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Author : Frederick J. Simoons
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Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Ceremonial Ox of India written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick J. Simoons
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Download or read book A ceremonial ox of India written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick J. Simoons
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Total Pages : 323 pages
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Download or read book A ceremonial ox of India written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy McInerney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691140073
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Cattle of the Sun written by Jeremy McInerney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes selections translated from the Ancient Greek.
Author : Leon McKusick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520059351
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (593 download)
Download or read book What to Do about AIDS written by Leon McKusick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intensive San Francisco study has resulted in a collection of pieces on the personal and professional struggle to combat the reprecussions of AIDS, providing a comprehensive survey of the mental-health aspects of the illness
Author : Francis Zimmermann
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120816183
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats written by Francis Zimmermann and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA ONLY
Author : Don R. Brothwell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801857409
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Food in Antiquity written by Don R. Brothwell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors describe various sources of sustenance (meat, cooking oils, fruits and vegetables, beverages, etc.) in terms of who consumed it, how it was prepared, and how it spread from its region of origin. They also study the impact of diet on disease among early peoples.
Author : Joy L. K. Pachuau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009276697
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Entangled Lives written by Joy L. K. Pachuau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers three questions about understanding the past. How can we rethink human histories by including animals and plants? How can we overcome nationally territorialised narratives? And how can we balance academic history-writing and indigenous understandings of history? This is a tentative foray into the connections between these questions. Entangled Lives explore them for a large area that has seldom been explored in academic inquiry. The 'Eastern Himalayan Triangle' includes both uplands and lowlands. The region is the meeting point of three global biodiversity hotspots connecting India and China across Myanmar/Burma, Bangladesh and Bhutan. The 'Triangle' is treated as a multispecies site in which human histories have always been utterly intertwined with plant and animal histories. It foregrounds that history is co-created – it is always interspecies history – but that its contours are locally specific.
Author : Geoffrey W. Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521318969
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Religion and Empire written by Geoffrey W. Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-08-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative, comparative study of the formation and expansion of the Aztec and Inca empires. Argues that prehistoric cultural development is largely determined by continual changes in traditional religion.
Author : Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 148225932X
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Food in China written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a study of Chinese food from a cultural and historical perspective. Its focus is on traditional China before establishment of the People's Republic. It identifies and provides comprehensive information on a broad range of Chinese food plants and animals for general readers, as well as for specialists whose interests have led them to
Author : Valerio Valeri
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299162146
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Forest of Taboos written by Valerio Valeri and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal world which invades the human world in many ways.
Author : Mark M. Jarzombek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118142101
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Architecture of First Societies written by Mark M. Jarzombek and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ARCHITECTURE OF FIRST SOCIETIES THIS LANDMARK STUDY TRACES THE BEGINNINGS OF ARCHITECTURE BY LOOKING AT THE LATEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH From the dawn of human society, through early civilizations, to pre-Columbian American societies, Architecture of First Societies traces the different cultural formations that developed in various places throughout the world to form the built environment. It is the first book to explore the beginnings of architecture from a global perspective. Viewing ancient cultures through a lens of both time and geography, this history of early architecture brings its subjects to life with full-color photographs, maps, and drawings. The author cites the latest discoveries and analyses in archaeology and anthropology and discovers links to the past by examining how indigenous societies build today. “Encounters with Modernity” sections examine some of the political issues that village life and its architectural traditions face in the modern world. This fascinating and engaging tour of our architectural past: Fills a gap in architectural education concerning early mankind, the emergence of First Society people, and the rise of early agricultural societies Presents the story of early architecture, written by the coauthor of the acclaimed A Global History of Architecture Uses the most current research to develop a global picture of human interaction and migration Features color and black-and-white photos and drawings that show site conditions as well as huts, houses, and other buildings under construction in cultures that still exist today Highlights global relationships with color maps Analyzes topics ranging in scale from landscape and culture to building techniques Helps us come to terms with our own modern approaches to historical conditions and anthropological pasts Architecture of First Societies is ideal reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the strong relationships between geography, ecology, culture, and architecture.
