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12 produkter
Culinary Tourism
Av Lucy M Long
Inbunden, 2003
1154 kr
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Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue …
Culinary Tourism
Av Lucy M Long
Häftad, 2010
517 kr
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Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings, and around the world. The contributors argue …
Virtual Afterlives
Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century
Av Candi K Cann
Inbunden, 2014
663 kr
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For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This …
Explaining Traditions
Folk Behavior in Modern Culture
Häftad, 2015
590 kr
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Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In …
Virtual Afterlives
Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century
Av Candi K Cann
Häftad, 2015
360 kr
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For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This …
Dying to Eat
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife
Av Candi K Cann
Inbunden, 2018
1077 kr
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Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into …
Dying to Eat
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife
Av Candi K Cann
Häftad, 2019
570 kr
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Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into …
Designing the Centennial
A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia
Häftad, 2008
515 kr
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The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between …
Funeral Festivals in America
Rituals for the Living
Häftad, 2009
372 kr
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When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how extraordinarily creative and technical human funerary practices would become. Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern …
Cosmopolitan Archaeologies
Av Lynn Meskell
Häftad, 2009
396 kr
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An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to …
Houses in a Landscape
Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica
Inbunden, 2010
1362 kr
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In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. While these societies left behind monumental buildings, the …
Houses in a Landscape
Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica
Häftad, 2010
396 kr
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In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. While these societies left behind monumental buildings, the …
