DAM - Customs & Traditions 1

sinăăkssin is grounded in cultural practice and insists on writing about research from an Indigenous perspective, focusing on the theme of Indigenous communication methods and emphasizing that cultu……続きを見る

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The St……続きを見る

Wer war Maria Magdalena? Diese große, biblische Frauengestalt changiert in Kirche, Kunst und Gesellschaft zwischen dem Objekt des Begehrens und der Verehrung als Heilige, zwischen frevelhafter Prost……続きを見る

This book captures the heart of New Zealand’s culture through twenty-one everyday traditions that reflect trust, community, and connection to land. From the sizzling Election Day sausage to honesty ……続きを見る

Among the many collections of Egyptian proverbs, the standout is this compilation by Ahmad Taymour, a pioneer and leading figure in the field of paremiology. The Colloquial Proverbs was first publis……続きを見る

Het boek 'Een en ander over het dorpsleven in Transvaal' van Uitlander biedt een gedetailleerde en genuanceerde blik op het dagelijks leven in een Vlaams dorp, gefilterd door de lens van de Transvaa……続きを見る

First published in 2013, Queer Style was ahead of its time. It was the first book to address the cultural, political, and material histories of clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual iden……続きを見る

Sick and tired of birthdays? Me too A series of brief but impassioned rants about birthdays. Each and every one of us has one - I have no desire to celebrate mine! I really couldn’t care less about ……続きを見る

Sick and tired of Valentine’s Day? Me too A collection of short but passionate rants about Valentine’s Day, the most blissful, love-filled day of the year. It’s a celebration of romance and relation……続きを見る

Io, italiano**……in Ucraina ?!** permette al lettore di entrare in una realtà diversa da quella “occidentale” a lui conosciuta. Un simpatico viaggio nella splendida Ucraina, raccontato in chiave comi……続きを見る

Sick and tired of Halloween? Me too A brief series of rants about Halloween, the most frightening day of the year, or so they say. I don’t get too excited about it and am far from its biggest fan – ……続きを見る

A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS, POEMS AND STORIES OF KASHMIR is the debut collection of Lalita Pandit Hogan, an expatriate Kashmiri scholar and poet who shares with readers the loss of identity and home,……続きを見る

Artificial bodies constructed in human likeness, from uncanny automatons to mechanical dolls, have long played a complex and subtle role in human identity and culture. This book takes a range of the……続きを見る

Sick and tired of Christmas? Me too A short and uncensored collection of rants about the excessively jubilant Christmas. I may be breaking a taboo when I admit that I don’t like the biggest day of t……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the fir……続きを見る

Fashion is all around us, and so too is fashion journalism. Discussions of fashion proliferate in an ever-increasing range of media, from newspapers and magazines to tweets and TV programs. Fashion ……続きを見る

Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting……続きを見る

Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, which legalized homebrewing for personal and househo……続きを見る

Nella pubblicazione si propone un diario della vita giornaliera di un piccolo paese della Sicilia ed è percepibile, nelle ore della giornata tutti i suoni e rumori che scandiscono la vita degli uomi……続きを見る

Le radici lontane di un mondo che non esiste più, i luoghi e le persone che hanno dato dignità, cultura, invenzioni e tradizione ai nostri luoghi natii e all’intera nazione. Il tutto alla luce di un……続きを見る

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to ……続きを見る

In contextualizing the Dutch funerary practice in its wider legal, national and local governance framework, this book describes the historical context for current practices, provides data on trends ……続きを見る

This piece of a drama book, Bophelo bya Modiri Lenyalong, is intended to excite the readership in the following critical areas: - Understanding of the overarching critical underpinnings of the Pedi ……続きを見る

In "The Myths and Fables of To-Day," Samuel Adams Drake embarks on a compelling exploration of contemporary narratives that echo ancient mythologies and folkloric traditions. Through a blend of enga……続きを見る

Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and……続きを見る

TEUTONIC MYTH AND LEGEND by DONALD A. MACKENZIE (1912) An Introduction to the Eddas and Sagas; Beowulf; The Nibelungenlied and others. This is Donald Mackenzie's able retelling of the Northern mytho……続きを見る

Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tra……続きを見る

A wide-ranging, surprising, and eloquently argued book that offers a pragmatic and erudite look at the innate human inclination toward nepotismーfrom ancient Chinese clans to families like the Gores……続きを見る