This collection of essays explores the relationships between the linen industry and capitalist development, economic class, social life, and religious and gender stratification.

The author builds on recently published histories of women as amateur and professional players, umpires sports commentators and fans to analyze the cultural and historical contexts for excluding females from America's past time.

This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies to interpreting fiction and travel writing written in the past and present. The authors integrate insights from the reflexive deconstructive turn in anthropology and from critical Marxist and feminist approaches that ground interpretation in the political, economic, and social constraints and...

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