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( Ghost Gestures )

Author : Gabrielle Civil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938900389
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book ( Ghost Gestures ) written by Gabrielle Civil and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Drama African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Nonfiction Chapbook Contest. How can you return to where you've never been? ( GHOST GESTURES ) conjures diaspora hauntings and traces black bodies across space and time. In Dakar and Banjul, Detroit and Montreal, Tlaxcala and Río Piédras, Gabrielle Civil showcases black bodies dancing, hiding, and re-emerging. In performance writing, she invokes the doll, the queen, and the ghost to explore where black women have never and always been. She plays hide-and-seek with her own transforming body and tackles history, identity, art, and desire. "bring this here / bring this back / keep this here / bring us back / bring us here / bring us back to this." Incorporating chants, notations, images, and scores, ( GHOST GESTURES ) will spirit you away.

Experiencing Animal Minds

Author : Julie Ann Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231161514
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Animal Minds written by Julie Ann Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary studies, and art, as well as chapters by and about people who live and work with animals, including the founder of a sanctuary for chickens, a fur trapper, a popular canine psychologist, a horse trainer, and an art photographer who captures everyday contact between humans and their animal companions. Divided into five sections, the collection first considers the ways that humans live with animals and the influence of cohabitation on their perceptions of animals' minds. It follows with an examination of anthropomorphism as both a guide and hindrance to mapping animal consciousness. Chapters next examine the effects of embodiment on animals' minds and the role of animal-human interembodiment on humans' understandings of animals' minds. Final sections identify historical representations of difference between human and animal consciousness and their relevance to pre-established cultural attitudes, as well as the ways that representations of animals' minds target particular audiences and sometimes produce problematic outcomes. The editors conclude with a discussion of the relationship between the book's chapters and two pressing themes: the connection between human beliefs about animals' minds and human ethical behavior, and the challenges and conditions for knowing the minds of animals. By inviting readers to compare and contrast multiple, uncommon points of view, this collection offers a unique encounter with the diverse perspectives and theories now shaping animal studies.

The Spirit of Mourning

Author : Paul Connerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503367
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Mourning written by Paul Connerton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. In particular he looks at how memory is conveyed in gesture, bodily posture, speech and the senses – and how bodily memory, in turn, becomes manifested in cultural objects such as tattoos, letters, buildings and public spaces. It is argued that memory is more cultural and collective than it is individual. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology, social psychology and philosophy.

Perspectives in Motion

Author : Kendra Stepputat
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800730039
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Motion written by Kendra Stepputat and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, this edited collection offers new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.

Ghost Hunter's Guide to New Orleans

Author : Jeff Dwyer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455621595
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Hunter's Guide to New Orleans written by Jeff Dwyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s not hard to find restless spirits in the Big Easy. Let the popular paranormal investigator guide you through its winding streets and history. Newly revised and updated, this installment in the much-acclaimed Ghost Hunter’s Guide Series is designed for locals, new residents, and travelers seeking the haunted history of the Crescent City and nearby locations. Detailed descriptions and historical background for more than two hundred locations guide readers to sites where they might encounter ghostly apparitions. Sites and spirits in the Garden District and French Quarter include the ghosts of voodoo priestesses, victims of yellow-fever epidemics, several well-known French Quarter restaurants, and the famous Lalaurie Mansion, thought to be the most haunted house in New Orleans. A section on City Park, the Faubourg Marigny, and nearby Chalmette, the site of the Battle of New Orleans, is also provided. A chapter dedicated to day trips suggests the paranormal possibilities awaiting travelers destined for the famous River Road plantations and Baton Rouge. Praise for Jeff Dwyer’s Ghost Hunter’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area “While sometimes scary, [the ghost stories] more often serve as reminders of the sometimes quirky, and oftentimes tragically haunting, history of the people of California.” —The Reporter (Vacaville, CA) “I thought I knew everything about the wine country, but I apparently overlooked the protoplasmic ‘walk by night’ world.” —Mick Winter, author of The Napa Valley Book

Symbolic Landscapes

Author : Gary Backhaus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402087039
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Symbolic Landscapes written by Gary Backhaus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds. This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics in the field.

