Customs & Traditions

The Tea Book helps you explore the blends, tastings, and ceremonies from around the world and create your own delicious tea traditions. Where does tea come from? In The Tea Book learn where in the world tea is cultivated and how to drink each variety at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838275037Author Alwyn EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 742Imprint ScholasticPublisher ScholasticWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 38mm

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In an age of secularization and the decline of ritual, Christmas has emerged as the most promising candidate for the first global festival, celebrated not only in the Christian West, but in many countries with either a minority or no Christian population...

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...

The southern Appalachians are rich in folk magic and witchery. This book explores the region s customs and traditions for magical healing, luck, prosperity, and more. Author H. Byron Ballard known as the village witch of Asheville, North Carolina teaches...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684642816Author Carron BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Kane/Miller Book PublishersPublisher Kane/Miller Book PublishersWeight(grams)...

San material culture has been a subject of study for many researchers and archaeologists but rarely has the documented material been seen through the eyes of the people themselves. San Elders Speak: Ancestral Knowledge of the Kalahari San is the first...

Offering a fascinating celebration of Britain's living heritage, TRADITIONS OBSERVED, by Anna Hallett is an engaging journey through more than 70 of Britain's most ancient and enduring local customs and ceremonies. In a richly detailed travelogue, the...

Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911636267Author REDSWAN PRESSFormat HardbackPage Count 101Imprint RedSwan PressPublisher RedSwan Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784473042903Author Soshitsu XV I SenPage Count 152Imprint Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.Publisher Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.Weight(grams)...

First published in 1879, A Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India and of their Institutions, Religious and Civil by the Abbe J.A. Dubois, and translated from French by Rev. G.U. Pope, is arranged into three parts, with...

What is it like to meet a being from another world? This book collects testimony from eight hundred years of witnesses baffled by the supernatural breaking into their lives. Close reading of miracle collections, chronicles, saints' lives and sermons...

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation Through reflections on childbirth, parenting, creative practice, and expansive responsibility, Anishinaabe visual artist Quill Christie-Peters explores how reconnecting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784473041784Author Soshitsu XV I SenPage Count 148Imprint Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.Publisher Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.Weight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592218493Author Annabel RutherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 545g

In a time when communal rituals and cultural ceremonies fail, longtime scholar, storyteller, and ceremonialist Stephen Jenkinson asks what it means to lose cultural inheritance. In examining matrimony and its ritual twin, patrimony, Matrimony...

A fascinating collection of fashions of the sixteenth century.In 1562, FranCois Deserps published a book titled (in English translation) "A Collection of the various styles of clothing which are presently worn in countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and...

This is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license. It is available to read and download as a PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. We live in a...

Uncovering the intricate cultural threads that inform our dietary practicesParanatures in Culinary Culture embarks on a gastronomic odyssey, redefining foods we thought we knew and revealing the extraordinary stories of ordinary ingredients and the...

Mexico's Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Life Through Photos and Stories is the first four-colour lifestyle book to explore the vibrant and important traditions of Dia de los Muertos, Mexico's holiday for celebrating passed loved ones. Travel across...

Witches, fairies, unicorns, giants, dwarves, gnomes, and talking animals. Folk tales feature many magical creatures and larger or smaller than life entities and are great for pastime activities. What if such enchanted beings are replaced by familiar...

This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives.Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781333501761Author George R. SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

One of the most important drivers of the Anthropocene was a radical shift in what and how people eat. Industrial agriculture and meat production, new ways of processing, packaging, and distributing food, and the globalization of culinary habits not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781333533670Author A. FeathermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Students struggling to find information on the modern lives of those living in Eurasia need not look any farther! Written for high school and undergraduate students, Culture and Customs of the Caucasus fills a major void on library shelves. This unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088066683Author Mary J AndradeFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919642201Author Lydia BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Limestone PressPublisher Limestone PressWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm *...

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Uncovering the intricate cultural threads that inform our dietary practicesParanatures in Culinary Culture embarks on a gastronomic odyssey, redefining foods we thought we knew and revealing the extraordinary stories of ordinary ingredients and the...

This one-volume encyclopedia examines jobs and occupations from around the world that are unique and out of the ordinary, from bike fishermen in the Netherlands and professional wedding guests in South Korea to elephant dressers in India.It's not...

Modernizing Localities in Poland: A Never-ending Transformation investigates modern cultural traditions and their transformations in Poland. Designed as a series of case studies analyzing music festivals, city parades, rural rituals, and contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780282552657Author Junius Free WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780282515928Author J. G. KohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Rituals transform citizens into presidents and princesses into queens. They transform sick persons into healthy ones, and public space into prohibited sanctuary. Shamanic rituals heal, legal rituals bind, political rituals ratify, and religious rituals...