Customs Traditions category: 898 books
The Birth of Cool
Style Narratives of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
It is broadly recognized that black style had a clear and profound influence on the history of dress in the twentieth century, with black culture and fashion having long been defined as 'cool'. Yet despite this high profile, in-depth explorations of the culture and history of style and dress in the...
by Barry A. Whittingham
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
The product of his English father and French mother’s ferociously antagonistic genes, François Théodore Thistlethwaite is a traumatized, split-identity ‘Frenglishman’. Any one of his three alter egos – François, the Marxist Frenchman, the ultra-conservative Englishman, Thistlethwaite, or...
At the Table: Food and Family around the World
Food and Family around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Almost universally, "dinner" is a key meal in most countries around the world, whether it be a simple dish of rice and beans, a slice of pizza on the go, or a multi-course formal meal. What do the specifics of how a meal is eaten—by hand instead of with utensils, for example—say about...
Home Away from Home
Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Drawing attention to domestic space as the critical juncture between the global and the local, Home Away from Home is an innovative ethnography of the daily lives of middle-class Japanese housewives who accompany their husbands on temporary corporate job assignments in the United States. These women...
Carryin' On
And Other Strange Things Southerners Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Pat Conroy said that R. Scott Brunner’s Due South “delivers the goods and delivers them Southern fried”; Rick Bragg said that Brunner “writes like people down here talk, with beauty.” Carryin’ On more than delivers on the promise of its predecessor, with more of the disarming and hilarious...
Analyzing Christmas in Film
Santa to the Supernatural
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Film plays a vital role in the celebration of Christmas. For decades, it has taught audiences about what the celebration of the season looks like – from the decorations to the costumes and to the expected snowy weather – as well as mirrors our own festivities back to us. Films like It’s a Wonderful...
Primitive Passions
Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Beginning with early 20th-century figures--among them Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, and Georgia O'Keeffe--who found in "the primitive" a medium for soul-searching and personal change, Torgovnivk probes how the return to the primitive has signaled a quest to transcend the limitations of the body...
Shame and Honor
A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."—HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England...
Eating Appalachia
Rediscovering Regional American Flavors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Dozens of indigenous fruits, vegetables, nuts, and game animals are waiting to be rediscovered by American epicures, and Appalachia stocks the largest pantry with these delectable flavors. Eating Appalachia looks at the uniquely flavorful foods that are native to the region—including pawpaws, American...
by Sasha Handley
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660...
Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People
The History and Culture of a People
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This in-depth historical analysis highlights the enormous contributions of Chinese Americans to the professions, politics, and popular culture of America, from the 19th century through the present day.
• Highlights the distinctive roles that Chinese Americans have added to the fabric of American...
by Isaac Myer
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
An element of great value to the student of religions is, that the scarabæus symbol, is the earliest expression of the most ancient idea of the immortality of the soul after death that has reached our day, taking us back however to a period which may be considered as civilized and enlightened and...
by Suzi Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Young Lady’s Day is Book 4 in the Regency Life Series.
This book depicts the often-frivolous life and fashions of a young lady in the early 1800’s, but also gives a glimpse into the more serious occupations a young lady may undertake. Through historic images, historical information, and funny...
The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World
Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1996
At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their...