Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Green Men & White Swans
The Folklore of British Pub Names
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Why do British pubs have such curious names? What tales lie behind the Moonrakers, the Hooden Horse, the Derby Tup? And why does the Green Man come in different shapes and sizes?
In Green Men & White Swans, leading folklorist Jacqueline Simpson explores the fascinating stories behind pub...
Games of Persuasion
: Exercises in Media Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2000
Like rain, the media overload pours over us each day, each hour, each waking moment of our lives. One way to cope is to withdraw from the world to a faraway island unhooked to any satellite.
Another way is to grapple with the media as so to understand the nuts and bolts of the persuasive messages...
by Terence Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The Incredible is a part of American History and tradition and our 50th State is certainly no exception. This unique little book, incredible in its own way, brings together the talents, knowledge and experience of two well-known Hawaiian residents, artist-illustrator Ray Lanterman and author-anthropologist...
Mixed-Up Love
Relationships, Family, and Religious Identity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Dating, commitment, kids, and family--it's all hard work, and when you come from different religious backgrounds it's even harder.
Jon, a Catholic writer, and Michal, a Reconstructionist rabbi, live out the challenges of an interfaith relationship everyday as husband and wife, and as parents...
Christmas on Jane Street
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The warm, wonderful, real-life tale of the family that brings the Christmas spirit to life on a street corner in Manhattan.
Every holiday season for nearly twenty years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees...
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation
Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians, sociologists, political scientists and serious readers who wish to understand how the immediate past has shaped Indias life will value this incisive work of a major historian.
On Islam
Muslims and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims, depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or even a willingness to learn about Muslims. On Islam helps break this cycle with information and strategies...
Cascina Novecento
Tradizione contadina, emigrazione e radici nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Le radici lontane di un mondo che non esiste più, i luoghi e le persone che hanno dato dignità, cultura, invenzioni e tradizione ai nostri luoghi natii e all’intera nazione. Il tutto alla luce di una dimensione di vita contadina mai gridata ma, al contrario, sussurrata con garbo e riservatezza...
From Beginning to End
The Rituals of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
FROM BEGINNING TO END
Why "rituals"?
My thinking was set in motion by those who, knowing I was a parish minister for many years, have asked me for advice about ceremonies and celebrations. They wanted words to use at graduations, funerals, and the welcoming of children. They inquired about...
Some Fruits of Solitude
Including A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
"Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims" is a collection of epigrams and sayings edited and put together by the early American Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania William Penn. The work collected in this book presents the wisdom of pre-Revolutionary USA. Contents:...
Qi=mc2
Gnosis: Planetary Initiation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Qi = mc2 is written and recorded in two volumes to mirror the thinking of the two-hemisphere brain so that each volume stands alone and readers may choose their principal way of knowing to grasp the emerging world-view underlying the chaotic events in our time; Science: Qualium Leap in Evolution and...
All the King's Cooks
The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The massive kitchens at Hampton Court were built to supply the entire household of Henry VIII. They were the first professional kitchens organised on such a scale. Brears provides a practical guide to their running, dispelling many of the misconceptions about the cooking and eating of meals in Tudor...
Toraja
Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely crafted prose, Barley offers...
Water Is the Animal
Fin De Millenaire Reflections of Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Rivers are arteries and feeder streams capillaries. It's the same water-based pattern repeated over and over again on the surface of this and other planets where water once flowed. Whether it's the thigh of a human leg, or the Andean borne, blood-red, silt-laden waters of the Rio Paraguay flowing...