Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Mœurs intimes du passé
Usages et coutumes disparus - Série I
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Extrait : "Est-ce bien le procès du passé que nous instruisons ? Ce n'est pas, à tout prendre, son apologie que nous poursuivons. Nous entendons seulement le rattacher au présent par une chaîne ininterrompu, au lieu d'en faire table rase, comme certaine école aussi dédaigneuse, aussi injuste qu'elle...
by Francesca de Lucia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book focuses on the development of Italian American cultural identity throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Italy is becoming a destination, rather than a starting point for immigrants. Immigration remains a source of tension and debate both in the United States and...
by Marella Giovannelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2016
“Piccole storie di Olbia dagli anni Venti agli anni Cinquanta” è tratto da un programma televisivo che, nel 1992, riscosse grande successo e coinvolse tutta la comunità olbiese. L’autrice dei testi, Marella Giovannelli, attraverso le testimonianze e i racconti degli anziani terranovesi, propone...
Quale Italia
Prospettive e retrospettive
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Concludendo, nel gennaio 2000, il suo disegno storico della letteratura e della civiltà italiana dal Due al Novecento, nel quale è andato indagando le tracce di una «identità nazionale» prima in formazione, poi in evoluzione verso forme piú mature e moderne, Enrico Malato ha ritenuto di sviluppare...
by MC Donatella Pavone
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 27, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 27, 2019
Saggio su storie e tradizioni della terra di Sicilia.
Castelli, simboli, storia, miti e leggende delle singole città siciliane.
by M.P. Capellan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2019
El machismo latino y caribeño lo han perfeccionado tanto que hasta las mismas mujeres repiten las frases que las denigran. De tantas expresiones y moralejas que existen sobre la subordinación del género femenino, surge esta idea: un breve relato acerca de algunas de esas frases "inocentes"...
A Death in the Rainforest
How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
**“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost),...
by Emilio Gabbrielli
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In a mysterious castle in Libya where he stumbles upon some unexpected vestiges of the past, the narrator is inspired to tell the story of his extraordinary experiences in Australia.
It is a story about the meeting of two cultures – Italian and Aboriginal – and about the emotions aroused in the...
Food and the Internet
Proceedings of the 20 th International Ethnological Food Research Conference, Department of Folklore and Ethnology, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Łodź, Poland, 36 September 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Discourses about food, especially on social media, affect the dietary choices of many people on a daily basis all over the world. In recognition of this phenomenon, the selection of 25 ethnological essays in this volume explores the effects of the digital age on post-modern food culture. It examines...
by Gian Carlo Fusco, Beppe Benvenuto
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Aneddoti, ritratti, ricordi e bozzetti intorno al piatto di pastasciutta. Uno scrittore, vulcanico nella vita e nella scrittura, che fu memoria dei vizi italici: spiritosissima e senza una smorfia di moralismo.
by Robert Peate
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
In the summer of 2011, for my teaching career, I took the classes necessary to be ESL certified. One of these, the Impact of Language and Culture in the Classroom, was led by an excellent instructor, who gave us the assignment to visit "cultures", or subcultures, with which we were uncomfortable....
La Brasserie
Une plaie sociale
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Extrait : "A l'Exposition de 1867 figurèrent à quelques sections, et particulièrement à l'exposition anglaise, des bars installés sur le modèle de ceux de Londres, où le service est fait pas des jeunes filles choisies avec goût et sérieusement enfermées dans de reluisants comptoirs d'acajou...
La barrière et le niveau
étude sociologique sur la bourgeoisie française moderne
Language: French
Release Date: October 2, 2013
La barrière et le niveau : étude sociologique sur la bourgeoisie française moderne.
Cet ouvrage est un grand classique de la sociologie contemporaine, et l’un des œuvres majeures d’Edmond Goblot.
Bonne lecture.
S’Acabadora
È ora di finirla?
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 9, 2014
Il libro rivisita, in maniera critica, le vicende storiche e di costume che hanno condotto alcuni studiosi e scrittori ad affermare l’esistenza in Sardegna, fino a poco tempo fa, di un “rito della buona morte”. L’autore, attraverso argomentazioni storiche e linguistiche, a tratti con toni...