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Shadows of New Guinea

Author : Philippe Peltier
Publisher : Somogy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of New Guinea written by Philippe Peltier and published by Somogy. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A publication revealing the extraordinary talents of the scultors of New Guinea, in turn, marked with staggering ferocity and surprising delicacy. The rituals of the native inhabitants of this major island sometimes involved headhunting, perceived as a need to appropriate the enemy's vital forces in order to increase one's own. It is a complex mythology that has given rise to numerous sacred or magic sculptures, the oldest of which were carved with stone tools or sharp shell edges and finished with the pointed teeth of small animals. The Barbier-Mueller Museum presents almost two hundred pieces from New Guinea belonging to its collections, documented by surperb photographs, some of which are previously unpublished." --Dust Jacket.

Green Shadows

Author : G. M. Byrnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Green Shadows written by G. M. Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea

Author : Tony Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315406489
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Book Synopsis Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea by : Tony Lewis

Download or read book Becoming a Garamut Player in Baluan, Papua New Guinea written by Tony Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The garamut is a log idiophone that is found in many of the coastal and island areas of Papua New Guinea. The instrument’s primary use is as a speech surrogate and in some regions the garamut is also used in large ensembles to play complex music for dancing. In Baluan Island, within the Manus Province, this style of garamut playing is comparatively highly developed. This book follows the author’s processes and methods in learning to play the music of the garamut, to the level at which he became accepted as a garamut player by the people of Baluan. Lewis argues that analysis is essential in learning to play the rapid tempi and complex rhythms of Baluan garamut music, in a cultural context where there is no formal teaching process for the music. The transcription and analysis of the Baluan garamut repertoire is the centrepiece of this study, reflecting the cognitive structures of the learning process, and revealing the inner workings of the music’s complexity as well as a striking beauty of form and structure. The book concludes with reflections on the process of a ‘cultural outsider’ becoming a garamut player in Baluan and on the role of musical analysis in that process, on the ethnomusicologist’s role in transmission of the music, and on the nature of continuity and change in a musical society such as Baluan.

Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea

Author : Michael Hirschbichler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040035590
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea written by Michael Hirschbichler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures with a multi-perspectival approach that combines cultural and social sciences with building, architectural, and spatial research. It offers the first comprehensive study of the spirit houses of New Guinea that exists to date. The book’s aim is twofold: First, it aims to investigate the spirit structures and their associated cultural cosmos in detail. For this purpose, a representative selection of traditional buildings and artworks from different regions of Papua New Guinea is documented and analyzed, and theories for their understanding are formulated. In this course, the author develops a spatial theory of anthropological concepts – such as myths, signs, persons, and rituals. Secondly, this analysis is then situated in the broader context of the Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. Transforming the historical spirit structures into models for future-oriented cultural imagination, the consequences for contemporary productions of space and ways of worldmaking in light of existential challenges are traced. The book thus offers more-than-human and more-than-secular concepts for building, art, and worldmaking that are of critical importance in the ongoing Anthropocene/Kaiaimunucene. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and adjacent disciplines. Part I of the book was translated from German by Melanie Janet Sindelar.

How to Read Oceanic Art

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300204299
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book How to Read Oceanic Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging explanation of Oceanic art and an important gateway to wider appreciation of Oceanic heritage and visual culture

The Melanesian World

Author : Eric Hirsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131552967X
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Melanesian World written by Eric Hirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.

Commercial and Business Organizations Law in Papua New Guinea

Author : John Mugambwa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134095031
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Commercial and Business Organizations Law in Papua New Guinea written by John Mugambwa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and apposite treatise on Papua New Guinea’s economic environment, this book explores business organizations law and various aspects of commercial law in Papua New Guinea in a readable and informative style. Business and commerce is the twin engine that propels the economy of a modern nation. They ensure steady economic growth and development. In an age of globalization, they assume even greater importance than at any other time in human history. A nation risks being marginalized or left behind in the race for a share of the world economic market unless it ensures the stability of its business and commercial sector. Trade regulation, good governance and democratic institutions go hand in hand in guaranteeing political and social equilibrium. As such the laws designed to facilitate trade and commerce are a vital component of the political and social equation. This is a valuable book for law students, legal practitioners, accountants and business executives, not only within Papua New Guinea, but also in Australia and throughout the South Pacific.

Shadows on the Track

Author : Jan McLeod
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925675912
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Track written by Jan McLeod and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Templeton’s Crossing in October 1942, Private Nick Kennedy paused to write in his diary: ‘One wonders why all this strife should be … these men in the prime of their life cut down like flowers’. As a young nursing orderly serving with the 2/4th Australian Field Ambulance, Kennedy was unenviably well-placed to reflect on the futility of war. The Australian Army was woefully unprepared to fight a medical war in Papua and the soldiers paid the price. Almost 30,000 soldiers suffered from illness and tropical diseases, and an estimated 6000 were killed or wounded during the six-month campaign. These statistics have traditionally been represented as unavoidable consequences of fighting a war in a place such as Papua. This book disputes that narrative. Death and disease were inevitable outcomes, but the scale of the suffering was not. The medical challenges presented in Papua were extreme – they were not insurmountable. Shadows on the Track considers a wide range of issues that impacted on the health of the Australian soldiers before, during and after the Papuan campaign was fought and won. The strengths, successes, shortcomings and failures of the medical campaign are identified, analysed and evaluated. The focus on the front-line medical personnel – the men of the field ambulance units – brings a new perspective to the battles of the Kokoda Track, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. Shining a light on these Australians who tended the sick, mended the wounded and buried the dead in Papua makes stepping out of the shadows a little easier.

