Cultural

Extensively based on fieldwork material, From Tapas to Modern Yoga primarily analyses embodied practices of ascetics belonging to four religious orders hist...

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change fro...

Defective Institutions overturns the basis of institutionalism. Faith in classic institutions―exposed as clamorously inadequate by the failure of governan...

The 28th Governor General's most personal and timely book to date: a passionate and practical guide for turning empathy into action.\As the world stumbles t...

This bestselling intercultural communication text gives readers an understanding and appreciation of different cultures and helps them develop practical ski...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

Argues That American Children Are Deprived Of Cultural Literacy. Literacy And Cultural Literacy -- The Discovery Of The Schema -- National Language And Nati...

*A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for d...

Most scholars and practitioners are now agreed that the world is on the threshold of a completely new era in the history of development. This Reader bring...

attempting To Understand Behavior Under The Influence Of Alcohol Must Take Into Account Cultures, Attitudes, Social Meanings, And A Host Of Other Factors Th...

What makes the Frisians FRISIAN: A guide to understanding the Frisians with illuminating insights into their character and quirks with humour and style.Cate...

J.K. Rowling`s universally popular books have been read and enjoyed by millions of readers. The newly designed 'Signature' livery will appeal to the next ge...

By Robin Flower ; With Ill. By Ida M. Flower.Categories: Travel Europe IrelandGeneral

Brilliant range is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch socer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose l...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down ...

A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical...

how Do Imperceptibly Small Differences In The Environment Change One's Behavior? What Is The Anatomy Of A Bad Mood? Does Stress Shrink Our Brains? What Do...

At 30 Years Old, Outwardly Thriving But Unfulfilled Inside, Howes Began A Personal Journey To Find Inner Peace And To Uncover The Many Masks That Men, Both ...

The shocking treatise that was a bestselling international media sensation upon its 2007 publication in France now makes its eagerly anticipated English-lan...

David Johnston.Categories: Science & MathEvolution

In This Groundbreaking And Timely Book, Antiracist Educator Robin Diangelo Deftly Illuminates The Phenomenon Of White Fragility. Referring To The Defensive ...

Cats are incredible creatures: they can eat practically anything and live almost anywhere. Tracing their rise from prehistory to the modern cat craze, Abiga...

Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through sha...

Consisting Of Over One Hundred Interviews Conducted With Everyone From Gravediggers To Studio Heads, This Book Provides A Snapshot Of People's Feelings Abou...

In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice—whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action—provokes more noisy name...

Now a New York Times bestseller We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal conn...

Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on 'flexibility' in c...

From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual mov...

memory Is As Central To Modern Politics As Politics Is Central To Modern Memory. We Are So Accustomed To Living In A Forest Of Monuments, To Having The Pas...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that...

" International indigenism" may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism. In his fluent and ...

From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle class—defined as those with a house,...

What do we really mean by phrases such as western Canadian political culture, the centrist political culture of Ontario, Red Toryism in the Maritimes, or P...

Lucid And Accessible, What Is Anthropology? Draws Examples From Current Affairs As Well As Previous Anthropological Studies. Eriksen Looks At The History Of...

Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico contains a remarkable set of Ancestral Puebloan buildings. Occupied between AD 850 and 1150, Chaco appears to have b...

Updated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender r...

An Ideal Core Text For Introductory Courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Second Edition, Offers An Accessible And Contemporary Overview Of...

Drawing Material From Dozens Of Divided Societies, This Text Constructs A Theory Of Ethnic Conflict, Relating Ethnic Affiliations To Kinship And Intergroup ...

Tom Boellstorff Conducted More Than Two Years Of Fieldwork In Second Life, Living Among And Observing Its Residents. He Conducted His Research In Exactly Th...

in This Original And Meticulous Work Of Historical Ethnography, Janice Boddy Deftly Offers An Acute Analysis Of Imperial Ambition And The Gendering Of Pol...

North American cities of the late nineteenth century, grappling with the effects of industrial capitalism and urban growth, were subject to a succession of...

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories ...

This Book Provides A Cultural, Political, And Social Survey Through The Most American Of Pastimes That Continues To Thrive Today. With Narrative, Accessible...

Few people can point to Okinawa on a map, yet this tiny island sitting between China and Japan was and continues to be one of the most crucial Asian nerve c...

"Belcher’s volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that ...

Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston i...

Thrown Is Kerry Howley's Masterful Debut. A Work Of Rigorous Nonfiction That's Sure To Be Branded Experimental, But That's As Involving And Page-turning As ...

A comprehensive ethnography of one of the few remaining hunting and gathering peoples of Southeast Asia, The Headman Was a Woman presents the gender concept...