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Download or read book Daughter of Kura written by Debra Austin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the matriarchal society of Kura, women select mates every Fall at the Bonding from among the men who journey there from other villages. One woman will make a choice that will eventually undermine the whole cultural foundation of Kura. Set 500000 years ago in Africa.
Book Synopsis The Land of the Moa by : George Leitch
Download or read book The Land of the Moa written by George Leitch and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early 1890s, this play became the most widely performed New Zealand play in the country's history. It was designed around spectacular scenery and special effects, including a three-dimensional representation of the Pink Terraces and a realistic and technically demanding recreation of the Tarawera eruption.
Book Synopsis A History of the Modern British Ghost Story by : S. Hay
Download or read book A History of the Modern British Ghost Story written by S. Hay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.
Download or read book Japanese Plays written by A. L. Sadler and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic works from Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki theaters Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held suspended and the mind is filled with words, music, dance, and mysticism. In this groundbreaking book, Professor A.L. Sadler's translations come alive, bringing the mysteries of Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki to modern readers worldwide. This influential classic provides a cross-section of Japanese theater that gives the reader a sampler of its beauty and power. Sadler includes 40 plays spanning the following three genres Noh--As the oldest form of Japanese drama, Noh is remarkable for its unique staging. It has a powerful ability to create a world that represents the iconic attributes that the Japanese hold in the highest esteem: family, patriotism, and honor. Kyogen--Kyogen plays provide comic relief and typically center around the inversion of social hierarchies. Oftentimes, they are performed between the serious and stoic Noh plays. Similarly, Sadler's translated Kyogen pieces are layered between the Noh and the Kabuki plays in this book. Kabuki -- The Kabuki plays were the theater of the common people of Japan and are characterized by visual spectacle. The course of time has given them the patina of folk art, making them precious cultural relics of Japan. Sadler selected these pieces for translation because of their lighter subject matter and relatively upbeat endings. These plays are more linear in their telling and pedestrian in the lessons learned, and show the difficulties of being in love when a society is bent on conformity and paternal rule. The end result found in Japanese Plays is a wonderful selection of classic Japanese dramatic literature sure to enlighten and delight.
Book Synopsis The Boy and the Samurai by : Erik Christian Haugaard
Download or read book The Boy and the Samurai written by Erik Christian Haugaard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
Book Synopsis The Ancient History of the Maori by :
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Maori written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ancient History of the Maori: Horo-uta or Taki tumu migration by : John White
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Maori: Horo-uta or Taki tumu migration written by John White and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... An official collection of Māori historical traditions"--BIM.
Book Synopsis Horo-uta or Taki-tumu migration by : John White
Download or read book Horo-uta or Taki-tumu migration written by John White and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... An official collection of Māori historical traditions"--BIM.
Book Synopsis The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions by : John White
Download or read book The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions written by John White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 1887-90, this six-volume compilation of Maori oral literature, with English translations, contains traditions about deities, origins and warfare.
Book Synopsis Mother of Stones by : Avelina da Silveira
Download or read book Mother of Stones written by Avelina da Silveira and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if women had a means to protect themselves from violent men and administer punishment? What if there existed a secret feminist organization, Telea, equipped with unlimited resources, dedicated to women’s empowerment and protection? This is the tale of Telea and its leader, the Mother of Stones, spanning from its inception during the Mesolithic era to the present, facing challenges, and concluding in a future where society has evolved significantly. This novel blends speculative fiction with elements of fantasy and science fiction, inviting readers to envision a better world for women, men, and children. Avelina da Silveira narrates with an intimate tone, akin to sharing a story with a friend. It begins with the account of a dying woman named N ́kura, who lived 11 thousand years ago. N ́kura discovers a collection of nanobots, resembling a beautiful stone, becoming the first Mother of Stones. From her lineage, future Mothers of Stones are chosen. The protagonist resides in our contemporary era, selected to assume the role of the Mother of Stones, eventually triggering a profound and transformative upheaval in humanity. This narrative lingers in the reader’s mind well beyond the final page, courtesy of the ethical dilemmas it presents and the myriad possibilities it encourages readers to contemplate.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology by : Robert Dean Craig
Download or read book Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology written by Robert Dean Craig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1989-10-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to 1500 A.D. the Polynesians were the most widely spread people on earth, having settled an area of the Pacific, the Polynesian Triangle, twice the size of the United States. In this first reference guide to the mythology of these Vikings of the Pacific, Craig reviews Polynesian legends, stories, gods, goddesses, and heroes in hundreds of alphabetical entries that succinctly describe both characters and events. His wide-ranging and thorough introduction sets the subject in its geographic, historical, anthropological, and linguistic contexts, offering an illuminating overview of the origin of the Polynesians as a distinct people and tracing their voyages and settlements from Indonesia to Malaysia, Tonga, Samoa, the Marquesas, the various islands of eastern Polynesia, including Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand. The introduction presents fascinating information on Polynesian navigational skills and the voyages themselves, as well as a chart that details the evolution of the thirty Polynesian languages and compares cognates from several of these languages. A simplified pronunciation guide and a selected list of Polynesian dictionaries and/or grammars are provided for those interested in pursuing the richness of the Polynesian languages. This introductory survey gives readers the necessary background to understand the origin, development, and dispersion of the myths throughout the Pacific basin. The Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology is the result of many years of research. The individual entries were gleaned from nearly 300 sources in English, German, French, and Polynesian languages with the majority extracted from a number of primary sources that date generally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The printed source materials for this volume are fully described and listed by geographical group, including Maori, Cook Islands, Tahitian, Marquesan, Hawaiian, Samoan, and Tongan. General collections that retell the Polynesian stories are also surveyed. The entries are alphabetically arranged by major mythological figure; lesser characters can be located in the index. Short bibliographical citations--author, date, and page number--are included at the end of each main entry to direct readers to fuller information contained in the printed sources. An appendix provides valuable supplemental information on Polynesian gods and goddesses. This dictionary is sure to become a basic reference tool for libraries, students, and scholars of Pacific history and culture, as well as for courses in mythology, religion, and philosophy.
