A Celebration of Customs & Rituals of the World

by Robert Ingpen

Book Overview

Explores initiation rites, wedding feasts, harvest celebrations, religious rituals, and many other customs used around the world to mark all kinds of special occasions. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816034796
• ISBN13: 9780816034796
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Facts on File
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

The colorful diversity of ceremonies.

"Celebration" is the right word. Wilkinson and Ingpen portray the world's ceremonies of development (from birth to death), surviving (hunting and harvesting, eating and drinking, healing), socializing (initiation, gift-giving, dispute-settlement), and aspects of spirituality in this clearly written, beautifully illustrated work. The ceremonial dress from all areas of the world is particularly striking, and the reader begins to see the universality of human experience beneath the colorful variations of cultural expressions; "perfect symbols of the unity of the family of mankind". With a Calendar of Customs, suggestions for further reading, and an excellent index, this well produced, generously sized work would make an excellent gift for children as well as adults. Highly recommended. (The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)