New Guinea

Author : Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118030X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book New Guinea written by Bruce M. Beehler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a wealth of information, a descriptive and story-filled narrative, and more than 200 stunning color photographs, the book unlocks New Guinea's remarkable secrets like never before

Celestial Shadows

Author : John Westfall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493915355
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Shadows written by John Westfall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. A variety of eclipses, transits, and occultations of the mooons of Jupiter and Saturn, Pluto and its satellite Charon, asteroids and stars have helped astronomers to work out their dimensions, structures, and shapes - even the existence of atmospheres and structures of exoplanets. Long before Columbus set out to reach the Far East by sailing West, the curved shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse revealed that we inhabit a round world, a globe. More recently, comparisons of the sunlit and Earthlit parts of the Moon have been used to determine changes in the Earth's brightness as a way of monitoring possible effects in cloud coverage which may be related to global warming. Shadows were used by the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes to work out the first estimate of the circumference of the Earth, by Galileo to measure the heights of the lunar mountains and by eighteenth century astronomers to determine the scale of the Solar System itself. Some of the rarest and most wonderful shadows of all are those cast onto Earth by the lovely "Evening Star" Venus as it goes between the Earth and the Sun. These majestic transits of Venus occur at most two in a century; after the 2012 transit, there is not a chance to observe this phenomenon until 2117, while the more common sweep of a total solar eclipse creates one of the most dramatic and awe-inspiring events of nature. Though it may have once been a source of consternation or dread, solar eclipses now lead thousands of amateur astronomers and "eclipse-chasers" to travel the globe in order to experience the dramatic view under "totality." These phenomena are among the most spectacular available to observers and are given their full due in Westfall and Sheehan's comprehensive study.

Shadows in the Forest

Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262540872
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Shadows in the Forest written by Peter Dauvergne and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to analyze the environmental impact of Japanese trade, corporations, and aid on timber management in the context of Southeast Asian political economies. It is also one of the first comprehensive studies of why Southeast Asian states are unable to enforce forest policies and regulations.

The Storyteller's Shadows

Author : Bill Reed
Publisher : Reed Independent
ISBN 13 : 0648175693
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Storyteller's Shadows written by Bill Reed and published by Reed Independent. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a volume containing 14 original plays – including three shadow-play adaptions of Gogol, Morton and Runyon classics – the author resurrects a sadly neglected theatre genre – the shadow play combining traditional shadow techniques with normal acting to create ‘full-bodied’ mainstream plays.

Between Light and Shadow

Author : Mac Darrow
Publisher : Hart Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1841133906
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Between Light and Shadow written by Mac Darrow and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rigorous application of international legal rules governing the proper interpretation of the institutions' mandates.

In the Shadows of Victory II

Author : Thomas D. Phillips
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612005470
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadows of Victory II written by Thomas D. Phillips and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of twenty US military leaders—unsung heroes whose accomplishments have been too little acknowledged and too seldom celebrated. The military history of the United States is replete with examples of leaders whose singular leadership is now little remembered or forgotten completely. This volume covers more than twenty leaders “in the shadows” during the four major conflicts the United States engaged in from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle years of the twentieth: the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, World War I, and World War II. To enable readers to put these exploits into proper context, each chapter traces the roots of the conflict covered and discusses the paths that led to America’s involvement. Throughout the book, examples are also noted of leaders whose major renown is associated with a specific war—John J. Pershing, America’s towering military figure during World War I, for example—who also rendered exemplary though largely forgotten service during a different conflict—in Pershing’s case, the Philippine Insurrection. Of special interest to many audiences may be the commentaries regarding the World War I services of officers such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton, and Bradley—an aspect of their long military careers overshadowed by their World War II renown and too often minimized in consequence. The book also features brief biographies of officers whose contributions, while perhaps a bit less consequential than those of colleagues chronicled elsewhere in these pages, are deserving of far more recognition than has thus far been accorded them. “A worthwhile read for anyone interested in military leadership.” —The NYMAS Review

Shadows of the Prophet

Author : Douglas S. Farrer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140209356X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of the Prophet written by Douglas S. Farrer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study of the Malay martial art, silat, and the first ethnographic account of the Haqqani Islamic Sufi Order. Drawing on 12 years of research and practice, the author provides a major contribution to the study of Malay culture.

The Double

Author : Otto Rank
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610213
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Double written by Otto Rank and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alive, fresh, and stimulating, the theme of The Double comprises the issues of identity, narcissism, and the fear of death--actually the core of human existence. Rank's book is primarily a study of the double as it appeared in striking examples in German, French, Russian, English, and American literature from Goethe to Oscar Wilde. Originally published in 1971. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Substance of Shadow

Author : John Hollander
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635430X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Substance of Shadow written by John Hollander and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. Shadow shows itself here in myriad literary identities, revealing its force as a way of seeing and a form of knowing, as material for fable and parable. Taking up a vast range of texts—from the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton to Poe, Dickinson, Eliot, and Stevens—Hollander describes how metaphors of shadow influence our ideas of dreaming, desire, doubt, and death. These shadows of poetry and prose fiction point to unknown, often fearful domains of human experience, showing us concealed shapes of truth and possibility. Crucially, Hollander explores how shadows in poetic history become things with a strange substance and life of their own: they acquire the power to console, haunt, stalk, wander, threaten, command, and destroy. Shadow speaks, even sings, revealing to us the lost as much as the hidden self. An extraordinary blend of literary analysis and speculative thought, Hollander’s account of the substance of shadow lays bare the substance of poetry itself.