Sociology: customs & traditions books

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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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists

All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming...

Author: Caitlin Petre
ISBN: 9780691254937
Format: Paperback
$39.99

"Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares....  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 >>

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 >>

A Little Bit of Heaven: An Irish American Anthology

A Little Bit of Heaven: An Irish American Anthology...

Author: Sean McMahon
ISBN: 9781781178836
Format: Paperback
$44.85

This nostalgic collection of Irish ballads and poems celebrates the rich history and culture of the Irish-American...  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 >>

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 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 >>

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