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For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the "position of women" in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal... From Thanksgiving to fast food to the Passover seder, Food in the USA brings together the essential readings on these topics and is the only...
In what Robert Bly calls", the greatest and most detailed book about ritual that I have ever read", Malidoma Patrice Some--who is... Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in...
Engrossing, carefully researched and illustrated survey spanning 5 centuries covers the development of the sword from its earliest forms,... Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food....
Winner of "ForeWord Magazine's" "Book of the Year" 2005 for Architecture An experimental ethnography of food, sex, and health in post-socialist China
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