KORYAK FOLKLORE - 24 tales from the Kamchatka Penninsula of Russia

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Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8827560769
Total Pages : 97 pages
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Download or read book KORYAK FOLKLORE - 24 tales from the Kamchatka Penninsula of Russia written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume you will find 24 Koryak folk tales of The Mice Girls, Of Whale Festivals, The Ermine People, Fox Woman, Fish Woman, Monster Man, Bumblebees, Shellfish-Girls plus many more. Unlike European folklore, these stories do not have the dramatic turns of Western folk-lore. There is no Cinderella nor a Puss in Boots. The struggle for survival is the perpetual theme, and no wonder, for the narrators dwell in a remote and hostile landscape. Because of their geographic location, Koryak Folklore has more in common with the lore of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and other Northwest Coast Amerindians suggesting a broad cultural area stretching from current day Kamchatka across the Bering Strait into Alaska, Canada and Washington State. It is in these cultures that the mythology centres around the supernatural shaman Quikil (Big-Raven) who was the first man and protector of the Koryak and who features prominently in this volume. So, if you enjoy Native American folklore then this little known volume will be a welcome addition to your library. 10% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. NOTE: The name Koryak was from the exonym word 'Korak' meaning 'with the reindeer (kor)'. Koryaks practice a form of animist belief system especially through shamanism. The Koryak are indigenous to north-east Asia and live mainly on the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula in what is now the Russian Federation. The Koryak Autonomous Region is just a little larger than the state of Arizona, but with a current population of fewer than 35,000. The Koryak were conquered by Cossack pioneer-adventurers in the end of the seventeenth century and more or less incorporated into the Russian empire by the middle of the eighteenth. The Tsar levied an annual fur tribute and demanded some transportation services, but otherwise left them alone. The Soviets collectivized their subsistence production, and Stalin's Terror saw many shamans and successful reindeer herders summarily executed. YESTERDAY'S BOOKS FOR TODAY'S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities ============== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Folklore, fairy, tales, myths, legends, stories, children, bedtime, fables, Koryak, Kamchatka, shaman, big raven, kor, reindeer, Quikil, little,-bird-man, raven man, mice, mouse-girls, small, kamak, harpoon-line, kĭlu, bumblebees, eme'mqut's, ememqut, whale, festival, cannibal, fox woman, ermine people, shellfish girl, perches, magpie man, daughter, swallow, wife, gull woman, cormorant woman, yinia ñawġut, marriage, fish man, envious, monster man

Stories of Art

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135206597
Total Pages : 193 pages
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Download or read book Stories of Art written by James Elkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks from which we were all taught. As he demonstrates so persuasively, there can never be one story of art. Cultures have their own stories - about themselves, about other cultures - and to hear them all is one way to hear the multiple stories that art tells. But each of us also has our own story of art, a kind of private art history made up of the pieces we have seen, and loved or hated, the effects they had on us, and the connections that might be drawn among them. Elkins opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids. What about all the art not produced in Western Europe or in the Europeanized Americas? Is it possible to include Asian art and Indian art in ‘the story?’ What happens when one does? To help us find answers, he uses both Western and non-Western artworks, tables of contents from art histories written in cultures outside the centre of Western European tradition, and strangely wonderful diagrams of how artworks might connect through a single individual. True multiculturalism may be an impossibility, but art lovers can each create a ‘story of art’ that is right for themselves.

Ancient Tales of Kamchatka

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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Tales of Kamchatka written by Alexander B. Dolitsky and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a translation of ninety-five Kerek, Koryak, and Itelmen tales collected as oral narratives in their original languages and translated into Russian and later into English. These tales along with 111 other tales appeared in the Russian book "Skazki i mify narodov Chukotki i Kamchatki" ("Fairy tales and myths of the people of Chukotka and Kamchatka") compiled by Georgiy Menovshchikov and edited by Eleazar Meletinsky published in 1974. This collection, which includes a glossary, will interest those fond of oral folk creations as well as specialists of comparative-typological research in anthropology.

Коренные Малочисленные Народы Севера И Сибири

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Total Pages : 394 pages
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Arctic Bibliography

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Total Pages : 1634 pages
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Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Koryak Texts

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Total Pages : 172 pages
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Disappearing Earth

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525520422
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Disappearing Earth written by Julia Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.

Endangered Languages and Language Learning

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Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
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Total Pages : 244 pages
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Collier's Encyclopedia

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Total Pages : 812 pages
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The Raven's Gift

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429964707
Total Pages : 406 pages
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Download or read book The Raven's Gift written by Jon Turk and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted scientist and kayak adventurer undertakes a journey of spiritual healing Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific Ocean to retrace the voyages of ancient people. But, the strangest trip he ever took was the journey he made as a man of science into the realm of the spiritual. In a remote Siberian village, Turk met an elderly Koryak shaman named Moolynaut who invoked the help of a Spirit Raven to mend his fractured pelvis. When the healing was complete, he was able to walk without pain. Turk, finding no rational explanation, sought understanding by traversing the frozen tundra where Moolynaut was born, camping with bands of reindeer herders, and recording stories of their lives and spirituality. Framed by high adventure across the vast and forbidding Siberian landscape, The Raven's Gift creates a vision of natural and spiritual realms interwoven by one man's awakening.

Collier's Encyclopedia

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Total Pages : 796 pages
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The Second Kind of Impossible

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147672993X
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book The Second Kind of Impossible written by Paul Steinhardt and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. “A riveting tale of derring-do” (Nature), this book reads like James Gleick’s Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure. When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter—one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter “quasicrystal.” The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible. The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt’s scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability, and then to pursue his wildest conjecture—that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system. Steinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful—and Steinhardt’s firsthand account is “packed with discovery, disappointment, exhilaration, and persistence...This book is a front-row seat to history as it is made” (Nature).

Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1850 to 1940

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Total Pages : 1128 pages
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Aleuts

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ISBN 13 : 9780996583718
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The Koryak

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Total Pages : 842 pages
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Download or read book The Koryak written by Waldemar Jochelson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why We Play

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Publisher : Hau
ISBN 13 : 9780986132568
Total Pages : 343 pages
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Book Synopsis Why We Play by : Roberte Hamayon

Download or read book Why We Play written by Roberte Hamayon and published by Hau. This book was released on 2016 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play is one of humanity's straightforward yet deceitful ideas: though the notion is unanimously agreed upon to be universal, used for man and animal alike, nothing defines what all its manifestations share, from childish playtime to on stage drama, from sporting events to market speculation. Within the author's anthropological field of work (Mongolia and Siberia), playing holds a core position: national holidays are called "Games," echoing in that way the circus games in Ancient Rome and today's Olympics. These games convey ethical values and local identity. Roberte Hamayon bases her analysis of the playing spectrum on their scrutiny. Starting from fighting and dancing, encompassing learning, interaction, emotion and strategy, this study heads towards luck and belief as well as the ambiguity of the relation to fiction and reality. It closes by indicating two features of play: its margin and its metaphorical structure. Ultimately revealing its consistency and coherence, the author displays play as a modality of action of its own. "Playing is no 'doing' in the ordinary sense" once wrote Johan Huizinga. Isn't playing doing something else, elswhere and otherwise ?

The Evolution of Music

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Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889662861
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book The Evolution of Music written by Leonid Perlovsky and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.