This page brings together free online books, topic searches, audiobooks, and Open Access resources related to customs and traditions from different cultures, including folklore, rituals, festivals, ceremonies, manners, and everyday social practices. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
Sections below Topics provide links to related audiobooks and modern Open Access books. See those sections for more information.
Topics: Cultural Traditions Books
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to customs and traditions. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
Manners and Customs – Social Customs Books
- China – Social life and customs
- Europe – Social life and customs
- France – Social life and customs
- Great Britain – Social life and customs
- India – Social life and customs
- United States – Social life and customs
- Manners and Customs – Australia
- Manners and Customs – Children
- Manners and Customs – China
- Manners and Customs – City and town life
- Manners and Customs – Costume
- Manners and Customs – Courtship
- Manners and Customs – Etiquette
- Manners and Customs – Families
- Manners and Customs – Farm life
- Manners and Customs – Food habits
- Manners and Customs – France
- Manners and Customs – Frontier and pioneer life
- Manners and Customs – Geography
- Manners and Customs – Germany
- Manners and Customs – History
- Manners and Customs – Holidays
- Manners and Customs – Homes
- Manners and Customs – India
- Manners and Customs – Ireland
- Manners and Customs – Italy
- Manners and Customs – Japan
- Manners and Customs – Man-woman relationships
- Manners and Customs – Marriage
- Manners and Customs – Mexico
- Manners and Customs – Nobility
- Manners and Customs – Politics and government
- Manners and Customs – Popular culture
- Manners and Customs – Social conditions
- Manners and Customs – South Africa
- Manners and Customs – Southern States
- Manners and Customs – Travel
- Manners and Customs – United States
- Manners and Customs – Women
- Birth customs
- Body marking
- Caste
- Customs and Traditions
- Dating (Social customs)
- Drinking customs
- Fads
- Farewells
- Festivals
- Food habits
- Funeral Rites and Ceremonies
- Gifts
- Holidays
- Kissing
- Lifestyles
- Manners and Customs
- Marriage Customs and Rites
- Mourning customs
- Nightlife
- Political customs and rites
- Quinceanera
- Rites and ceremonies
- Salons
- Salutations
- Sleeping customs
- Social Life and Customs
- Tattooing
- Tipping
Books on Holidays
Customs & Traditions Audiobooks
These audiobook links lead to public domain recordings from LibriVox at Internet Archive. The books recorded by Librivox volunteers were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include works on popular holidays, manners, death customs, traditions, and celebrations.
All Librivox audiobooks are free and can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
Open Access Cultural Traditions PDF Books Free Download
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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