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The language of space in court performance, 1400-1625
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ISBN: 9780521886413 0521886414 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press


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Holidays, festivals, and celebrations of the world dictionary : detailing more than 3,000 observances from all 50 states and more than 100 nations : a compendious reference guide to popular, ethnic, religious, national, and ancient holidays, celebrations, commemorations, holy days, feast, and fasts, including contact information and web sites.
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ISBN: 9780780809949 Year: 2010 Publisher: Detroit Omnigraphics

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"A comprehensive dictionary that describes more than 3,000 holidays and festivals celebrated around the world. Features both secular and religious events from many different cultures, countries, and ethnic groups. Includes contact information for events; multiple appendices with background information on world holidays; extensive bibliography; multiple indexes"--Provided by publisher.


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Feasts : archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power
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ISBN: 081738538X 9780817385385 9780817356415 081735641X Year: 2010 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,

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From the ancient Near East to modern-day North America, communal consumption of food and drink punctuates the rhythms of human societies. Feasts serve many social purposes, establishing alliances for war and marriage, mobilizing labor, creating political power and economic advantages, and redistributing wealth. In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice. They examine the locations of roasting pits, hearths, and refuse deposits, or the presence of special decorative ceramics, a


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International journal of event and festival management.
ISSN: 17582962 17582954 Year: 2010 Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing,


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Jours de fête : fêtes légales et jours fériés dans la France contemporaine.
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ISBN: 9782847344714 2847344713 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris Tallandier

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J. Lalouette, professeure d'histoire, conduit une étude des jours fériés, qui correspondent à des fêtes républicaines, patriotiques, contestataires, folkloriques, religieuses ou militaires, sur plus de deux siècles. Elle rappelle qu'ils répondaient d'abord à une fonction religieuse ou politique mais que ceux-ci ont désormais pris une autre signification dans une société détachée de la religion.


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Festivals, feasts, and gender relations in ancient China and Greece
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ISBN: 9780521197625 0521197627 9780511762468 9781107665507 1107665507 1107205301 9786612770449 0511776012 0511776772 0511775253 0511773129 0511762461 1282770446 0511774192 9780511775253 9780511776779 9780511774195 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West comparison. This book examines gender relations in the two ancient societies as reflected in convivial contexts such as family banquets, public festivals, and religious feasts. Two distinct patterns of interpersonal affinity and conflict emerge from the Chinese and Greek sources that show men and women organising themselves and interacting with each other in social occasions intended for collective pursuit of pleasure. Through an analysis of the two different patterns, Yiqun Zhou illuminates the different socio-political mechanisms, value systems, and fabrics of human bonds in the two classical traditions. Her book will be important for readers who are interested in the comparative study of societies, gender studies, women's history, and the legacy of civilisations.


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El Legado de Borgoña : fiesta y ceremonia cortesana en la europa de los Austrias 1454-1648
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ISBN: 9788487369643 8487369642 9788492820245 8492820241 Year: 2010 Publisher: Madrid Marcial Pons Fundación Carlos Amberes

Southern Heritage on Display : Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism
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ISBN: 0817382259 9780817382254 0817312277 9780817312275 0817352864 9780817352868 Year: 2010 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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This provocative collection draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to shed light on the role that public ceremonies play in affirming or debunking cultural identities associated with the South. W. J. Cash's 1941 observation that ""there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them"" is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its ""lost cause"" tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals--parades, cook-offs, kinship homecom-ings, church assem

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Festivals --- Rites and ceremonies --- Minorities --- Cultural pluralism --- Group identity --- Memory --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Days --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Social aspects --- Social life and customs. --- Southern States --- American South --- American Southeast --- Dixie (U.S. : Region) --- Former Confederate States --- South, The --- Southeast (U.S.) --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- United States, Southern --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- Ethnic relations. --- Festivals.


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Voor vorst en stad : rederijkersliteratuur en vorstenfeest in Vlaanderen en Brabant (1432-1561)
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ISBN: 9789089641748 9789048511372 9089641742 9048511372 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Vieringen ter ere van het Huis van Bourgondië-Habsburg vormden in de vroegmoderne Vlaamse en Brabantse steden een belangrijke aanleiding voor de productie en opvoering van literaire teksten. Ze droegen daardoor in belangrijke mate bij aan de bijzondere ontwikkeling van het stedelijke literaire leven. Op hun beurt waren toneelstukken, gedichten en liederen bepalend voor het verloop, de werking en de betekenis van het stedelijke vorstenfeest. Deze publicatie onderzoekt voor het eerst de interactie tussen dergelijke vorstenfeesten en literatuur binnen een breed geografisch en tijdskader. Speciale aandacht gaat uit naar de kamers van retorica, die zich bezighielden met het schrijven en opvoeren van teksten en nauw betrokken waren bij het organiseren van vorstenfeesten. Hun stempel op deze vieringen blijkt groter en meer divers te zijn geweest dan tot op heden werd aangenomen. Voor vorst en stad beweegt zich op het snijvlak van politieke, literatuur- en cultuurgeschiedenis. Het toont aan hoe nauw literatuur en politiek in de vroegmoderne Nederlandse steden met elkaar verweven waren.

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Dutch literature --- History of the Low Countries --- Drama --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Rites and ceremonies --- Chambers of rhetoric --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Littérature néerlandaise --- Rites et cérémonies --- Chambres de rhétorique --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Festivals --- Literary landmarks --- Learning and scholarship --- History. --- Brabant (Belgium) --- Flanders (Belgium) --- Intellectual life. --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Rederijkerskamers --- Literature --- Societies, etc. --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Authors --- Landmarks, Literary --- Historic buildings --- Homes and haunts --- Vlaanderen (Belgium) --- Région flamande (Belgium) --- Flemish Region (Belgium) --- Vlaams Gewest (Belgium) --- Flandre (Belgium) --- Brabant (Province) --- Province of Brabant (Belgium) --- Province de Brabant (Belgium) --- Provincie Brabant (Belgium) --- Provinz Brabant (Belgium) --- Provincia del Brabante (Belgium) --- Brabante (Belgium) --- Брабант (Belgium) --- Провинция Брабант (Belgium) --- Provint︠s︡ii︠a︡ Brabant (Belgium) --- Brabant (Duchy) --- Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (Belgium) --- Vlaams-Brabant (Belgium) --- Brabant Wallon (Belgium) --- Chambres de rhétorique --- Littérature néerlandaise --- Politique et littérature --- 1500-1800 --- Brabant (Duché) --- Flandre (Comté)


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An Ethnographic Study of Papadjab, an Afro-Caribbean Devil Dancer : The Christmas Street Festival in St. Lucia
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ISBN: 0773418598 9780773418592 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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This book examines the religious, mythological and performance elements of the traditional Afro-Caribbean street festival. Using the theories of performance, political economy and symbolic analysis, this work elucidates how elements of African, European and South American cultures interact to produce a unique understanding of the colonial and post-colonial experience.

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Christmas -- Saint Lucia. --- Devil -- Folklore. --- Devil -- Social aspects -- Saint Lucia. --- Festivals -- Saint Lucia. --- Saint Lucia -- Social life and customs. --- Christmas --- Festivals --- Devil --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Beelzebub --- Beelzebul --- Lucifer --- Satan --- Satanael --- Satanail --- Demonology --- Days --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Christmas books --- X-mas --- Xmas --- XPmas --- Xtemass --- Church year --- Holidays --- Social aspects --- Saint Lucia --- Social life and customs. --- Hagia Loukia --- ISenti-Lushiya --- Lùsíà Mímọ́ --- Masina Lucie --- Mutagatifu Lusiya --- Naomh Lùisia --- Noo Lucia --- Saint Lusia --- Sainte-Lucie --- San Lucia --- Sancta Lucia --- Sankta Lucio --- Sankte Lusia --- Sankti Lúsía --- Sanlusiyän --- Sant Lucia --- Sanṭ Lusiyah --- Sanṭ Lusyah --- Sant Lwsia --- Santa Lucia --- Santa-Lucie --- Santa Luċija --- Santa Lúsia --- Santa Lusiya --- Santa Lussìa --- Santa Luzia --- Santez-Lusia --- Saunt Lucia --- Seenti Luushiyaa --- Seĭnt Lusii︠a︡ --- Sen Lusia --- Sèng Lucia --- Senlu̇u̇sin Orn --- Sent Lisi --- Sent Liusėjė --- Sent-Li︠u︡si --- Sent-Li︠u︡sie --- Sent-Li︠u︡sii︠a︡ --- Sent-Lucio --- Sent Lüsii --- Sent Lusii︠a︡ --- Sent Lusija --- Sent-Lüsiya --- Senti-Lushiya --- Sentlūsija --- Sentorushia --- Sfânta Lucia --- Shën Luçia --- Sheng Luxiya --- Sint-Lusia --- St. Lucia --- St. Lusia --- Svätá Lucia --- Svatá Lucie --- Sveta Lucija --- Αγία Λουκία --- Света Луција --- Сент Лусия --- Сент-Люси --- Сент-Люсия --- Сент-Люсие --- Сент-Люсія --- Сейнт Лусия --- סנט לוסיה --- セントルシア --- 圣卢西亚 --- West Indies (Federation) --- Windward Islands (Jurisdiction)

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