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Download or read book Muted Memories written by Jan Lindström and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centrality of the caravan trade, both culturally and economically, to Bagamoyo’s development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Book Synopsis Memory Braids and Sari Texts: Weaving Migration Journeys by : Pushpa Naidu Parekh
Download or read book Memory Braids and Sari Texts: Weaving Migration Journeys written by Pushpa Naidu Parekh and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The braid and the sari are the quintessential hairstyle and garment that women in India don every day. They are both texture and text. The braid—often kept long and styled with flowers (especially in South India) or lengthened with extensions (as in North India)—is a prized possession with both aesthetic and spiritual meanings. The sari is a length of untailored cloth material that has been the traditional everyday garb of Indian women for millennia. Using the braid and sari as the framework and defining tropes that unify the collection, the poems of Memory Braids and Sari Texts: Weaving Migration Journeys carry the memory of independent India, which turned seventy-five in 2022. These verses draw from poet Pushpa Naidu Parekh’s distinct and entangled memories of migrant and diaspora experiences of journeying from India to the United States, the space of one homeland to another, spanning the inexplicable accruing of physical, emotional, and spiritual self and their many iterations. The braid and the sari both embody the draping of oneself and the unraveling of many selves. Richly layered and textured, this poetry collection explores one woman’s vivid and sometimes muted memories of her life in India, her move to the US, and her diaspora experiences there.
Download or read book Atonement written by Kirsten Beyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: Voyager—and the sequel to Protectors and Acts of Contrition! Admiral Kathryn Janeway faces a tribunal determined to execute her for supposed crimes committed during Voyager’s maiden trek through the Delta Quadrant. Captain Chakotay knows that the Kinara, several species now allied against the Full Circle fleet, are not all they appear to be. The Confederacy of the Worlds of the First Quadrant—a pact he cannot trust—is his only hope for unraveling the Kinara’s true agenda and rescuing Admiral Janeway. Meanwhile, Seven and Tom Paris are forced to betray the trust of their superiors in a desperate bid to reveal the lengths to which a fellow officer has gone in the name of protecting the Federation from the legendary Caeliar.
Book Synopsis The Complete Pendomus Chronicles Trilogy by : Carissa Andrews
Download or read book The Complete Pendomus Chronicles Trilogy written by Carissa Andrews and published by Carissa Andrews. This book was released on 2018-07-22 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon #1 Bestselling Trilogy... A planet out of balance. The rise of an unlikely savior. A betrayal that could derail it all. Can one girl's lost humanity return to make her the most powerful being on Pendomus? Or will her naivety force those around her to succumb to a horrifying fate? Only time will tell. Just when all hope is lost—destiny intervenes and sets a new trajectory. The only question is ... who's pulling the strings? Delve into the Complete Pendomus Chronicles trilogy, with over 1000 pages chock-full of mystery, magic, and gripping action that will keep you turning the pages until the very end. Now includes Trajectory: A Pendomus Chronicles Prequel! Start the adventure today! Click the BUY NOW button and dive right in! If you like Maze Runner or The Hunger Games, then you’ll love Carissa Andrews’ Pendomus Chronicles. . . . "You won't want stop at the end of book one." - Amazon reviewer "Carissa Andrews paints perfect literary art." -Amazon reviewer "This book is incredible!" -Amazon reviewer "Anytime I finish a book and find myself still thinking about the characters and storyline a few days later, I know that it is a great read for me." -Amazon reviewer "I was so into it around 3am I fell asleep reading, I absolutely couldn't stop reading it!" -Amazon Reviewer Calling all fans of Shayne Silvers, Shannon Mayer, & Rick Riordan! If you like snarky-fun humor, gripping supernatural scenes, and twists that leave you spellbound — then you will LOVE Carissa Andrews' supernatural worlds. The Pendomus Chronicles is a trilogy, all of which are included in this set. Brand new for 2021 - this set includes Trajectory: A Pendomus Chronicles Prequel! Tap the BUY NOW button to get the Complete Pendomus Chronicles Trilogy today and dive headlong into this action-packed dystopian series brimming with mystery, magic, and suspense.
Book Synopsis Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe by : LIT Verlag
Download or read book Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe written by LIT Verlag and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume continue our focus on emotions of people in Southeast Europe. Grief and sadness are, of course, universal, but they take on different forms of expression. Strong emotional values are often attached to specific foods (e.g. the kurban), usually food is of great importance for labour migrants and in times of crisis. Likewise, dress can be of great emotional significance and value. Wars as well as communist collectivization often lead to emotional consequences such as trauma. Smells and tastes can become expressions of actual or remembered emotions, a fact that can also concern the researchers themselves. Klaus Roth is professor em. at the Institute for European Ethnology of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Milena Benovska is professor em. of the Dept. of Ethnology and Balkan Studies of the South-West University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Ana Luleva is Assoc. Prof. at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.
Book Synopsis Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape by : Youjin B. Chung
Download or read book Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape written by Youjin B. Chung and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape brings us to the mid-2000s, when the Tanzanian government struck a deal with a foreign investor to convert more than 20,000 hectares of long-settled coastal land to establish a sugarcane plantation. Ten years on, the deal was abruptly abandoned. Popularly deemed a case of hubristic global development, critics classified this project another in a line of failed modern resource grabs. Youjin B. Chung argues such tidy accounts conceal myriad and profound implications: not only how gender, history, and culture shaped the project's trajectory, but also how, even in its stalled state, the deal upended social life on the land by setting in motion incomplete processes of development and dispossession. With rich ethnographic detail and visual storytelling, Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape traces the lived experiences of diverse rural women and men as they struggled for survival under a seemingly endless condition of liminality. In so doing, she raises critical questions about the directions and stakes of postcolonial development and nation-building in Tanzania, and the shifting meanings of identity and belonging for those on the margins of capitalist agrarian transformation.
Book Synopsis Accidental Ethnography by : Christopher N Poulos
Download or read book Accidental Ethnography written by Christopher N Poulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family itself. Autoethnographers, students of these relationships, confront many silences in their attempts to understand these social worlds. It is often the accidental slip, the spontaneous discussion, the offhanded comment that opens this terrain of secrets to the conscientious storyteller. Accidental Ethnography delves into this shadowy world of pain and loss in the hopes of finding productive, ethical avenues for transforming the secret lives of families into powerful narratives of hope. It merges autoethnographic method with the therapeutic power of storytelling to heal family wounds. Poulos’s lyrical text will appeal to those in ethnography, interpersonal communication, and family relationships alike.
Book Synopsis of Sterling Quality by : Barbara L. Wyckoff
Download or read book of Sterling Quality written by Barbara L. Wyckoff and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegance is a state of mind which cannot be changed..... Merely enhanced by the nature of its circumstance. When prohibition closed Denver City's Sterling House, Lillian Anne Sterling found a circumstance which was true. Her elegance went with her to be forever changed in the shadow of a great mountain where she was surrounded by peach trees, adobe walls and a family that became hers.
Download or read book Muted Memories written by Jan Lindström and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centrality of the caravan trade, both culturally and economically, to Bagamoyo’s development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Book Synopsis Holocaust and Human Rights Education by : Michael Polgar
Download or read book Holocaust and Human Rights Education written by Michael Polgar and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators and students face many questions when exploring the history of the Holocaust. This book addresses the ways in which we teach and learn about the Holocaust, applying sociological concepts and discussing the wider implications of the Holocaust on human rights and international law.
Book Synopsis Post-Colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context by : Dmitri M. Bondarenko
Download or read book Post-Colonial Nations in Historical and Cultural Context written by Dmitri M. Bondarenko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using historical and anthropological analysis, this book examines the changing characteristics of nations globally; nation-building in Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia; and the history of multi-culturalism in the Global South as an advantage to development in post-colonial conceptions of the nation.
Book Synopsis General Sir John Cowans, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., the Quartermaster General of the Great War by : Desmond Chapman-Huston
Download or read book General Sir John Cowans, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., the Quartermaster General of the Great War written by Desmond Chapman-Huston and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War Remains written by Yasmine Khayyat and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces of war’s aftermath. She focuses on "Southern Counterpublics," a collective of poets, novelists, activists, artists, and ordinary citizens and their war-inspired creative productions that speak to the ruins’ capacity to be reframed, recycled, and recontested. Khayyat argues that the ruins of war can be thought of as a generative milieu for resistant thought and action. An ambitious and provocative work, War Remains ventures to the so-called margins to archive the texture and substance rendered invisible when studies of memory rely solely on data furnished by official narratives and military accounts of war.
