Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Rigor Mortis
El hombre que plantó un árbol para construir su ataúd y otras maneras de dejar el mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Una colección de reportajes periodísticos sobre la muerte en Bolivia
Raúl Mercado murió el mismo día en que decidió estrenar la camisa que reservaba para su funeral. No fue el único detalle que parecía planeado. Sesenta años antes, en una parcela familiar próxima a Suri, plantó un...
by Richard Borshay Lee, Irven DeVore
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists...
After the Cult
Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In many parts of the world the “white man” is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity. However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the actual heterogeneity and complexity of “whiteness” in specific ethnographic contexts. This study examines...
by Mary Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this inside look at the folk tradition of hand fishing, Mary Grigsby interviews thirty Missouri noodlers to examine this sports appeal. The skill of catching spawning catfish with the bare hands is passed down through generations and builds a sense of community among participants despite, or perhaps...
Honour and Violence
Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery. This volume examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan....
El libro del té
La mejor obra que se ha escrito nunca sobre la estética y el espíritu japoneses. Edición anotada.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Edición anotada y en español de “The Book of Tea”, de Okakura Kakuzō.
Biografía de Okakura Kakuzō, referencias biográficas de los personajes históricos que aparecen en la obra, cronología de las dinastías chinas, glosario y notas por Natalio Cardoso.
Obra maestra sobre...
All That Is Native and Fine
The Politics of Culture in an American Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
In the American imagination, "Appalachia" designates more than a geographical region. It evokes fiddle tunes, patchwork quilts, split-rail fences, and all the other artifacts that decorate a cherished romantic region in the American mind. In this classic work, David Whisnant challenges this view of...
Tradition and Contract
The Problem of Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
First Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Marchands de folie
Cabaret des halles et des faubourgs - Cabaret-tâcheron - Cabaret-cantinier - Cabaret-placeur - Cabaret de luxe
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Pour connaître le labeur des villes, à l'aube et à la nuit, il faut visiter les Halles. En nul endroit de la cité, l'activité des hommes n'est plus intense. A trois heures du matin, autour des victuailles étalées sur le carreau, s'agitent les maraîchères, les garçons, les chargeurs,...
by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Language: French
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 7, 2015
« La Kabbale dit que la nouvelle année est influencée par les étoiles. La naissance d’une année est semblable à la naissance d’un enfant. C’est la naissance d’une vie qui va durer un an. Quand un enfant naît, on fait son horoscope d’après le jour et l’heure de sa naissance afin...
Monde de l'Islam et Occident
Les voies de l'interculturalité
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Outre la mise en évidence de l’aspect artificiel d’une telle division, quelques espoirs raisonnables en la paix et en l’ouverture à « l’autre » émanent de leurs recherches. Patrick Denoux montre que la relation interculturelle est avant tout une expérience de vie, dont la réussite dépend...
by Maurizio Ortolani, Roberto Spingardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 10, 2014
“Non è vero ma ci credo”
Il titolo, che vuole essere anche un omaggio al grande Peppino De Filippo, è tratto da una sua deliziosa commedia scritta nel 1942. La commedia rappresenta in maniera molto divertente “l’altra faccia” della scaramanzia, descrivendo avventure e disavventure del...
by Francesco Durante
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In teoria, esiste un’identità napoletana forte, sedimentata nel corso di oltre due millenni, irrobustita da una grande tradizione culturale, contaminata dagli apporti piú vari, fissata in una lingua ricchissima, in una copiosa letteratura e in migliaia di famose canzoni, e infine enucleata in...
by Marco Aime
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2011
«Partivano. La gente di queste parti è sempre partita». I ricordi di Toni e Margherita, un anziano pastore e sua moglie, disegnano a tratti scarni ma decisi la loro storia, la storia della gente di Roaschia, nel Piemonte rurale di oltre mezzo secolo fa. Pastori, acciugai, venditori di capelli, uomini...