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Sport in the City
Cultural Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport...
Grandmother's Wisdom
Good, Old-Fashioned Advice Handed Down Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Grandmothers have been handing out advice for centuries and their tried and tested methods are often the answer to many modern day problems. Did you know that malt vinegar and baking soda are as good as any branded cleaning product? That you can make your own delicious lemonade? Or shampoo that's...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of shari`a law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings...
by Lawrence Bamblett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Using sport as a lens, this book celebrates Wiradjuri culture and the joys of life within an Aboriginal Australian community. As it examines the physical activities and sports that are valued by native Australians—including games, bare-knuckle fighting, and storytelling that incorporates a significant...
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die
Towards an Understanding of Why the Aboriginal People of Arnhem Land Face the Greatest Crisis in Health and Education Since European Contact- Djambatj Mala
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
"This fascinating book is about walking together, about understanding, about reconciliation." - Ray Martin, Media Personality
Why Warriors Lie down and die is essential reading for anyone interested in indigenous peoples. It provides hope and new direction for those searching for...
Red Flags and Lace Coiffes
Identity and Survival in a Breton Village
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented...
by Philip Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the European historical underpinnings both of English-speaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive story of the complicated and rich story of the Japanese American experience—from immigration, to discrimination, to adaptation, achievement and contributions to the American mosaic.
• Includes more than 200 clearly written, cross-referenced entries that...
Funeral Culture
AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa’s last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people...
by W.H.I. Bleek, L.C. Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd
"Specimens of Bushman Folklore is a book by the linguist Wilhelm H. I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd published in 1911.
The book records eighty-seven Bushman legends, myths and other traditional stories. The stories were collected...
by MJ Harden
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Called "a brilliant book of interviews with amazing photographs" by The Maui News, this book illuminates the magic, mastery and culture of Hawaii's wisest elders.
It is a rare privilege to sit at the feet of Hawaiian elders—to hear their stories firsthand. Their wisdom and...
The Resilience of Southern Identity
Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same...
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. From "The Paris Sketch Book".
Beads, Bodies, and Trash
Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will...