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Astonishment and Power

Author : National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Astonishment and Power written by National Museum of African Art (U.S.) and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing together the minkisi tradition of the Kongo peoples of Central Africa and the art of Renée Stout, "Atonishment & Power" explores a complex African visual tradition and its resonance in the work of a contemporary African-American woman artist. Minkisi, as described by Wyatt MacGaffey, are figures or operative complexes made from natural and man-made materials are intended as containers for powerful medicines. Often visually impressive, minkisi are invoked to accomplish various purposes, both to heal and to harm. In discussing minkisi, MacGaffey includes numerous early-20th-century commentaries written by young Kongo men. As Michael Harris reveals, the art of Renée Stout incorporates the forms and conceptual qualities of Kongo minkisi. The inspiration for her work derives from her personal memories and her deep interest in minkisi and African beliefs. Like minkisi, Stout's work sits at a crossroads--of the sacred and the secular, the West and Africa. Both the Kongo people and Renée Stout are masters at creating works of astonishment and power, invocation and art."--Back cover.

Abiding Astonishment

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664251345
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Abiding Astonishment written by Walter Brueggemann and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the "Psalms of Historical Recital" reviews this portion of scripture's social-political intention and function. Focusing on Psalms 78, 105, 106, and 136, Brueggemann considers these psalms on their own terms and then applies them to the areas of modernity and marginality.

Kongo Political Culture

Author : Wyatt MacGaffey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253336989
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Kongo Political Culture written by Wyatt MacGaffey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lutete devoted much of his attention to aspects of Kongo ritual and religious belief, including minkisi and the rituals for the installation of chiefs. The original text of what he had to say about chiefship is printed, with translation notes. The work of other informants is also used."--BOOK JACKET.

Astonishment and Evocation

Author : Ivo Strecker
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459368
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Astonishment and Evocation written by Ivo Strecker and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. The book is divided into three parts covering the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. Taken as a whole, the contributions to the book demonstrate how astonishment and evocation deserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.

The Astonishing Power of Emotions

Author : Abraham (Spirit)
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 140191246X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Astonishing Power of Emotions written by Abraham (Spirit) and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham, channeled through Esther Hicks, explains how to understand emotions and follow the life-affirming guidance that they provide, in a book that discusses how to deal with thirty-three specific situations.

Intuition

Author : Quentin Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953714407
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Intuition written by Quentin Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Returns of Fetishism

Author : Charles de Brosses
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646475X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Returns of Fetishism written by Charles de Brosses and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of fetish gods; or, a parallel of the ancient religion of Egypt with the present religion of Nigritia / Charles de Brosses ; translated by Daniel H. Leonard -- After De Brosses: fetishism, translation, comparativism, critique / Rosalind C. Morris -- A fetiche is a fetiche: no knowledge without difference of the word: rereading De Brosses -- Excursus: recontextualizing De Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa -- Re Kant and the good fetishists among us -- Hegel: back to the heart of darkness -- Fetishism against itself; or, Marx's two fetishisms -- The great fetish; or, the fetishism of the one -- Freud and the return to the dark continent: the other fetish -- Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan -- Anthropology's fetishism: the custodianship of reality -- Fetishism reanimated: surrealism, ethnography, and the war against decay -- Deconstruction's fetish: undecidable, or the mark of Hegel -- Rehistoricizing generalized fetishism: the era of objects -- Anthropological redux: the reality of fetishism -- The fetish is dead, long live fetishism

The Wine of Astonishment

Author : Earl Lovelace
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478622601
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Wine of Astonishment written by Earl Lovelace and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wine of Astonishment is a powerful and heart-wrenching story of the persecution of Spiritual Baptists during British colonial rule in Trinidad from 1917 to 1951. The novel, situated in the remote village of Bonasse, is narrated by Eva, a middle-aged peasant and member of the Baptist Church. Her insider view, conveyed in Trinidadian Creole, pulls readers into the communal character of the Church, the oppression of West Indian people, political corruption, and the disparate motivations of community members. Earl Lovelace’s poignant novel placed him in the front ranks of Caribbean writers and established his international reputation. His well-crafted tale of change and perseverance connects us with authentic, complicated characters who struggle to exercise their freedom and retain their identity. Through their experiences of hope, betrayal, and humiliation we gain a better understanding of ethnic and religious strife and West Indian culture.

The Time of Our Singing

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706417
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Time of Our Singing written by Richard Powers and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

Customer Astonishment

Author : Darby Checketts
Publisher : Author's Choice Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931741682
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Customer Astonishment written by Darby Checketts and published by Author's Choice Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great customer relationships make the world go around. Customers give us the opportunity to apply our talents to serve them. Then, they transfer money from their bank accounts to ours so that we have the financial leverage to meet our goals. This simple, everyday economic interdependence is what business success, professional accountability, and personal prosperity are all about. In today's competitive world, a satisfied customer is no longer enough. A satisfied customer is still shopping around until you provide that WOW experience and make that WOW connection that creates customer loyalty. To do so, you must move beyond mere customer service to the new world of Customer Astonishment. To astonish is to strike with awe and wonder. Author Darby Checketts has spent the past 14 years preparing to show you how. You will learn the principles and methods to make these secrets work for you and your team. Discover the Power of WOW, which is necessary to positively astonish those who depend on you. Set your own mark for world-class customer care.

Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Based on the International Dictionary 1890 and 1900

Author : William Torrey Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Based on the International Dictionary 1890 and 1900 written by William Torrey Harris and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fortress

Author : Meša Selimović
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117136
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book The Fortress written by Meša Selimović and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.

The Primitive Church (or Baptist) Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Primitive Church (or Baptist) Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minkisi Do Not Die

Author : Shannen Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Minkisi Do Not Die written by Shannen Hill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Service Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Public Service Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Astonishment and Science

Author : Paul Tyson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666733407
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Astonishment and Science written by Paul Tyson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation. On one hand, knowledge of the natural world can open us up to greater love for the Creator, give us the means of more neighborly care, and fill us with ever-deepening astonishment. On the other hand, knowledge feeding an insatiable hunger for epistemic mastery can become a means of idolatry, hubris, and damage. Crucial to world-respecting science is the role of wonder: curiosity, perplexity, and astonishment. In this volume, philosopher William Desmond explores the relation of the different modes of wonder to modern science. Responding to his thought are twelve thinkers across the domains of science, theology, philosophy, law, poetry, medicine, sociology, and art restoration. Introduction —Paul Tyson The Dearth of Astonishment: On Curiosity, Scientism, and Thinking as Negativity —William Desmond Preparing to Paint the Virgin’s Robe —Spike Bucklow Cultivating Wonder —Steven Knepper The Astonishment of Philosophy: William Desmond and Isabelle Stengers —Simone Kotva 5. Astonishment and the Social Sciences —Paul Tyson Curiosity, Perplexity, and Astonishment in the Natural Sciences —Andrew Davison Scientism as the Dearth of the Nothing —Richard J. Colledge The Determinations of Medicine and the Too-Muchness of Being —Jeffrey Bishop Attending to Infinitude: Law as in-between the Overdeterminate and Practical Judgment —Jonathan Horton Life’s Wonder —Simon Oliver Being in Control —Michael Hanby Wondering about the Science/Scientism Distinction —D. C. Schindler Basil and Desmond on Wonder and the Astonishing Return of Christian Metaphysics —Isidoros C. Katsos The Children of Wonder: On Scientism and Its Changelings —William Desmond