Sociology: Customs & Traditions

What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activ...

NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Full of sense, heart and hope . . . the friend you need when youre grieving PHILIPPA PER...

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, the Tokugawa shogunate enacted and enforced myriad laws and ordinances to control nearly ...

In Telling Animals, Jasmine Spencer offers a comparative yet personal approach to Dene/Athabaskan stories, both Northern and Southern. It examines ...

Collective remittances, that is to say development initiatives carried out by immigrant groups for the benefit of their place of origin, have been ...

Montenegro has been a much neglected part of former Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition aims to scrutinize the identity debates in Monten...

Dance Your Style: Cree Pedagogy examines the intrinsic value of First Nations perspectives, languages, and knowledges without the framing of Indige...

The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldiers bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after...

Taking us well off the beaten path, Peter Szok leads readers on a cultural journey that will make your stomachand hearthunger for more.Szok sets th...

This book examines alleged superhuman powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and ...

Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the...

The different stages of a festival's evolution provide a plethora of opportunities for us to better understand our culture, the relationships we bu...

This is an annotated critical edition of Artículos de costumbres by the Romantic journalist Mariano José de Larra (180937), presented with a critic...

As many in the north country can attest, one of life's great pleasures resides in the tradition of sauna-sitting in 180-plus-degree heat and throwi...

The Ethnographers Way guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. Kristin Peterso...

The Ethnographers Way guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. Kristin Peterso...

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of ...

The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in...

A physician and historian of science and medicine at the National Institute of Health tells the hidden story of how plagues and pandemics shaped th...

An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society, Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a v...

Understanding America's Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with U.S. gun culture and the contemporary d...

The transformational possibilities of everyday hygiene and care practices   In order to mitigate the worst forecasts of climate change, many of us...