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community life5
manners and customs5
politics and government5
social life and customs5
culture4
persons3
rites and ceremonies3
associations, institutions, etc2
buildings2
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Higgenbottom1
Higginbottom, Mr Bernard1
Hilton, Mr Arthur1
Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu1
Nealey, E.1
Siporin, Rae Lee1
Wyman, Melvyn1
Yedder, Abderahmane Muhammed1

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Woman and Marriage in Islam

Yedder, Abderahmane Muhammed

1975

Study submitted for the postgraduate Diploma in Folk Life Studies, with chapters on the definition of marriage in the tradition of Islam, marriage among Jahilia (the Arab before Islam), woman before a...

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"Gypsies and Travellers in Yorkshire"

Wyman, Melvyn

1980

M.A. study of Gypsy Traveller culture, and their material culture in particular, based on fieldwork carried out on camp sites in West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, at the National Gypsy Education Cou...

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Igbo Lineage Head
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Igbo Lineage Head

Maduakor, Robert Obiatuegwu

1978

Card-mounted copy of a photograph taken ca. 1976 of an Igbo lineage head (elderly male) from the Nigerian East Central State, holding an ofa, a stick which symbolises the ritual and political authorit...

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Topping Out Ceremony

July 1967

Topping out ceremony at a new block of flats near Swiss Cottage, London. The ceremony is traditional in the building industry, and marks either the roofing-in of a building, or the half-way stage in t...

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Sound Recordings, Derbyshire and Cheshire

Siporin, Rae Lee

May 1965

[Collector announcement]; Mr. E. Nealey, recorded in Burbage; provides biographical information; makes reference to cockfighting; an Endowed School; selling newspapers at the age of nine; aunt and unc...

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