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  • Mardi Gras Indians

    by Michael Smith ...
    A sociological study of the African American carnival revelers in New Orleans who dress in Native American-influenced costumes.One of the most dazzling elements of the Mardi Gras celebrations, the Mardi Gras Indians receive the attention and respect of carnival-goers for their elaborately beaded costumes and entertaining dances. But what few realize about the groups is that the parading is more ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • GYPSY SORCERY and FORTUNE TELLING: Illustrated by incantations specimens of medical magic anecdotes Tales

    The Gypsi people are an ethnic group with origins in South Asia. Now officially called the Romani people are a widely dispersed ethnic group with the largest concentrated populations in Europe especially Romania and other Eastern European countries. Worldwide there is an estimated population of at least 15 million Roma or Gypsi. The author studied under those who knew and practiced the "Ancient ... Read more

    $6.45 USD

  • Art, Life & Nature in Japan

    The artistic and philosophical heritage of Japan has a special meaning for the modern world. During the present century, Japanese thought and Japanese art have exerted a strong influence on the western mind. Art, Life, and Nature in Japan takes us to the roots of Japanese culture and the origins of this influence.In this brief but deeply meaningful book Masaharu Anesaki provides a panoramic view ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Indians of Canada

    Series series Heritage
    First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social and political organization, social life, religion, folklore and traditions, and drama, music, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Curses! Broiled Again!

    From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends.Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard—or you yourself may have told—two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection.Urban ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rainy days in Texas funbook

    This book was designed with the children of Texas in mind. Kid tested and guaranteed to please, this book is a true adventure that will provide hours of educational fun for any little Texan, especially on those days when mother nature doesn't cooperate enough for outdoor play.All of the activities can be completed with materials found around the house. Projects include board games, an exciting ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Rebirth of Anthropological Theory

    Series series Heritage
    Innovative and often controversial, Barrett's study ranges over the entire scope of anthropological theory. It provides a fresh interpretation of the history of theory and mounts an alternative perspective, built around dialectics, that is eminently suitable to post-colonial anthropology.He argues that anthropological theory has failed to be cumulative. It has been characterized by oscillation and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Aller Retour New York: Essay (New Directions Revived Modern Classics)

    by Henry Miller ...
    Series Book 0 - New Directions Revived Modern Classics
    Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939).Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Miller always said that his best writing was in his letters, and this unbuttoned ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte

    Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession

    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on local forms of religious and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Food and Society

    A Sociological Approach

    The importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world.Organized from the experiences of food consumption through its preparation, distribution, storage ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Common Places

    Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia

    by Svetlana Boym ...
    What is the “real Russia”? What is the relationship between national dreams and kitsch, between political and artistic utopia and everyday existence? Commonplaces of daily living would be perfect clues for those seeking to understand a culture. But all who write big books on Russian life confess their failure to get properly inside Russia, to understand its “doublespeak.”Svetlana Boym is a unique ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

    The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World

    Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice

    by Brad Weiss ...
    Series series Body, commodity, text
    At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time. In particular ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Carolina Piedmont Country

    $15.99 USD

  • Wiregrass Country

    $15.99 USD

  • Blue Ridge Folklife

    by Ted Olson ...
    In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states along the Appalachian chain, was the American frontier. In colonial times, it was settled by hardy, independent people from several cultural backgrounds that did not fit with the English-dominated society ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ghosts Along the Texas Coast

    A collection of strange occurences, this book brings to light tangible evidence and first-hand testimony to validate a wide range of ghostly tales. Whether they haunt the place of their death or a place they loved in their lives, these spirits are found up and down the Texas coast. Author Docia Williams brings us the best of these stories, where they happen, and provides some of the history ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Witness Of Combines

    by Kent Meyers ...
    When Kent Meyers was sixteen years old, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. Here, in a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his father’s death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest.Meyers tells the story of growing up on the farm, from the joys of playing in the hayloft as a boy to the steady pattern ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Practice of Everyday Life

    Volume 2: Living and Cooking

    To remain unconsumed by consumer society—this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make living a subversive art. Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fixin' To Be Texan

    by Helen Bryant ...
    You don't just move here and immediately become a Texan; it takes training. This delightfully witty book takes you through the process of understanding our conversation, why and how we dress the way we do, why pickups are a fact of life, and how you can acquire the necessary big hair. Fixin' to Be Texan pokes gentle fun at the Texas mystique. Residents of the state will get a big kick out of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shenandoah Valley Folklife

    Bordered by the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley forms a natural corridor to the western parts of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Early American settlers followed the valley as one of the first routes westward. In Shenandoah Valley Folklife, Scott Hamilton Suter documents the many peoples who have left their marks on the folkways of the region--Native ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 粽情端午:端午节与赛龙舟习俗

    本书共分为:百变源流——端午起源;一脉相承——习俗流布;精彩演绎——龙舟文化几部分,主要内容包括:源于百越族的图腾祭祀、爱国诗人屈原悲愤投江、纪念千古孝女曹娥娘娘等。 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Civilization and Monsters

    Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan

    by Gerald Figal ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific
    Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that discourse ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Jump Up

    Good Times throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World

    by Luisah Teish ...
    A guide to worldwide holidays, rituals, ceremonies, stories, and ancient practices that amplify and honor seasonal transformations throughout the year.Celebrations that mark the seasons are rich with food, music, dance, offerings, and the reenactment of myth. Jump Up (titled after a Caribbean phrase that is used to describe a celebration) is meant to reacquaint readers with these traditions and to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus