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Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (page images at HathiTrust)
Die frauen des Orients in der geschichte, in der dichtung und im leben (A. Hartleben, 1904), by Amand Schweiger-Lerchenfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
From Siam to suez. (D. Appleton and company, 1932), by James Saxon Childers (page images at HathiTrust)
Anecdotes chinoises, japonoises, saimoises, tonquinoises. (Vincent, 1774), by Jean Castilhon (page images at HathiTrust)
Asia, with ethnological appendix (E. Stanford, 1882), by A. H. Keane and Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
Asia, with ethnological appendix (E. Stanford, 1886), by A. H. Keane and Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
Durch Asien : Erfahrungen, Forschungen und Sammlungen während der von Amtmann Dr. Holderer unternommenen Reise (D. Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1901), by Karl Futterer (page images at HathiTrust)
Asia. (E. Stanford, 1909), by A. H. Keane (page images at HathiTrust)
Our Asiatic cousins (D. Lothrop company, 1889), by Anna Harriette Leonowens (page images at HathiTrust)
The teeming millions of the East : being a popular account of the inhabitants of Asia : the history of existing and extinct nations, their ethnology, manners, and customs (Ward, Lock, 1889), by G. T. Bettany (page images at HathiTrust)
Voyages d'un critique a travers la vie et les livres : Orient. (Librairie Académique, Didier, 1865), by Philarète Chasles (page images at HathiTrust)
Asia described (Hatchards, 1882), by Favell Lee Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust)
Asia described (Hatchards, 1890), by Favell Lee Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust)
Asia described (Hatchards, 1890), by Favell Lee Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoire pittoresque des voyages en Afrique : recueil des récits curieux, des scènes variés, des découvertes scientifiques, des moeurs et coutumes qui offrent un intérêt universel, extrait de Gama, Cabral ... etc. (M. Ardant frères, 1847), by Eugène Hatin (page images at HathiTrust)
Asia. (London : E. Stanford, 1882., 1882), by A. H. Keane and Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
Insight into the Far East (Strickland Pub. Co., 1925), by Marie de S. Canavarro (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Asia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction

Stories of the East (Richmond, UK: L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921), by Leonard Woolf, illust. by Dora de Houghton Carrington
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Tales of The East: Comprising The Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin, and The Best Imitations By European Authors; With New Translations, and Additioal Tales, Never Before Published (3 volumes; Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne and Co., 1812), ed. by Henry Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Asia -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature

A Peep at old Asia. (Rufus Merrill, 1847), by Mrs. Lovechild and Harrison Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Asia -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals

Asian Folklore Studies (full serial archives)

Filed under: Asia, Central -- Social life and customs

Starina i byt Sredneĭ Azīi (Izd. T-va "Obrazovanīe", 1917), by Milīĭ Dostoevskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Ocherki i kartiny vostochnykh nravov (Tip. T-va "Obshchestvennai︠a︡ polʹza", 1877), by Ármin Vámbéry (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Asia, South East -- Social life and customs

Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006), ed. by James J. Fox and Clifford Sather (JSTOR ebook)

Filed under: Asia, Southeastern -- Social life and customs

The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006), ed. by Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox, and Darrell Tryon (JSTOR ebook)
Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on domestic designs for living (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006), ed. by James J. Fox (JSTOR ebook)

Filed under: Orient -- Social life and customs

Life in the Moslem East. (Dodd, Mead and company, 1911), by Pierre Ponafidine and Emma Ponafidine (page images at HathiTrust)
A dissertation on the languages, literature, and manners of eastern nations. Originally prefixed to a Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English. (Printed at the Clarendon press, 1778), by John Richardson and Jacob Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
When we were strolling players in the east (Osgood, McIlvaine, 1894), by Louise Jordan Miln (page images at HathiTrust)
When we were strolling players in the east (Osgood, McIlvaine, 1895), by Louise Jordan Miln (page images at HathiTrust)
When we were strolling players in the east (Charles Scribner's sons, 1894), by Louise Jordan Miln (page images at HathiTrust)
When we were strolling players in the East. (Bell, 1894), by Louise Jordan Miln (page images at HathiTrust)
A dissertation on the languages, literature, and manners of Eastern nations (Clarendon Press, 1777), by John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
Life in the Moslem East (Hodder and Stoughton, 1911), by Pierre Ponafidine and Emma Cochran Ponafidine (page images at HathiTrust)
Herrn John Richardson's Abhandlung über Sprachen, Litteratur und Gebräuche morgenländischer Völker : mit einer Abhandlung vom Herrn Professor Eichhorn über die verschiedenen Mundarten der arabischen Sprache (In der Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1779), by John Richardson, Friedrich Federau, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, and Weygandsche Buchhandlung (page images at HathiTrust)
The harim and the purdah : studies of Oriental women (The Century Co., 1916), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
The harim and the purdah : studies of oriental women. (Century, 1897), by Elizabeth Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
When We Were Strolling Players in the East, by Louise Jordan Miln (Gutenberg ebook)
The Life, travels and adventures of Edward Wortley Montague, Esq. son to the most famous traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Exhibiting his very extraordinary transactions in England, France, Italy, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Holy Land: : with remarks on the manners, and customs of the Oriental world. : In two volumes. : Vol. I[-II]. (Boston: : Printed and sold by John W. Folsom, no. 3 Union-Street., [1794?]), by Edward Wortley Montagu (HTML at Evans TCP)

Filed under: Afghanistan -- Social life and customs

Afghanistan: An Introduction to the Country and People (ca.2003), by Marine Corps Institute (U.S.) (PDF at fdlp.gov)
Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier; a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with natives of the Indian marches (Seeley, Service & co., ltd., 1914), by T. L. Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier : a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches (Seeley & co., limited, 1909), by T. L. Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier; a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with natives of the Indian marches. (Seeley, Service, 1922), by T. L. Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Rough notes on the Nasar, Kharot, and other Afghan Pawindahs (N.B. Muncherjee, Govt. Printers, 1922), by Jamiat Rai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Frontier folk of the Afghan border--and beyond (Church missionary society, 1920), by L. A. Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier : a record of sixteen years close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches (Seeley, Service & co., 1912), by T. L. Pennell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Leaves from an Afghan scrapbook; the experiences of an English official and his wife in Kabul (J. Murray, 1910), by Ernest Thornton and Annie Thornton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier : a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches (J.B. Lippincott ;, 1909), by T. L. Pennell and Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier ; a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches. (Seeley, & co. limited, 1909), by T. L. Pennell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier; a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches (Seeley & Co., limited, 1914), by T. L. Pennell (page images at HathiTrust)
Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier: A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches, by T. L. Pennell (Gutenberg ebook)
Onder de wilde stammen op de grenzen van Afghanistan: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1917 (in Dutch), by T. L. Pennell (Gutenberg ebook)

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