Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices 9781136550966, 0415325560, 0415330696

Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance 9780292798632

With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are so

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Folk Practices in North Mexico: Birth Customs, Folk Medicine, and Spiritualism in the Laguna Zone 9781477304358

The Mexican folkways described in this monograph, of scientific interest to anthropologists, will fascinate laypeople as

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The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales

These Ozark tales are fragments of local history, village legends, and morality pieces with roots deep in Europen soil.

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The Talking Turtle and Other Ozark Folk Tales 9780231897716

Presents many Ozark folk tales shaped and polished by their oral tradition of storytelling documented over years in cabi

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Understanding Japanese Management Practices 1606491180, 9781606491188

This book outlines the particulars of Japanese management and how modern Japanese management employs many practices whic

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City Folk and Country Folk 9780231544504

An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a satire of Russia’s aristocratic

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Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals 9781845458423

Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a r

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Five Faces of Japanese Feminism: Crimson and Other Works 9780824866174

This exquisite collection of short fiction by Sata Ineko (1904–1998) offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the lives

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Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices 9781003254621, 9781032138503, 9781032184579

Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on b

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Land and Social Change in East Nepal 9780520014008, 0415325560, 0415330467

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