Customs & Traditions 12

A Diplomat in Japan : The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the……続きを見る

A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India The books hitherto published on India have been in general, from their bulk, confined to persons arrived at a more advanced period of life; and ……続きを見る

A Little Tour In Ireland The view from the hill of Killiney is one of the loveliest in this land of loveliness. Seated among the purple and golden flowers, you look over its rocks and trees upon the……続きを見る

A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia Beyond Aschaffenburg the country improves. Wooded hills alternate with lengthy slopes of vines, deep shady 4coombs, and leafy valleys, where brooks fro……続きを見る

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 acce……続きを見る

In 1975, Nanny was declared the first, and is so far the only female National Hero in Jamaica. This was seen as a breakthrough in acknowledging the historical dimension of her people, the Maroons, a……続きを見る

Unlike the Government's Citizenship Test, this is the real measure of Britishness. Written in a snappy A-Z format with quiz questions throughout to test your Britishness, Iain Aitch explores all thi……続きを見る

A hilarious field guide to the world’s most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English. Thanks to television documentaries by Bruce Parry and David Attenborough, we are better acquainted with the……続きを見る

Maria Konjoekova’s Zo gaat dat in Rusland, of hoe te leven tussen Russen is niet alleen een grappige, vol zelfspot geschreven handleiding voor het dagelijks leven in Rusland, het is ook een scherpzi……続きを見る

the first clear anatomy of a confused decade, the 1990s – ‘Bracewell, with great verve and style, animates the cultural conversation’, Greil Marcus 'Michael Bracewell is the most adroitly gifted wri……続きを見る

For centuries, unicorns have inspired, enchanted and eluded humanity. The beast appears in the Old Testament and there was a brisk trade in unicorn parts in medieval times, with travellers regularly……続きを見る

In Tavern League, photographer Carl Corey documents a unique and important segment of the Wisconsin community. Our bars are unique micro-communities, offering patrons a sense of belonging. Many of t……続きを見る

The state of Israel was established in 1948 as a Jewish democracy, without a legal separation between religion and the state. Ever since, the tension between the two has been a central political, so……続きを見る

Austria : Containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire The population of the Austrian dominions is composed of different races, each having ……続きを見る

The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) was adopted in 2005 and designed to allow States to protect and promote cultural policies. This ……続きを見る

Esse livro nasceu a partir de um momento de náuseas, caos existencial, no qual todo ser pensante, mais cedo ou mais tarde, tende a passar, e onde todos os nossos valores são postos em xeque, sendo p……続きを見る

No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists……続きを見る

The social suffering and self-determination of Indigenous peoples are important public policy issues in Canada today. This book asks a fundamental question regarding Canadian-Aboriginal relations: A……続きを見る

DAISY BATES: "As the years passed, I was more and more convinced that it was impossible to leave these people, to be deaf to their appeal for human kindliness, and of the hopelessness of any movemen……続きを見る

Fashion matters to the economy, to society and to each of us personally. What we wear tells the story of who we are or who we want to be more quickly than anything else. Yet even as fashion touches ……続きを見る

The world’s most popular sport, soccer is a global and cultural phenomenon. The television audience for the 2010 World Cup included nearly half of the world’s population, with viewers in nearly ever……続きを見る

Naked we come into the world, but we are extraordinarily unlucky if naked we leave it. It is a human reaction to cover the dead with textiles. This volume presents the results of new and ground-brea……続きを見る

For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through s……続きを見る

Myths and Maxims documents some of the beliefs and lore of Trinidad and Tobago and by extension the rest of the Caribbean. It is packed with elders' advice on how to survive in today’s world and the……続きを見る

Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside ……続きを見る

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media studie……続きを見る

This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts……続きを見る

Memories, both in individual and collective form, still have a significant impact on how people relate to political processes in Europe today. While much has been written about top-down attempts by ……続きを見る

Rituale sind überall: Sie sind kein Privileg der Religion, sondern begleiten uns auf unterschiedliche Weise durchs Leben. In ihnen spiegelt sich der Wunsch nach Gewohnheit und Vertrautheit ebenso wi……続きを見る

Welche Frauen tragen Kopftuch und warum? Die Journalistin Petra Stuiber hat mit zehn dieser Frauen gesprochen, die ihr Kopftuch aus religiösen, traditionellen oder ästhetischen Gründen tragen. In »K……続きを見る