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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.
In...
Cross-Cultural Servanthood
Serving the World in Christlike Humility
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us." The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately,...
by Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Patterns of Culture
An Enduring Classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
An anthropologist compares three diverse societies in this groundbreaking, “unique and important” cultural study (The New York Times).
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture made history in exploring the role of culture in shaping our lives. In it, the renowned...
The Labor of Care
Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews...
Barrio Boy
40th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a Mexican village so small its main street didn't have a name, to the barrio of Sacramento, California, bustling and thriving in the early decades of the twentieth century. With vivid imagery and a rare gift for re-creating a child's sense...
Japan: A Documentary History
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
An updated edition of David Lu's acclaimed "Sources of Japanese History", this book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan's mythological beginnings through 1995. Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual...
The Slums of Aspen
Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological Association
Environmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town in...
Loca Motion
The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
In the summer of 1995, El Vez, the “Mexican Elvis,“along with his backup singers and band, The Lovely Elvettes and the Memphis Mariachis, served as master of ceremony for a ground-breaking...
White Identity
Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that:
People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart.
Study after scientific...
by Jay David
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A classic work on the African-American experience is revised for the nineties with essays reflecting the concerns of black children from the last three decades and commentary from today's sports stars, politicians, and inner-city gang members.
Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother
Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
“If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.” That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States.
Follow it he did, and his book...
Hunger of Memory
The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.
Here is the poignant journey of a “minority...
The Other Side of Paradise
Life in the New Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks...