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Kurokawa N : shaping the image and perception of Japan's folk traditions, performing arts and rural tourism
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ISBN: 1299104908 9004248080 9789004248083 9789004223349 9004223347 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Global Oriental,

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In the 1960's, Kurokawa’s historic nō tradition, as theatre and festival, came under the spotlight of the Japanese public. Advertised as ‘secret nō of the snow country’ it soon became one of the most well-known and long-studied folk performing arts traditions. That a secluded village isolated by mountainous country around it should have developed and sustained a high cultural entertainment such as nō theatre and integrated it into Shinto shrine festivals, prompted considerable interest among folklore scholars, theatre researchers, politicians, and tourists alike. Even today Kurokawa nō continues to be regarded as an example of an earlier form of Japanese culture and folk tradition that essentially has been frozen in time over the course of many centuries. In this volume, the author provides a detailed record of the history and development of Kurokawa nō and the processes of its transmission over the generations. The author also examines its impact on the wider cultural life of Japan and its literary heritage, the travel industry, government policy and folklore traditions in Japan generally. In addition, Kurokawa Nō offers an invaluable, authentic case study in the wider context of notions of Japanese self-perception and self-representation.

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Nō. --- Festivals --- Noh --- Shimai --- Theater


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Greek and Roman festivals : content, meaning, and practice
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ISBN: 9780199696093 0199696098 019174574X 0191626260 1283658410 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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'Greek and Roman Festivals' addresses the multi-faceted and complex nature of Greco-Roman festivals and analyses the connections that existed between them, as religious and social phenomena, and the historical dynamics that shaped them.

Thanksgiving : The Biography of an American Holiday
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ISBN: 1283875020 1584658746 9781584658740 1584658010 9781584658016 Year: 2009 Publisher: Durham, N.H. : Hanover [N.H.] : University of New Hampshire Press ; Published by University Press of New England,

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The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holiday


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Jewish Aramaic poetry from late antiquity : translations and commentaries
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ISBN: 9789004365889 9004365885 9789004365896 9004365893 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill.

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In Jewish Aramaic Poetry from Late Antiquity , Laura Suzanne Lieber offers annotated translations of sixty-nine poems written between the 4th and 7th century C.E. in the Land of Israel, along with commentaries and introductions. The poems celebrate a range of occasions from the ritual year and the life-cycle: Passover, Shavuot (Pentacost), the Ninth of Av, Purim, the New Moon of Nisan, the conclusion of the Torah, weddings, and funerals. Written in the vernacular of the Jews of living in Palestine after the Christianization of the Roman Empire, these works offer insight into lived Jewish experience during a pivotal age. The volume contextualizes the individual works so that readers from a range of backgrounds can appreciate the formal, linguistic, exegetical, theological, and performative creativity of these works.


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Roman festivals in the Greek East : from the early empire to the Middle Byzantine Era
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ISBN: 9781107092112 1107092116 9781316135778 9781107465053 1107465052 1316426815 1316426424 1316428370 131642720X 1316429156 1316135772 1316423654 9781316429150 Year: 2015 Volume: *29 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press,

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This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major Roman festivals that were adopted in the Eastern cities and traces their history up to the time of Justinian and beyond. It addresses several key questions for the religious history of later antiquity: who were the actors behind these adoptions? How did the closed religious communities, Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, articulate their resistance? How did these festivals change when the empire converted to Christianity? Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, how did these very popular festivals - despite their pagan tradition - influence the form of the newly developed Christian liturgy?


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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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The end of Greek athletics in late Antiquity
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ISBN: 9781107050785 1107050782 9781107279636 9781107644700 1107644704 1316322556 1316309177 1316329232 131632589X 1107279631 1316319199 1316332578 9781316319192 9781316322550 9781316309179 9781316329238 9781316332573 Year: 2015 Volume: *28 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book presents the first comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic aspect of Greek culture for over a millennium, disappeared in late antiquity. In contrast to previous discussions, which focus on the ancient Olympics, the end of the most famous games is analysed here in the context of the collapse of the entire international agonistic circuit, which encompassed several hundred contests. The first part of the book describes this collapse by means of a detailed analysis of the fourth- and fifth-century history of the athletic games in each region of the Mediterranean: Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Italy, Gaul and northern Africa. The second half continues by explaining these developments, challenging traditional theories (especially the ban by the Christian emperor Theodosius I) and discussing in detail both the late antique socio-economic context and the late antique perceptions of athletics.


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Preacher of grace
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ISBN: 9789004278639 9789004278646 9004278648 900427863X 1322514984 Year: 2014 Volume: 177 Publisher: Boston

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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) became known as the ‘doctor of grace’. He developed his theory of divine grace mainly in his systematic treatises directed against the Pelagians (ca. 411-430). Did he however also preach about this complex, and at first sight ‘demoralizing’, issue in his sermons to the people ? In his previous book (BSCH 59), Anthony Dupont studied the profile of the treatment of gratia in the anti-Pelagian sermones ad populum . In a Preacher of Grace Dupont offers an account of the presence of the theme of grace in Augustine’s sermones not situated in the Pelagian controversy. He first studies sermons preached on important liturgical feasts, which belong to the (non-polemical) pastoral preaching genre. They are distributed throughout the 40 years of Augustine’s preaching activity, and are Christological in content and moralising in intention. Secondly, he examines sermons situated in the Donatist controversy, preceding the anti-Pelagian sermons chronologically and differing from them in terms of content. This research provides a global picture of the presence and treatment of gratia in Augustine’s sermones and clarifies the interaction between context, audience and preaching genre on the one hand, and the theme of grace as a whole on the other. It also contributes to the debate on (dis)continuity in Augustine’s thought on grace.


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The cattle of the sun
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ISBN: 9780691140070 0691140073 1282607502 9786612607509 1400834872 9781400834877 9781282607507 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption. Cattle were also pivotal in mythology: gods and heroes stole cattle, expected sacrifices of cattle, and punished those who failed to provide them. The Cattle of the Sun ranges over a wealth of sources, both textual and archaeological, to explore why these animals mattered to the Greeks, how they came to be a key element in Greek thought and behavior, and how the Greeks exploited the symbolic value of cattle as a way of structuring social and economic relations. Jeremy McInerney explains that cattle's importance began with domestication and pastoralism: cattle were nurtured, bred, killed, and eaten. Practically useful and symbolically potent, cattle became social capital to be exchanged, offered to the gods, or consumed collectively. This circulation of cattle wealth structured Greek society, since dedication to the gods, sacrifice, and feasting constituted the most basic institutions of Greek life. McInerney shows that cattle contributed to the growth of sanctuaries in the Greek city-states, as well as to changes in the economic practices of the Greeks, from the Iron Age through the classical period, as a monetized, market economy developed from an earlier economy of barter and exchange. Combining a broad theoretical approach with a careful reading of sources, The Cattle of the Sun illustrates the significant position that cattle held in the culture and experiences of the Greeks.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.


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Jazz Bilzen : tijd voor muziek (en veel meer ...) : 1965-1981
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ISBN: 9789058266613 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bilzen Leuven Stadsbestuur Davidsfonds

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