Customs Traditions category: 898 books

A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, POEMS AND STORIES OF KASHMIR is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home, culture, migration, womanhood, otherness and exile. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery,...

L’opera, pubblicata originariamente in dodici puntate, dal 1893 al 1895, sulla “Rivista delle tradizioni popolari italiane”, diretta da Angelo de Gubernatis, è una raccolta di saggi etnografici pubblicati dalla Deledda poco più che ventenne. Ella descrive gli usi e i costumi dei sardi della...

Le figure dei nani e dei folletti, che si trovano nei vecchi poemi, nelle tradizioni antichissime dei popoli, nelle leggende sparse ancora adesso in ogni parte della terra, sono così strane nel loro aspetto soprannaturale, che mi hanno indotta a raccogliere con amore la parte più interessante della...

We find in most countries a popular belief in different classes of beings distinct from men, and from the higher orders of divinities. These beings are usually believed to inhabit, in the caverns of earth, or the depths of the waters, a region of their own. They generally excel mankind in power and...

How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own country and immigrants from the English-speaking...

Let Origins of Chinese Culture guide you through the perplexing maze of all things Chinese. Pick up interesting facts about the “Four Treasures of the Study” — the brush, ink, paper and inkstone — which form the cornerstone of Chinese culture. You will be amazed by the wisdom and exquisite...

Beast and Man in India, A Popular Sketch of Indian Animals in Their Relations with the People is a historic story written by the art teacher from JJ College Bombay and the father of Rudyard Kipling. This story provides some interesting art works. The most cryptic piece is the dedication page with...

The most well-known Korean ceramics are the celadon of the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) and the white porcelain of the ensuing Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). [...] The celadons of Goryeo, their grace and color tinged with feminine beauty, symbolized an aristocratic Buddhist culture, while the white porcelains...

Since the dawn of time fire has been the source of awe, respect and reverence. In this unusual book find how fire was used in the rituals and beliefs of many different cultures. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...

Il testo che andrete a leggere presenta racconti inediti, misteri e leggende del paese di Revine Lago; a volte sono storie fantastiche con atmosfere torbide e terrificanti, trame allucinanti e bizzarre, con intrecci misteriosi e non sempre logici. Il Testo è stato realizzato da Tarzariol Lucio e...

There are two sides to every coin (unless you have one of those two faced coins, you cheater.) If you live in Chicago, like we do, there are two of a lot of things: baseball teams, seasons (winter and construction), sides of the city... I Feel Pretty brings you second chances and second chapters, served hot and fresh with a second helping of pretty people.

Austin Edward Sears has been a lead newspaper reporter for 20 years, and one thing’s for sure: He knows a con when he sees one! Or does he? Because one day, either by Divine Fiat or perhaps by the simple play of blind, intransigent fate, Austin Sears turns on his car radio and listens to an hour...

Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford—who lived and worked in Japan as a British diplomat—presents...

When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina,...