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"Apple Games and Customs"
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With 35ill.. Paperback, 128 pages. Weight: 112g.
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ISBN: 1870364120
Publisher: Common Ground
Date: 1994 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Customs
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"Death, Mourning, and Burial"A Cross-Cultural Reader
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"Human Lifecycle: Cross-Cultural Readings" series; Offers an introduction to the anthropology of death. This work offers cross-cultural readings that span the period from dying to afterlife, approach this transition as a social process, and demonstrate the variation of cultural responses to death. Paperback, 336 pages. Size: 246 x 173 mm. Weight: 598g.
Author: (Robben, Antonius C.G.M., ed.)
ISBN: 1405114711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Customs
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"Fashioning Africa"Power and the Politics of Dress
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"African Expressive Cultures" series; From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, this work explores the power of dress in African and pan-African settings. Nationalist and diasporic identities, as well as their histories and politics, are examined at the level of what is put on the body every day. With illustrations, ports.. Paperback, 248 pages. Size: 232 x 157 mm. Weight: 410g.
Author: (Allman, Jean, ed.)
ISBN: 0253216893
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date: 2004 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Customs
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"Happy Birthday! (You Poor Old Wreck)"
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"Words & Pictures By Children" series; Written and illustrated by children, these books feature pictures that bring a splash of bright colour. The bright pictures are cheerful. With 62ill.(41col.).. New ed. Hardback, 64 pages. Size: 165 x 120 mm. Weight: 163g.
Author: (Exley, Helen, ed.)
ISBN: 1850158428
Publisher: Exley Publications Ltd
Date: 1997 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Customs
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"Sociology of Food and Nutrition"The Social Appetite
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The Social Appetite. With text boxes, 5 halftones. 2 rev ed. Paperback, 484 pages. Size: 229 x 153 mm. Weight: 704g.
Author: (Germov, John, ed.)
ISBN: 0195516257
Publisher: Oxford University Press Australia
Date: 2004 (Australia)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Customs
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"Eating Your Auntie is Wrong"The World's Strangest Customs
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Presents hilarious and astounding customs from different culture and age. Crossing continents and centuries, this book offers information about various kinds of bizarre regional customs - from sexual practices to the received wisdom on cannibalism - that could save you from embarrassing local faux pas while travelling. Paperback, 192 pages. Size: 160 x 110 mm. Weight: 128g.
Author: Arnott, Stephen
ISBN: 0091892414
Publisher: Ebury Press
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
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"Do's and Taboos of Humor Around the World"
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One in the 'Do's and Taboos' series, this is Roger Axtell's latest eye-opening guide to the pitfalls awaiting the business and leisure traveller. With 25 illustrations. Hardback, 228 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 312g.
Author: Axtell, Roger E.
ISBN: 0471254037
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Date: 1998 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Customs
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"South Indian Customs"
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All the customs and their meanings are comprehensively described in this usefyl work. With col.ill.. Paperback, 212 pages. Weight: 192g.
Author: Ayyar, P.V.Jagadisa
ISBN: 8171673724
Publisher: Rupa & Co
Date: 1998 (India)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Customs
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"The Dedalus Book of Absinthe"
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Exploring absinthe's squalid past, the artists and writers who have drunk it and the myths that surround it. The cast of characters that litter absinthe's history range from Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud and Verlaine, Aleister Crowley to Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway. Paperback, 296 pages. Weight: 314g.
Author: Baker, Phil
ISBN: 1903517400
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Customs
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"Food Studies"
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"Key Concepts" series; Food Studies draws on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science at the other. Presenting an introduction to food studies, this book covers: consumer identity; matters of convenience and price; and, an awareness of the consequences of what is consumed. Paperback, 224 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 294g.
Author: Belasco, Warren
ISBN: 1845206738
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Customs
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"Scottish Customs From the Cradle to the Grave"
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In 'Scottish Customs', selected texts along with material from recorded interviews with tradition bearers give a detailed picture of a social behaviour over four centuries in Scotland. With 16 illustrations. New ed. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 240 x 156 mm. Weight: 133g.
Author: Bennett, Margaret
ISBN: 184158293X
Publisher: Birlinn General
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
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"Scotland's Common Ridings"
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Kenneth Bogle introduces us to the tradition of 'Common Ridings', its histories and the events as they have changed over the years. With 75ill.. Paperback, 160 pages. Size: 248 x 172 mm. Weight: 499g.
Author: Bogle, Kenneth Dr
ISBN: 0752429922
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Date: 2004 (United Kingdom)
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"European Business Customs and Manners"A Guide to 30 Countries
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A Guide to 30 Countries. How to converse, bargain, dine, dress and conduct yourself when doing business in 33 different European countries, including those in the newly-opened Eastern Bloc. With b+w illustrations. Paperback, 500 pages. Size: 228 x 152 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Bosrock, Mary
ISBN: 0881664979
Publisher: Meadowbrook Press,U.S.
Date: 2006 (United States)
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"Heart Burial"
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Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 229 x 152 mm. Weight: 381g.
Author: Bradford, Charles Angell
ISBN: 0766192113
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
Date: 2005 (United States)
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"Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead"The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond
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Each October, as the Day of the Dead draws near, Mexicans decorate graves and erect home altars to honor deceased relatives. This volume reveals the origin and changing character of this holiday. It explores the emergence of the Day of the Dead as a symbol of Mexican and Mexican-American national identity. With 16 illustrations. Paperback, 232 pages. Size: 247 x 176 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Brandes, Prof Stanley (University of California, Berkeley Usa )
ISBN: 1405152486
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Customs
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