Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Geisha of a Different Kind
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’...
From the Land of Shadows
War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's...
The Collectivity of Life
Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Collectivity of Life is a study of autobiographical writing and oral histories situated in the late twentieth century United States. The central thesis is that by studying how the authors of these narratives articulate space in their stories, we can uncover a recurring critique of meritocratic...
by Robert Marett
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
This is one of the finest introductions to anthropology ever written . Marett is a clear and concise writer whose prose is majestic and understandable. Marett is clearly one who loves anthropology and needs to share it with the world.
Dangerous Designs
Asian Women Fashion the Diaspora Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
In late-1990s Britain, the salwaar-kameez or 'Punjabi suit' emerged as a high-fashion garment. Popular both on the catwalk and on the street, it made front-page news when worn by Diana, Princess of Wales and by Cherie Booth, the wife of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In her ethnography of the local...
Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"
The Folk in the City
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture....
by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Il "Discorso sopra lo stato presente dei costumi degl'Italiani", scritto dal ventiseienne Giacomo Leopardi nel 1824 e pubblicato solo nel 1906, mette al centro la scostumatezza della società italiana, manchevole di una sensibilità morale condivisa e ingessata nella memoria di un passato...
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Freemasonry, 2nd Edition
Discover the Rich and Fascinating History of This Mysterious Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Freemasonry is an ancient secret society shrouded in obscurity. Fascination with the mysteries of the Masons reached fever pitch after the release of Dan Brown's novels, Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code, and The Lost Symbol. But these novels and their related movies raised more questions than they...
Tales From Birehra
A Journey Through A World Within Us
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
With deeply vivid storytelling that delves into the symbiotic Hindu-Muslim relationship shared across the Indian sub-continent prior to the ending of the British Raj, Tales from Birehra is a unique and truly compelling narrative. Birehra is a fictional microcosm of the country and times-a tiny village,...
Desiring Canada
CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country – and beyond – on television and in other forms of media. But whose definition of ‘Canadian’ do they represent? What does it mean to be Canadian?...
by Pinky Toky
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Jing-zhe refers to the awakening of hibernating insects and animals, which marks the start of spring. Jing-zhe Day usually falls on March 5, 6 or 7 of each year. Activities related to Jing-zhe are the making of offering to White Tiger (zae baak fu) and the beating of petty little people (da siu yan). These rituals are performed to get rid of bad luck and troubles.
Sketchy Santas
A Lighter Look at the Darker Side of St. Nick
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Ho, ho, huh?
Who’s that excessively jolly fellow with the fake beard, shifty eyes, sweaty hands, and boozy breath? Why, it’s not just Santa but sketchy Santa! Yes, ’tis the season for awkward photos of small children posed precariously on the laps of some of the most clownish, irritable,...
by Jan Harold Brunvand
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1990
From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends.
Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive?...
What Your Birthday Reveals about Your Sex Life
Your Key to the Heavenly Sex Life You Were Born to Have
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Birthdays hold the keys to the best sex you'll ever have--if only you knew how to read the signs. In this book, noted astrologer and author Phyllis Vega draws on the predictive powers of astrology and the ancient art of numerology to create revealing erotic profiles for you to use in between the sheets.
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