Ghost Hunter's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area

Author : Jeff Dwyer
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589809680
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Hunter's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area written by Jeff Dwyer and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the ultimate guide to finding ghosts in the Bay Area highlights more than 100 haunted spots in and around San Francisco, all accessible to the public. Featured sights include the Queen Anne Hotel, one of the most haunted buildings in the area; the Atherton House; Cameron House in Chinatown; and of course, Alcatraz Prison. With advice on what to do with a ghost, what to do after the ghost hunt, and other telekinetic tidbits, this guide encourages travelers to be attentive and imaginative, willing them to take that extra spirit-sighting step.

Ghost Hunter's Guide to Los Angeles

Author : Jeff Dwyer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455604890
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Hunter's Guide to Los Angeles written by Jeff Dwyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned paranormal investigator and ghost hunter shows tourists, residents, and even nonbelievers where to encounter spirits in the City of Angels. As useful to the paranormally curious as to locals and adventurers seeking new and unusual spots, Ghost Hunter’s Guide to Los Angeles shows you how and where to seek out the supernatural in Los Angeles and surrounding areas—from Hollywood to Long Beach as well as destinations in nearby San Diego and Santa Barbara. Suggested stops include familiar locations such as Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Catalina Island, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Lookout Mountain, and missions like Mission San Juan Capistrano, Mission San Buena Ventura, and more. Many other suggested adventures refer to sights where ghosts of movie stars like Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Howard Hughes have been seen. There are also numerous anecdotes and leads for exploring more obscure supernatural entities like the “murdered waitress,” the “ghost protester,” “indigenous ghosts,” and many other seemingly anonymous spirits around the Los Angeles area. The appendix is full of references for further exploration, including a list of local ghost tours, historical societies and museums, and an exhaustive list of suggested books, Internet resources, films, and national organizations relating to ghostly communications. A handy sighting report form is included to assist witnesses in the case of an encounter. “Jeff Dwyer has done it again. Easily one of the best Ghost Story writers working today. You will never look at the City of Angels the same way.” —Ray Couch, Southern Ghosts

Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction

Author : Antonio Camurri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540245987
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction written by Antonio Camurri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-02 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the multifaceted aspects of modeling, analysis, and synthesis of - man gesture is receiving growing interest from both the academic and industrial communities. On one hand, recent scienti?c developments on cognition, on - fect/emotion, on multimodal interfaces, and on multimedia have opened new perspectives on the integration of more sophisticated models of gesture in c- putersystems.Ontheotherhand,theconsolidationofnewtechnologiesenabling “disappearing” computers and (multimodal) interfaces to be integrated into the natural environments of users are making it realistic to consider tackling the complex meaning and subtleties of human gesture in multimedia systems, - abling a deeper, user-centered, enhanced physical participation and experience in the human-machine interaction process. The research programs supported by the European Commission and s- eral national institutions and governments individuated in recent years strategic ?elds strictly concerned with gesture research. For example, the DG Infor- tion Society of the European Commission (www.cordis.lu/ist) supports several initiatives, such as the “Disappearing Computer” and “Presence” EU-IST FET (Future and Emerging Technologies), the IST program “Interfaces & Enhanced Audio-Visual Services” (see for example the project MEGA, Multisensory - pressive Gesture Applications, www.megaproject.org), and the IST strategic - jective “Multimodal Interfaces.” Several EC projects and other funded research are represented in the chapters of this book. Awiderangeofapplicationscanbene?tfromadvancesinresearchongesture, from consolidated areas such as surveillance to new or emerging ?elds such as therapy and rehabilitation, home consumer goods, entertainment, and aud- visual, cultural and artistic applications, just to mention only a few of them.

