Folkways
by William Graham Sumner
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This century-old classic of sociology offers thousands of illustrations of the social, sexual, and religious customs of ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and modern Western civilization in Europe and America. Subjects include labor, wealth, slavery, cannibalism, marriage, education, and many other absorbing topics.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1906
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- Languages
- English, Hungarian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
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- 1
- ASINs
- 18
