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Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett
epub |eng | 2003-05-04 | Author:Richard Sennett

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them…. When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism May 5,2016 )
Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England by Frantzen Allen J.;
epub |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Frantzen, Allen J.;

Iron and texts Food objects in iron are hardly more prominent in texts than they are in archaeological data. Texts refer to smiths and smithies in both practical and mythical ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions May 2,2016 )
Britain by Paul Norbury
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Paul Norbury [Norbury, Paul]

This recent process of “devolving power” also includes a change in London, where since 2000 there has been an elected mayor and a separately elected twenty-five-member Assembly (known as the ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions April 30,2016 )
Rice Talks by Avieli Nir
epub |eng | | Author:Avieli, Nir

THE HOIANESE FESTIVE CULINARY SCENARIO The similarity between the ancestor worship and wedding feasts in terms of structure, sequence, and content is striking: Hoianese feasts seem to follow a single ...
( Category: Vietnamese April 22,2016 )
Food in the Gilded Age by Robert Dirks
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Robert Dirks [Dirks, Robert]

5 Immigrants’ Diets Donna Gabaccia views the period from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries as a uniquely conservative time in American culinary history.1 During the colonial era, ...
( Category: History April 20,2016 )
Connecting to Our Ancestral Past by Francesca Mason Boring
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Francesca Mason Boring [Boring, Francesca Mason]

With This Movement I Honor You (Ritual) In Constellation work, we observe the transgenerational impact of men or women not being able to fully honor each other due to entanglements ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 10,2016 )
Eat the Year by Steff Deschenes
epub |eng | | Author:Steff Deschenes [Deschenes, Steff]

Today is also National Chocolate Day and National Strawberry Sundae Day. JULY 08 NATIONAL MILK CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS DAY “It was inevitable: The scent of bitter almonds always reminded him ...
( Category: Popular Culture April 9,2016 )
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations by Max Weber
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Max Weber [Weber, Max]

We now come to the problem of whether there was in the classical period a ‘capitalist invasion’ of the countryside in Attica and in other Greek states outside of Sparta ...
( Category: Economic History April 8,2016 )
Anatomy of Love by Fisher Helen
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Fisher, Helen

Origin of Teenage Our Homo erectus ancestors most likely acquired another burden—the teenager. From characteristics of ancient teeth and bones, it appears that at some point (perhaps some 900,000 to ...
( Category: General March 23,2016 )
The Practice of Eating by Alan Warde
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-10 | Author:Alan Warde

Coordination and Regulation One appeal of considering Practices as entities is that processes involved in their social coordination can be brought to light. Practices are subject to differing degrees of ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions March 5,2016 )
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Sue Park [Park, Linda Sue]

18. Tae-yul Sun-hee meets me at the gate when I come home. She tells me what happened in the schoolyard. As usual I'm tired from the work at the airstrip. ...
( Category: Military & Wars January 11,2016 )
Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Rattansi Ali
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Rattansi, Ali [Rattansi, Ali]

Chapter 4 ‘Integration’, class inequality, and ‘community cohesion’ As the backlash against multiculturalism has gathered pace, it has been replaced by ‘integration’ as the key theme of national and local ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 10,2016 )
Organizations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Hatch Mary Jo
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Hatch, Mary Jo [Hatch, Mary Jo]

The politics of identity and diversity Feminists often argue that stereotypes cause us to discredit and devalue some members of society. They point to the fact that the high-paying, prestigious ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions January 5,2016 )
Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics by Nestle Marion
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Nestle, Marion [Nestle, Marion]

Many of the ingredients are preservatives added to extend shelf life, thereby enabling manufacturers to buy ingredients when prices are low and sell the products at hefty profits. Creating and ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions December 15,2015 )
The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the Individual (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Hinsch, Bret [Hinsch, Bret]

The Song author Li Qingzhao (1081–ca. 1141), one of the most erudite women of her age, captures the increasingly cultured atmosphere of tea drinking with a lively vignette.[27] Although famous ...
( Category: China December 10,2015 )

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