Egyptian Customs and Festivals

Samia Abdennour
Paperback - $21.40

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 Egyptians...

Ceremonies and Celebrations of Oman

Albin Abdulrahman
Hardcover - $81.90

Within this diverse terrain and culture exists a treasure trove of ceremonies and celebrations, a heritage of color, pageantry and values. This photographic essay of national, religious and traditional ceremonies provides an insight into their splendor...

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

Pauline Adema
Hardcover - $79.40

How a local festival celebrating the odiferous lily gave a town a marketable identity

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

Pauline Adema
Paperback - $36.50

How a local festival celebrating the odiferous lily gave a town a marketable identity

New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times

Goran Aijmer
Hardcover - $46.60

Keenly attuned to the play of symbols, this anthropological study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition: the celebration of lunar the New Year. It analyzes a multitude of folk practices within a holistic perspective...

Victor Turner Revisited : Ritual as Social Change

Bobby C. Alexander
Paperback - $108.40

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 misinterpretation...

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

Anne Allison
Paperback - $29.00

Friends and Exiles : A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement

Des Alwi
Paperback - $30.20

Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where he was befriended and adopted by the two nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, exiled there by the Dutch colonial regime. He describes his experience on...

Friends and Exiles : A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement

Des Alwi
Hardcover - $60.50

Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services

Jeane W. Anastas
Hardcover - $107.10

Going beyond the "how to" approach of many textbooks to underscore the assumptions and biases that guide all scholarly investigation, Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services integrates a range of research techniques into a single epistemological...