14,205円 The world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly every country. As a reflection of soccer’s significance, the sport impacts countless aspects of the wor...

3,124円 Naked we come into the world, but we are extraordinarily unlucky if naked we leave it. It is a human reaction to cover the dead with textiles. This volume presents the results of new and ground-breaking research in the UK and abroad on clothing and textiles in the context of death and burial in C...

656円 Myths and Maxims documents some of the beliefs and lore of Trinidad and Tobago and by extension the rest of the Caribbean. It is packed with elders' advice on how to survive in today’s world and the phrases that reflect these teachings.

5,963円 Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining a...

11,275円 This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social anthropology. While most discussions of yout...

11,772円 This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the mate...

11,772円 Memories, both in individual and collective form, still have a significant impact on how people relate to political processes in Europe today. While much has been written about top-down attempts by states and political actors to mould people’s memories of the past through public commemoration, te...

2,400円 Welche Frauen tragen Kopftuch und warum? Die Journalistin Petra Stuiber hat mit zehn dieser Frauen gesprochen, die ihr Kopftuch aus religiösen, traditionellen oder ästhetischen Gründen tragen. In »Kopftuchfrauen« bekommen sie eine Stimme und ein Gesicht. Als Symbol für die seit Jahren plakativ ge...

359円 Curiosités, croyances, superstitions, chansons et coutumes de l’Ille-et-Vilaine - Adolphe Orain Adolphe Pierre Julien Orain (1834 - 1918) est un historien et folkloriste français, considéré avec Paul Sébillot comme l'un des meilleurs folkloristes bretons. Il est pendant trente-cinq ans chef de di...

1,322円 David Crystal, one of the world’s leading commentators on language, tackles the proverbs of the world. In this anthology of global proverbs Crystal brings his customary keen eye and linguistic expertise to this wonderfully rich topic. Proverbs are fascinating in what they tell us about a culture'...

526円 A funny pseudo-scientific book in which humour and science are mixed, in the same way in which also english and italian languages are mixed. The result is a very comic sort of "new esperanto". This is the second chapter of the Mononic saga, with studies about the ethilometre, Triest and triestins...

777円 A practical and accessible guide to an ancient but rapidly changing cultureーnow revised and updated Perfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country. In...