false 208731 0 0 3148435 1560989882 9781560989882 2 <![CDATA[Inside Pitch]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3148435.Inside_Pitch 3.67 6 208731 3.85 20 6 2350829 0803271271 9780803271272 2 <![CDATA[In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2350829.In_the_Ballpark_The_Working_Lives_of_Baseball_People 4.00 5 In the Ballpark is a clever hybrid of sober scholarship and good fun. Conceived by a practicing anthropologist who once played Minor League ball, the book takes you into the game's corners to tell the stories of the people, most of whom you don't even know are there, who make baseball the experience it is. This isn't a book extolling on-field glory--though Yankee centerfielder Bernie Williams is among its voices; it's a book primarily about the game's grunts.

Shuffling between the farm teams and the Show, Ballpark resonates with the first-person narratives of beer vendors, ushers, clubbies, trainers, denizens of the press box, and front-office personnel--even the Phillie Phanatic. If some are more fascinating than others--hey, that's baseball--all contribute to the book's evocative texture. An epilogue in the form of an essay dissects baseball work with the dry edge of erudition, footnotes and all, offering such wisdom as "When we compare work in the minor leagues with the big leagues we find the higher one ascends the professional baseball ladder, the larger the staff and the more complex the division of labor." Don't hold that against it. If Ballpark's extra innings flag, the individual voices that precede it are wonderfully different, lively, and generally filled with charm. --Jeff Silverman

]]> 208731 3.85 20 6 952359 0881331589 9780881331585 0 <![CDATA[The Irish Tinkers: The Urbanization of an Itinerant People]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179757703m/952359.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/952359.The_Irish_Tinkers_The_Urbanization_of_an_Itinerant_People 4.00 2 208731 3.85 20 6 365139 0803271255 9780803271258 1 <![CDATA[Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174140738m/365139.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365139.Baseball_without_Borders_The_International_Pastime 3.50 2 Baseball without Borders, a book about America's national pastime going global and undergoing instructive, entertaining, and sometimes curious changes in the process. The contributors, leading authorities on baseball in the fourteen nations under consideration, look at how the game was imported—how it took hold and developed, how it is organized, played, and followed—and what these local and regional trends and features say about the sport's place in particular cultures.

Organized by region—Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific—and written by journalists, historians, anthropologists, and English professors, these original essays reflect diverse perspectives and range across a refreshingly wide array of subjects: from high school baseball in Japan and Little League in Taiwan to fan behavior in Cuba and the politics of baseball in China and Korea.

</div>]]> 208731 3.85 20 6 2731735 3.62 29 7 2295204 1577662091 9781577662099 1 <![CDATA[The Parish Behind God's Back: The Changing of Rural Barbados]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2295204.The_Parish_Behind_God_s_Back_The_Changing_of_Rural_Barbados 5.00 1 208731 3.85 20 6 289015 3.83 6 1 2189748 0472066269 9780472066261 0 <![CDATA[The Parish behind God's Back: The Changing Culture of Rural Barbados]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2189748.The_Parish_behind_God_s_Back_The_Changing_Culture_of_Rural_Barbados 5.00 1 The Parish behind God's Back describes the social fabric and everyday life of one rural parish on the island, St. Lucy, including its many links to the outside world. It is a contemporary ethnography of the local that takes into account the enormous influence of global factors such as tourism, television, foreign travel, and return migrants.
</div><div>Written with students in mind, the book contains several unique features. Each chapter blends descriptions of Barbadian culture with comparisons to North America; throughout, the authors include tales of not only their own fieldwork experiences but those of their undergraduate students; and personal narratives are emphasized to engage interest in individuals.
</div><div>This highly readable and thought-provoking account should appeal to general readers with an interest in the Caribbean as well as to students of anthropology.
</div><div>George Gmelch is Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Union College. Sharon Bohn Gmelch is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies, Union College.
</div>]]> 208731 3.85 20 6 2229225 0881333328 9780881333329 0 <![CDATA[Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2229225.Urban_Life_Readings_in_Urban_Anthropology 4.00 1 208731 3.85 20 6 2350831 0881338605 9780881338607 0 <![CDATA[Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2350831.Urban_Life_Readings_in_Urban_Anthropology 3.00 1 208731 3.85 20 6 313391 3.50 2 0 1043278 025321615X 9780253216151 0 <![CDATA[Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180461223m/1043278.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1043278.Behind_the_Smile_The_Working_Lives_of_Caribbean_Tourism 3.00 1 208731 3.85 20 6 6563829 0253342724 9780253342720 0 <![CDATA[Behind the Smile: The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6563829-behind-the-smile 0.0 0 208731 3.85 20 6