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179 pages. "Traces the origin and development of a wide selection of naval practices and ceremonies" - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Illustrated in black and white. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A lovely gift-quality copy. Book
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Book
pp. xvi, 270. Illustrated with photographs. Softcover. Bison paperback. Very good. W11
Book shows light wear to covers, foxing to page ends only. Binding is solid and square, covers have two lightly bumped corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for inscription from previous owner on front endpaper. Chapters include: Description of the parish, and a note on its weather; Man's influence on the flora and fauna; History; Local government and social conditions in the 18th century, Architecture, Farming, past and present, Salt, The village joiner eighty years ago, Speech, Folk-lore, Customs, Place and field names, Sport and pastimes, Mammals, Water-birds, Birds of field, woodland and garden, Butterflies and moths, Flora, List of birds, etc. 34 color photos, 48 b&w. 278 pages.
16p., 100 plates Unbound Ex-library, Good condition, some pages lightly edge chipped
cm. 16,5 x 23,5, xviii-114 pp. con 63 ill. n.t. 324 gr. xviii-114 p.
Introduction " The subject of this book is the imaginative world of an Orthodox Christian village in Greece, and specifically the cosmological, religious and moral imagination associated with the characteristic forms of its life. . . . To become aware of the religious imagination in subsistence villages of this kind in Europe involves engaging with a living reality which is often only seen at a distance, through the prism of debates which remain very much alive in the religious history of the West. With a Greek village this is particularly the case: Greece has remained to many the mother of the western world, whether as the first source of free, rational thought or as the source of the Greek language in which the New Testament was first written. And for this reason western preoccupations with Greece have shaped perceptions of the Greek imagination in distinct ways. .. . .Another great part of Romiosýne is the Byzantine legacy of the Orthodox Christian faith, whose symbols and thought forms are embedded throughout the culture, and Greeks may resist the ethos of the modern European state not only from individualism or scepticism, but also from an Orthodox vision of society. ... I have ...tried to clarify how they relate to the Orthodox understanding of things, so as to provide as complete a picture as is possible in the space available of the Greek religious imagination as I found it within the varied aspects of one community. " Book
47 pages including index and colour photography. "Presents favourite Norwegian recipes including easy, step-by-step recipes from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Author's suggestions for setting the table and serving the meal will acquant you with Norwegian customs, and you can share what you've learned with your guests as you eat the delicious dishes found in this book." - from back board. Usual library markings. Binding sound. Average wear. Solid working copy. Book
In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors discuss, for example, how going out for coffee embodies dominant ideas about female sexuality, moral virtue, and autonomy; why men in a Lesbos village maintain elaborate friendships with nonfamily members while the women do not; why young housewives often participate in conflict-resolution rituals; and how the dominant role of mature married householders is challenged by unmarried persons who emphasize spontaneity and personal autonomy. This collection demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural, competing, antagonistic, and are continually being redefined by contexts and social change. Contents: Part One : Gender and kinship in marries life Part Two ; Gender, Kinship and Religion: 'Reconstructing' the Anthropology of Greece by Jill Dubisch; Cosmos and Gender in Village Greece by Juliet du Boulay; Silence, Submission and subversion: Towards a Poetics of Womenhood by Michael Herzfeld; The Resolution of a Conflict through song in Greek Ritual Therapy by Loring Danforth; The Limits of K inship by Roger Just. PART TWO GENDER AND KINSHIP OUTSIDE MARRIAGE: Sisters in Christ: Metaphors of kinship among Greek nuns by A Marina Iossafides; Friends of the Heart: Male Commensal Solidarity, Ge nder and kinship in Aegean Greece by Evthymios Papataxiarchis: Going out for Coffee? Contesting the Grounds of Gendered Pleasures in evryday Sociability by Jane Cowan; Hunters and Hunted: Kamaki and t he ambiguities of sexual Predation in a Grek Town by Sofka Zinovieff; Gender, Sexuality and the Person in Greek Culture by Peter Loizos and Evthymios Papataxiarchis.259p. plates. bibliography.index Book
Clean, bright and tight. Used
A clean, umarked copy in excellent condition. Bibliographic label on inside of front boards. 158 pages.
290 pages. Glossary. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. Signed and inscribed by editor upon title page. "A collection of Kathy Hogan's columns from the war years... Offers a remarkable social history of the war at home." - from dust jacket. Clean and bright with negliglble wear. An excellent copy. Book
55 pages. Sees the Arctic world as one, united by the extremeties of climate, where people are able to create for themselves the warmest Christmases of all. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Solid clean copy. Book
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interion is clean and free of marking of any kind. Good, solid, clean reading copy. 223 pages, first published in 1911, the intro lists about 250 books that were consulted in the writing of this one. Heavily illustrated.
201p., illus. Illus. by the author; 5 color plates plus jacket & many B/W drawings. Hardcover Very good condition good
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 113 pages. 8 1/4"w x 11 5/8"h. Exhibition catalog for a show that appeared in Russia, England, France, and Germany. The ukiyo-e prints of the Edo period represented here includes portraits of mother and chld, depecitions of customs and games, children's prints, and omacha-e.
pp. xxi, 512 + Plates. Small 8vo. 20 cm. XLib. Worn original cloth binding. A wonderful guide to the 'every-day' social life and customs of the Ancient Greeks. W121
275p Hardcover Very good condition
Ex-library book with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 96 pages, many b&w photos, lyrics.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 86 pages; index; fold-out map. Red cloth cover with gilt decoration and title. Previous owner's name in pencil. Black and white photographs with tissue guards. Thick, creamy deckle-edged paper. A very pretty book about the author's travels in Cashmere on a dunga
Features: International Floralies, Montreal 1980; Cabinetmaker and Weaver Friedrich K. Ploethner; 19th Century Ontario Animal Portraits; The B. Lent Pottery c. 1836-1841- Lincoln County redware; In Search of a Canadian Sampler-Maker - a fascinating story of three closely intertwined pioneer Ontario families - Robertsons, Barnharts and Smiths; the Dugald Costume Collection; The Careful Collector - Part II - International Customs and Transport. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
382 pages. "A remarkable portrait of the people, politics and places that jade the era irresistibly memorable." - from dust jacket. Beautiful clean unmarked copy with slightest signs of handling to dust jacket. Gift quality. Book
ix, 86 pages. Tissue-protected photographic frontis portrait of author and numerous other photographic plates. Author recounts his visit to Japan and, on the last page, presages difficulties to come for people of Japanese descent living in Canada. "So graphically have his word pictures portrayed the social, domestic and economic life of Japan that every person who reads them will, I am sure, have a much more enlightened understanding of the customs and mannerisms of the Japanese people." - S. Yedo, Japanese Consul in Vancouver, B.C. Light wear and soiling to yellow boards. Binding sound. A well-preserved copy of this fascinating work which is of much interest to latter day Japanophiles. Wallace p.89. Book
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 223, [16] p. Folklore of Bursa City. Bursa folkloru.
138p. 12mo. Original full cloth binding, worn with loss. Spine repaired. First Edition. Hardbound. Very good. The colonial custom of bundling - according to which a courting couple shared a common bed without undressing - had fallen into general disuse by 1800, it seemed to linger on another century or so among the Pennsylvania "Dutch". JUN5 BOX 4