wedding feasts and harvest celebrations. religious rituals

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LIBRARY 150 SPRING 2000

• Janet Johnson
• Week 4

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A Celebration of CUSTOMS RITUALS of the World

• By Robert Ingpen Philip Wilkinson
• REF 394.2 ING

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PUBLISHED

• Book Format
• Facts on File, Inc.
• New York
• C1996
• 224 pages

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Calendar of Customs
• Development
• Surviving
• Socializing
• Spirituality
• Further Reading
• Index

• Events for each month
• Childbirth Death
• Hunting Healing
• Initiation Dispute
• Worship - Art

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SCOPE

• A year long calendar of customs rituals
  including the developmental, social spiritual
  aspects of cultures around the world.

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PURPOSE

• Very useful for sociology, history, health and
  language arts students for information on customs
  rituals around the world. How different
  societies have both unique and parallel patterns
  for ceremonies.

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• Naming ceremonies and initiation rites
• Wedding feasts and harvest celebrations
• Religious rituals and funeral rites
• Along with their special clothes, music and dance

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SPECIAL

• The Calendar of Customs details famous and not so
  famous customs from different cultures that take
  place during each month.

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AUTHOR

• Philip Wilkinson
• Freelance writer and editor
• Specializes in illustrated books on historical
  subjects and the arts

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ILLUSTRATOR

• Robert Ingpen
• Illustrator
• Specializes in graphic interpretation of
  scientific theories and discoveries
• Is considered one of the worlds most respected
  and eminent book illustrators
• Won the Hans Christian Anderson Award of
  Illustration in 1986

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• Well put together
• Easy to read
• Lots of information
• Format makes it easy to find what you need

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• This book can be used to do comparisons of
  cultures, societies and traditions around the
  world.
• Comparisons may also be made about such things as
  agriculture, national days, marriage ceremonies
  and rites, etc.

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WORLD WIDE WEB

• When searching for customs and rituals of the
  world, I found my first searches came up with
  this particular book.
• Next came a wonderful site kml.uindy.edu/referenc
  e/culturalanthropology.html