Overview :French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children's deep-rooted, decidedly unhea... Read More
Overview :One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus wors... Read More
Overview :Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Pu... Read More
Overview :Sun-hee and her older brother, Tae-yul, live in Korea with their parents. Because Korea is under Japanese occupation, the children study Jap... Read More
Overview :In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, familie... Read More
Overview :This modern classic invites the reader to discover a unique tradition that has come to symbolize the wisdom, beauty, and the elegant simplic... Read More
Overview :Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs through... Read More
Overview :With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans ... Read More
Overview :This book explains kink culture - the parties, leather bars, conferences, workshops, fetish nights, explatoriums and other gatherings that t... Read More
Overview :?The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has... Read More
Overview :Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs through... Read More
Overview :The Japanese Tea Ceremony is a detailed examination of the five-centuries-old tea ceremony--or Cha-no-Yu in Japanese, literally "hot water f... Read More
Overview :Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getti... Read More
Overview :From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans... Read More
Overview :Slogans such as "Let's put Christ back into Christmas" or "Jesus is the Reason for the Season" hold an appeal to Christians who oppose the c... Read More
Overview :Customs play an important part in all societies and offer fascinating insights into a country's history and culture. Scotland boasts a multi... Read More