Product Description: Anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon...read more

Product Description: The Parish Behind God's Back: The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados, Second Edition 2/E by Sharon Bohn Gmelch, George Gmelch

Product Description: From the spark of ambition to play baseball professionally to the necessity of reinventing life after baseball, the anthropologist and former Minor Leaguer George Gmelch describes the lives of the men who work at America's national game...read more

Interviews with twenty-one individuals who work in association with baseball fields, from people in the public eye like Bernie Williams and Jim Leyland, to groundskeepers, ushers, clubhouse attendants, and others behind-the-scenes

Product Description: This fascinating anthology of readings contains both a rich blend of classic studies of enduring interest as well as important new research. Altogether, thirty-two anthropologists and social scientists provide an authoritative introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities...read more

'Includes 13 oral life histories of Barbadian return migrants from Great Britain and North America, a sample roughly representative of all Barbadian returnees in terms of gender, class, and receiving countries. Histories and commentary treat the entire migration cycle: reasons for departure, experiences abroad, and problems of return. Useful concluding sections on meaning of return migration and on value of oral history for such study'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ (view table of contents)

Product Description: This edition of The Irish Tinkers focuses on the Tinkers' attempts to cope with the changes that the development and modernization of rural Ireland have forced upon them. Gmelch lucidly describes the Tinkers' cityward migration, their adaptation to their new urban environment, and the drive by government and others to settle them...read more