2,647円 This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books of 19th century Japanese history and culture. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere else,...

777円 One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and othe...

0円 Crónicas de los perdidos es un libro que trata una vez más sobre el pensamiento humano y como este ha derivado en un comportamiento que dista bastante del honor de antaño y de las buenas intenciones de la gente. A traves de los ex-guerreros Harter y Beatriz Feelsonsteel, respectivamente en sendas...

0円 Koreana [www.koreana.or.kr], diterbitkan empat kali setahun dalam edisi berwarna sejak tahun 1987, bertujuan meningkatkan kesadaran atas khazanah budaya Korea dan member informasi tentang kegiatan seni budaya Korea mutakhir. Dalam setiap edisi Koreana mengangkat tema budaya tertentu dan membicara...

3,973円 Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukijiーthe world's largest marketplace for seafoodーis a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourist...

3円 This volume celebrates and examines the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop for the not-for-profit’s beginnings and highlighting key accomplishments in research, education, and American Indian initiatives over the past four decades. Specific theme...

11,440円 Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song for...

62,185円 Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God lo...

11,109円 This book explores the cultural history of embryology in Tibet, in culture, religion, art and literature, and what this reveals about its medicine and religion. Filling a significant gap in the literature this is the first in-depth exploration of Tibetan medical history in the English language. I...

3,337円 A gateway at the U.S.-Mexico border, Tijuana is a complex urban center with a sizeable population of sex workers. An in-depth case study of the trade, Sex Work and the City is the first major ethnographic publication on contemporary prostitution in this locale, providing a detailed analysis of ho...

4,091円 Gregorio Condori Mamani and Asunta Quispe Huamán were runakuna, a Quechua word that means "people" and refers to the millions of indigenous inhabitants neglected, reviled, and silenced by the dominant society in Peru and other Andean countries. For Gregorio and Asunta, however, that silence was b...

12,103円 This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region’s spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformatio...