Ethnologiebücher - englischsprachig  (153 Angebote unter 17.392.855 Artikeln)

In Tamil Nadu, the nine-night autumnal Navar?tri festival can be viewed as a celebration of feminine powers in association with the goddess. This book explores Navar?tri as it is celebrated in the ...

The Author: Anne O'Connor holds a Ph.D. in Irish Folklore, an MBA, and academic qualifications in other disciplines. She has been interested in Irish and international folk belief and narrative for...

This volume is the outcome of the conference "Studying Documents in Pre-Modern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective", held in October 2015 in Heidelberg. In bringing together experts fro...

Tanfer Emin Tunc is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her BA, MA and PhD in American History, and an ...

In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of marriage when only few ...

The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany refutes the stereotypical image of Germany as the country of romantic but unworldly poets and thinkers. In 1750, an aesthetic revolution takes place in Germany, ...

Identifying the roots of African American spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. The conve...

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Ever since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the fairy tale has not only become a staple of the small and silver screen around the globe, it has also famigrated into new media, overwhelmin...

This volume takes a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality. Contributions from 19 authors and specialists, of almost as many diverse origins, grapple with this concept, each in their own ...

The tablets of Easter Island that are known under the name of Rongorongo, are still regarded as undeciphered, since their reading by the natives Metoro and Ure Veiko seem to be unintelligible and i...

Perceptions of place and of landscape often clash. Based upon a decade of intermittent yet ongoing ethnographic research which explores the UK's Cornish peninsula, this volume investigates the soci...

This book compiles the proceedings of the International Symposium «Urban Dynamics: Global Perspectives for Socio-Cultural Urban Management», which took place in Paris in March 2016. Professors and ...

The book is the first detailed study on the Nusayri-Alawi community of Cilicia available in a Western language. The Alawis are an Arabic speaking religious minority of ca. 300,000 people living in ...

The Author: Nelly Weiss was born in Zurich. She studied History and Linguistics in Zurich and Geneva and has a special interest in Historical Onomastics. She used to be an active member in various ...