Egyptian Customs and Festivals

Samia Abdennour
Paperback - $26.95

How do Egyptian Muslims celebrate Ramadan? How do Copts-Egyptian Christians-celebrate Easter? What should you expect to find on the table when invited to eat in an Egyptian home? What do you say when an Egyptian colleague sneezes? Exactly what do Egy ...

Homes in Many Cultures

Heather Adamson
Library Binding - $34.95

Support multicultural understanding with simple text and bright photos of homes, families, schools, and clothes around the world. Readers will connect with kids in many cultures, and a locator map shows where each photo was taken.

Garlic Capital of the World : Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape

Pauline Adema
Hardcover - $117.95

Garlic Capital of the World : Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of a Festive Foodscape

Pauline Adema
Paperback - $54.95

Victor Turner Revisited : Ritual as Social Change

Bobby C. Alexander
Paperback - $145.95

Victor Turner altered the way ritual is viewed, by emphasizing its role as an agent of social change rather than an agent for conserving the status quo. This book reconsiders and clarifies Turner's theory of ritual in response to its frequent misinte ...

Nightwork : Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

Anne Allison
Paperback - $40.95

In "Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering o ...

Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services

Jeane W. Anastas
Hardcover - $157.95

Utilizing complete case studies to illustrate different methodological approaches, the book integrates material on women and people of color, and draws attention to the ways racism, heterosexism, sexism, and classism affect the conceptualization and ...

Everyone Eats : Understanding Food and Culture

E. N. Anderson
Paperback - $46.95

View the Table of Contents .nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; Read the Introduction . "Anderson's view of the relationship between the biological and the cultural is nicely provocative, and his rich personal fieldwork experiences greatly enliven the pages ofEveryone ...

Bygone England - Social Studies in Its Historic Byways and Highways

William Andrews
Paperback - $63.95

Originally published in 1892. A well researched book illustrating many phases of the social life of England in olden times. The illustrated contents include: Pledging - The Minstrel - Landholding Customs - Slavery - Fair Customs - Sedan Chair - Tea a ...

Masking and Power : Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean

Gerard Arching
Paperback - $41.95

Does the mask reveal more than it conceals? What, this book asks, becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced in Caribbean cultures -- not only in the familiar milieu of the carnival but in political language, social conduct, and cultural ...