Culture and Customs of Spain (Cultures and Customs of the World) - Hardcover

Stanton, Edward F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313314632 ISBN 13: 9780313314636

Verlag: Greenwood, 2002

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Book by Stanton Edward F

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"Cultures and Customs of Spain is a lively, readable guide to the diverse cultures and traditions of Spanish Society...Recommended for academic, school, and public libraries."-American Reference Books Annual "Recommended as an up-to-date reference on Spain."-Gale-Reference Reviews ..."useful if world history classes need another recent book on this country."-Thomson-Gale Reference for Students ..."impart much information on a wide range of cultural topics, offering readers jumping-off points for further reasearch."-Multicultural Review ?Recommended as an up-to-date reference on Spain.?-Gale-Reference Reviews ?...useful if world history classes need another recent book on this country.?-Thomson-Gale Reference for Students ?...impart much information on a wide range of cultural topics, offering readers jumping-off points for further reasearch.?-Multicultural Review ?Cultures and Customs of Spain is a lively, readable guide to the diverse cultures and traditions of Spanish Society...Recommended for academic, school, and public libraries.?-American Reference Books Annual .,."useful if world history classes need another recent book on this country."-Thomson-Gale Reference for Students .,."impart much information on a wide range of cultural topics, offering readers jumping-off points for further reasearch."-Multicultural Review

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Modern Spain is a revelation in this up-to-date overview. Stanton vibrantly describes the startling variety of landscape, people, and culture that make up Spain today. Included are a context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. Students of Spanish and a general audience will be rewarded with engrossing insights into what writer Ernest Hemingway called the very best country of all. Spain is a modern European nation, yet Spaniards are fiercely tied to their individual towns and regions-with their distinct social customs, dialects or languages, foods, landscape, and lifestyles-more than to a united country. Culture and Customs of Spain conveys the extremes, such as the hard-working Catalan contrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting in first and third world conditions, and the love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church. Spain's institutions are described, and its contributions to the world-from unparalleled literature and cuisine to flamenco and filmmaker Pedro Almodovar-are celebrated. A chronology and glossary complement the text.

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• Verlag: Greenwood
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0313314632
• ISBN 13: 9780313314636
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232