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  • Merchants in the City of Art

    Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood

    by Anne L. Schiller ...
    This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Power, Healing and Community

    by Malidoma Patrice Some ...
    Series series Compass
    The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Voices of Wisdom Hawaiian Elders Speak

    by MJ Harden ...
    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 knowledge is seldom passed beyond family, but now, with this important book, their expertise is available to us all. They are ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Avedon

    Something Personal

    by Norma Stevens, Steven M. L. Aronson ...
    An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” (The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson.Richard Avedon was arguably the world’s most famous photographer—as artistically influential as he was ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Virtues of Aging

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older.“As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good,” writes former president Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. President ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Salish People volume: IV eBook

    The Sechelt and South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island

    by Charles Hill-Tout ...
    Series series The Salish People
    Charles Hill-Tout was born in England in 1858 and came to British Columbia in 1891. He was a pioneer settler at Abbotsford in the Fraser Valley, where he raised his family in a log cabin. He devoted many years of field work to his studies of the Salish and published in the scholarly periodicals of the day. He was honoured as president of the Anthropological Section of the Royal Society of Canada ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Ritual

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Barry Stephenson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Egyptian Customs And Festivals

    by Samia Abdennour ...
    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 do with a mortar and pestle, a sieve, and a bag of nuts seven days after the birth of a baby? Samia Abdennour, once an outsider from Palestine, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century

    by Kevin Wehr ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation and mystification to examine how social behaviors can be a conscious reply to a complex and fast ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Price of Freedom Denied

    Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

    by Brian J. Grim, Roger Finke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Fashion Studies

    Research Methods, Sites, and Practices

    Edited by Heike Jenss ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts. With an emphasis on material culture and ethnographic approaches in fashion studies, this groundbreaking volume offers fascinating insights into the complex dynamics of research and fashion.Featuring ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Leisure and Pleasure

    Reshaping and Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960

    by Caroline Daley ...
    This exploration of an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history examines the human body at leisure in the years 1900–1960. This book studies bodybuilding, especially the famous strongman Eugen Sandow; growing ideas about fitness, health, and exercise; the rise of beauty contests; the culture of the beach and the pool; nudism; and children's play and the appearance of playgrounds. The ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus