Sociology: customs & traditions books

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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 >>

Maps of Sorrow – Migration and Music in the Construction of Precolonial AfroAsia

Maps of Sorrow – Migration and Music in the Construction...

Author: Ari Sitas ,  Sumangala Damodaran
ISBN: 9788195055999
Format: Hardback
$62.95

This book takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems,...  Read More >>

Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes from al-Andalus and al-Maghrib: A Cookbook by Thirteenth-Century Andalusi Scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (1227–1293): English Translation with Introduction and Glossary

Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes from al-Andalus...

Author: Nawal Nasrallah
ISBN: 9789004688377
Format: Paperback
$155.76

The thirteenth-century cookbook Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʿām wa-l-alwān by the Andalusi scholar Ibn Razīn...  Read More >>

Origin & Meaning of Apple Cults

Origin & Meaning of Apple Cults

Author: J Rendel Harris
ISBN: 9781608642694
Format: Paperback
$28.91

J. Rendel Harris was a noted turn of the last century textual and Biblical scholar. In this historically significant...  Read More >>

Why We Love Beer: All You Need to Know about Beer History, Flavors, Types of Beer, and More

Why We Love Beer: All You Need to Know about Beer History,...

Author: Fabio Petroni ,  Pietro Fontana
ISBN: 9798874696962
Format: Audio
$110.85

A beer-making book for hop lovers everywhere. So many people enjoy beer, but little do they know about the beer...  Read More >>

Why We Love Beer: All You Need to Know about Beer History, Flavors, Types of Beer, and More

Why We Love Beer: All You Need to Know about Beer History,...

Author: Fabio Petroni ,  Pietro Fontana
ISBN: 9798874696955
Format: Audio
$84.45

A beer-making book for hop lovers everywhere. So many people enjoy beer, but little do they know about the beer...  Read More >>

Bayou Harvest: Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana

Bayou Harvest: Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana...

Author: Helen A. Regis ,  Shana Walton
ISBN: 9781496849069
Format: Hardback
$159.50

To inhabitants of the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana, food is much more than nourishment. The acts of gathering,...  Read More >>

Eats: The Shocking Secret History of Food and Eating

Eats: The Shocking Secret History of Food and Eating...

Author: Val Kerin
ISBN: 9798879952681
Format: Paperback
$71.20

Eats is a fun, funny, sometimes scandalous romp through the history of food and eating. It's a witty, irreverent,...  Read More >>

The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place

The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal...

Author: Michael Dolan
ISBN: 9781504090483
Format: Paperback
$52.77

A fascinating look at an American institution-a place where public life meets private.  Read More >>

The Old Faith and the Russian Land

The Old Faith and the Russian Land

Author: Douglas Rogers ,  Polina Shubina
ISBN: 9798887195025
Format: Hardback
$118.80

ENGThe Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice...  Read More >>

The Caravan Route Between Egypt and Syria

The Caravan Route Between Egypt and Syria

Author: Ludwig Salvator
ISBN: 9791041984619
Format: Paperback
$36.96

One of the Suez Canal Company's tugs soon took us down the canal from Ismailia to El Kantara (the bridge), where...  Read More >>

Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: A Comparative Ethnography of Muslim Urban Life in Copenhagen and Montreal

Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: A Comparative Ethnography...

Author: Amani Hassani (Brunel University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032279268
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is a comparative ethnography of racialisation, class, and gender in the lives of young Muslims coming...  Read More >>

Cultural Kaleidoscope: Diversity And Inclusivity

Cultural Kaleidoscope: Diversity And Inclusivity

Author: Rayan Musk
ISBN: 9787157313535
Format: Paperback
$89.76

"The figurative term ""Social Kaleidoscope"" distinctively catches the embodiment of a general public enhanced by...  Read More >>

You Are Not Alone: a new way to grieve

You Are Not Alone: a new way to grieve

Author: Cariad Lloyd
ISBN: 9781526621870
Format: Paperback
$22.99

NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ‘Full of sense, heart and hope . . . the friend you need...  Read More >>

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Author: Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN: 9781434105424
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Combines the two volumes of a work that first appeared in 1894. This book intends to take the reader into a world...  Read More >>

On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City

On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City

Author: John D. Boy (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Leiden University) ,  Justus Uitermark (Professor of Urban Geography, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9780197629444
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the...  Read More >>

Mega Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis for An Epistemological Foresight

Mega Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship:...

Author: Naomi C. Hanakata ,  Filippo Bignami
ISBN: 9780367625733
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally. It takes...  Read More >>

“Weltbeziehung”: The Study of our Relationship to the World

“Weltbeziehung”: The Study of our Relationship to the...

Author: Bettina Hollstein ,  Harmut Rosa
ISBN: 9783593518206
Format: Paperback
$74.95

"An interdisciplinary explication of the theory of ""Weltbeziehung"" or ""relationship to the world."" Human beings...  Read More >>

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