Customs & Traditions

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,...

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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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486200705Author Kakuzo OkakuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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

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...

Tradition is a central concern for a wide range of academic disciplines interested in problems of transmitting culture across generations. Yet, the concept itself has received remarkably little analysis. A substantial literature has grown up around the...

First published in 1975. How do men come to perceive and evaluate a world in which marked inequalities of class and status exist? This book considers the nature of class images and their underlying work and community structures. Beginning with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455623792Author Al KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

The writer Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieu's satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. An unusual combination of realism, visual satire, and novelistic detail, Domestic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565547247Author Henri SchindlerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 917g

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...

The mummified forms, along with beautifully painted masks and coffins, of animals, scribes, viziers, noblemen and women, priests, pharaohs and queens from the Pharaonic period, all feature in this miniature but magnificent introduction to the world of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616208677Author Shoba NarayanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 18mm

As many in the north country can attest, one of life's great pleasures resides in the tradition of sauna-sitting in 180-plus-degree heat and throwing cool water on oven-hot stones to create a blast of steam (called loeyly), followed by a jump in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553277371Author Alvin TofflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

A perfect introduction to Japan and Japanese culture, this illustrated culture and travel guide contains loads of original drawings as well as the Japanese script for key words and phrases.Some people take photos, but artist Betty Reynolds captures...

Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The volume is structured not by types of sexual interactions...

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...

In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective. In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full...

British writer and tea historian Jane Pettigrew has joined forces again with American tea writer Bruce Richardson to chronicle the fascinating story of tea's influence on British and American culture, commerce and community spanning nearly four centuries...

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...

Broomsticks and cauldrons, familiars and spells: magic and witchcraft conjure vivid pictures in our modern imaginations. The history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past, illuminating the lives of ordinary people and shining a light on...

Thought of as one of the world's greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci's writings push readers to interpret and change the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini enlarges upon his seminal works, disentangling it from the prevailing orthodoxy...

The fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook, Kanz al-fawa'id fi tanwi' al-mawa'id, is a treasure trove of 830 recipes of dishes, digestives, refreshing beverages, and more. Here, for the first time, it has been meticulously translated into English and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967217659Author Goran RygertFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Nordstjernan Forlag, Div of Swedish NewsPublisher Nordstjernan Forlag, Div of Swedish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Finalist, Architecture/Interior Design Category in the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) presented by Independent Publisher Magazine. 1999.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541686Author Wendy PojmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062394132Author Matt GouldingFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Harper Wave/Anthony BourdainPublisher Harper Wave/Anthony BourdainWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234551Author Virginia Sole-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings...

For some time now the body has been a central topic across a range of social science disciplines. Similarly, there has been a growing interest in the cultural meaning of clothing. But curiously, even though people are nearly always clothed, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331478Author Lawrence E. HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

This book focuses on the dress of one royal individual, Henry and his physique, portraiture, personal wardrobe, jewellery, regalia and ceremonial robes. It is the only other substantial record of the king's clothes in English archives on wardrobe and...

How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean...

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...

Thinkers and activists from many orientations and traditions are now coming together to explore ways to reconstitute rites of passage as a form of community healing for our public and personal ills. Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of over fifty...

'Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.' These words, spoken at war memorials across the United Kingdom and around the world on 11 November every year, encapsulate how we...