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Japanese lacquerware artists who were eminent for 19 generations in the Muromachi, Azuchi-Momoyama, and Tokugawa periods.Crane, Eva
British bee scientist tirelessly amassed and disseminated knowledge about bees and beekeeping, becoming one of the world's foremost authorities on bees. Crane earned a master's degree in quantum ...
Slavery in the 21st Century
In the northwestern African country of Mauritania, chattel slavery-the owning and trading of humans-never ended. The oldest and most traditional form of slavery, chattel slavery is a vestige of the ...
Performing Arts
The year 2004 saw not only the centenaries of the birth of two of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, George Balanchine and Sir Frederick Ashton, but also the 75th anniversary of the ...
Parentalia
Roman religious festival held in honour of the dead. The festival, which began at noon on February 13 and culminated on February 21, was essentially a private celebration of the rites of deceased ...
folk art
Whereas sophisticated art often reaches out for the esoteric and the unusual, the content of folk art is closely related to immediate human concerns. The major events of life were universally ...
hieros gamos
(Greek: "sacred marriage"), sexual relations of fertility deities in myths and rituals, characteristic of societies based on cereal agriculture, especially in the Middle East. At least once a year, ...
Southeast Asian arts
There are three main performing arts in the Sundanese area of western Java. Reog, a kind of urban folk performance, can be seen especially in the streets of Jakarta: two or three men improvise ...
marriage
The rituals and ceremonies surrounding marriage in most cultures are associated primarily with fecundity and validate the importance of marriage for the continuation of a clan, people, or society. ...
Thetis
in Greek mythology, a Nereid loved by Zeus and Poseidon. When Themis (goddess of Justice), however, revealed that Thetis was destined to bear a son who would be mightier than his father, the two gods ...
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