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Filed under: Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs

Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia (2010), ed. by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys, and John Docker (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
The Family Among the Australian Aborigines: A Sociological Study (London: University of London Press, 1913), by Bronislaw Malinowski (multiple formats at archive.org)
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland From Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1, by Edward John Eyre (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social life and customs

Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians (London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1870), by James Bonwick (page images at HathiTrust)
The Last of the Tasmanians: or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870), by James Bonwick (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lost Tasmanian Race (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884), by James Bonwick
- multiple formats at Google; US access only
- multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Achinese (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs

The Achehnese (2 volumes; Leyden: E. J Brill, 1906), by C. Snouck Hurgronje, trans. by A. W. S. O'Sullivan, contrib. by R. J. Wilkinson

Filed under: Adelaide (S.A.) -- Social life and customs

Adelaide: A Literary City (c2013), ed. by Philip Butterss (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

Filed under: Admiralty Islands (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs

Kinship in the Admiralty Islands (from the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History; 1934), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)

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)

Filed under: Africa -- Social life and customs

The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)
What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), ed. by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (originally published 1798), by Venture Smith (Gutenberg text)
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America: Related by Himself (New London, CT: Printed by C. Holt, 1798), by Venture Smith
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (Middletown, CT: J. S. Stewart, 1897), by Venture Smith, ed. by H. M. Selden (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

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

Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Africa, East -- Social life and customs

On the Trail of the Pigmies: An Anthropological Exploration Under the Cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: African Americans -- Social life and customs

Roll, Jordan, Roll (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1933), by Julia Peterkin, illust. by Doris Ulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia, By a Southerner (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, Printers, 1841), by Joseph Willson
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Negro Motorist Green Book: An International Travel Guide (New York: Victor H. Green and Co., c1949; see also The Green Book) (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

Filed under: Alabama -- Social life and customs

With Sabre and Scalpel: The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon, by John A. Wyeth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Albania -- Social life and customs

Peaks of Shala (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1923), by Rose Wilder Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
High Albania (London: Edward Arnold, 1909), by M. E. Durham (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Filed under: Aleuts -- Social life and customs

Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, c1993), by Igor Krupnik (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

Filed under: Algeria -- Social life and customs

The Captives: By James Leander Cathcart, Eleven Years a Prisoner in Algiers (LaPorte, IN: Herald print, c1899), by James L. Cathcart, ed. by Jane Bancker Cathcart Newkirk (multiple formats at archive.org)
Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara (London: T. Fisher Unwin, ca. 1895), by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
De Batna à Tuggurt et au Souf (in French; Paris: Librairie Militaire, 1865), by J. Zaccone
- multiple formats at Google
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Alkalikunda (Gambia) -- Social life and customs

Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Richard A. Schroeder (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: Amazon River Region -- Social life and customs

Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), ed. by Thomas Gregor and Donald F. Tuzon (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

Filed under: American Samoa -- Social life and customs

American Samoa (Department of Marine Biology v20, Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #341; 1924), by William Albert Setchell (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs

Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs and Stories (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Sawin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

Filed under: Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs

The Good Life Almanac: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom for Readers Interested in Living, Rather Than Existing, Written by Some Country Folk With Ties to Nature, Man, and God's Own World (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1975), ed. by Ruth Smalley (PDF at appstate.edu)
Cabin: A Mountain Adventure (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1986), by Barbara G. Hallowell, illust. by Aline Hansens (multiple formats at appstate.edu)
"...A Right Good People" (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1974), by Harold F. Warren (multiple formats at appstate.edu)
Too Few Tomorrows: Urban Appalachians in the 1980's (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1987), ed. by Phillip J. Obermiller and William W. Philliber (multiple formats at appstate.edu)
Our Southern Highlanders (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1916), by Horace Kephart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Spirit of the Mountains (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1905), by Emma Bell Miles
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs

Our Southern Highlanders (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1916), by Horace Kephart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Spirit of the Mountains (New York: J. Pott and Co., 1905), by Emma Bell Miles
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: Arabian Peninsula -- Social life and customs

Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (multiple formats at archive.org)
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Travels in Arabia Deserta (2 volumes from different editions, with the full text), by Charles Montagu Doughty
- page images at Google; US access only
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Wanderings in Arabia: Being an Abridgment of "Travels in Arabia Deserta" (2 volumes; London: Duckworth and Co., 1908), by Charles Montagu Doughty, ed. by Edward Garnett
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (originally published 1926), by T. E. Lawrence
- illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
- text at Gutenberg Australia

Filed under: Arctic peoples -- Social life and customs

Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College, c1993), by Igor Krupnik (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

Filed under: Arizona -- Social life and customs

A Shared Space: Folklife in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1995), by James S. Griffith (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

Filed under: Arkansas -- Social life and customs

On the Track of "The Arkansas Traveler" (extract from the Century magazine, 1896), by Henry C. Mercer
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Armenia -- Social life and customs

The Romance of Missions: or, Inside Views of Life and Labor, in the Land of Ararat (New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., c1875), by Maria A. West, contrib. by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

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