Ethnic category: 7100 books
The Life of Ancient Japan
Selected Contemporary Texts Illustrating Social Life and Ideals before the Era of Seclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by R. V. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This book is the result of the arrangement made by the Government of India, on the suggestion of the late Sir Herbert Risley, for the preparation of an ethnological account dealing with the inhabitants of each of the principal Provinces of India. The work for the Central Provinces was entrusted to...
by K. Hughes, E. R. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First published in 1950.
Beginning with ancient times, this volume shows how some of the early superstitions became purified through the influence of the Confucianist philosophy, how a deep strain of mysticism came from the Taoists and how thereby a worship of 'Heaven' and 'Earth' was evolved....
A History of Civilisation in Ancient India
Based on Sanscrit Literature: Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s, once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary...
Cuba beyond the Beach
Stories of Life in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city....
The Hold Life Has
Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses...
by Liza Bakewell
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?
Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while !qué padre!...
Hmong and American
Stories of Transition to a Strange Land
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbers that they are now the second largest Southeast Asian population in the United States. Twelve Hmong immigrants, including a female shaman, an ex-military officer, a reformed gang member,...
Upside Down
Seasons among the Nunamiut
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century’s...
Deaf-Blind Reality
Living the Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Most stories about disabled people are written for the sake of being inspirational. These stories tend to focus on some achievement, such as sports or academics, but rarely do they give a true and complete view of the challenges individuals must deal with on a daily basis. For example: How does a...
Deaf Space in Adamorobe
An Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation. In the United States, Martha’s Vineyard gained mythical fame as a paradise for deaf people where everyone signed up until the 19th century. That community...
The End of White World Supremacy
Four Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
**The classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them.
Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at large. He gave African Americans not only their consciousness but their history, dignity, and...
Black Rednecks & White Liberals
Hope, Mercy, Justice and Autonomy in the American Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the...