Customs Traditions category: 898 books

Extrait : "Lorsque le Basque est étonné par la vue de quelque chose d'inusité et de bizarre, il emploie un proverbe que l'on peut traduire ainsi : « Celui qui veut voir de drôles de choses doit venir dans ce monde. » Nous pourrions parfois placer à propos ce proverbe en écoutant raconter certaines...

Extrait : "Il a paru tout récemment dans le journal de Maine-et-Loire, un morceau de littérature ayant pour titre : Essai des mœurs bretonnes. Mais, soit que l'auteur de cet écrit n'ait fait que passer dans quelques localités de la Bretagne, soit qu'il ait vu le jour dans une autre province du royaume,...

Les origines des superstitions les plus répanduesElles font partie intégrante de notre quotidien, marquant de leur empreinte mystique certains gestes finalement très banals. Même les esprits les plus cartésiens peuvent contourner une échelle, toucher du bois ou chercher un trèfle à quatre feuilles...

La franc-maçonnerie n’est pas « une », mais « diversité » ; il en va de même pour l’islam ; la tradition s’accommode-t-elle de la modernité ?La maçonnerie, ensemble de laboratoires de pensée libre, ambitionne l’amélioration de l’humanité au travers celle de soi par...

Extrait : "Boucherie. Le service d'inspection aux abattoirs et aux halles et marchés a beau s'ingénier à réprimer la fraude sur les viandes fraîches, il n'y peut complètement parvenir. Il est, en effet, difficile de convaincre le propriétaire d'un animal, mort de maladie, qu'il a pour premier...

Taking the concept of beauty seriously, this encyclopedia examines how humanity has sought and continues to seek what is "beautiful" in a variety of cultural contexts, giving readers an understanding of how to look at beauty both intellectually and critically. • Provides an interdisciplinary...

Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences uses the term “threshold” as a means to understand the relationship between Self and Other, as well as relationships between different cultures. The concept of “threshold” defines the relationship between inside and outside...

To those still accustomed to seeing social order depicted in classes, strata, central groups, or institutions, and who measure and classify the social world according to "centers" and "margins," modern society presents itself as ambiguous and unmanageable. This is not unprecedented....

The modernization of traditional houses in each country may be understood as a process by which various aspects of culture and architecture originating from China, India, European colonial countries and international style were assimilated into various forms and elements of traditional houses. In...

When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is...

The title is, in fact, a bit misleading, because the article is not about the survival of Bulgarian people under our incompetent democracy (because: whatever the demos such is also the -cracy) but about this how we /should have/ tried to survive. With other words, the author here explains some main...

This is the Introduction I think some introductory remarks are necessary here because this is not a book but a folder with quite motley materials, and they are surely not fiction, and the name is not only “Feast” but also PIR. About the name it is easy, the initials PIR in Russian — and I usually...

Primul lucru care te fascinează, ca român, atunci când îl cunoşti pe profesorul Claudio Mutti, italian din Parma, clasicist de formaţie, dar şi cu studii de filologie… maghiară, este perfecta stăpânire a limbii române, până la nuanţe care scapă uneori chiar vorbitorului nativ de astăzi....

My book starts with a historical perspective of previous empires. What did they do right and what did they do wrong? What can we learn from them? Chapter two looks at the different socioeconomic classes existing in society. Where do you fit in? After locating your class in society, try to find out...