Working the Fabric SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies

Working the Fabric SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional StudiesTrademark protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in depth anthropological study of the renowned textile industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research. Drawing on one year of ethnographic fieldwork

Cold War Genres explores post-independence Hindi literature

to religion

who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries

Chemical control should be used as a last resort and should be restricted to selective and less disruptive insecticides

The Cream of the Jest is one work in a series of novels

Women are expected to prioritize marriage and children over any profession

the reasons for the commandments

Thomas Merton

others to a formless god

The subject of sorrow and how it should be treated is a subject as old as mankind itself

architecture and history buffs

Marryat’s novel is an underappreciated classic of nineteenth century fiction that has been adapted twice for British cinema