Sociology: customs & traditions books

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Good Intentions in Global Health: Medical Missions, Emotion, and Health Care across Borders

Good Intentions in Global Health: Medical Missions,...

Author: Nicole S. Berry
ISBN: 9781479825363
Format: Hardback
$193.00

"""Good Intentions in Global Health is an engaging ethnography of the world of DIY global health. It argues that...  Read More >>

Recording State Rites in Words and Images: Uigwe of Joseon Korea

Recording State Rites in Words and Images: Uigwe of...

Author: Yi Song-mi
ISBN: 9780691973906
Format: Hardback
$135.00

A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon...  Read More >>

The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day

The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling...

Author: Stan Grant
ISBN: 9781460764039
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Exhibiting Jewish Culinary Culture

Exhibiting Jewish Culinary Culture

Author: András Koerner
ISBN: 9789633867204
Format: Paperback
$54.21

"András Koerner is the author of a number of critically acclaimed, award-winning CEU Press titles on the cultural...  Read More >>

Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging

Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National...

Author: Tonya K. Davidson
ISBN: 9781771126021
Format: Paperback
$81.40

Considers monuments in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, as actors participating in dynamic city life rather than objects...  Read More >>

The Anthropology of Digital Practices: Dispatches from the Online Culture Wars

The Anthropology of Digital Practices: Dispatches from...

Author: John Postill
ISBN: 9781032370828
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects digital ethnography, causal ethnography and media practice theory...  Read More >>

Beer: A Global Journey through the Past and Present

Beer: A Global Journey through the Past and Present...

Author: John W. Arthur (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, The University of South Florida)
ISBN: 9780197776988
Format: Paperback
$31.95

This unique book is an exciting global journey into the origins, technologies, and recipes of ancient beer as well...  Read More >>

The Anthropology of Digital Practices: Dispatches from the Online Culture Wars

The Anthropology of Digital Practices: Dispatches from...

Author: John Postill
ISBN: 9781032370842
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects digital ethnography, causal ethnography and media practice theory...  Read More >>

Studies in Religion and the Everyday

Studies in Religion and the Everyday

Author: Farhana Ibrahim (Professor, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
ISBN: 9780198902782
Format: Hardback
$230.95

Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays that address the contours of religious beliefs and...  Read More >>

History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians

History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians...

Author: H B Cushman
ISBN: 9781639142002
Format: Paperback
$118.80

By: H.B. Cushman, Pub. 1899, reprinted 2024, 504 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-200-2. The author spent years visiting...  Read More >>

Medieval Fare: Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia

Medieval Fare: Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia

Author: Martha M. Daas
ISBN: 9781498589611
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This study examines food in the Middle Ages. The author analyzes its preparation, consumption, and cultural significance...  Read More >>

Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization

Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa:...

Author: Toyin Falola ,  Céline A. Jacquemin
ISBN: 9781666917949
Format: Paperback
$72.99

This book interrogates how identities are politicized, transformed, and mobilized throughout the African continent...  Read More >>

Hijaab - Islam ka intizaami Hukm

Hijaab - Islam ka intizaami Hukm

Author: Ghazi Abdul Rahman Qasmi
ISBN: 9789358727708
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Creative Practice as a Way of Life: After Barthes

Creative Practice as a Way of Life: After Barthes

Author: Eddie Tay
ISBN: 9783031522505
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between...  Read More >>

Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene

Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant...

Author: Kelly Dombroski
ISBN: 9781517901608
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Examining the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices, Caring for Life is a call to action, a...  Read More >>

India Social Development Report 2023

India Social Development Report 2023

Author: Indira Hirway (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Centre For Development AlternativesProfessor of Economics, Centre For Development Alternatives)
ISBN: 9780198885979
Format: Paperback
$195.95

This report highlights that gender inequalities and women's subordination in India are caused by two formidable...  Read More >>

Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora

Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino...

Author: Sharon M. Quinsaat
ISBN: 9780226831688
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack

Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the...

Author: Bethany Morris (Point Park University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032110417
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through...  Read More >>

The Book of Hallowe'en

The Book of Hallowe'en

Author: Ruth Edna Kelley
ISBN: 9798869192875
Format: Paperback
$31.68

. ..is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, [and] how it absorbed some...  Read More >>

Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel: The Homeland Postponed

Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel: The Homeland...

Author: Tanya Schwarz
ISBN: 9781138969025
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, a few years after their migration from rural Ethiopia...  Read More >>

Japanese Ikat Weaving: The Techniques of Kasuri

Japanese Ikat Weaving: The Techniques of Kasuri

Author: Jun Tomita ,  Noriko Tomita
ISBN: 9781032642796
Format: Hardback
$158.00

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Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora

Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino...

Author: Sharon M. Quinsaat
ISBN: 9780226831664
Format: Hardback
$207.00

Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests....  Read More >>

Dissection Photography: Cadavers, Abjection, and the Formation of Identity

Dissection Photography: Cadavers, Abjection, and the...

Author: Brandon Zimmerman (Exhibit Developer, Designer, Curator and Consultant)
ISBN: 9781529222180
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Featuring previously unseen images, stories and anecdotes, this book explores the visual culture of death and the...  Read More >>

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