Category - Social Science
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Mardi Gras Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Mardi Gras Indians explores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting p...
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Tikanga: An Introduction to Te Ao Maori
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The book we've all been needing for decades - a unique explanation of the Maori world for Pakeha, and for Maori people wishing to learn more about ...
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Nan Domi: An Initiate's Journey Into Haitian Vodou
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This new and valuable book delves into the 'interior' experience of voodoo, as opposed to the usual outsider focus on ritual and cosmology. In tell...
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Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
HardcoverOriginal price $74.00Original price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00Current price $68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social ...
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Scheherazade's Feasts: Foods of the Medieval Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The author of the thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh proposed that food was among the foremost pleasures in life. Scheherazade's Fe...
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One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world's least known and most colorful carnivals...
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Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora, Vivian Nun Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their descendants and reveal...
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Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /2018 Southwest Books of the YearAround the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods produced by traditional methods of subsis...
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The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an inti...
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The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /At the intersection of food and story, The Carolina Table: North Carolina Writers on Food offers dozens of stories by Tar Heel writers about the be...
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Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Byzantine rule over Anatolia ended in the eleventh century, leaving the population and its Turkish rulers to build social and economic institutio...
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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar expose the secret of female genital mutilation, a practice that affects one hundred million of the world's women. ...
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A Voice from the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A Voice from the Congo is British adventurer Herbert Ward's equally sensational follow-up to his earlier Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. It is...
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Geronimo's Story of His Life
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /The name "Geronimo" evokes a number of different emotions. Those who believed in 19th century America's "Manifest Destiny" viewed Geronimo and all ...
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History of the Indian tribes of North America [Single-Volume Facsimile Edition]: with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs
HardcoverOriginal price $129.00Original price $129.00 - Original price $129.00Original price $129.00Current price $127.99$127.99 - $127.99Current price $127.99| /This is the only single-volume hardcover edition of this classic work, originally published in three volumes from 1836 to 1844. More than 80 full-c...
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Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781...
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Platicas: Conversations About and Among Friends and Neighbors in Cuba, New Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The community of Cuba, New Mexico, its institutions and economy are changing rapidly and radically. Our town is losing its former identity and its ...
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Clueless in Tokyo: An Explorer's Sketchbook of Weird and Wonderful Things in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as th...
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Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A pioneering anthropologist takes readers on a 'fascinating, well-researched' (Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE) journey through the rich tapestry of human ...
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Roots, Branches & Spirits: The Folkways & Witchery of Appalachia
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Natural Magic and Folkways from Those Who Call the Blue Ridge Mountains Home The southern Appalachians are rich in folk magic and witchery. This ...
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Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Ever wonder where some of our unique and meaningful Christmas traditions come from? Why are red and green popular colors of the season? Why is ex...
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French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy ...
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - hav...
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Forbidden Flowers: More Women's Sexual Fantasies
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Before there was 50 Shades of Grey, there was the incomparable Forbidden Flowers—a collection of women’s fantasies so daring and explicit that Na...
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