah's Hierarchy
Caste, Labor, and Islam in India
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512828498
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
252 Pages
Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy probes the existence of hierarchical practices prevalent among Muslims, focusing on Muslim barbers and their work relations in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. It complicates the question of “caste” by showcasing the specificity of hierarchical practices among Muslims, despite the egalitarianism of their religion.
The Social Philosophers
Community and Conflict in Western Thought
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781606180389
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
440 Pages
The Social Philosophers argues that Western social philosophy emerged during the disintegration of the ancient Greek and Roman communities. Robert Nisbet contends that Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality take on their distinctive character as aspects of humankind’s search for community.
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Japan, Making Meaningful Lives provides an intimate anthropological account of the existential concerns of elderly Japanese women and men.