Customs & Traditions

In today's consumer-driven society, extolling the virtues of thrift might seem like a quaint relic of a bygone era. Americans have embraced the ideas of easy credit, instant gratification, and spending as a tool to combat everything from recessions to...

At the end of the millenium, writer Ruth Pennebaker was in Texas, trying to keep her husband from blowing up their neighborhood every Fourth of July; rearing a daughter and son from early years into braces and backtalk; and finding out more than she...

Introduces key terms, research frameworks, debates, and histories for Asian American Studies Born out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four...

Grow Food, Cook Food, Share Food is a practical food history lesson, an editorial on our use of packaged convenience foods, and a call to arms-of the kitchen variety. Mixing food writing and history, adding a dash of cookbook, author and scholar Ken...

How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to...

Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history...

Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American...

Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chinese family rituals: initiations, weddings, funerals, and sacrifices to ancestral spirits. This translation...

On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class...

This book was designed with the children of Texas in mind. Kid tested and guaranteed to please, this book is a true adventure that will provide hours of educational fun for any little Texan, especially on those days when mother nature doesn't cooperate...

The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg's printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world. Some commentators have argued that this shift...

From the sixteenth century through the twentieth, Texans have had interesting things to say about themselves, their home, and the rest of the world. People beyond its borders have had interesting things to say about Texas and Texans for almost as long. ...

Texans will use any excuse to have fun! Pull up a chair and let a legendary Texas storyteller take you on a yearlong tour to 1,600 of his favorite fun Texas events in over 600 towns.Book InformationISBN 9781556228865Author Jim GramonFormat PaperbackPage...

A collection of strange occurences, this book brings to light tangible evidence and first-hand testimony to validate a wide range of ghostly tales. Whether they haunt the place of their death or a place they loved in their lives, these spirits are found...

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human...

Agwagune women in southeastern Nigeria contribute to the cultural construction of their societies in deep and systematic ways. This reality is often concealed, misrepresented, or unexamined in studies that do not consciously set out to address female...

The Native American Contest Powwow introduces Cultural Tethering Theory to understand the importance of the contest powwow and what it means to participants, carrying on the beauty of Native American culture. The book addresses the concepts of culture,...

Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780282340537Author Junius Free WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455622610Author Rene PierreFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

An expert guide to the present-day cultural life of Croatia and how it has been influenced by the nation's tumultuous past. Culture and Customs of Croatia offers an expert insider's look at a Balkan nation which, for the first time since the 12th...

Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern. Culture and Customs of Nigeria is the only concise, authoritative, and up-to-date discussion of Nigerian culture that...

In this systematic documentation of New Guinea rituals of manhood, Gilbert Herdt places the homosexual customs of the Sambia in their ecological and ideological contexts while exploring what they mean to the individuals who practise them. Raising a host...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868281880Author Kurt TongFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer VerlagWeight(grams) 511g

At last...an indispensable handbook for health care professionals who encounter diverse cultures every day. Immigrant, minority and refugee populations make up a quarter of our population, but special challenges await the doctors, nurses, clinical care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569023327Author Charles G SteffenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 330g

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with...

An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.About the AuthorOliver Woolley recently completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political ScienceBook...

Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book...

To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings of dress vary greatly among people. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing 'properly' has for centuries distinguished 'civilised' people from 'savages'. Through travel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587312670Author Roger KimballFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978527140Author Sadie SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Enslow PublishingPublisher Enslow PublishingWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554811113Author Frances TrollopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young transnationalists, young glocals and young protesters in cities on the five continents, it analyzes new agoras...

2020 Gourmand Award in Spirits China is one of the world's leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to business and warfare. Yet to the outside world, China's most famous...

Each year thousands of families throughout the United States and the world open their homes and hearts to international high school exchange students-sharing their own culture and learning about another. As these families face the challenges and joys of...

Whether negotiating a delivery date, launching a local franchise or renting a car in Mexico City, speaking the language and knowing the rules of business are not enough. In any culture where yes can mean no-or sometimes maybe-even giants like Wal-Mart...

Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, since earliest times. Different societies address death and the act of dying in culturally diverse ways; yet, remarkably, across the span...

Ukraine is the largest new state to appear on the map of Europe this century. With a population of more than 50 million people and a territory larger than France, the new Ukrainian state faces many challenges, not least of which is to forge a national...