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Sign and Taboo

Author : Robert Muponde
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sign and Taboo written by Robert Muponde and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (1993) signalled the presence of a new and remarkable writer. Four subsequent novels have confirmed that she was the most important African novelist to emerge during the 1990s. Critics from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and the United States demonstrate through a diversity of theoretical approaches the originality of her work. Yvonne Vera's dense and poetic writing records public and private experiences of moments in Zimbabwe's history through the consciousness of her central women characters. What sets her apart from most authors is her ability to handle the most difficult subjects and confront taboos. North America: African Books Collective; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press

Taboo in Sign Languages

Author : Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009291963
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Taboo in Sign Languages written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taboo topics in deaf communities include those found in spoken languages, as well as ones particular to deaf experiences, both in how deaf people relate to hearing people and how deaf people interact with other deaf people. These topics can help linguists understand better the consequences of field method choices and lead them to adopt better ones.

Taboo

Author : Franz Steiner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136543333
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Taboo written by Franz Steiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have been trying to explain taboo customs ever since Captain Cook discovered them in Polynesia over 200 years ago. The subject has been treated at length, but none of the theories has more than a limited validity, so numerous are the taboos recorded and so diverse the societies in which they occur. This book contains chapters on: · Taboo as a Victorian invention · The complicated taboos in the Pentateuch · Taboos in Polynesia Originally published in 1956.

Reports

Author : Alfred Cort Haddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Reports written by Alfred Cort Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0198808194
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language written by Keith Allan and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In general, taboo is defined as a proscription of behaviour for a specific community, time, and context. In terms of language, taboo applies to instances of language behaviour: the use of certain words in certain contexts. The existence of linguistic taboos and their management lead to the censoring of behaviour and, as a consequence, to language change and development. Chapters in this volume explore the multiple types of tabooed language from a variety of perspectives, such as sociolinguistics, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, historical linguistics, and neurolinguistics, and with reference to fields such as law, publishing, politics, and advertising. Topics covered include impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.

Tok Pisin Texts

Author : Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027247186
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Tok Pisin Texts written by Peter Mühlhäusler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their extensive fieldwork experience and vast knowledge of the archives relating to Papua New Guinea, Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine compiled this Tok Pisin text collection. It brings together representative samples of the largest Pidgin language of the Pacific area. These texts represent about 150 years of development of this language and will be an invaluable resource for researchers, language policy makers and individuals interested in the history of Papua New Guinea.

Africa Today

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Africa Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia

Author : Royal Society of South Australia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia written by Royal Society of South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations

Author : Elizabeth Brodersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351039881
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations written by Elizabeth Brodersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally? The book focuses on the concept of taboo as an in-between, organizing principle which separates and differentiates stages through a ritual process of separation of order as clean/blessed from disorder as polluted/disassociated. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach which compares the anthropological, ethnological, sociological, and depth psychological perspectives of renowned scholars in their examination of taboos. Unconscious/conscious taboos influence how we perceive transitional, indeterminate states across margins in the maturation and individuation processes. The book argues that a taboo embodies the perilous, symbolic meaning of such a rite of passage and that its emotional value and intensity in the form of symptomology varies across cultures. Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, origins of religion, race, gender, and depth psychology.

Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing

Author : Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042029358
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing written by Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings a variety of new approaches and contexts to modem and contemporary women's writing. Contributors include both new and well-established scholars from Europe, Australia, the USA , and the Caribbean. Their essays draw on, adapt, and challenge anthropological perspectives on rites of passage derived from the work of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. Collectively, the essays suggest that women's writing and women's experiences from diverse cultures go beyond any straightforward notion of a threefold structure of separation, transition, and incorporation. Some essays include discussion of traditional rites of passage such as birth, motherhood, marriage, death, and bereavement; others are interested in exploring less traditional, more fluid, and/or problematic rites such as abortion, living with HI V/AIDS, and coming into political consciousness. Contributors seek ways of linking writing on rites of passage to feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theories which foreground margins, borders, and the outsider. The three opening essays explore the work of the Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera, whose groundbreaking work explored taboo subjects such as infanticide and incest. A wide range of other essays focus on writers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. including Jean Rhys, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Jean Arasanayagam, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, and Eva Sallis. Rites of Passage in Postcolonial Women's Writing will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of postcolonial and modern and contemporary women's writing, and to students on literature and women's studies courses who want to study women's writing from a cross-cultural perspective and from different theoretical positions. Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo is Head of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. Her research focus is on African literature (particularly Zimbabwean), contemporary women's writing, and postcolonial cinemas. Gina Wisker is Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature at the University of Brighton, where she teaches literature, is the head of the centre for learning and teaching, and pursues her research interests in postcolonial women's writing.

Taboo

Author : Jon Entine
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786724501
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Taboo written by Jon Entine and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the latest scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous, bogus "scientific" methods to prove that blacks were either more or less superior physically, and how racist scientists have often equated physical prowess with intellectual deficiency. Entine recalls the long, hard road to integration, both on the field and in society. And he shows why it isn't just being black that matters—it makes a huge difference as to where in Africa your ancestors are from.Equal parts sports, science and examination of why this topic is so sensitive, Taboois a book that will spark national debate.

A Sea for Encounters

Author : Stella Borg Barthet
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027649
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Sea for Encounters written by Stella Borg Barthet and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of 'Commonwealth' literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; 'sharing places' and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen'ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King-Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López-Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar-Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer-Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.

Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region

Author : Melvin Randolph Gilmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region written by Melvin Randolph Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Reports

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Annual Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Captive in the Dark

Author : Cj Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615429502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Captive in the Dark written by Cj Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK ONE OF THE DARK DUET: Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was. Eighteen-year-old Olivia Ruiz has just woken up in a strange place. Blindfolded and bound, there is only a calm male voice to welcome her. His name is Caleb, though he demands to be called Master. Olivia is young, beautiful, naïve and willful to a fault. She has a dark sensuality that cannot be hidden or denied, though she tries to accomplish both. Although she is frightened by the strong, sadistic, and arrogant man who holds her prisoner, what keeps Olivia awake in the dark is her unwelcome attraction to him. WARNING: This book contains very disturbing situations, dubious consent, strong language, and graphic violence.

Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

Author : Sorcha Gunne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415806089
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives written by Sorcha Gunne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution to the fields of literary studies and feminism, since while other volumes have focused on retroactive portrayals of rape in literature, to date none has focused entirely on the subversive work that is being done to retheorize sexual violence. Split into four sections, the volume considers sexual violence from a number of different angles. 'Subverting the Story' considers how the characters of the victim and rapist might be subverted in narratives of sexual violence. In 'Metaphors for Resistance,' the essays explore how writers approach the subject of rape obliquely using metaphors to represent their suffering and pain. The controversy of not speaking about sexual violence is the focus of 'The Protest of Silence,' while 'The Question of the Visual' considers the problems of making sexual violence visible in the poetic image, in film and on stage. These four sections cover an impressive range of world writing which includes curriculum staples like Toni Morrison, Sarah Kane, Sandra Cisneros, Yvonne Vera, and Sharon Olds.