3,317円 Carolyn Kolb provides a delightful and detailed look into the heart of her city, New Orleans. She is a former Times-Picayune reporter and current columnist for New Orleans Magazine, where versions of these essays appeared as "Chronicles of Recent History." Kolb takes her readers, both those who l...

12,103円 Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characterist...

1,159円 As you have traveled, whether for pleasure, business, or governmental diplomacy, how many times have you said, "If I had only known?" Knowledge is sometimes all that stands between failure and success of any foreign endeavor. A lack of knowledge, no matter how insignificant, can lead to failure. ...

6,626円 In the early eighteenth century, West Greenland became a colonial territory of Denmark. Nevertheless, a large number of Inuit communities maintained significant aspects of their cultural and economic practices. When home rule was introduced in 1979, the benign paternalism of colonial days was sup...

5,448円 Sewing patterns have been the principle blueprint for making garments in the home for centuries. From their origins in the tailoring manuals of the 16th century to the widely produced pamphlets of the 18th and 19th centuries, through to the full size packet patterns of today, their history and de...

7,351円 The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts that continue to push forward the boundaries of fashion studies. The book is divided into seven sections: Fashion, Identity and Difference; Spaces of Fashion; Fashi...

662円 Cultural differences can cause problems. In this book, the author details a workshop she conducted and the lessons learned in Vecinos (broadly defined as “neighbors”) experiences in New Mexico that addressed these problems. The themes explored were crucial: the power of names, the tri-cultural tr...

1,657円 Cambodia's mystic class of sorcerers, mediums, fortunetellers, and monks channel spirits, read fortunes in numbers and cards, and inscribe enchantments in flesh. But technology and modernity are changing these roles and rituals. Vanishing Act tracks down these singular people to document their li...

1,500円 Extrait : "Est-ce bien le procès du passé que nous instruisons ? Ce n'est pas, à tout prendre, son apologie que nous poursuivons. Nous entendons seulement le rattacher au présent par une chaîne ininterrompu, au lieu d'en faire table rase, comme certaine école aussi dédaigneuse, aussi injuste qu'e...

1,500円 Extrait : "Les Gaulois, les peuples des Îles Britanniques, ceux de l'Illyrie et de l'Espagne, portèrent jadis indistinctement le nom de Celtes. La conformité des mœurs et des coutumes de ces peuples, l'affinité de leur langage qui ne différait que par la diversité des dialectes, la terminaison se...

15,752円 Taking a global, multicultural, social, and economic perspective, this work explores the diverse and colourful history of human attire. From prehistoric times to the age of globalization, articles cover the evolution of clothing utility, style, production, and commerce, including accessories (sho...

3,947円 Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams. Wh...