41. Images taken in desert communities, on the other hand, often reflected an ethnographic interest in local customs and clothes. 42. In the barbarian portions of the empire, that included a whole host of local pagan customs built around the winter solstice. 43. In keeping with local custom, sometime around dusk today the official Valley Ranch groundhog, Punxatawney Jerry, will emerge from his luxury burrow and survey the surroundings. 44. It operates as a substitute to local custom and tends to be more elaborate in places where people have the least culturally in common. 45. It was a ceremony so emotional that the local custom banning women from funerals was set aside by a village decision. 46. Local custom had the force of law. 47. Local custom dictated returning the egg-bearing females to the river so they could finish journeying upstream to spawn. 48. Meals are often cooked communally and conversations about local customs and culture stretch long into the night. 49. My children are fascinated by all the local customs, and they have fallen in love with the culture. 50. Of course, specialty food exporting can cost twice as much to ship overseas, and sometimes the process is complicated by local customs regulations. |