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"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world.

Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the...

Feast Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts - dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment?

The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and...

Feast Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts - dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment?

The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and...

The English breakfast is one of the best-loved national meals in the world, an edible symbol of England and Englishness. But how did breakfast attain this distinction, what can a national meal tell us about the nation that eats it, what are the links between social and culinary change, and is there more to the English breakfast than bacon and eggs?

This biography of the English breakfast shows how the renowned meal came into being over many centuries, reaching its height in the Victorian and Edwardian eras when splendid breakfasts were served from silver dishes in grand country...

Eine der beliebtesten Dark-Fantasy-Manga bekommt nun endlich wieder eine schöne neue Print-Version: Angel Sanctuary! 

Angel Sanctuary beginnt 1999 in Japan und handelt von Setsuna Mudo, einem 16-jährigen Highschool-Schüler, der in seine 15-jährige Schwester Sara verliebt ist. Während er gegen seine Gefühle kämpft, erfährt er, dass er die Reinkarnation des Organischen Engels Alexiel ist, die eine Rebellion gegen den Himmel anführte. Doch die Engelsseele in Menschengestalt ist nicht alleine auf der Welt und Setsuna Mudo wird nun sowohl vom Himmel als auch...

Eine der beliebtesten Dark-Fantasy-Manga bekommt nun endlich wieder eine schöne neue Print-Version: Angel Sanctuary! 

Angel Sanctuary beginnt 1999 in Japan und handelt von Setsuna Mudo, einem 16-jährigen Highschool-Schüler, der in seine 15-jährige Schwester Sara verliebt ist. Während er gegen seine Gefühle kämpft, erfährt er, dass er die Reinkarnation des Organischen Engels Alexiel ist, die eine Rebellion gegen den Himmel anführte. Doch die Engelsseele in Menschengestalt ist nicht alleine auf der Welt und Setsuna Mudo wird nun sowohl vom Himmel als auch...

Five gripping stories of love, friendship and betrayal--"Forgotten Juliet," "Branded Bibi," "The Youths Who Stopped Time," "Double," and "The Death of...