More than 2,000 years ago the term appeared in the Book of Songs to mean modest comfort: The people are hard-pressed, they need some modest comfort. Do well by the Central Plains, and your rule will spread beyond. Centuries later the Book of Rites described the ideal state of ...
s. The sight of a brand-new railway station might arouse certain values, motivations, and aspirations; perhaps evoking a sense of progress which people take to suggest that their city is ‘going somewhere’, or that their government is finally making good on its promises. These sensory effects...
Book Summary:InEqual Rites,New York Timesbestselling author Terry Pratchett brings readers back to Discworld, a fantasy universe where anything can happen—and usually does.A dying wizard tries to pass his staff on to the eighth son of an eighth son. When it is revealed that the he is a g...
However, there is a tendency among Mongolians to pass on the history of wrestling in the form of oral histories, and these mythological narratives are often used in most books on Mongolian wrestling. If title of wrestlers was successful, meaning that the wrestler is given a “title”, in ...
and the significance of a piece of cultural heritage does not solely lie within its tangible form. Both have consequences for what this means in terms of change, damage and loss. The future is inherently uncertain and yet our stewardship of heritage feels driven by a sense of moral imperative...