Social Science - Anthropology - Cultural & Social

An examination of the profound and unexpected ways in which your culture affects your body and your choices.Culture affects us in ways that are sometimes obvious, like our language and food, but are sometimes not readily apparent, like the shape of our feet and...

Named one of the "Best Books of 1987" by Library JournalSelected by Utne Reader as part of its "Alternative Canon" in 1998One of Hungry Mind Review's "Best 100 Books of the 20th Century"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúuacute;a's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? "Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a...

2025 Gotham Book Prize FinalistThe 2024 Victorian Society Book of the Year Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation's third largest city. Its free...

"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." --Gloria Steinem Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But...

"Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity." --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or...

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky,...

This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is "as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies" (New Yorker). No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official...

Challenging societal beliefs, this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective.Author: Cheikh Anta DiopPublisher: Lawrence Hill BooksPublished: 04/01/1991Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.94h x 5.99w x 1.15dISBN: 9781556520488Review Citation(s): Library Journal 05/15/1991About the AuthorCheikh Anta Diop is the author of The...

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live--how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die--in this "engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking" (Booklist) book. Most of us...

On November 18th, 1978, over 900 people including a U.S. congressman Leo Ryan died because of Cult Leader Jim Jones at Jonestown, Guyana. Over 300 were children forced to drink cyanide laced Kool-Aid by their parents who believed they were doing God's will. The...

The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first field work at age 23, establishing Mead's core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as...

"Fabulous."--Dan Richards, author of Holloway"Terrifically strange and thrilling."--Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley"A modern-day bard."--Madeline Miller, author of CirceThis is a book of literary activism - an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age. In Courting the Wild Twin, acclaimed...

Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhépecha community in the state of Michoacán, México, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an...

Oil waste was everywhere--on the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children became sick and died, cases of stomach cancer skyrocketed, and women miscarried or gave birth to children with congenital...

An "engrossing, unputdownable" (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination,...

An "engrossing, unputdownable" (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination,...

Develop your intercultural sensitivity-and confidently manage personal and business relations in an intercultural environment!With this book, you will learn why we all act 'automatically' in interactions with people from other groups and cultures, and how you can counteract these automatisms. The many exercises will...

Discover the world's most fascinating death and funeral traditions in this illustrated modern-day memento mori. Embark on a whirlwind tour of burial, preservation, and memorial practices and landmarks from across the globe and throughout history, ranging from the customs of our ancestors to contemporary...

A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder:...