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Author : Susan Frisbie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Rainbows in Myth and Textiles written by Susan Frisbie and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond L. Lee
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271019772
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Rainbow Bridge written by Raymond L. Lee and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venerated as god and goddess, feared as demon and pestilence, trusted as battle omen, and used as a proving ground for optical theories, the rainbow's image is woven into the fabric of our past and present. From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the rainbow has played a vital role in both inspiring and testing new ideas about the physical world. Although scientists today understand the rainbow's underlying optics fairly well, its subtle variability in nature has yet to be fully explained. Throughout history the rainbow has been seen primarily as a symbol&—of peace, covenant, or divine sanction&—rather than as a natural phenomenon. Lee and Fraser discuss the role the rainbow has played in societies throughout the ages, contrasting its guises as a sign of optimism, bearer of Greek gods' messages of war and retribution, and a symbol of the Judeo-Christian bridge to the divine. The authors traverse the bridges between the rainbow's various roles as they explore its scientific, artistic, and folkloric visions. This unique book, exploring the rainbow from the perspectives of atmospheric optics, art history, color theory, and mythology, will inspire readers to gaze at the rainbow anew. For more information on The Rainbow Bridge, visit: &
Author : Carl Benjamin Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691024059
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Rainbow from Myth to Mathematics written by Carl Benjamin Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics, will be forthcoming.
Author : Richard Whelan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885440037
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Book of Rainbows written by Richard Whelan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated look at rainbows and the importance which they have played in art, literature, science, and mythology in cultures around the world and throughout history.
Author : William Henry Holmes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States written by William Henry Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shuxian Ye
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811930961
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book A Mythological Approach to Exploring the Origins of Chinese Civilization written by Shuxian Ye and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the lion the symbol of China? Or should it be the dragon or the phoenix? This book makes a provocative interpretation of the Chinese ancient totems such as the bear and the owl. Taking a mythological approach, it explores the origin of Chinese civilization using the quadruple evidence method, which integrates ancient and unearthed literature, oral transmission, and archeological objects and graphs. It testifies to the authenticity of unresolved ancient myths and legends from the origins of Chinese Jade Ware (6200BC-5400 BC) to the names of the Yellow Emperor (2698–2598 BC) and the legends from the Xia (2010BC-1600BC), Shang (1600BC-046BC), Zhou (1046BC-771BC), and Qin (221BC-206BC) Dynasties. The book lays the foundation for a reconstruction of Chinese Mythistory. With well over 200 photographs of historic artifacts, the book appeals to both researchers and general readers.
Author : Daniel MacCannell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780239602
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Rainbows written by Daniel MacCannell and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rainbow is a compelling spectacle in nature—a rare, evanescent, and beautiful bridge between subjective experience and objective reality—and no less remarkable as a cultural phenomenon. A symbol of the Left since the German Peasants’ War of the 1520s, it has been adopted by movements for gay rights, the environment, multiculturalism, and peace around the globe, and has inspired poets, artists, and writers including John Keats, Caspar David Friedrich, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this book, the first of its kind, Daniel MacCannell offers an enlightening and instructive guide to the rainbow’s multicolored relationship with humanity. The scientific “discovery” of the rainbow is a remarkable tale, taking in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Persia, and Islamic Spain. But even as we’ve studied rainbows, adopted their image, and penned odes to them for millennia, rainbows have also been regarded as ominous or even dangerous in myth and religion. In the twentieth century, the rainbow emerged as kitsch, arcing from the musical film version of The Wizard of Oz to 1980s sitcoms and children’s cartoons. Illustrated throughout in prismatic color, MacCannell’s Rainbows explores the full spectrum of rainbows’ nature and meaning, offering insight into what rainbows are and how they work, how we arrived at our current scientific understanding of the phenomenon, and how we have portrayed them in everything from myth to the arts, politics, and popular culture.
Author : Thomas Q. Reefe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520334914
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Rainbow and the Kings written by Thomas Q. Reefe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1981.
Author : Kathryn Klein
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363819
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The Unbroken Thread written by Kathryn Klein and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and ceremony. The book contains 145 color photographs of the valuable textiles in the collection, as well as images of local weavers and project participants at work. Subjects include anthropological research, ancient and present-day weaving techniques, analyses of natural dyestuffs, and discussions of the ethical and practical considerations involved in working in Latin America to conserve the materials and practices of living cultures.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Textile Trends written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl B. Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (763 download)
Download or read book “The” Rainbow written by Carl B. Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Benjamin Boyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book “The” Rainbow written by Carl Benjamin Boyer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Roughgarden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957970
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Evolution's Rainbow written by Joan Roughgarden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-14 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. Witty, playful, and daring, this book will revolutionize our understanding of sexuality. Roughgarden argues that principal elements of Darwinian sexual selection theory are false and suggests a new theory that emphasizes social inclusion and control of access to resources and mating opportunity. She disputes a range of scientific and medical concepts, including Wilson's genetic determinism of behavior, evolutionary psychology, the existence of a gay gene, the role of parenting in determining gender identity, and Dawkins's "selfish gene" as the driver of natural selection. She dares social science to respect the agency and rationality of diverse people; shows that many cultures across the world and throughout history accommodate people we label today as lesbian, gay, and transgendered; and calls on the Christian religion to acknowledge the Bible's many passages endorsing diversity in gender and sexuality. Evolution's Rainbow concludes with bold recommendations for improving education in biology, psychology, and medicine; for democratizing genetic engineering and medical practice; and for building a public monument to affirm diversity as one of our nation's defining principles.
Author : Linda Susan McIntosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789749336274
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Status, Myth and the Supernatural written by Linda Susan McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Leach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Rainbow Book of American Folk Tales and Legends written by Maria Leach and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from American folklore about bad men, ghosts, lies, and Native American tales.
Author : Roy W. Hamilton
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From the Rainbow's Varied Hue written by Roy W. Hamilton and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the rich and varied cloth traditions of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. A wealth of illustrations, both contemporary and historical, introduce the reader to traditions that range from the blood-red, polished abaca cloths of the B'laan and the dazzling headcloths of the Tausug to the striking plaids in magenta and orange silk created by the Maguindanao. Essays explore in detail the textile traditions of the Bagobo, the B'laan, the Maguindanao, and the Maranao.
Author : Christopher Gerrard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191062111
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain written by Christopher Gerrard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.
