Sociology: Customs & Traditions

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the B...

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the B...

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the B...

Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chi...

In contextualizing the Dutch funerary practice in its wider legal, national and local governance framework, this book describes the historical cont...

East Asia covers an area that is home to a quarter of the world's population. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the region, follow...

Bringing together original contributions by Canadian scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, Critical Perspectives in Food Studies introduc...

Covering an area of spectacularly diverse topography and climate, from arid Mexican deserts to tropical islands and from Amazonian rainforests to...

From the Baltic to the Balkans, and from Siberia to the Caucasus, the lands covered in this volume contain a multitude of cultures with rich and ...

Collectively, the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand represent a varied and culturally complex region. It is home to peoples leading time...

Photography represents a medium in which the moment of death can be captured and preserved, the image becoming a mechanism through which audiences ...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of three sites of infamous atrocity and their differing memorialization. Dark tourism research has stu...

Bulgarian popular music, the meanings it articulates, and the infrastructures of its creation, operates within a web of inter-dependencies with cha...

Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact t...

The book focuses on civic and political transformations in Ukraine and Russia during the start of the 21st century, marked by the increasing use of...

The discovery of a long-forgotten physic garden and the restoration of an old weathered Celtic cross on a coastal headland on the beautiful Scottis...

Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture...

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong ...

This original study of Plains Indian cultures of the 19th century is presented through the use of period writings, paintings and early photography ...

This book explores the phenomenon of anti-femail genital mutilation (FGM) social media activism. Against a backdrop of over 200 million girls and w...

This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America ov...

Behind Every Great Rum Is a Powerful WomanAn essential book, which shows that women are taking an increasingly important place in the world of rum,...

From the Narmer palette to funerary preparations to pyramids, Steen Bergendorff draws on anthropological insights to provide new interpretations of...

Given the increasing use of English worldwide and in intercultural communication, there is a growing interest in attitudes towards non-native speak...

Das alltaegliche Leben von ethnischen Minderheiten in Oesterreich ist fuer viele ein unbekanntes Gebiet. Darueberhinaus werden Minderheiten als soz...

This book studies the Afro-European and Euro-African past and present from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. It addresses Africa as...

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