All the books listed on this web site are in stock and will be shipped within
3 business days.
We Accept: Paypal, Mastercard, Visa, American
Express, and Discover
Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Ed. by E.V. Ivanova, A.M. Reshetov
St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie, 1999 192 p Serie: Ethnographica Petropolitana pbk. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5858031196 Language: Russian
The authors of this collection of articles are St. Petersburg ethnographers and orientalists. They show that etiquette regulations of specific ethnic entities are closely linked with traditional outlooks. These outlooks date back to archaic times, and are sometimes unconsciously preserved in Oriental traditional societies at the time of their modernization. The ethnic groups examined are the Viets, Taos, Burmese, Indonesians, Ifugao of the Philippines, and Javanese. The book studies such ethnic communicative stereotypes as verbal formulas, gestures, and postures used in greetings; conversational attitudes; notions of propriety in the relationship between sexes; regulation of behavior toward the elderly and those higher in rank; and the symbolism of parts of the body. Bibliographical references.
Print this page
