University Of Toronto Press Higher Education Division: 213 books
Human Rights
Current Issues and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments—provincial, national, and international—which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving...
A Good Book, In Theory
Making Sense Through Inquiry, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This highly original and compelling book offers an introduction to the art and science of social inquiry, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry. The new edition offers coverage of post-modernism and Indigenous ways of knowing, as well as a discussion of...
The Democratic Imagination
Envisioning Popular Power in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Democracy is very much an open question in the early twenty-first century. While voter participation declines in many traditional democracies, new movements for democracy are emerging around the world. This book brings the question of democracy out of the halls of political power and home to our daily...
Global Issues
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Global Issues is a pedagogically rich text that offers a unique way of looking at contemporary issues, such as food security and global conflict, from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. By exploring each issue in depth, students gain an applied understanding of more abstract concepts...
by James W. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
On August 13, 1521, the largest and most developed of North America's societies, the Aztec empire, fell to Spanish invaders who, along with later European colonizers, built new societies in which they occupied the dominant class positions and forced Indians, imported African slaves, and Asians into...
Fields of Play
An Ethnography of Children's Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Thousands of children participate in community sports every year, enjoying recreation time with their peers, getting healthy exercise, and learning a variety of personal and group skills. At the same time, children's sports are not without controversy: parents can be overly invested in their children's...
Practicing Ethnography
A Student Guide to Method and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Building on the "studying up" trend in anthropology, this book offers a theoretically informed guide to ethnographic methods that is also practical in approach, and reflects the challenges and concerns of contemporary ethnography. Students draw from vignettes situated within North America...
Digital Mosaic
Media, Power, and Identity in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge. Traditional media, including newspapers and conventional TV networks, remain the primary link to Canada's political sphere but are under concerted...
Ancestral Lines
The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind....
by Wendy Chan, Dorothy Chunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot. In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized, as well as the ways in which the Canadian criminal justice system is racialized. Employing an intersectional...
Posthumanism
Anthropological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were...
Sources for the History of Western Civilization, Volume I
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents without unnecessary editorial intervention.
Volume I begins in the second millennium BC with The Descent of Ishtar and ends...
Love Stories
Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to marriage. On the other hand, they were...
Governance and Public Policy in Canada
A View from the Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Governance and Public Policy in Canada lays the foundation for a systematic analysis of policy developments, shaped as they are by multiple players, institutional tensions, and governance legacies. Arguing that provinces are now the most central site of governance and policy innovation, the book assesses...