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Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls

Author : Ronald Loewe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0759121621
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls written by Ronald Loewe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-two acre strip of land—known as Puvungna—lies at the edge of California State University’s Long Beach campus. The land, indisputably owned by California, is also sacred to several Native American tribes. And these twenty-two acres have been the nexus for an acrimonious and costly conflict over control of the land. Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls tells the story of Puvungna, from the region’s deep history, through years of struggle between activists and campus administration, and ongoing reverberations from the conflict. As Loewe makes clear, this is a case study with implications beyond a single controversy; at stake in the legal battle is the constitutionality of state codes meant to protect sacred sites from commercial development, and the right of individuals to participate in public hearings. The case also raises questions about the nature of contract archaeology, applied anthropology, and the relative status of ethnography and ethnohistorical research. It is a compelling snapshot of issues surrounding contemporary Native American landscapes.

Historic Cities and Sacred Sites

Author : Ismail Serageldin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821349045
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Historic Cities and Sacred Sites written by Ismail Serageldin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to a better understanding of why historic cities and sacred sites are important, and how cultural roots may influence and improve urban futures. It emphasises the need to include social and cultural dimensions in economic development and offers cases of best practice.

Yellow Earth

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590789
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Yellow Earth written by John Sayles and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.

Guide to Spiritual L.A.: The Irreverent, the Awake, and the True

Author : Catherine Auman
Publisher : Green Tara Press
ISBN 13 : 194508510X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Spiritual L.A.: The Irreverent, the Awake, and the True written by Catherine Auman and published by Green Tara Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While to most of the world L.A. represents all that is superficial, deep at its core L.A. is the world center of spiritual awakening, the cutting edge of as-far-West-as-you-can-go. Pull up a chair or get in your car and be ready to tour: this book has it all. You'll visit people and places much to your liking, and some you'll wish you'd never met. You'll learn a little history, some philosophy, and hopefully gain a smattering of enlightenment. Come, let me share with you the treasures and delights of what we all adore: our wild and wonderful city, L.A., full of shakti and love.

Kiowa Ethnogeography

Author : William C. Meadows
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292718780
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Kiowa Ethnogeography written by William C. Meadows and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the place names, geographical knowledge, and cultural associations of the Kiowa from the earliest recorded sources to the present, Kiowa Ethnogeography is the most in-depth study of its kind in the realm of Plains Indian tribal analysis. Linking geography to political and social changes, William Meadows applies a chronological approach that demonstrates a cultural evolution within the Kiowa community. Preserved in both linguistic and cartographic forms, the concepts of place, homeland, intertribal sharing of land, religious practice, and other aspects of Kiowa life are clarified in detail. Native religious relationships to land (termed "geosacred" by the author) are carefully documented as well. Meadows also provides analysis of the only known extant Kiowa map of Black Goose, its unique pictographic place labels, and its relationship to reservation-era land policies. Additional coverage of rivers, lakes, and military forts makes this a remarkably comprehensive and illuminating guide.

Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569761469
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars written by Mark Ribowsky and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mark Ribowsky has written one king hell of a book about one king hell of a band. Buy that man a drink!" —Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth This book tells the intimate story of how a band of lost souls and self-destructive misfits clawed their way to the very top of the rock'n'roll peak, writing and performing as if beneficiaries of a deal with the devil—a deal fulfilled by a tragic fall from the sky. The rudderless genius behind their ascent was a man named Ronnie Van Zant, who guided their five-year run and evolved not just a new country/rock idiom but a new Confederacy. Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars is based on interviews with surviving band members and others who watched them. It gives a new perspective to a history of stage fights, motel-room destructions, cunning business deals, and brilliant studio productions, offering a greater appreciation for a band that, in the aftermath of its last plane ride, has sadly descended into self-caricature as the sort of lowbrow guns-'n'-God cliché that Ronnie Van Zant wanted to chuck from around his neck. No other book on Southern rock has ever captured the "Free Bird"–like sweep and significance of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Mark Ribowsky has written twelve books, including widely praised biographies of Tom Landry, Howard Cosell, Phil Spector, and Satchel Paige. He has also contributed extensively to magazines including Playboy, Penthouse, and High Times. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

