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Island Possessed

Author : Katherine Dunham
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307819841
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Island Possessed written by Katherine Dunham and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences that she was often lucky to survive. Here Dunham tells how the island came to be possessed by the demons of voodoo and other cults imported from various parts of Africa, as well as by the deep class divisions, particularly between blacks and mulattos, and the political hatred still very much in evidence today. Full of the flare and suspense of immersion in a strange and enchanting culture, Island Possessed is also a pioneering work in the anthropology of dance and a fascinating document on Haitian politics and voodoo.

Haunted Island

Author : Holly Nadler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1608933539
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Island written by Holly Nadler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no surprise that remote Martha's Vineyard is home to a significant population of ghosts. There are the strange entities that just may have played a part in the notorious accident at the Chappaquiddick Bridge. There is the ghost of aristocratic Desire Coffin, called back from the Other Side by the power of music and the memory of lost love. And at one haunted inn, Room 8, accessible only by way of a cramped hidden staircase, is the focus of strange events—including the total disappearance of one guest. After twenty years in print, this classic is now updated and expanded with new information and new stories.

Possessed

Author : Jowita Bydlowska
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459748093
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Possessed written by Jowita Bydlowska and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Equal parts Harlequin romance, Gothic horror story and Camusian moral tale.” — GLOBE AND MAIL Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award From the bestselling author of Drunk Mom, comes a story of romantic obsession, mental illness, and self-discovery as one woman travels to a haunted quarantine island. Josephine is obsessed. Or possessed — by unrequited love for a younger man who doesn’t promise anything, but who gives her a taste of intimacy that puts her on the brink of losing her mind. Oscillating between her elusive lover and her older former partner, stuck in the hell that is working in a cubicle, and obliged to tend to her destructive, senile mother, Josephine is trapped. After a work assignment promises to deliver distraction, Josephine makes a decision to visit a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where she meets an enigmatic, beautiful man with a haunting story. Intimate and erotic, Possessed is a dark and funny story exploring sexual obsession, mental illness, and the supernatural. A RARE MACHINES BOOK

The Haunting of Vancouver Island

Author : Shanon Sinn
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 177151244X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Haunting of Vancouver Island written by Shanon Sinn and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling investigation into supernatural events and local lore on Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island is known worldwide for its arresting natural beauty, but those who live here know that it is also imbued with a palpable supernatural energy. Researcher Shanon Sinn found his curiosity piqued by stories of mysterious sightings on the island—ghosts, sasquatches, sea serpents—but he was disappointed in the sensational and sometimes disrespectful way they were being retold or revised. Acting on his desire to transform these stories from unsubstantiated gossip to thoroughly researched accounts, Sinn uncovered fascinating details, identified historical inconsistencies, and now retells these encounters as accurately as possible. Investigating 25 spellbinding tales that wind their way from the south end of the island to the north, Sinn explored hauntings in cities, in the forest, and on isolated logging roads. In addition to visiting castles, inns, and cemeteries, he followed the trail of spirits glimpsed on mountaintops, beaches, and water, and visited Heriot Bay Inn on Quadra Island and the Schooner Restaurant in Tofino to personally scrutinize reports of hauntings. Featuring First Nations stories from each of the three Indigenous groups who call Vancouver Island home—the Coast Salish, the Nuu-chah-nulth, and the Kwakwaka’wakw—the book includes an interview with Hereditary Chief James Swan of Ahousaht.

Girl Possessed

Author : Reussie Miliardario
Publisher : Reussie Miliardario
ISBN 13 : 1461184894
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Girl Possessed written by Reussie Miliardario and published by Reussie Miliardario. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aside from the hump on her back, aside from the fact that she hides away in an island cave near Hollywood, aside from the fact that music plays in her mind, Cordellia Dressemme seems like an ordinary teenager. At least Cordellia thought she was ordinary, that is before the U.S. economy crash and before alluring music began playing in her mind, music that only she and the most devilishly handsome bad boy can hear.Why is she so undeniably drawn to this mysterious boy with wicked silver eyes and a crooked grin that makes her body tingle all over? And why did he take her away to enchanting woods with mesmerizing waterfalls and a spellbinding lake only to avoid her like the plague?But, worse than that, the music possesses her thoughts. It draws her to the boy and to aprohibited place. So many seductive tunes and the dreams and the visions... It lures her to the point of near madness to a place that could kill her andeveryone she loves. But, she can't help it--when she sees the boy running toward the forbidden, she can't help but chase after him, she can't help but sacrifice everything for him. He is her other half even if he is entirely bad.

The Possessed

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 142993641X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Possessed written by Elif Batuman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!—TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Over the course of several pages, Batuman managed to misplace Babel's last living relatives at the San Francisco airport, uncover Babel's secret influence on the making of King Kong, and introduce her readers to a new voice that was unpredictable, comic, humane, ironic, charming, poignant, and completely, unpretentiously full of love for literature. Batuman's subsequent pieces—for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the London Review of Books— have made her one of the most sought-after and admired writers of her generation, and its best traveling companion. In The Possessed we watch her investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin's wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and see an eighteenth-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Love and the novel, the individual in history, the existential plight of the graduate student: all find their place in The Possessed. Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of her favorite authors, Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience, combining fresh readings of the great Russians, from Pushkin to Platonov, with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence—including her own.

