Author: Nitobe, Inazo Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nitobe Inazo (1862 - 1933) was a Japanese author, agricultural economist, educator and diplomat during the Meiji period in Japan. Nitobe published many scholarly books, novels and articles for magazin...
Author: Otnes, Cele / Knott, John Ray / Pleck, Elizabeth H. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of Amer...
Author: Toelken, Barre Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most comprehensive and widely praised introductions to folklore ever written. Toelken's discussion of the history and meaning of folklore is delivered in straightforward language, easily ...
Author: Warde, Alan / Martens, Lydia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Eating Out is a fascinating study of the consumption of food outside the home, based on extensive original research carried out in England in the 1990s. Reflecting the explosion of interest in food, r...
Author: Carolan, Michael S. Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on a variety of case studies, this book explores the interrelationship between physical connections to and knowledge of food. This book inserts into the food literature living, feeling, sensin...
Author: Jones, Sharyn Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Food and Gender in Fiji is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of the social relations surrounding foodways on the island of Nayau in Fiji. Writing from the perspective of an archaeologist, Jones ans...
Author: Coveney Smith, Bernadette Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gay Wedding Confidential: Adventures and Advice from America's #1 Gay Wedding Planner shares compelling stories and practical advice from a professional gay wedding planner that will help gay, lesbian...
Author: Randolph, Samuel M. Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Children whose dominant handedness is purposefully reversed may undergo profound alterations in their developing brains. Hidden Handedness tells this story from an autobiographical point of view. The ...
Author: Osembe, Teddy Lufungula Publisher: Hamilton Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The succession of Shimba as a traditional chief ruler of Mibanga, a tiny village in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the extraordinary power given to him by his ancestors and heavens...
Author: Wilson, William Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Composed over several decades, the essays here are remarkably fresh and relevant. They offer instruction for the student just beginning the study of folklore as well as repeated value for the many est...
Author: Vignoli, Tito Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Myth and Science is an 1885 essay and part of the International Scientific Series. Vignoli describes myth as the, "most general and comprehensive nature, the spontaneous and imaginative form in which...
Description: This book addresses the relationship between food consumption, status and power at the royal courts of Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume addresses issues of social net...
Author: Montell, William Lynwood Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers across the state. These accounts provide a record of the...
Author: Okakura, Kakuzo Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a rel...
Author: Hunt,Alice Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The coronation was, and perhaps still is, one of the most important ceremonies of a monarch's reign. This book examines the five coronations that took place in England between 1509 and 1559: those of ...
Author: Peltonen, Markku Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and id...
Author: Douglas, Hugh Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: How many times have you wondered about the origins of New Year's Eve, or Hogmanay as the Scots term it? This book reveals all as Hugh Douglas takes the reader from the remotest beginnings of this fest...
Author: Liebersohn, Harry Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared...
Author: Condon, John / Masumoto, Tomoko Publisher: Intercultural Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The second edition of With Respect to the Japanese discusses the salient features of Japanese values and behaviors and contrasts them with the values and characteristics of Americans while examining t...
Author: Wehr, Kevin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself us...
Author: Wehr, Kevin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself us...
Description: The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity, tas...
Description: Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk; biological variati...
Author: N/A Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Texas has its barbecue tradition, and a library of books to go with it. Same with the Carolinas. The mid-South, however, is a region with as many opinions as styles of cooking. In The Slaw and the Slo...
