A review by melissarochelle
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Eliot Stein

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This book takes us on a journey across the globe to discover ten customs and traditions that are slowly becoming extinct. We visit Sardinia (su filindeu pasta), Japan (kioke soy sauce), India (metal mirrors), England (telling the bees), Peru (grass rope bridge), Cuba (readers), Germany (oak mailbox), West Africa (Mande djelis), Taiwan (film poster painter), and Sweden (night watchman). Each chapter provides history of the place, the people, and the process with interviews with practitioners who are keeping the traditions going as long as they can.