Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Mythes et traditions de Maré
Nouvelle-Calédonie, Les Eletok
Language: French
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Maré peuple archaïque, Maré peuple sans Histoire, parce que peuple sans écriture ! Et cependant Maré possède trop d’histoires, serait-on plutôt tenté de dire. Je me rappelle mon découragement, vers 1948-1950, lorsque j’eus l’impression en étudiant les traditions locales de vouloir vider un trou sans fond.
The Cry of the Huna
The Ancestral Voices of Hawaii
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Explores the breakdown in the chain of cultural transmission that has led to the decimation of Hawaiian spirituality, and how it can be restored
• Shows how reconnection to the ancestral ways can be achieved through letting go and forgiveness of the effects of colonization
• Reveals...
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Cha-No-Yu
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The tea cermony—known as cha-no-yu, or literally "hot water for tea"—has touched nearly every aspect of Japanese life.
First published in 1933 as Cha-No-Yu, or The Japanese Tea Ceremony, this classic remains the gold standard for books on the five-centuries-old tea ceremony, which...
I Like Being Catholic
Treasured Traditions, Rituals, and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A celebration of the treasured traditions, rituals, and stories that run through the bloodstream of American Catholics
For Andrew Greeley, it is the reverence of Christmas night and the exultation of Easter morn. Martin Scorsese, like many others, remains grateful for the nuns who rapped his...
Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation
The Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
What is the Nature of the social order that unquestionably produced one of the greatest and longest lasting civilizations known to humankind? Alain Daniélou, distinguished Orientalist, musicologist, and linguist, reveals the foundations of India's culture and the four aims of human life as they are...
Phantom Armies of the Night
The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe
• Recounts the myriad variations of this legend, from the Cursed Huntsman and King Herla to phantom armies and vast processions of sinners and demons
• Explains...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The illustrated book gives historical and cultural background of Christmas. Navigate easily to any chapter from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases.FEATURES:- Who is Mrs. Claus? - How to make an apple pie - What are the lyrics of "O Little Town of Bethlehem" - How to take care of Christmas...
The Man Who Knew the Medicine
The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The teachings of Bill Eagle Feather, Sun Dance chief and medicine man of the Rosebud Sioux, as told by his apprentice.
• Reveals personal accounts of important Native American rituals such as the yuwipi and the sun dance.
• Includes stories and teachings from the last years of Bill...
Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence...
by Laurence Whistler
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
For children the day begins with a weight on the toes, long, angular, and many-faceted as a leg by Picasso. The stocking should be opened by candlelight: no other light is resonant at that high frequency of excitement.
Christmas is one of the oldest of our traditions, more ancient than any...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of French territory in what became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Although today Louisiana makes up only a small portion of this immense territory, this exceptional state embraces a larger-than-life history and a cultural blend unlike...
Vieilles coutumes, usages et traditions populaires des Vosges
Provenant des cultes antiques, et particulièrement de celui du soleil
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Il existe encore, dans les Vosges, des adorateurs du soleil. Plusieurs fois, aux sommets du Ballon de Guebwiller, du Ballon d'Alsace, j'ai trouvé — le 24 Juin, au solstice d'été — des montagnards arrivés de très bonne heure (il y en avait même qui passaient la nuit) pour assister...
by Ted Olson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states along the Appalachian chain, was the American frontier. In colonial times, it was settled by hardy, independent...
by Anna Servaes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
French traditions in America do not live solely in Louisiana. Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée travels to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, to mark the Franco-American traditions still practiced in both these Midwestern towns. This Franco-American cultural...