Customs Traditions category: 898 books
Les Femmes et l'adultère, de l'Antiquité à nos jours
Peines - Châtiments - Maris complaisants - Maris jaloux - Anecdotes - Situations plaisantes
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Qu'est-ce que l'adultère ? « C'est l'œuvre de chair sciemment et volontairement accomplie entre une personne mariée et une personne autre que son conjoint. » D'après Fournel, « l'adultère est une des trois espèces de délit dont les personnes de différent sexe peuvent se rendre coupables...
Nos pères
Moeurs et coutumes du temps passé
Language: French
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Extrait : "Nous commencerons donc ce soir, mon cher ami, les entretiens que vous préférez aux plaisirs bruyants de votre âge. En ce moment vos camarades s'en vont au théâtre et au bal : vous,la science du passé vous attire, et je vous en félicite : aussi n'épargnerai-je rien pour vous intéresser...
Technologie traditionnelle à Wallis
Essai de sauvegarde de la mémoire collective des charpentiers wallisiens (tufuga) du district de Hihifo
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Le but de ce travail a été d’étudier le fonctionnement du corps de métier de tufuga, nom que l’on donne aux charpentiers traditionnels de l’île Wallis. J’avais observé que les tufuga maniaient l’herminette avec d’autres outils pendant une construction. J’avais moi-même utilisé...
Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication
Paradigms, Principles, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
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 complement of classic readings on the topic of intercultural...
Living With Arabs
Nine Years with the Petra Bedouin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Horrendous news from the Middle East fills our newspapers and screens every day. How can we begin to understand what drives people to treat each other as they do? “Medieval” is a word often used. Well-informed commentators analyse political and military issues but give little insight into the...
by Wale Owoeye
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
ABIYAMO*: MOTHERHOOD INCARNATE* is a monograph about Yoruba tradition of motherhood, detailing its evolutionary phases from childhood to adulthood when a woman becomes betrothed to become a mother.
The book spotlights the culture of Abiyamo to the world, expressing the shades, nuances and spiritual...
No Accident, Comrade
Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
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, and others--contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence and operation of chance in the...
Ancestral Lines
The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind....
Travels in South America, during the Years 1819-20-21
Containing an Account of the Present State of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. Vol. 1.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1825 edition by John Murray, London. This edition comes with maps available as a free download. This edition contains illustrations. This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately. The Author has endeavoured to collect every fact which relates to the government,...
Korean Architecture
Breathing with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This book offers an introduction to Korea's abundant and unique architectural past and present, combining explanations of the principles behind Korean architecture with introductions to some of the country's finest buildings and structures. It explains some of the ideologies and perspectives that...
Sketches of Korea
An Illustrated Guide to Korean Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
**How Much Do You Think You Know about Korea?
Get a glimpse of the many faces of Korea in illustration form **
Kimchi, K-pop, taekwondo, Samsung—the images that most people get when they think of Korea don’t stray much beyond the usual ones. But there are so many more fascinating sides...
Drumming up Dialogue
The Dialogic Philosophies of Martin Buber, Fred Iklé, and William Ury Compared and Applied to the Babukusu Community of Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
If, as they say, we all come out of Africa, then somewhere in Kenyas Rift Valley we first learned to live as human beings and we quickly learned to quarrel, too. Migration patterns within Kenya are as complicated as any in the U.S. or Europe and its multi-ethnic history is much, much longer. Fr. Baraza,...
by Thomas Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
These observances once represented the spiritual life of Greece, and were considered for two thousand years and more the appointed means for regeneration through an interior union with the Divine Essence. However absurd, or even offensive they may seem to us, we should therefore hesitate long before...