The Self Possessed

Author : Frederick M. Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231137486
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Self Possessed written by Frederick M. Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of Buddhism. Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic, Ayurvedic, and Tantric texts; Hindu devotional literature; Sanskrit drama and narrative literature; and more than a hundred ethnographies. He identifies several forms of possession, including festival, initiatory, oracular, and devotional, and demonstrates their multivocality within a wide range of sects and religious identities. Possession is common among both men and women and is practiced by members of all social and caste strata. Smith theorizes on notions of embodiment, disembodiment, selfhood, personal identity, and other key issues through the prism of possession, redefining the relationship between Sanskritic and vernacular culture and between elite and popular religion. Smith's study is also comparative, introducing considerable material from Tibet, classical China, modern America, and elsewhere. Brilliant and persuasive, The Self Possessed provides careful new translations of rare material and is the most comprehensive study in any language on this subject.

A Haunted Island (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Author : Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473381347
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book A Haunted Island (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Algernon Blackwood and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping tale of mystery and horror takes place on a remote Canadian island that the isolated narrator soon discovers to be alive with terror and ghostly apparitions. A solitary scholar is left on a small island in a large Canadian lake to study on what should have been a peaceful and productive retreat. Yet, as night falls and the scholar realises the weight of his isolation, the secluded island begins to echo eerie voices and footsteps. He soon becomes convinced malevolent spirits are haunting him and must try to retain his sanity as well as his life. With its vivid descriptions and chilling atmosphere, A Haunted Island is a masterful work of gothic horror, sure to leave you chilled to the bone.

Salem Possessed

Author : Paul Boyer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674282663
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Salem Possessed written by Paul Boyer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources—many previously neglected or unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. “Salem Possessed,” wrote Robin Briggs in The Times Literary Supplement, “reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatments can be consigned to the historical lumber-room.” Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the breakup of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.

Possessed

Author : Bruce Hood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190699930
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Possessed written by Bruce Hood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may not believe it, but there is a link between our current political instability and your childhood attachment to teddy bears. There's also a reason why children in Asia are more likely to share than their western counterparts and why the poor spend more of their income on luxury goods than the rich. Or why your mother is more likely to leave her money to you than your father. What connects these things? The answer is our need for ownership. Award-winning psychologist Bruce Hood draws on research from his own lab and others around the world to explain why this uniquely human preoccupation governs our behaviour from the cradle to the grave, even when it is often irrational, and destructive. What motivates us to buy more than we need? Is it innate, or cultural? How does our urge to acquire control our behaviour, even the way we vote? And what can we do about it? Timely, engaging and persuasive, Possessed is the first book to explore how ownership has us enthralled in relentless pursuit of a false happiness, with damaging consequences for society and the planet - and how we can stop buying into it.

Report of the Royal Commission on the Liquor Traffic in Canada

Author : Canada. Royal Commission on the Liquor Traffic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on the Liquor Traffic in Canada written by Canada. Royal Commission on the Liquor Traffic and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parliamentary Debates

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mind Possessed

Author : Emma Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198043478
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Possessed written by Emma Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cognitive science of religion has made a persuasive case for the view that a number of different psychological systems are involved in the construction and transmission of notions of extranatural agency such as deities and spirits. Until now this work has been based largely on findings in experimental psychology, illustrated mainly with hypothetical or anecdotal examples. In The Mind Possessed, Emma Cohen considers how the psychological systems undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings. Spirit possession practices have long had a magnetizing effect on academic researchers but there have been few, if any, satisfactory theoretical treatments of spirit possession that attempt to account for its emergence and spread globally. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during eighteen months of fieldwork in Bel?m, northern Brazil, Cohen combines fine-grained descriptions and analyses of mediumistic activities in an Afro-Brazilian cult house with a scientifically-grounded explanation for the emergence and spread of ideas about spirits, possession and healing. Cohen shows why spirit possession and its associated activities are inherently attention-grabbing. Making a radical departure from traditional anthropological, medicalist and sociological analyses, she argues that a cognitive approach offers more precise and testable hypotheses concerning the spread and appeal of spirit concepts and possession activities. This timely book presents new lines of enquiry for the cognitive science of religion (a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship) and challenges the theoretical frameworks within which spirit possession practices have traditionally been understood.

The Possessed and the Dispossessed

Author : Lesley A. Sharp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918452
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Possessed and the Dispossessed written by Lesley A. Sharp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this plantation economy. In fact, Sharp's wide-ranging analysis shows that tromba, or spirit possession, is central to understanding the complex identities of insiders and outsiders in this community, which draws people from all over the island and abroad. Sharp's study also reveals the contradictions between indigenous healing and Western-derived Protestant healing and psychiatry. Particular attention to the significance of migrant women's and children's experiences in a context of seeking relief from personal and social ills gives Sharp's investigation importance for gender studies as well as for studies in medical anthropology, Africa and Madagascar, the politics of culture, and religion and ritual. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

The Regime of Islands in International Law

Author : Hiran Wasantha Jayewardene
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0792301307
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Regime of Islands in International Law written by Hiran Wasantha Jayewardene and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1990-05-18 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Explanatory Catalogue of the Proof-impressions of the Antique Gems Possessed by the Late Prince Poniatowski, and Now in the Possession of John Tyrrell

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Author : James Prendeville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Explanatory Catalogue of the Proof-impressions of the Antique Gems Possessed by the Late Prince Poniatowski, and Now in the Possession of John Tyrrell written by James Prendeville and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Photographic Facsimiles of the Antique Gems Formerly Possessed by the Late Prince Poniatowski, Accompanied by a Description and Poetical Illustrations of Each Subject

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Author : James Prendeville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Photographic Facsimiles of the Antique Gems Formerly Possessed by the Late Prince Poniatowski, Accompanied by a Description and Poetical Illustrations of Each Subject written by James Prendeville and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: