The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 150175484X, 9781501754845

The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 9781501754869

The Tsar's Happy Occasion offers a sweeping, yet penetrating cultural history of the power of rituals and the ritua

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Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings, Births and Ritual Harm under the Khmer Rouge 9789971694722, 9789971695781

For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period

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Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers 0292709994, 9780292709997

In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and

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Offerings of Jade and Silk: Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of the T'ang Dynasty 0300031912, 9780300031911

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The Severan Dynasty: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Roman Empire’s Rulers Before Rome’s Imperial Crisis

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Include

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Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157-612 BC) 9781442657052

This volume contains a short introduction for each ruler. Every inscription is accompanied by an introductory statement,

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Rulers of Babylonia : from the second dynasty of Isin to the end of Assyrian domination (1157-612 BC) 9781442657052, 1442657057

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Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal 9781503621510

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Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China, The Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries 9780791470732, 0791470733, 9780791480151, 0791480151, 9781435616691, 1435616693

Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only re

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Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union 9780674273917

Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians, beginning with the impact of the Bolshevik Revo

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