Author: Edward J. WoodPublisher:
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries
Author: Edward J. WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries
Author: Edward J. WOOD (of Clerkenwell.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency
Author: Bombay (India : State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bombay (India : State)
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency
Author: James MacNabb CampbellPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385315794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1885.
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Poona (3 pts.)
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bombay (India : State)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries
Author: Edward J. WoodPublisher:
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Category : Marriage customs and rites
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Marriage Customs of the World [2 volumes]
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Author: George P. MongerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598846647
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive overview of global courtship and marriage customs, from ancient history to contemporary society, demonstrating the vast differences as well as the similarities across all of human culture. This second edition of Marriage Customs of the World examines historical context, social significance, and current trends and controversies of matrimony in the Western world as well as other cultures. Apart from detailing the ceremonies from specific countries, the book identifies specific elements of the wedding event and discusses them in a comparative manner, showcasing the similarities across cultures. The new content in this work includes additional information on courtship and how future spouses are found in other cultures; marriage in art, cinema, theater, and poetry; wedding bands; forced marriages and shotgun weddings; New Year's weddings; legislation regarding marriage; and engagement practices. Entries carried over from the first edition have been revised and updated as well. With its broad scope and consideration of contemporary issues alongside historical information, this work will be ideal for high school and undergraduate students; scholars of anthropology, social studies, and history; and general readers.
Gazetteer
Author: Bombay (India : State)Publisher:
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Category : Bombay (India : State)
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden
Author: Harriet I. FlowerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated book, the first to focus on the lares, Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion. Weaving together a wide range of evidence, Flower sets forth a new interpretation of the much-disputed nature of the lares. She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors—gods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. She examines the rituals honoring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography, as well as the meaning of the snakes often depicted alongside lares in paintings of gardens. She also looks at Compitalia, a popular midwinter neighborhood festival in honor of the lares, and describes how its politics played a key role in Rome’s increasing violence in the 60s and 50s BC, as well as in the efforts of Augustus to reach out to ordinary people living in the city’s local neighborhoods. A reconsideration of seemingly humble gods that were central to the religious world of the Romans, this is also the first major account of the full range of lares worship in the homes, neighborhoods, and temples of ancient Rome.