Land of Smoke and Mirrors

Author : Vincent Brook
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813554586
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Land of Smoke and Mirrors written by Vincent Brook and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the more forthrightly mythic origins of other urban centers—think Rome via Romulus and Remus or Mexico City via the god Huitzilopochtli—Los Angeles emerged from a smoke-and-mirrors process that is simultaneously literal and figurative, real and imagined, material and metaphorical, physical and textual. Through penetrating analysis and personal engagement, Vincent Brook uncovers the many portraits of this ever-enticing, ever-ambivalent, and increasingly multicultural megalopolis. Divided into sections that probe Los Angeles’s checkered history and reflect on Hollywood’s own self-reflections, the book shows how the city, despite considerable remaining challenges, is finally blowing away some of the smoke of its not always proud past and rhetorically adjusting its rear-view mirrors. Part I is a review of the city’s history through the early 1900s, focusing on the seminal 1884 novel Ramona and its immediate effect, but also exploring its ongoing impact through interviews with present-day Tongva Indians, attendance at the 88th annual Ramona pageant, and analysis of its feature film adaptations. Brook deals with Hollywood as geographical site, film production center, and frame of mind in Part II. He charts the events leading up to Hollywood’s emergence as the world’s movie capital and explores subsequent developments of the film industry from its golden age through the so-called New Hollywood, citing such self-reflexive films as Sunset Blvd., Singin’ in the Rain, and The Truman Show. Part III considers LA noir, a subset of film noir that emerged alongside the classical noir cycle in the 1940s and 1950s and continues today. The city’s status as a privileged noir site is analyzed in relation to its history and through discussions of such key LA noir novels and films as Double Indemnity, Chinatown, and Crash. In Part IV, Brook examines multicultural Los Angeles. Using media texts as signposts, he maps the history and contemporary situation of the city’s major ethno-racial and other minority groups, looking at such films as Mi Familia (Latinos), Boyz N the Hood (African Americans), Charlotte Sometimes (Asians), Falling Down (Whites), and The Kids Are All Right (LGBT).

Crystal Yoga I

Author : Roger Calverley
Publisher : Lotus Press
ISBN 13 : 0940985926
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Crystal Yoga I written by Roger Calverley and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all possessors of a mystical inner world where the primal powers of Heaven and Earth summon us to embrace the fullness of our potential. The experiential journey of Crystal Yoga begins with the 33 crystals of the archetypal Crystal Mesa, a functioning temple in miniature, well adapted to pathworking and ritual. The Crystal Mesa can be used to balance energy and heal, to align mind and heart, to clarify intent, deepen discernment, and integrate various auric light bodies and chakras, thereby preparing the human vessel for ascension.

Spider Woman Walks This Land

Author : Kelli Carmean
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759116636
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Spider Woman Walks This Land written by Kelli Carmean and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider Woman Walks This Land is a lively and accessible introduction to issues of traditional cultural properties and cultural resource management among native peoples in the United States. Describing her work with the Navajo Nation, Carmean shows how specific geographical locations contain significant cultural and religious meaning to the Navajo people. With historical and contemporary examples, Carmean demonstrates that cultural value of the sacred geography can be in direct opposition to the need to modernize, including building roads, power lines, housing, and a variety of natural resource extraction activities that can earn much-needed money for the tribe. She evaluates the dilemma of 'sustainability' common to many traditional societies as well as to the Navajo Nation, as they undergo the tremendous cultural changes that accompany industrialization and seek a balance between continuity and change. Spider Woman Walks this Land is a useful introduction for undergraduates and an interested general public.

