Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Irish Americans: The History and Culture of a People
The History and Culture of a People
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Virtually every aspect of American culture has been influenced by Irish immigrants and their descendants. This encyclopedia tells the full story of the Irish-American experience, covering immigration, assimilation, and achievement.
• Demonstrates the intricate—and far-reaching—nature...
by Ruth PenneBaker
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
At the end of the millenium, writer Ruth Pennebaker was in Texas, trying to keep her husband from blowing up their neighborhood every Fourth of July; rearing a daughter and son from early years into braces and backtalk; and finding out more than she wanted to know about breast cancer. Join this offbeat...
by Passerino Editore
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2018
I pantaloni che hanno segnato un'epoca e sono diventati uno dei simboli della società del Novecento.
I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo.
by Ricardo Corrêa Coelho
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Terra de pães, queijos e vinhos maravilhosos, mas também de paradoxos, a França convive com imagens contraditórias a seu respeito. é verdade que os franceses fizeram a revolução da "liberdade, igualdade e fraternidade" - base da democracia moderna, sua História, contudo, registra...
The Racial Mundane
Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams....
Le Franc-Maçon au XXIe siècle
Une réalité maçonnique dévoilée
Language: French
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Essai sur l’engagement d’un franc-maçon d’aujourd’huiNi insolite ni mystérieuse, la franc-maçonnerie ouvre une voie salutaire qui s’oppose à la pieuvre des fanatismes religieux. Le franc-maçon répond à une aspiration au progrès dans la recherche d’une spiritualité débarrassée de...
by AA. VV.
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Icy est la danse macabre des femmes
toute hystoriee & augmentee de nouueaulx
personnaiges auec pluseurs
dis moraulx en latin et francoys qui
sont enseignemens de bien viure
pour bien mourir
Lex metuenda premit mortales. omnibus vna
Mors cita sed dubia. nec fugienda venit.
Circuit et surgens...
Sexualité et rites en Afrique
Hier et aujourd'hui
Language: French
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Histoire et coutumes sexuelles africaines.L’Afrique a une multitude d’ethnies et conséquemment une pluralité de coutumes. Les rites d’initiation sexuelle ont une place de choix dans ce vaste champ de variétés culturelles.Hier sujet tabou, la sexualité est aujourd’hui vulgarisée surtout...
Cultural Discontinuity
The New Social Face of the Awajun
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Over time, indigenous groups in the Amazon region have developed subsistence strategies and cultural practices, reflecting a long process of cultural adaptation. However, the intensification of their intercultural relations during the last few decades has been in many cases creating a series of ruptures...
Playing Dead
Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School Drunk Driving Tragedies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
As the Grim Reaper pulls a student out of class to be a “victim” of drunk driving in a program called “Every 15 Minutes,” Montana Miller observes the ritual through a folklorist’s lens. Playing Dead examines why hundreds of American schools and communities each year organize these mock tragedies...
by C. Dale Brittain
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Most would agree that Christmas should be compounded of beautifully decorated homes smelling of pine and baked goods; good cheer with family and friends; quiet religious observance; special foods; glittering lights to make a snowy street magical; joyous music; and gifts to bring surprise and delight. ...
Binding Earth and Heaven
Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious movements may, as rare exceptions, survive and even eventually become successful in spite of intense opposition. Initial scorn and contempt...
Saqqaq
An Inuit Hunting Community in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In the early eighteenth century, West Greenland became a colonial territory of Denmark. Nevertheless, a large number of Inuit communities maintained significant aspects of their cultural and economic practices. When home rule was introduced in 1979, the benign paternalism of colonial days was superseded...
by P. Sadanandam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
India is rich in its oral tradition. Its antiquity defies historical inquiry. Indian folklore offers diversity in the forms of expression while retaining the unity of theme, i.e. Dharma., The forms may be changing periodically to suit the times. The purpose of these popular art forms has been the...