Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Under the Influence
A Case Study of the Elks, MADD, and DUI Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
What are the potentially negative consequences of an undeniably good public policy? Under the Influence examines how the Elks, one of the oldest lodge-based voluntary associations in America, may have been impacted by government policies such as DUI laws. To examine this empirically, author John C....
Gentlemen's Blood
A History of Dueling From Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
"Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal
The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Is there any human institution which can be safely called "Totemism"? Is there any possibility of defining, or even describing Totemism? Is it legitimate—is it even possible, with due regard for "methodology" and logic—to seek for the "normal" form of Totemism, and...
Deeply Rooted in the Present
Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage...
Figuring Foreigners Out, 20th Anniversary Edition
Understanding The World's Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Craig Storti is a renowned expert in intercultural communications whose approaches are highly practical and based on his decades of experience as an intercultural trainer throughout the world.
This hands-on resource can be used as a self-paced guide or in a facilitated (work or academic course)...
by H. Ned Seelye
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
The need for new approaches, methods, and techniques in cross-cultural training and intercultural education are virtually insatiable, especially for experiential activities. The emphasis in this book is on activities that foster the development of intercultural awareness and cross-cultural sensitivity,...
by Stephen Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book begins with the period leading up Christmas, with accounts of the preparations, before moving through Christmas Eve, with its fasting, feasting and a multitude of superstitions, Christmas Day with its focus on the home and family, and on to the accounts of the very communal celebration of...
Dancing with the Gods
Essays in Ga Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s, the essays present descriptive...
Organ Donation in Japan
A Medical Anthropological Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. The history of organ transplantation in Japan is a unique and...
Understanding Religious Ritual
Theoretical approaches and innovations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This...
Religion in Korea
Harmony and Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book surveys the rich religious and spiritual tapestry that is contemporary Korea. We begin with the earliest of Korean faiths—the shamanism that prehistoric Koreans brought with them as they migrated to the peninsula from Central Asia—and continue on to today's most prominent faiths: Buddhism,...
Superstitions
and why we have them
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In Superstitions, Max Cryer explains the origins of many of the things we commonly say and observe and why we continue to include them in our lives: kissing under the mistletoe, the unlucky number thirteen, the significance of the bridal bouquet, saying ‘bless you’ after sneezing, the hanging...
Islam Is a Foreign Country
American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims? Do their ties to the larger...
Bodies of Evidence : The Practice of Queer Oral History
The Practice of Queer Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian...