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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Curtains	Tom Jokinen	Tom Jokinen began to seriously question the secular funeral rites that are taking over the industry. The question had such a hard grip on his Finnish soul that he decided to become an apprentice unde…	OL17731645W
Pluralism and identity	K. van der Toorn	The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra. Five ess…	OL20965004W
Adieu, tante Monette	Diane Barbara	La tante préférée de Mouss' vient de mourir. Une foule de questions viennent à l'esprit du petit garçon ...	OL22132505W
Bout de comète!	Lucie Bergeron	Chez Abel, c'est le branle-bas, le père de sa mère, son grand-père qu'il n'a pas vu depuis cinq ans vient en visite. Le voilà qu'il arrive en poussant son juron "bout de comète". Après avoir embrassé…	OL24199923W
Quand est-ce qu'on s'amuse?	Karen McCombie	Follows the fumbling attempts of ten-year-old Indie Kidd to cheer up her best friend Fee, after Fee's beloved cat, Garfield, dies.	OL24200987W
Une pièce montée	Blandine Le Callet	Retrace le déroulement d'une journée de mariage du point de vue de différents protagonistes. Peu à peu les masques tombent, les secrets de famille éclatent : demoiselle d'honneur confrontée à l'injus…	OL24305532W
Les Hopis	Thierry Piélat	Religion, rites, coutumes, histoire de ce peuple. [SDM].	OL24439472W
Siamese state ceremonies	H. G. Quaritch Wales	Wales had a unique access to the royal court of Siam and his book describes the royal rituals which were carried out by Brahminical priests in Bangkok. As he says Brahminical Hinduism predated Buddhi…	OL2606662W
Preserving the Sacred	Michael Angel	"The Midewiwin is the traditional religious belief system central to the world view of Ojibwa in Canada and the US. It is a highly complex and rich series of sacred teachings and narratives. The pres…	OL2775011W
Le regard des princes à minuit	Erik L'Homme	Recueil de sept nouvelles narrant autant d'épreuves initiatiques surmontées par de jeunes chevaliers des temps modernes que l'on suit lors d'une danse d'un temps révolu effectuée au son des mazurkas …	OL27959374W
Vaco, le moche	Josée Ouimet	An 600. Vaco, un jeune Mochica du Pérou, apprenti artisan chez un potier, reçoit l'honneur de porter une riche céramique lors du cortège de la cérémonie funéraire de leur roi. Mais une malheureuse ch…	OL28940974W
Comment dresser votre dragon	Cressida Cowell	Harold Haddock est un petit Viking qui vit sur l'île de Beurk avec sa tribu, les Hooligans hirsutes. Pour devenir membre officiel de la tribu, Harold doit accomplir un rite délicat : capturer et appr…	OL29229125W
Tribuny	John Grisham	High school All-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home t…	OL29256190W
The distinctive wedding ceremony	Mary Calhoun	"An extensive guide for both same-sex and opposite sex couples wishing to design a unique, seamless, and memorable ceremony. It also serves as a how-to resource for officiants of all faiths, from nov…	OL29256632W
The cool knife	T. O. Beidelman	"In The Cool Knife, T. O. Beidelman analyzes in rich detail the ritual, imagery, and symbolism of Kaguru initiations, relating them to other Kaguru ceremonies as well as to more routine daily activit…	OL3343755W
Shakespeare's festive tragedy	Naomi Conn Liebler	Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and Ki…	OL3751047W
Jazz	Toni Morrison	It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one... At la…	OL50563W
Âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy =	Alice Ahenakew,John Christoph Cooper	"Born in 1912, Mrs. Alice Ahenakew grew up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family,…	OL6009235W
Native religious traditions	Joint International Symposium of Elders and Scholars (1977 Edmonton, Alta.)	Proceedings of the Joint International Symposium of Elders and Scholars, Edmonton, Alberta, September 15-17, 1977.	OL6387728W
Priests, Tongues, and Rites	Jacco Dieleman	This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 i…	OL9091049W