Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe
A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement 'nutrition as a biological process is more fundamental than sex'. When it was first published in 1932, with a preface by Malinowski, it laid...
by Susannah Lickman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Autumn passion, Babysitter and her boyfriend, Car fantasy, and so on...Very exciting novels....
by Cobo, Teresa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Aprende a hacerte tú misma los preciosos diseños de uñas decoradas que arrasan en las alfombras rojas.
32 sencillos tutoriales para dominar todas las técnicas y diseños más bonitos del nail art, desde el degradado multicolor hasta la clásica manicura francesa.
El nail art siempre...
by Gonzalo Chacón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Este libro es un conjunto de narraciones que describen con vivacidad las tradiciones y las leyendas de la Costa Rica de antaño. En estas anécdotas cobran vida los acontecimientos y protagonistas que fueron clave en la conformación de la identidad nacional, por lo cual resulta un panorama de la Costa Rica decimonónica.
How Chinese Are You?
Adopted Chinese Youth and their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children’s...
Sustainability of Van Gujjars
A Transition of Muslim Pastoral Tribe in Himalayan Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Book is about the forest dwelling tribes of Northern Himalayas who are in the process of resettlement by the Uttarakhand Government in India. This book discusses the sustainability issues of this tribe in the context of vulnerability and livelihood strategies. The main theme and objective is to...
Muslim Civilization
The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
"[This is] a subject of such relevance and importance that one wonders why nobody else dealt with it in book form before."—Dr. Wilfried HofmannMuslim civilization has experienced a decline during the last five centuries after previously having undergone a long period of prosperity and comprehensive...
Rites of the God-King
Santi and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category...
by Marion Kummerow
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Fully Revised and Updated Version 2017 -- Now includes the new security measures in place
Famous Munich Oktoberfest is the world's biggest folks and beer festival. It has been imitated hundreds of times, but nothing even remotely resembles the Original.
This guide gives you all the essential...
by Don E. Post
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
As you have traveled, whether for pleasure, business, or governmental diplomacy, how many times have you said, "If I had only known?"
Knowledge is sometimes all that stands between failure and success of any foreign endeavor. A lack of knowledge, no matter how insignificant, can...
Puro Arte
Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies
Puro Arte explores the emergence of Filipino American theater and performance from the early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino performing body's location as it conjoins...
Connecting across Cultures
Turning Neighbors into Friends and Allies
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Cultural differences can cause problems. In this book, the author details a workshop she conducted and the lessons learned in Vecinos (broadly defined as “neighbors”) experiences in New Mexico that addressed these problems. The themes explored were crucial: the power of names, the tri-cultural...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
About this book:
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England....
Berets, Baguettes, and Beyond
Curious Histories of France
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
If you love France and are curious about all things French, this book is for you. In it you will find stories exploring the curious histories behind everyday French symbols: From berets to baguettes, and beyond.
You will discover:
- How the baguette got its distinctive shape
-...