Customs Traditions category: 898 books

Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronology ventures right to the borderlines of science and sheds light into the darkness. Here, topics as wide ranging as the Maya death gods, golems, and...

"A FANTASY OF FAR JAPAN OR SUMMER DREAM DIALOGUES" was originally published in 1905. The book "depicts Japanese ideals and notions at the turn of the century, as well as some historical facts which seemed likely to interest those of the sympathetic Western public who may be inclined...

The artistic and philosophical heritage of Japan has a special meaning for the modern world. During the present century, Japanese thought and Japanese art have exerted a strong influence on the western mind. Art, Life, and Nature in Japan takes us to the roots of Japanese culture and the origins of...

Two grown sisters confront the memory of their parents’ tragic death. This revised edition of Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, which played at the 1990 Stratford Festival, is John Van Burek and Bill Glassco’s translation of Michel Tremblay’s original French text. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps...

Raucous, reckless, and rude, the women of Les Belles Soeurs shamelessly share their most secret hopes and fears, complain stridently about their friends and relatives, and fantasize wistfully about escaping the misogynist drudgery of their lives. With the premiere of this play in 1968, Joual, the distinctive...

Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian...

FROM the earliest ages of the Church, the advent of the Man of Sin has been looked forward to with terror, and the passages of Scripture relating to him have been studied with solemn awe, lest that day of wrath should come upon the Church unawares. As events in the world’s history took place which...

"Teatro Sagrado, los "coloquios" de México", es un viaje por los subsuelos de México. ¿De dónde vienen las pastorelas? ¿Cómo se generan las estremecedoras ceremonias como las pasiones indígenas? ¿Por qué los carnavales de Chamula, Huejotzingo y Michoacán difieren tanto...

Un libro que expone de manera clara y resumida la historia y sistema de uno de los cultos populares más extendidos del México actual: la adoración a la Santa muerte. La virgen de los olvidados. Su sola mención y su figura pueden provocar rechazo y temor; sin embargo, para muchos mexicanos...

Santos populares, santos profanos, santos extraoficiales, santos bandidos. Una investigación sobre las peculiares figuras religiosas en las que miles de desamparados buscan un refugio y esperanza. Por el autor de Los brujos del poder. José Gil Olmos rastrea la memoria colectiva de esos singulares...

Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad notions and questions of citizenship, identity, ethnicity and belonging through investigation of Japan’s Korean population...

The beloved and bestselling “anthropologist of everyday life” turns her witty and insightful gaze to the oddities of living in our modern world Over the course of her time as a contributor and editor for *Saturday Night *magazine—a span during which she published her award-winning book The...

“A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives” from the bestselling author of The Rituals of Dinner (*TheNew York Times*).** Known as an “anthropologist of everyday life,” Margaret Visser has won numerous awards for illuminating the unexpected...