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Dream-Singers: The African-American Way with Dreams
By: Shafton, Anthony
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
A belief in the power of dreams runs through African-American life like a mystical thread, predicting the future, offering a glimpse of lost loved ones, informing decisions, and inspiring literature. Anthony Shafton distills a long time fascination with dreams into a seminal study of their place in black culture. More than 100 African Americans, both famous - such as literary lions John Edgar Wideman and Gloria Naylor - and ordinary men, women, and children, share their personal dream life and discuss its significance. Illuminating a wonderful variety of dreams, this book offers every reader insight into a centuries-old spiritual tradition.
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Price: $24.95
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Evolving God
By: King, Barbara J.
Published by: Doubleday Publishing
This cutting-edge book—with echoes of both Jane Goodall and Joseph Campbell—adds a fascinating new dimension to the debate about the origins of religion. The study of evolution has uncovered invaluable information about many aspects of human behavior and culture, from the physiology of our bodies and brains to the development of hunting, technology, and social groups.
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Price: $17.95
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Fertility Goddesses, Groundhog Bellies and the Coca-Cola Company
By: Kalapos, Gabriella
Published by: Insomniac Library
Year after year, many of us continue to perform holiday rituals with little or no understanding of what they mean or what purpose they serve. A part of us yearns to understand how and why these special days originated. Why does Groundhog Day exist and what does it have to do with the Virgin Mary and menstruation? What does May Day have to do with a celebration of human sexuality and Roman prostitutes? Where did Valentine's Day come from — did the greeting card, chocolate, and florist companies create it, or is there something original, pure, and maybe even carnal about it?
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Festival and Special Event Management
By: McDonnell, Ian; O’Toole, William; Allen, Johnny
Published by: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
Festivals and special events have grown into a massive industry worldwide, generating billions of dollars for regional centres, states and countries. Festivals and special events bring people together to celebrate, to remember, to support and to identify as a community or nation. This Australian content-based book provides anyone involved in event management with an introduction to the principles associated with planning, managing and staging festivals and special events. This book presents the study of festival and special event management, introducing readers to the concepts of festival and event planning, management, stage and logistic management, the importance of marketing and promotion, and event evaluation and reporting.
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Price: $23.45
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Formations of Ritual
By: Scott, David
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Scott’s investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological—often, specifically colonial—objects.
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Price: $66.00
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Framing the Bride
By: Adrian, Bonnie
Published by: University of California Press
With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV.
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Friendship Fires
By: Cook, Sam; Maciej, Terry
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
In these fascinating tales, Sam Cook captures the remote and beautiful North Woods, examining how this dramatic and forbidding landscape shapes his life and the lives of other people who reside there. Like a skilled storyteller sitting near a campfire, he leaves his audience spellbound with tales of adventure.
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Price: $48.00
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Good Luck Life
By: Gong, Rosemary
Published by: Harper Collins
Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant birthdays, and the inevitable funeral. Packed with practical information, Good Luck Life contains an abundance of facts, legends, foods, old-village recipes, and quick planning guides for Chinese New Year, Clear Brightness, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn, and many other festivals. Written with warmth and wit, Good Luck Life is beautifully designed as an easily accessible cultural guide that includes an explanation of the Lunar Calendar, tips on Chinese table etiquette for dining with confidence, and dos and don'ts from wise Auntie Lao, who recounts ancient Chinese beliefs and superstitions. This is your map for celebrating a good luck life.
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Harlem between Heaven and Hell
By: Taylor, Monique M.
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Harlem brings to mind a kaleidoscope of images—the jazz clubs and cultural ferment of the 1920s and 1930s, the urban decay of the 1960s and 1970s, and the revitalization of the past twenty years. Integral to the ongoing transformation of Harlem has been the return of the African-American middle class to what had become an overwhelmingly poor area. In this lively book, Monique M. Taylor explores the stresses created by this influx, the surprising ways class differences manifest themselves and are managed, and what we can learn from examining a community in which race and class are so closely intertwined.
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Price: $60.00
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Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend
By: Harbus, Antonina
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
St Helena, mother of Constantine the Great and legendary finder of the True Cross, was appropriated in the middle ages as a British saint. The rise and persistence of this legend harnessed Helena's imperial and sacred status to portray her as a romance heroine, source of national pride, and a legitimising link to imperial Rome. This study is the first to examine the origins, development, political exploitation and decline of this legend, tracing its momentum and adaptive power from Anglo-Saxon England to the twentieth century.
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Price: $56.25
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