Purity and Danger
 Storytelling: This may be an entertaining book if you want to read stories of foreign cultures and habits, but I don't think it meets the scientific standards of anthropology. The subtitle of the book is "an analysis of the concepts of pollution and [... more]
$19.95
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The Book of Tea
Amazon.com Review: That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially [... more]
$4.50
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Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of ...
Great - what else is there to say?: Lesley Downer's book on geisha is, quite honestly, one of the best out there. Whereas Liza Dalby has been incorrectly referred to as the only non-Japanese woman to be a geisha (see my review on Dalby's "Geisha& [... more]
$9.95
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In Praise of Nepotism
Quite Brilliant with small flaws: This very original piece of work describes the history and biological basis of nepotism. This book has been described as a `polemic' which it surely is not, instead it is an interesting, very calmly argued accounting of [... more]
$9.95
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Image of Aristocracy
Best thing I've seen on this period: David Crouch, an Anglican priest and professor of medieval history at the University of Hull, is one of the most influential scholars working these days in the area of Anglo-Norman studies, and this widely-cited [... more]
$140.00
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Tobacco in History
Economic and cultural history: This book is an overview of the culture and business of tobacco. After a introductory chapter that covers the botany and chemistry of tobacco, Goodman presents a cultural and economic history of the plant and its products. [... more]
$42.95
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Food, Health and Identity
Author: Pat Caplan Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 394.120941 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2007-03-14 Release Date: 2007-03-14 [... more]
$49.95
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Theories of the Gift in Medieval South Asia
Author: Maria Heim Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 394 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 2007-03-14 Release Date: 2007-03-14 [... more]
$90.00
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Understanding Rituals
Author: Daniel de Coppet Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 390 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 132 Publication Date: 2007-03-14 Release Date: 2007-03-14 [... more]
$43.95
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Consuming Passions
Author: Merrall Llewelyn Price Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 394.9094 Edition: 1 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 178 Publication Date: 2007-03-14 Release Date: 2007-03-14 [... more]
$110.00
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Mourning Diana
A thoughtful analysis of the global reaction to Dianas death: Any fan of Diana's will know why we mourned (and still mourn) her passing. This book however is fascinating for it's analysis of those mourners who said things like "I never knew how much [... more]
$37.95
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Food Culture in Mexico
Author: Janet Long-Solis Author: Luis Alberto Vargas Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 394.120972 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 2005-01-30 [... more]
$51.95
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