Book Synopsis The Father-Daughter Plot by : Rebecca L. Copeland
Download or read book The Father-Daughter Plot written by Rebecca L. Copeland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to the present. Conjoining the classical and the modern with a unified theme reveals an important continuum in female authorship-a historical approach often ignored by scholars. The essays devoted to the literature of the classical period discuss canonical texts in a new light, offering important feminist readings that challenge existing scholarship, while those dedicated to modern writers introduce readers to little-known texts with translations and readings that are engaging and original. Contributors: Tomoko Aoyama, Sonja Arntzen, Janice Brown, Rebecca L. Copeland, Midori McKeon, Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Joshua S. Mostow, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Edith Sarra, Atsuko Sasaki, Ann Sherif.
Book Synopsis The Testimonial Uncanny by : Julia V. Emberley
Download or read book The Testimonial Uncanny written by Julia V. Emberley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how colonial and postcolonial violence is understood and conceptualized through Indigenous storytelling. Through the study of Indigenous literary and artistic practices from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, Julia V. Emberley examines the ways Indigenous storytelling discloses and repairs the traumatic impact of social violence in settler colonial nations. She focuses on Indigenous storytelling in a range of cultural practices, including novels, plays, performances, media reports, Internet museum exhibits, and graphic novels. In response to historical trauma such as that experienced at Indian residential schools, as well as present-day violence against Indigenous bodies and land, Indigenous storytellers make use of Indigenous spirituality and the sacred to inform an ethics of hospitality. They provide uncanny configurations of political and social kinships between people, between the past and the present, and between the animate and inanimate. This book introduces readers to cultural practices and theoretical texts concerned with bringing Indigenous epistemologies to the discussion of trauma and colonial violence.
Book Synopsis The Prince and the Key by : David J. Greening
Download or read book The Prince and the Key written by David J. Greening and published by tolino media. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the fables from the world of the Sea People, who ply their trade across the Peaceful Ocean on their mighty sailing ships. Tales, like those of the evil magician Hazin, who finally turned good, of the Dancing Fool, or of Inka-Ji the Fire Snake, of wolf men and swan maidens and the Lele Mo'e, the flying dreamers. ... and of course the story of the Prince and the Key.
Download or read book He Whiriwhiringa written by Bruce Biggs and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines the Maori texts from "Selected Readings in Maori" (3rd ed 1990) and the English translations of those texts, from "Readings from Maori Literature" (1980). The texts and their English translations are published in parallel on facing pages, for ease of comparison. The Maori texts are drawn from various sources.
Book Synopsis A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism by : Elizabeth Rata
Download or read book A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism written by Elizabeth Rata and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the unintended and largely unforeseen consequences of globalization are the fundamental transformations of local relationships, both economic and cultural, that occur within communities drawn into the predominantly capitalist world economy. Democracy, once considered the essential political mode of regulation for successful capitalist economies, is being replaced by nondemocratic modes of social organization as localized responses to global forces, such as Maori tribalization in New Zealand, are subverted and transformed. A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism looks at the past three decades in New Zealand and the shifts in the relationship between the indigenous Maori people and the dominant Pakeha (white) society to illustrate these fundamental changes to national political, social, and economic structures. The book includes a case study of a Maori family, a theoretical exploration of the concept of "neotribal capitalism," and discussions of themes such as changing socioeconomic relations; new social movements; the indigenization of ethnicity; dominant group-ethnic group realignment; and the antidemocratic ideologies of late capitalism-themes of interest to students of world political economics, international relations, and anthropology.
Download or read book Uranium Daughter written by Chinle Miller and published by Yellow Cat Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1961, the height of the Cold War and a young archaeologist sets foot into the wild canyons of southeast Utah, searching for a rock-art panel that may hold the answer to the disappearance of the Anasazi. She is accompanied by her dog, Buddy Blue, and a mysterious sometime-companion she calls Mr. Yellowjacket. Here, in her recently discovered journals, Chinle Miller records her quest for the elusive Bird Panel, as well as her journey through an inner landscape, seeking peace from betrayal by one of the great rascals of the era, Charlie Dundee, the Uranium King. Over 350 pages of adventure in a landscape like nowhere else on Earth, as well as an inner landscape that will touch both your heart and life. This second edition (2022) contains photos.
