Dancing pines: A wild journey through swiss customs and traditions - Couverture rigide

Rosenmund, Dominique; Gerber, Sibylle; Britsch, Karin; Hess, Stéphanie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3716518476 ISBN 13 : 9783716518472

Editeur : BENTELI, 2019

Synopsis

In a quiet valley of the Swiss mountains, anarchic creatures, half giants, half animals, roam about. A cozy village transforms into a busy Alpine Wall Street in the summertime. And wildly blazing torches on people's shoulders plunge a historic old town into a sea of flames every year.

Quaint, fervent and close to nature - the Swiss cultivate their very own local customs and traditions with a great deal of passion. There are rituals that wistfully bid farewell to summer or exuberantly drive away the long winter, that celebrate religious occasions or cultivate secular events; sometimes similar to those of a hundred years ago, sometimes adapted to the present.

Together, the photographer and authors traveled through Switzerland tracing some of its most beautiful and wildest traditions, exploring what they are really about and what they mean to people. In this volume, the editors present their personal highlights of the customs of Swiss urban and rural life.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Folklorist Sibylle Gerber is curator at the historical museum of Lucern.

Stephanie Hess, journalist, works for the travel section of a Swiss women magazine as well as a freelance writer.

Karin Britsch, social scientist, has been since fall 2018 a chief editor and presenter for the Swiss national broadcast SRF.

Dominique Rosenmund is a Swiss photograper. She is the head of the picture editing department of the Luzerner Zeitung.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In a quiet valley of the Swiss mountains, anarchic creatures, half giants, half animals, roam about. A cozy village transforms into a busy Alpine Wall Street in the summertime. And wildly blazing torches on people's shoulders plunge a historic old town into a sea of flames every year.

Quaint, fervent and close to nature - the Swiss cultivate their very own local customs and traditions with a great deal of passion. There are rituals that wistfully bid farewell to summer or exuberantly drive away the long winter, that celebrate religious occasions or cultivate secular events; sometimes similar to those of a hundred years ago, sometimes adapted to the present.

Together, the photographer and authors traveled through Switzerland tracing some of its most beautiful and wildest traditions, exploring what they are really about and what they mean to people. In this volume, the editors present their personal highlights of the customs of Swiss urban and rural life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BENTELI
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3716518476
• ISBN 13: 9783716518472
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible