Customs Traditions category: 898 books
An Apple A Day
Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Can beggars be choosers? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday English without much thought ever being given to their meanings, or indeed,...
Around the Tuscan Table
Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2004
In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid research, Counihan examines how family, and especially gender have changed in Florence since the end of World War II to...
Mind Your Manners
Managing Business Cultures in the New Global Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
"A very clever management book." - John Cleese
Praised by Business Week as "invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality ... a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves" and named a Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Mind...
Culture and Value
Tourism, Heritage, and Property
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book is the first collection of essays by noted folklorist, Regina F. Bendix, that explore how cultures create, give, and maintain value for cultural elements and artifacts.
Bendix's work seeks to transcend specialized perspectives on cultural heritage and integrate this booming research...
Sport in the City
Cultural Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers between so-called ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture continue to disintegrate. Sport...
Grandmother's Wisdom
Good, Old-Fashioned Advice Handed Down Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Grandmothers have been handing out advice for centuries and their tried and tested methods are often the answer to many modern day problems. Did you know that malt vinegar and baking soda are as good as any branded cleaning product? That you can make your own delicious lemonade? Or shampoo that's...
by Lawrence Bamblett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Using sport as a lens, this book celebrates Wiradjuri culture and the joys of life within an Aboriginal Australian community. As it examines the physical activities and sports that are valued by native Australians—including games, bare-knuckle fighting, and storytelling that incorporates a significant...
Why Warriors Lie Down and Die
Towards an Understanding of Why the Aboriginal People of Arnhem Land Face the Greatest Crisis in Health and Education Since European Contact- Djambatj Mala
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
"This fascinating book is about walking together, about understanding, about reconciliation." - Ray Martin, Media Personality
Why Warriors Lie down and die is essential reading for anyone interested in indigenous peoples. It provides hope and new direction for those searching for...
Red Flags and Lace Coiffes
Identity and Survival in a Breton Village
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented...
by Philip Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States? In this book-length essay, Philip Resnick argues that, in more ways than one, Canada has been profoundly marked by its European origins. This is most apparent where the European historical underpinnings both of English-speaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive story of the complicated and rich story of the Japanese American experience—from immigration, to discrimination, to adaptation, achievement and contributions to the American mosaic.
• Includes more than 200 clearly written, cross-referenced entries that...
Funeral Culture
AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa’s last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people...
by W.H.I. Bleek, L.C. Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
by W.H.I. Bleek and L.C. Lloyd
"Specimens of Bushman Folklore is a book by the linguist Wilhelm H. I. Bleek and Lucy C. Lloyd published in 1911.
The book records eighty-seven Bushman legends, myths and other traditional stories. The stories were collected...
by MJ Harden
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Called "a brilliant book of interviews with amazing photographs" by The Maui News, this book illuminates the magic, mastery and culture of Hawaii's wisest elders.
It is a rare privilege to sit at the feet of Hawaiian elders—to hear their stories firsthand. Their wisdom and...