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Smoke Dancing

Author : Eric L. Gansworth
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Smoke Dancing written by Eric L. Gansworth and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power struggle between traditionalists and progressives on a modern-day reservation is at the center of Eric Gansworth's latest work of fiction. Through the characters and their unique "voices," he deftly develops the multiple viewpoints and arguments that currently exist on many reservations. These voices include a traditional chief and a modern-day group of young adults who, as neglected children, banded together in a traditional dance group. The narrative thread that connects these characters uses the metaphor of traditional dance and its relationship to the integrity of Iroquois culture. A number of the dance group have come to work in the growing empire formed by one of their members--selling tax-free cigarettes and gasoline on reservation land. This new economic base alters the balance of power on the reservation. At the center of the conflict is Fiction Tunny, a dancer and developing love interest of a man in the smoke business. She is also the illegitimate daughter of the chief, who refuses to acknowledge her; to admit she exists would be to admit he is not fit for his role of chief. Fiction's resentment of her father and the sometimes archaic nature of his life and government are juxtaposed with the predatory nature of the entrepreneur who begins pursuing her sexually at all costs. Fiction seeks a balance, a path that will ground her identity in tradition while following her ever-changing culture into the future.

Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian

Author : Matthew Krystal
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457111594
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian written by Matthew Krystal and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices. Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow, folkloric dance, and dancing sports mascots--the book addresses both the ideational and behavioral dimensions of identity. Each dance is examined as a unique cultural expression in individual chapters, and then all are compared in the conclusion, where striking parallels and important divergences are revealed. Ultimately, Krystal describes how dancers and audiences work to construct and consume satisfying and meaningful identities through dance by either challenging social inequality or reinforcing the present social order. Detailed ethnographic work, thorough case studies, and an insightful narrative voice make Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian a substantial addition to scholarly literature on dance in the Americas. It will be of interest to scholars of Native American studies, social sciences, and performing arts.

No Thanks, But I'd Love to Dance!

Author : Jackie Reimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604430271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book No Thanks, But I'd Love to Dance! written by Jackie Reimer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 2008 by Jackie Reimer."

Interdimensional Dancing

Author : Diane Stephenson
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504330102
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Interdimensional Dancing written by Diane Stephenson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interdimensional Dancing, author Diane Stephenson recounts her direct experience and personal interaction with spiritual teachers from other vibratory levels of existence. Some of the teachers are living beings in physical bodies and some are not. Interdimensional Dancing depicts these communications during the dream state, meditations, participation in sacred ceremonies, and encounters in the fully conscious state. Sharing the truths revealed during these experiences is an exciting series of adventures!

Dancing for the Devil

Author : Anny Donewald
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147675909X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Dancing for the Devil written by Anny Donewald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive memoir of transformation from a high-end stripper and escort who hit rock-bottom, turned to God, and left the sex trade to found Eve’s Angels, a ministry reaching out to women in the sex industry. Growing up as the daughter of an NCAA Championship-winning basketball coach and a stay-at-home mom, Anny Donewald had a seemingly blessed childhood. Then, at thirteen, one of her father’s players sexually abused her, and Donewald embarked on a path toward self-destruction. When Donewald was convinced to compete in an amateur night at a strip club, she found herself drawn into a world of drugs, money, and flesh peddlers in Michigan and Chicago—and eventually Las Vegas’ hottest XXX clubs. But the fantasy of fistfuls of hundred dollar bills quickly turned to the reality of bloodstains on bathroom floors and nights with customers in presidential suites at luxurious hotels. At an emotional breaking point and pondering the termination of her unborn son, Anny reached the gates of her personal hell. There, she found God. Then, this long-legged, fiery blonde fought to free herself from the sex trade, and, by the healing grace of God, launched her non-profit, Eve’s Angels, which reaches out to girls who want out of the sex trade. Dancing for the Devil takes an in-depth look at Anny’s struggles and sheds a new insider’s light on the horrible reality of the sex industry from someone who’s seen the worst of it. This captivating memoir shows how women from all walks of life find themselves trapped by the sex trade and, most importantly, explains how they can get out, start over, and find the love of Christ. Courageous and unforgettable, Dancing for the Devil is a heartbreaking story of darkness, grace, and, ultimately, redemption.

I Am Smoke

Author : Henry Herz
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884487903
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book I Am Smoke written by Henry Herz and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named to the Evanston Public Library's Blueberry List: Kids' Book that Inspire Love of Nature and Action for Planet Earth Selected for the Notable Social Studies 2022 list Named to the ALA Notable Children's Books 2022 “Wowww!”—– Raina Telgemeier, #1 NY Times, #1 USA Today, #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author/illustrator KIRKUS STAR: Lustrous illustrations and meditative text reflect on the role of smoke in nature and civilization... Smoke dissipates quickly, but this poetic text will linger. KIRKUS'S LIST OF 150 MOST ANTICIPATED FALL 2021 BOOKS Smoke itself acts as narrator, telling us how it has served humankind since prehistoric times in signaling, beekeeping, curing and flavoring food, religious rites, fumigating insects, and myriad other ways. Smoke speaks in mesmerizing riddles: “I lack a mouth, but I can speak…. I lack hands, but I can push out unwanted guests…. I’m gentler than a feather, but I can cause harm…". This rhythmically powerful narration is complemented by illustrations in which swirling smoke was captured on art paper held over smoky candle flames, and the dancing smoke textures were then deepened and elaborated with watercolors and Photoshop finishes. With this unique method, Merce López “let the smoke decide how the idea I had in mind would dance with it, giving freedom to the images.” The resulting illustrations are astounding, and they resonate with the otherworldly text.

Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirit of the Dance

Author : Mardi Alexander
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1626395845
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Spirit of the Dance written by Mardi Alexander and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Sorla Reardon, wounded in Iraq, returns home to the family farm in Australia to heal both her body and her soul. She pushes herself to rebuild her family’s legacy while battling the PTSD that threatens to overwhelm her. Local saddler and horse trainer Riley Johnson knows that to get along in a small town, one simply has to make the best of what life hands out. Riley’s philosophy is to keep life as uncomplicated as possible. And falling in love with Sorla is as complicated as it gets. As Sorla’s dream is realized, Riley’s predictable, safe world begins to unravel. Secrets are revealed as prejudice and ignorance run wild. Having only ever walked through life alone, Riley must now learn to trust another, as danger dances ever closer.

Dancing in the Remains

Author : Conrad Hueston
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532072635
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Remains written by Conrad Hueston and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Manson feels trapped in a life he despises. Living in Gatford, the town in which he grew up, his one ray of light is Mindy, a young woman with a disturbed mind and a passionate heart. She battles depression and harbors a strange obsession with death. They find themselves falling headfirst into a relationship as Manson’s life takes a dark turn. The death of his grandmother brings home Dan, a brother he hasn’t seen in years. Tensions grow, and emotions run high as the brothers head for an inevitable conflict. A novel, Dancing in the Remains tackles the real issues of depression, grief, and abandonment through a cast of unforgettable characters. Author Conrad Hueston explores an array of emotions that permeate not only the fictitious town of Gatford but also the world in which we live. Manson noticed the motion. His eyes were drawn to the scars. He decided to ask the question he’d been wondering for some time. “Do you still cut?” Mindy looked across the lawn. Not much grass was showing through the layers of white. She felt herself unravelling as she dropped the last roll of toilet paper and let it bounce away. “Sometimes,” she admitted. “Why?” Mindy inhaled deeply, taking in the moist night air and exhaling slowly. “I don’t know. I ... I just think my brain works differently. I’ve suffered from depression my whole life. They try to give me meds for it, but I ... I just can’t.” “Why can’t you?” “I’ve tried taking them; I really have.” Her eyes were fixed in a distant gaze. “Meds make me feel ... different. I don’t like it. Maybe ... maybe I’ve become so accustomed to the sadness that I can’t live any other way. Maybe I’m supposed to be like this. Broken.”

Sacred Leaves of Candomblé

Author : Robert A. Voeks
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773854
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Leaves of Candomblé written by Robert A. Voeks and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa. This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candomblé's healing pharmacopoeia—the sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transference—and transformation—of Candomblé as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candomblé to survive and even thrive in the New World. This research casts new light on topics ranging from the creation of African American cultures to tropical rain forest healing floras.

The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890

Author : James Mooney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803281776
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 written by James Mooney and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the rapid spread of the Ghost Dance among tribes of the western United States in the early 1890s, James Mooney set out to describe and understand the phenomenon. He visited Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, at his home in Nevada and traced the progress of the Ghost Dance from place to place, describing the ritual and recording the distinctive song lyrics of seven separate tribes. His classic work (first published in 1896 and here reprinted in its entirety for the first time) includes succinct cultural and historical introductions to each of those tribal groups and depicts the Ghost Dance among the Sioux, the fears it raised of an Indian outbreak, and the military occupation of the Sioux reservations culminating in the tragedy at Wounded Knee. Seeking to demonstrate that the Ghost Dance was a legitimate religious movement, Mooney prefaced his study with a historical survey of comparable millenarian movements among other American Indian groups. In addition to his work on the Ghost Dance, James Mooney is best remembered for his extraordinarily detailed studies of the Cherokee Indians of the Southeast and the Kiowa and other tribes of the southern plains, and for his advocacy of American Indian religious freedom.

Transactions

Author : University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions written by University of Pennsylvania. University Museum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions of the Free Museum of Science and Art (University Museum)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Free Museum of Science and Art (University Museum) written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx

Author : James Rollins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006199197X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx written by James Rollins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using his father's watch as a key, Jake intends to return to Calypsos. Instead he's thrust into a strange desert land where he's joined by his friends Marika, Pindor, and Bach'uuk and his sister, Kady. As they try to figure out what to do next, a surprise attack by the beautiful young Princess Nefertiti takes them all captive. Soon even she is battling the Skull King's minions. For Jake has something the Skull King wants—a prize that will give its owner awesome power, including control of the fearsome Howling Sphinx. In a new pounding adventure, Jake races against time to outfight and outwit Kalverum Rex, knowing that if the Skull King wins, he'll be unstoppable. Filled with unexpected danger, challenging puzzles, and dazzling action, this is a first-rate, fast-paced thriller—a read only James Rollins could have created!

Dancing With the Devil

Author : Keri Arthur
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0345538706
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Dancing With the Devil written by Keri Arthur and published by Dell. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEYOND THE SHADOWS Private Investigator Nikki James grew up on the tough streets of Lyndhurst and believes there’s nothing left to surprise her. But all that changes the night she follows a rich man’s daughter into the shadows and finds herself caught in a war between two very different men. One is a madman, intent on destruction. The other has his own heart of darkness. For three hundred years, Michael Kelly has existed in life’s shadows, gradually learning to control his vampire cravings. He is convinced that no one can breach his formidable barriers—until he meets Nikki. With her powerful psychic abilities, Nikki swiftly invades both his mind and his heart. Nikki knows how dangerous love can be . . . but if she wants to survive, she must place her trust in this man who could easily destroy her. For only together can they overcome the evil threatening to destroy them both. Includes an excerpt of the next novel in Keri Arthur’s Nikki and Michael series, Hearts in Darkness

When the Dancing Stopped

Author : Brian Hicks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743280083
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book When the Dancing Stopped written by Brian Hicks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew abandoned ship.