Three Plays of Tirso de Molina

Author : Tirso de Molina,
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662853X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays of Tirso de Molina written by Tirso de Molina, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally credited as the creator of Don Juan, one of the most famous characters in literature, Tirso de Molina (1580-1648) is largely unknown to English readers. He wrote within an extraordinary literary milieu (the Spanish Golden Age--Velazquez, Ribera, Cervantes...) and left his own mark. This book presents three of his best known works, never before translated in one collection: the Don Juan play, a theological play and a court comedy. Don Juan is recognized as a masterpiece of psychological portraiture and has been the subject of countless analyses, and diagnosed as a misogynist, a repressed homosexual, a misanthrope, a narcissist. However he may be interpreted, the reader senses that in Don Juan, Tirso was probing a dark area of the human spirit. The playwright is known for his realistic and penetrating psychological portraits of women. His female characters are forceful, cunning, witty and courageous, and their frank and unabashed sexuality is striking for the age--so much so that Tirso was censured and eventually banished from Madrid.

Earth Ways

Author : Gary Backhaus
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739107645
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Earth Ways written by Gary Backhaus and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the connection between anthropology, philosophy, and geography? How does one locate the connection? Can a juncture between these disciplines also accommodate history, sociology and other applied and theoretical forms of knowledge? In Earth Ways: Framing Geographical Meanings, editors Gary Backhaus and John Murungi challenge their contributors to find the location that would enable them to bridge their "home disciplines" to philosophical and geographical thought. This represents no easy task. Essayists are charged with building a set of conceptual bridges and what emerges is a unique co-joined topography; sets of ideas united by a painstaking and rigorous interdisciplinary framework. Earth Ways is a salient rendering of interdisciplinary thought in contemporary humanities and social sciences scholarship.

Borders and Debordering

Author : Tomaž Grušovnik
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149857131X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Borders and Debordering written by Tomaž Grušovnik and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of the body at the threshold between subjective identities and intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective, social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race, human/animal/nature/technology divisions). The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the “border” in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.

Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: List of collaborators. Editor's preface. Table of contents. Abbreviations. Text, A-Laws

Author : James Mark Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: List of collaborators. Editor's preface. Table of contents. Abbreviations. Text, A-Laws written by James Mark Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Minutes of the Shaftsbury Baptist Association, Held at Cheshire ... June, 1811

Author : Shaftsbury Baptist Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Minutes of the Shaftsbury Baptist Association, Held at Cheshire ... June, 1811 written by Shaftsbury Baptist Association and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Humbug High

Author : Lindsay Price
Publisher : Theatrefolk
ISBN 13 : 1894870697
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Humbug High written by Lindsay Price and published by Theatrefolk. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Not To Be

Author : J. Aldric Gaudet
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365309703
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Not To Be written by J. Aldric Gaudet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not to Be is a prose version of Hamlet updated and edited from original sources. Some words and phrases were adjusted to account for 400 years of discovery, commerce, industry, and invention which have altered their meaning. Minimalistic prose descriptions of actions and movements were added only where necessary, the primary focus being the rich texture of the original words. There are at least three different versions of the play. Each includes lines and entire scenes missing from the others, with many differences in wording. Not To Be combines all versions to unfold the complete story.

Elvis and the Colonel

Author : Brian Springfield
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615186513
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Elvis and the Colonel written by Brian Springfield and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Christmas Eve, 1959. The Colonel is busy in his Las Vegas office, awaiting Elvis's return from Germany. He will be out of the Army soon and is ready to take America back by storm. The Colonel has other plans. The next 17 years will be a cocktail of mostly bad movies, endless touring and beautiful women. If the Colonel had been given the power of foresight, and was able to see the past (his and Elvis') through the prism of the future, would he change course? The Colonel is visited this night by his one time business partner, Hank Snow. Hank warns him about three ghosts that will be visiting him (sound familiar). The first ghost arrives in a pink cadillac and is dressed in a gold lamee suit. The second is dressed in tight black leather, with a passion for food and guns. The third is smothered in polyester and sequins and trailed by a couple of laughing sycophants. Do the events of August 16th 1977 happen as we remember, or does Elvis play Portland, Maine that evening?