
By Francesco Alberoni
By Francesco Alberoni
By Ócha'ni Lele
By Paul Sébillot
Nouvelle édition de ce huge ouvrage sur le folklore de l. a. pêche et des pêcheurs, de toutes les mers du globe mais, bien sûr, avec une prédilection pour les pêcheurs de nos côtes. Un ouvrage qui, plus de cent ans après sa parution (1900) demeure un classique du genre.
Paul Sebillot, né à Matignon (Côtes d’Armor) en 1843 (il meurt en 1918), est une des figures majeures du folklore breton et français dans son ensemble. Au-teur de nombreux ouvrages dont los angeles Littérature orale de l. a. Haute-Bretagne et surtout son inégalable Folklore de France (édité en quatre forts volumes, entre 1904 et 1907.
By Mary E. Fissell
By Mohana Gill
Best defined as a mixture of chinese language and Indian cuisines with a dose of Thai effect, Burmese delicacies is straightforward in its execution, but offers a complexity of tastes with using fish sauce, prawn paste, turmeric, tamarind, lemon grass, coriander, chillies and coconut milk. burst off the overwhelmed music and notice the guts of Myanmar via her food, tradition and customs.
By Martha Sims,Martine Stephens
Living Folklore is a finished, uncomplicated advent to folklore because it is lived, shared and practiced in modern settings. Drawing on examples from various American teams and studies, this article provides the coed a powerful foundation—from the field's heritage and significant phrases to theories and interpretive approaches.
Living Folklore strikes past genres and classifications, and encourages scholars who're new to the sector to determine the research of folklore as a special method of realizing humans, groups, and day by day inventive communication.
This revised variation accommodates new examples, learn, and concept besides further dialogue of electronic and on-line folklore.
By Graham Hancock,Robert Bauval
By Susan Fillin-Yeh
Dandies: model and Finesse in paintings and Culture considers the visible languages, politics, and poetics of private visual appeal. Dandyism has been so much heavily linked to influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by way of the nineteenth century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by way of Tom Wolfe's white fits. The essays accrued the following, besides the fact that, learn the spectacle and workings of dandyism to bare that those weren't the single dandies. to the contrary, paintings historians, literary and cultural historians, and anthropologists establish unrecognized dandies flourishing between early nineteenth century local americans, in Soviet Latvia, in Africa, during the African-American diaspora, between ladies, and within the paintings world.
Moving past historic and fictional bills of dandies, this quantity juxtaposes theoretical versions with evocative photographs and outlines of garments in an effort to hyperlink sartorial self-construction with inventive, social, and political self-invention. bearing in mind the significant adjustments in brooding about identification within the academy, Dandies offers a compelling examine of dandyism's destabilizing aesthetic enterprise.
Contributors: Jennifer Blessing, Susan Fillin-Yeh, Rhonda Garelick, Joe Lucchesi, Kim Miller, Robert E. Moore, Richard J. Powell, Carter Ratcliffe, and Mark Allen Svede.
By Jonathan Lee
This in-depth historic research highlights the large contributions of chinese language americans to the professions, politics, and pop culture of the United States, from the nineteenth century during the current day.
• Highlights the certain roles that chinese language americans have further to the material of yank life
• Illustrates the event of chinese language americans with discrimination, resistance, and assimilation
• Considers the émigrés of the Sinophone diaspora with entries on Cambodian-Chinese and Vietnamese-Chinese Americans
• bargains a range of attention-grabbing fundamental records that increase the reader's experience
• unearths the issues that chinese language American ladies confronted with the passage of the 1882 Exclusion Act
By William Leahy