Culture Builders: A Historical Anthropology of Middle-Class Life, Paperback - Jonas Frykman

"Explains brilliantly the structures and processes of middle-class culture in historical perspective."--Robert Nye, Rutgers University " This] illu...

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume make...

Description As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunders...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Rob BeckettNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 35Cover type: HardbackRe...

Publisher: Liverpool University PressAuthor(s): Alice JohnsonNumber of pages: 376Collection: Reappraisals in Irish HistoryPublication date: 2022Dim...

Shari'a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yem...

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In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Vall...

This is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival written in English, with a focus on its cultural, religious, and...

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Using the influential and controversial Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropolog...

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A fierce, historically informed polemic against the idea that the middle class is the key to US greatness, past and future.Publisher: Haymarket Boo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shannon SullivanWinner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education Building on h...

Reducere. DescriptionThis lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5, 000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderf...

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Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, worki...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hans JonasForeword by: Lawrence VogelOther: Eleonore JonasA classic of phenomenology and existentialism, The Phenomenon of ...

Reducere. A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class...

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Reducere. DescriptionMichelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married he...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ezra F. VogelNumber of pages: 318Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 22Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frederick TaylorNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 28Cover type: Pape...

Providing useful definitions of respect in terms that are easily understood by youngsters, this picture book expresses the importance of valuing ad...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmo...

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent--especially the top 0.01 percen...

Reducere. The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the definin...

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This book analyzes experiences of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro. The author investigates what it means to ...

Publisher: PM PressAuthor(s): Working Class HistorNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 236 x 26Cover type: Notebook / blank ...

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Reducere. The Four Hills of Life tells the wise and beautiful Ojibwe story about the path we walk through the seasons of life, from the springtime of youth t...

Reducere. Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of CultureYuri M. LotmanIntroduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann ShukmanA major book by one of the init...

Reducere. Winner of 5 national awards, Recipes for a Sacred Life is now available in a new, expanded edition."Recipes for a Sacred Life left us moved--and ch...

Reducere. In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of ...

DescriptionBusiness leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Detlev PiltzIllustration(s): 1 x 8 pages of black and white platesNumber of pages: 432Publ...

Reducere. Go behind the scenes of this classic nineties film from cinematic masters Joel and Ethan Coen. Yah, you betcha, you're gonna discover some fascinat...

This engaging and highly readable family history follows ten generations of a mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of ...

American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael ...

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts f...

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Based on the hugely popular Twitter feed, @MiddleClassProb, this is a hilarious collection of real-life inconveniences face by the iPhone losing, p...

A fascinating new portrait of Medieval Britain that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s)...