Teaching Landscape History

Author : Jan Woudstra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000991504
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Landscape History written by Jan Woudstra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and landscapes come together in this new volume to share ideas on the future of teaching history in departments of landscape architecture, archaeology, geography and allied subjects. Design history remains important, but this volume brings to the fore the increasing importance of environmental history, economic history, landscape history, cultural landscapes, environmental justice and decolonisation, ideas of sustainability and climate change amelioration, which may all be useful in serving the needs of a widening range of students in an increasingly complex world. The main themes include: what history should we narrate in the education of landscape architects? how can we recognise counter-narratives and our own bias? how should we engage the students in the history of their chosen profession? how can designers and researchers be persuaded of the relevance of history teaching to theory and practice? and what resources do we need to develop teaching of landscape histories? This book will be of interest to anyone teaching courses on landscape architecture, urban design, horticulture, garden design, architectural history, cultural geography and more.

Rhetoric and Experience Architecture

Author : Liza Potts
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602359628
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Experience Architecture written by Liza Potts and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations value insights from reflexive, iterative processes of designing interactive environments that reflect user experience. “I really like this definition of experience architecture, which requires that we understand ecosystems of activity, rather than simply considering single-task scenarios.”—Donald Norman (The Design of Everyday Things)

Civil War Ghosts of Atlanta

Author : Jim Miles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625846487
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Ghosts of Atlanta written by Jim Miles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the Civil War Explorer series unearths the ghostly legends and lore that haunt Georgia’s capital city since the War Between the States. The Atlanta metropolis is one of America’s most modern and progressive cities, it’s easy to forget that 150 years ago it was the scene of a long and deadly campaign. Union general William T. Sherman hammered relentlessly against Atlanta at Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro. Months later, as he began his infamous March to the Sea, much of Atlanta was destroyed by fire. Thousands died in the fighting, and thousands more succumbed to wounds and disease in large hospitals constructed around the city. Today, ghosts of Atlanta’s Civil War haunt battlefields, hospital sites, cemeteries, homes, and commercial structures, all a testament to the tragic history of the city. Join author Jim Miles as he details the Civil War spirits that still haunt Atlanta. Includes photos! “He’s a connoisseur of Georgia’s paranormal related activity, having both visited nearly every site discussed in his series of Civil War Ghost titles . . . Miles has covered a lot of ground so far from the bustling cities to the small towns seemingly in the middle of nowhere. This daunting task takes an inside look to the culture and stories that those born in Georgia grow up hearing about and connect with.” —The Red & Black

Thanksgiving Tales

Author : Brian D. Jaffe
Publisher : Sestin LLC
ISBN 13 : 0982729006
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Thanksgiving Tales written by Brian D. Jaffe and published by Sestin LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers from across the United States share their stories, traditions, and memories of Thanksgiving Day.

The Religious Dimensions of Shared Spaces

Author : Paul D Numrich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793639353
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Religious Dimensions of Shared Spaces written by Paul D Numrich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space sharing by groups is widespread in the United States, from commercial partnerships, to government and private sector joint use agreements, to the use of public facilities and commons. All space-sharing arrangements are similar in most respects, so what difference does it make when religious groups are involved?

Sacred Places

Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781888729023
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Places written by Brad Olsen and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.

Supernatural Saratoga

Author : Mason Winfield
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235236
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural Saratoga written by Mason Winfield and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghost walk tour leader and contributor to Haunted Rochester heads east for the horse races, famous springs, and a flood of paranormal phenomena. Author Mason Winfield, operator of Saratoga’s Haunted History Ghost Walks, chronicles the Spa City’s spookiest legends, from the Iroquoian zombie-like vampires to Benedict Arnold’s Halloween apparitions. The heart of the city brims with lore, as covens work in secret in the Devil’s Den neighborhood and phantoms linger at the Arcade on Broadway. In the shadow of the Adirondacks, spectral lights appear on remote Snake Hill, and the Woman in White haunts Saratoga Spa State Park. Explore the creepiest legends of Saratoga history, where some gamblers never leave and demons lurk in the forests. Includes photos!

Naked Edge

Author : Pamela Clare
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425219763
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Naked Edge written by Pamela Clare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when desire drives you to the very brink? Someone wants the Native Americans off their sacred land. And when Navajo journalist Katherine James and park ranger Gabriel Rossiter team up to investigate why, their passion for the truth-and each other-makes them targets for those desperate enough to kill.