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Book Synopsis Ancestral Images by : Stephanie Moser
Download or read book Ancestral Images written by Stephanie Moser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed even before a scientific understanding of human origins developed. How did mythological, religious, and historically inspired visions of the past, in existence for centuries, shape this understanding? Moser treats images as primary documents, and her book is lavishly illustrated with engravings, paintings, photographs, and reconstructions. In surveying the iconography of prehistory, Moser explores visions of human creation from their origins in classical, early Christian, and medieval periods through traditions of representation initiated in the Renaissance. She looks closely at the first scientific reconstructions of the nineteenth century, which dramatized and made comprehensible the Darwinian theory of human descent from apes. She considers, as well, the impact of reconstructions on popular literature in Europe and North America, showing that early visualizations of prehistory retained a firm hold on the imagination—a hold that archaeologists and anthropologists have found difficult to shake.
Download or read book Ancestral Images written by Hugh Baker and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition in one volume of Hugh Baker's celebrated three volumes of Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Each mouthful is complete in itself, but together the articles amount to a substantial feast. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and which still forms the background for life in modern, urban Hong Kong. Esoteric nuggets of information are scattered through the book: How do you ascend a Pagoda with no staircase? How can you marry without attending the wedding? When is it wrong to buy a book?
Book Synopsis Ancestral Images by : Hugh D. R. Baker
Download or read book Ancestral Images written by Hugh D. R. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Niniskamijinaqik by : Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Download or read book Niniskamijinaqik written by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 2015 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada were here for thousands of years before the arrival of European peoples. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images: The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography presents their unique culture and way of life through the remarkable and sometime complex lives of individuals, as depicted in artwork or photography. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi'kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova Scotia. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi'kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. Finally we see portraits of Mi'kmaw individuals, ancestors in whom we see their "humanity frozen in the stillness of a photograph," as the writers of the book's foreword describe. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images includes 94 compelling pieces of art and photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi'kmaw people. Each image is an entry point to deeply personal history, a small moment or single person transformed into vivid immediacy for the reader.
Book Synopsis Freedom From Failure by : Jaqueline Lapa Sussman
Download or read book Freedom From Failure written by Jaqueline Lapa Sussman and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us see closed doors between our goals and our present lives. Here, for the first time, are the keys to unlock those doors--in business, romantic and family relationships, and even athletics. Those keys--the secret, primary Images, known as Eidetics, that we all hold inside--are, when used correctly, a force to heal and enhance our natural abilities, enabling the true self to flourish and succeed. Encoded in the brain but often obscured by negative experiences and unrealistic social expectations, these primary images are the positive forces that propel successful people into self-confidence, action, and pleasure. Here, in easy-to-use "prescriptions" and visualization exercises, acclaimed Eidectic Imagery counselor Jaqueline Lapa Sussman will help you find the "gifts from the gods" within yourself. Whether you wish to enhance your leadership skills, love relationships, parenting skills, or sports performance, these techniques are sure to develop your potential and free you for success. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education by :
Download or read book The American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of Religious Psychology, Including Its Anthropological and Sociological Aspects by :
Download or read book Journal of Religious Psychology, Including Its Anthropological and Sociological Aspects written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section, "Book reviews"
Book Synopsis Journal of Religious Psychology by : Granville Stanley Hall
Download or read book Journal of Religious Psychology written by Granville Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section, "Book reviews".
Book Synopsis The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by : James George Frazer
Download or read book The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Worshiping the Ancestors by : Jan Stuart
Download or read book Worshiping the Ancestors written by Jan Stuart and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their powerful presence and exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This illustrated text explores the artistic, historical, and religious significance of these paintings and places them in context with other types of commemorative portraiture. During the late Ming (1368-1644) and Quing (1644-1911) dynasties, full-length portraits of individual men and women came into vogue. These ancestor portraits were important objects of veneration, and the practice continued into the 20th century, when paintings were gradually replaced by photographs. The authors explore the works in depth, presenting a fascinating glimpse of Chinese life and culture and providing biographies of the sitters. Worshiping the Ancestors should appeal to connoisseurs of Chinese art and to all those interested in social history, portraiture, and devotional art.
Book Synopsis Science by : John Michels (Journalist)
Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Silent Rhetoric of the Body by : Matthew Craske
Download or read book The Silent Rhetoric of the Body written by Matthew Craske and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.
Book Synopsis Images of Ancestors by : Jakob Munk Højte
Download or read book Images of Ancestors written by Jakob Munk Højte and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A certain intimacy with one's ancestors was essential to achieving status in the classical world. By referring to the illustrious exploits and qualities of his forebears, a man could strengthen his position in society. If his origins lacked sufficient glory, he could construct a family tree and testify to its authenticity through the judicious use of portraits and legendary allusions. In this volume, fifth in the Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, eleven internationally recognised scholars analyse ancestral representation in ancient Greece, Etruria and Rome. While some contributions address the artistic, social and political significance of given portraits, others address broader themes: true and false forefathers in the portraits of Hellenistic rulers, the question of whether women were ancestors in republican Rome, and how the Roman non-elite used funerary statues to acquire an ancestor.
Book Synopsis Emperors and Ancestors by : Olivier Hekster
Download or read book Emperors and Ancestors written by Olivier Hekster and published by Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult. This book was released on 2015 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which Roman imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of emperors could be transmitted. Rather than focusing on individual rulers of the Roman Empire, it evaluates evidence over an extended period of time and differentiates between various types of sources, such as inscriptions, sculpture, architecture, literary text, and particularly central coinage, which forms the most convenient source material for a modern reconstruction of Roman representations of power over a prolonged period of time.
Book Synopsis Pliny's Catalogue of Culture by : Sorcha Carey
Download or read book Pliny's Catalogue of Culture written by Sorcha Carey and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest surviving examples of 'art history', Pliny the Elder's 'chapters on art' form part of his encyclopaedic Natural History, completed shortly before its author died during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. This important new work argues that the Natural History offers a sophisticated account of the world as empire, in which art as much as geography can be used to expound a Roman imperial agenda. Reuniting the 'chapters on art' with the rest of the Natural History, Sorcha Carey considers how the medium of the 'encyclopaedia' affects Pliny's presentation of art, and reveals how art is used to explore themes important to the work as a whole. Throughout, the author demonstrates that Pliny's 'chapters on art' are a profoundly Roman creation, offering an important insight into responses to art and culture under the early Roman empire.
Book Synopsis The Anglican Imagination by : Robert Boak Slocum
Download or read book The Anglican Imagination written by Robert Boak Slocum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety and depth of Anglican theology is best engaged through personal encounter with its many sources - the theologians and theological witnesses themselves. Anglican theology is often worked out in personal terms that provide a synthesis between reflection on the truths of faith and the particular contexts of culture and life. This book presents modern Anglican theology through a unique ’gallery’. This theological gallery includes a portrait or sketch of ten Anglican writers - DuBose, Farrer, Stringfellow, Brooks, Kemper, DeKoven, McCord Adams, Polkinghorne, Gore and Macquarrie. Theological description, interpretation and application are included for each, with the presentations differing as widely as the theologians and theological witnesses themselves. Drawing together understandings and experiences of faith, this will be an invaluable resource for students of Anglican theology and anyone who seeks to understand the distinctive perspectives and contributions of Anglicanism relative to living faith and daily life.
