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Thinking Like a River - An Anthropology of Water and Its Uses Along the Kemi River, Northern Finland

The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Fra...

Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine - Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential

In health and medicine, the imagination of what the future holds is an essential element in propelling people into action. This holds tru...

Reimagining Equality - A New Deal for Children of Color

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine A comprehensive examination of developmental inequality among children Developm...

Detmold, September 1969 - Die Arbeitstagung der dgv im Rückblick. International and comparative perspectives on the worlds and words of Volkskunde.

1968, 69, 70 - diese Jahre stehen nicht nur für globale Umbrüche und für Prozesse gesellschaftlicher Liberalisierung und kulturellen Wand...

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian

At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a m...

Rocking Islam - Music and the Making of New Muslim Identities

Music has the universal power to move individuals, peoples and societies. Music is one of the most important signifiers of cultural chang...

Waiting - A Project in Conversation

Waiting is an inescapable part of life in modern societies. We all wait, albeit differently and for different reasons. What does it mean ...

Capturing the Moon

Rabbi Ed Feinstein narrates thirty-six classic and modern folktales that transmit our culture, inform our values, and educate our people....

The New Trail of Tears - How Washington Is Destroying American Indians

There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is our public policies t...

Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream - The Great Migration and the Black American Dream

A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the r...

The Souls of Black Folk

First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply ...

Doctor Faustus - A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Newly edited texts of the 1604 (A-Text) and the 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play. Editorial matt...

Hungaro-turcica studies in honour of Julius Németh

Hungarian provincial cooking

Hungarian Folk Architecture

A Corvina tematikus útikönyvsorozatának ötödik kötete Magyarország népi építészetét mutatja be részletesen: Hollókő-Ófalu és az országos ...

Suggestions Towards a Theory of Folklore

Az ELTE BTK Folklore Tanszékének professzora a világ humán tudományának élvonalába tartozik. Gyűjteményes kötetében 25 olyan dolgozatot ...

Eros in Folklore

"Eros, as an organizing force governing customs, festive rites and normal activities of everyday life, has, over the millennia, become pa...

Á kolonyi lágzi

Hungarian peasant costumes

Hungary: A brief history

Hungary The meeting point

A minisztériumok, a hivatalok, a cégek számára abban az esetben, ha öt példánynál többet rendelnek, a 7900 forintos bolti árral szemben 5...

Kazakh Folksongs

As Turkic people played a significant role in the ethnogenezis of the Hungarians, it goes without saying that there have been a number of...

The Earth has given birth to the Sky

From the images of God represented in the religious folk tradition we are able to form conclusions about the everyday life of the faith c...

Eros in Folklore

"Eros, as an organizing force governing customs, festive rites and normal activities of everyday life, has, over the millennia, become pa...

Psychology of Black Womanhood

An authoritative, jargon-free, affordable, and holistic exploration of interdisciplinary psychological and sociological research on the d...

Fantasies of Nina Simone

Jordan Alexander Stein uses an archive of Nina Simone’s performances, images, and writings to think through the space between our collect...

Third World Studies - Theorizing Liberation

In this revised and expanded second edition of Third World Studies, Gary Y. Okihiro considers the methods and theories that might inform ...

Zones of Encuentro - Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Explores the complexity of language ideologies, language practices, identity formations, and internal differences within Nuevomexicano-Me...

Fitness Fiesta! - Selling Latinx Culture Through Zumba

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau analyzes how Zumba Fitness—an exercise program that draws from Latin music and dance—creates and sells a vision of...

Clicas - Gender, Sexuality, and Struggle in Latina/O/X Gang Literature and Film

How Latina/o/x gang literature and film represent women and gay gang members¿ challenges to gendered, sexual, racial, and class oppression.

The Gospel of John Marrant - Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic

Alphonso F. Saville IV examines the life Reverend John Marrant (1755–91), North America’s first Black ordained minister, to show how West...

How We Write Now - Living with Black Feminist Theory

Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists have turned to beautiful writing as the voice that allows readers to stay close to the fiel...

White Sports/Black Sports - Racial Disparities in Athletic Programs

Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race. Howeve...

Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany - Life-Stories of Millennial Women

Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of ...

At the Edge of AI - Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations

How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can alone? Throu...

The Anti-Civil Rights Movement - Affirmative Action as Wedge and Weapon

"Collins views American society as being trapped in the so-called prisoner's dilemma. According to this classic piece of game theory, two...

Griffinology - The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art

Feathered with illustrations, a deep dive into the meaning of this half-lion, half-bird creature over millennia of human history. Griffin...

Being There, but How? - On the Transformation of Presence in (Post-)Pandemic Times

In phenomenological tradition, presence has been understood as fundamental for human experience: I experience the world as my lifeworld b...

Natural - Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair

"Sociologist Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson uses interviews, media analysis, and participant observation in beauty shops, online blogs, and n...

Maidens or Monsters? - Amazons and Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Legend

An illustrated collection of exceptional female figures in myth and legend In the Middle Ages, some of the most popular and well-loved st...

Egyptian Mythology - The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of Ancient Egypt

Immerse yourself in the dark and complex mythology of Ancient Egypt. Alongside the mummies and the great treasure-filled burial chambers ...

Norse Mythology - The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of the Viking Culture

The Norsemen of old Scandinavia were a tough and hardy people, best known today for their prowess in bloody combat and storytelling. Beca...

Louder Than the Lies - Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love

"A primer on racism that offers an intersectional, anti-racist, coalition-building view of Asian American identity"--

Brothers in Grief - The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools

"Our teenage years are a uniquely vulnerable and formative time as we lay the foundations for the people we will become. Our relationship...

Our Place in History - Ten Milestones in the Fight for Asian American Rights

A long overdue counternarrative to the story of Asian Americans as passive participants in the American story Interest in Asian American ...

Scottish Folk Tales of Coast and Sea

A collection of Scottish coastal folk tales. 'The sea is in our blood and our stories.' Sea monsters, mermaids, shipwrecks and old wives'...

Dented Cans and Classic Cars - Reflections On a Retirement Community

Dented Cans and Classic Cars centers on Daniel Krause's experiences with moving to a retirement community and covers the entire - sometim...

Dance and Society

Re-appraising our past, moving into the future: research on dance and society: it was the main idea of the 22nd symposium of the ICTM Stu...

Hungary: The unwilling satellite

Ancient tales & folklore of Japan

Treasury of fantastic and mythological creatures

Hungary's historical legacies (studies in honor of Steven Bla Vrdy)

Hungary & the hungarians: The keywords (a dictionary of facts and...)

Ancient tales & Folklore of China

Hungary

Uralic Mythology and Folklore

The Psalms and Folk Songs of A Mystic Turkish Order

Egy törökországi misztikus rend énekes hagyományai. A könyv a Törökország európai részén lakó misztikus iszlám közösségek vallási és népi...

Hystory of Hungarian Agriculture and Rural Life 1848-2004

Folk, region, and society

Creativity and tradition in folklore (new directions)