Book Synopsis Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced) by : Dan Brown
Download or read book Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced) written by Dan Brown and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced eBook includes exclusive behind-the-scenes video of Dan Brown's INFERNO research trips throughout Italy, and a fascinating twenty-five minute video of his book launch presentation in New York City. With the publication of his groundbreaking novels The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, and Angels & Demons, Dan Brown has become an international bestselling sensation, seamlessly fusing codes, symbols, art, and history into riveting thrillers that have captivated hundreds of millions of readers around the world. Now, with this stunning special illustrated edition of his record-setting Inferno, brought to life by more than 200 breathtaking color images, Dan Brown takes readers deep into the heart of Italy . . . guiding them through a landscape that inspired one of history’s most ominous literary classics. “THE DARKEST PLACES IN HELL ARE RESERVED FOR THOSE WHO MAINTAIN THEIR NEUTRALITY IN TIMES OF MORAL CRISIS.” Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night. Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got there . . . or the origin of the macabre object that his doctors discover hidden in his belongings. Langdon’s world soon erupts into chaos, and he finds himself on the run in Florence with a stoic young woman, Sienna Brooks, whose clever maneuvering saves his life. Langdon quickly realizes that he is in possession of a series of disturbing codes created by a brilliant scientist—a genius whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written—Dante Alighieri’s dark epic poem The Inferno. Racing through such timeless locations as the Palazzo Vecchio, the Boboli Gardens, and the Duomo, Langdon and Brooks discover a network of hidden passageways and ancient secrets, as well as a terrifying new scientific paradigm that will be used either to vastly improve the quality of life on earth . . . or to devastate it. In his most riveting and thought-provoking novel to date, Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again. Inferno is a sumptuously entertaining read—a novel that will captivate readers with the beauty of classical Italian art, history, and literature . . . while also posing provocative questions about the role of cutting-edge science in our future.
Book Synopsis The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals by : Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Download or read book The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals written by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient landscape of North Asia gave rise to a mythic narrative of birth, death, and transformation that reflected the hardship of life for ancient nomadic hunters and herders. Of the central protagonists, we tend to privilege the hero hunter of the Bronze Age and his re-incarnation as a warrior in the Iron Age. But before him and, in a sense, behind him was a female power, half animal, half human. From her came permission to hunt the animals of the taiga, and by her they were replenished. She was, in other words, the source of the hunter's success. The stag was a latecomer to this tale, a complex symbol of death and transformation embedded in what ultimately became a struggle for priority between animal mother and hero hunter. From this region there are no written texts to illuminate prehistory, and the hundreds of burials across the steppe reveal little relating to myth and belief before the late Bronze Age. What they do tell us is that peoples and cultures came and went, leaving behind huge stone mounds, altars, and standing stones as well as thousands of petroglyphic images. With The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals, Esther Jacobson-Tepfer uses that material to reconstruct the prehistory of myth and belief in ancient North Asia. Her narrative places monuments and imagery within the context of the physical landscape and by considering all three elements as reflections of the archaeology of belief. Within that process, paleoenvironmental forces, economic innovations, and changing social order served as pivots of mythic transformation. With this vividly illustrated study, Jacobson-Tepfer brings together for this first time in any language Russian and Mongolian archaeology with prehistoric representational traditions of South Siberia and Mongolia in order to explore the non-material aspects of these fascinating prehistoric cultures.
Book Synopsis The Essential W. P. Kinsella by : W. P. Kinsella
Download or read book The Essential W. P. Kinsella written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe), as well as the 25th anniversary of Field of Dreams, the film that he inspired. In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of British Columbia. Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic. Eclectic, dark, and comedic by turns, The Essential W. P. Kinsella is a living tribute to an extraordinary raconteur.
Book Synopsis Recognizing the Past in the Present by : Sabine Hildebrandt
Download or read book Recognizing the Past in the Present written by Sabine Hildebrandt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.