Author : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345452828
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book The Pig Who Sang to the Moon written by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even consciousness. Weaving history, literature, anecdotes, scientific studies, and Masson’s own vivid experiences observing pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens over the course of five years, this important book at last gives voice, meaning, and dignity to these gentle beasts that are bred to be milked, shorn, butchered, and eaten. Can we ever know what makes an animal happy? Many animal behaviorists say no. But Jeffrey Masson has a different view: An animal is happy if it can live according to its own nature. Farm animals suffer greatly in this regard. Chickens, for instance, like to perch in trees at night, to avoid predators and to nestle with friends. The obvious conclusion: They cannot be happy when confined twenty to a cage. From field and barn, to pen and coop, Masson bears witness to the emotions and intelligence of these remarkable farm animals, each unique with distinct qualities. Curious, intelligent, self-reliant–many will find it hard to believe that these attributes describe a pig. In fact, there is much that humans share with pigs. They dream, know their names, and can see colors. Mother cows mourn the loss of their calves when their babies are taken away to slaughter. Given a choice between food that is nutritious or lacking in minerals, sheep will select the former, balancing their diet and correcting the deficiency. Goats display quite a sense of humor, dignity, and fearlessness (Indian goats have been known to kill leopards). Chickens are naturally sociable–they will gather around a human companion and stand there serenely preening themselves or sit quietly on the ground beside someone they trust. For far too long farm animals have been denigrated and treated merely as creatures of instinct rather than as sentient beings. Shattering the abhorrent myth of the “dumb animal without feelings,” Jeffrey Masson has written a revolutionary book that is sure to stir human emotions far and wide.
Author : Lowell J. Bean
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520026278
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Mukat's People written by Lowell J. Bean and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974-08-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction by Lowell J. Bean:An apparent dichotomy exists in scientific circles concerning the role of religion and belief systems and a similar dichotomy exists among anthropological theorists. Two assumptions seem to prevail: ritual and world view are more ecologically nonadaptive than adaptive; or ritual and world view are more ecologically adaptive than they are nonadaptive. To examine the relevancy of the opposing theoretical views I will develop hypotheses concerning a particular culture, the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, which will be used as a test case. I will present two sets of hypotheses which logically follow from each of the assumptions. From the first assumption I suggest that the economic needs of society are impeded by ritual actions which are not only wasteful of productive goods but decrease the production of goods; they take people away from productive activities because of ritual obligations: and . from the second I suggest that the economic needs of society are impeded by normative and existential postulates (for definition see page 16o) which indicate that valuable resources are outside the realm of the economic order; these postulates are disruptive to the production of goods by encouraging people to behave in such a way that they are taken away from productive activity. From this latter viewpoint two other hypotheses follow: the ecoiwmic needs of society are facilitated by ritual action which conserves and increases the production of goods and fosters productive activity by directing personnel toward producing activities; and the economic needs of society are facilitated by normative and existential postulates which foster the use of valuable economic resources and increase the productive process by directing behavior which involves people in productive activities. The validity of the hypotheses will be tested by asking specific questions related to the hypotheses. The questions are:Were goods wasted because of ritual action? Did ritual action take people away from productive activities or did it direct people to produce more goods? Were valuable resources placed outside the realm of economic order by existential postulates? Did normative postulates disrupt the production of goods by rewarding behavior which took people away from productive activity? Or did it reward behavior which fostered the production of goods? Additional questions are: Did ritual and world view encourage the full and rational use of the Cahuilla environment? Did ritual and world view aid in adjusting man-land ratios? Did ritual and world view support a social structure and organization which was adaptive to an environmental base? Did ritual and world view support institutions that were adaptive, such as law, property concepts, warfare, and games? Did ritual and world view have regulatory functions? Did ritual and world view stimulate or facilitate the distribution of economic goods from one part of the system to another? Did ritual and world view limit the frequency and extent of conflict over valuable resources?
Author : John Knight
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004203249
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Herding Monkeys to Paradise written by John Knight and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the use of monkeys as a tourist attraction in Japan. Monkey parks are popular visitor attractions that display free-ranging troops of Japanese macaques to the paying public. The parks work by manipulating the movements of the monkey troop through the regular provision of food handouts at a fixed site where the monkeys can be easily viewed. This system of management leads to a variety of problems, including proliferating monkey numbers, park-edge crop-raiding, and the sedentarization of the troop. In addition to falling visitor numbers, these problems have led to the closure or fencing in of many parks, calling into question the future of the monkey park as an institution.
Author : Jack Rodney Harlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521764599
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Biodiversity in Agriculture written by Jack Rodney Harlan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together research from a range of fields to address key questions relating to agriculture: its origins and long-term sustainability.
Author : Dorian Garrick
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1780642210
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Genetics of Cattle, 2nd Edition written by Dorian Garrick and published by CABI. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of domestication more than 10,000 years ago, cattle have played an increasingly crucial role in the development of human civilizations. Progress has been quite remarkable since the turn of the century; the sequencing of the bovine genome in 2009 launched new avenues for furthering our understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of cattle genetics. Covering a vast array of questions, this book reviews major topics from molecular and developmental genetics, disease resistance and immunogenetics to genetic improvement of dairy and beef breeds, addressing all current problems in the field. This second edition includes a new team of authors and completely new chapters on the genetics of fat production, nutrition, feed intake and efficiency, growth and body composition. Fully updated throughout, it provides a valuable resource on cattle genetics for researchers, breeders, veterinarians and postgraduate students.
