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Tales And Legends Of The Yupik Eskimos Of Siberia
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Book Synopsis Tales and Legends of the Yupik Eskimos of Siberia by : Alexander B. Dolitsky
Download or read book Tales and Legends of the Yupik Eskimos of Siberia written by Alexander B. Dolitsky and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a creative compilation of traditional stories of the aboriginal peoples of the Chukchi Peninsula. Fifty-nine Asiatic Eskimo tales and legends make this book both educational and entertaining.
Book Synopsis World Folklore for Storytellers: Tales of Wonder, Wisdom, Fools, and Heroes by : Howard J Sherman
Download or read book World Folklore for Storytellers: Tales of Wonder, Wisdom, Fools, and Heroes written by Howard J Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a treasury of favorite and little known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information of their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of folklore, its purpose in world cultures and in contemporary society and popular culture. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. Each section begins by comparing the tales cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the folkloric narratives. Tales from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion.
Book Synopsis Spirit of the Siberian Tiger by : Дмитрий Нагишкин
Download or read book Spirit of the Siberian Tiger written by Дмитрий Нагишкин and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 4 folktales form the Russian Far East, translated from Russian into English.
Book Synopsis Myths and Legends of Alaska by : Katharine Berry Judson
Download or read book Myths and Legends of Alaska written by Katharine Berry Judson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Allies in Wartime by : Alexander B. Dolitsky
Download or read book Allies in Wartime written by Alexander B. Dolitsky and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of articles, essays and speeches that together illuminate a remarkable chapter in human history: the Alaska-Siberia Airway during World War II.
Book Synopsis Words of the Real People by : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Download or read book Words of the Real People written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the oral literature, poetry, and life stories of Alaska's Native speakers of Yupik, Inupiaq, and Alutiiq, including ancient tales spanning generations as well as new traditions, accompanied by essays on each Native group's background.--(Source of description unspecified.)
Book Synopsis Ancient Tales of Kamchatka by : Alexander B. Dolitsky
Download or read book Ancient Tales of Kamchatka written by Alexander B. Dolitsky and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a translation of ninety-five Kerek, Koryak, and Itelmen tales collected as oral narratives in their original languages and translated into Russian and later into English. These tales along with 111 other tales appeared in the Russian book "Skazki i mify narodov Chukotki i Kamchatki" ("Fairy tales and myths of the people of Chukotka and Kamchatka") compiled by Georgiy Menovshchikov and edited by Eleazar Meletinsky published in 1974. This collection, which includes a glossary, will interest those fond of oral folk creations as well as specialists of comparative-typological research in anthropology.
Book Synopsis Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology by : Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Download or read book Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology written by Eleanor Harrison-Buck and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. The volume cross-examines traditional understanding of agency and personhood, presenting a globally diverse set of case studies that cover a range of cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. Agency (the ability to act) and personhood (the reciprocal qualities of relational beings) have traditionally been strictly assigned to humans. In case studies from Ghana to Australia to the British Isles and Mesoamerica, contributors to this volume demonstrate that objects, animals, locations, and other nonhuman actors also potentially share this ontological status and are capable of instigating events and enacting change. This kind of other-than-human agency is not a one-way transaction of cause to effect but requires an appropriate form of reciprocal engagement indicative of relational personhood, which in these cases, left material traces detectable in the archaeological record. Modern dualist ontologies separating objects from subjects and the animate from the inanimate obscure our understanding of the roles that other-than-human agents played in past societies. Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology challenges this essentialist binary perspective. Contributors in this volume show that intersubjective (inherently social) ways of being are a fundamental and indispensable condition of all personhood and move the debate in posthumanist scholarship beyond the polarizing dichotomies of relational versus bounded types of persons. In this way, the book makes a significant contribution to theory and interpretation of personhood and other-than-human agency in archaeology. Contributors: Susan M. Alt, Joanna Brück, Kaitlyn Chandler, Erica Hill, Meghan C. L. Howey, Andrew Meirion Jones, Matthew Looper, Ian J. McNiven, Wendi Field Murray, Timothy R. Pauketat, Ann B. Stahl, Maria Nieves Zedeño
Book Synopsis Music in Human Experience by : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Download or read book Music in Human Experience written by Jonathan L. Friedmann and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music plays an integral role in many facets of human life, from the biological and social to the spiritual and political. This book brings together interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies on the functions, purposes, and meanings of music in human experience.
Book Synopsis Worldviews of the Greenlanders by : Birgitte Sonne
Download or read book Worldviews of the Greenlanders written by Birgitte Sonne and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen’s popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research has grown around the Inuit and Yupiit of North America—but, until now, English-language readers have had little access to the broad corpus of work on Greenlandic natives. Worldviews of the Greenlanders draws upon extensive Danish and Greenlandic research on Inuit arctic peoples—as well as Birgitte Sonne’s own decades of scholarship and fieldwork—to present in rich detail the key symbols and traditional beliefs of Greenlandic Natives, as well as the changes brought about by contact with colonial traders and Christian missionaries. It includes critical updates to our knowledge of the Greenlanders’ pre-colonial world and their ideas on space, time, and other worldly beings. This expansive work will be a touchstone of Arctic Native studies for academics who wish to expand their knowledge past the boundaries of North America.
Book Synopsis Ancient Tales of Kamchatka by : Alexander B. Dolitsky
Download or read book Ancient Tales of Kamchatka written by Alexander B. Dolitsky and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eskimo Folk Tales by : Knud Rasmussen
Download or read book Eskimo Folk Tales written by Knud Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soul Hunters written by Rane Willerslev and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a 'hall of mirrors' world, one inhabited by humans, animals and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another.
Book Synopsis Ungipaghaghlanga by : Christopher Koonooka
Download or read book Ungipaghaghlanga written by Christopher Koonooka and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 35 stories were first written down by the Russian educator and linguist, Georgiy A. Menovshchikov during his years of teaching in Chukotka beginning in the 1930s, and are taken from Menovshchikov's 1988 volume, , published in the Soviet Union. They describe a shared history of hunting, trade, and a tradition of oral folklore. Transliterated from the Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet and then translated into English by Christopher Koonooka (Petuwaq), each story appears in Siberian Yupik and English. On the accompanying audio CD, Koonooka reads six of the stories in Yupik.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Anishinaubaek by : Basil Johnston
Download or read book Tales of the Anishinaubaek written by Basil Johnston and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mermaids and medicine women, spirits of the wind, water, and woods inhabit this book of Ojibwa myths, exquisitely illustrated by Maxine Noel, a member of Oglala Sioux.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages by : Christopher Moseley
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages written by Christopher Moseley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization. This book appears as an answer to a felt need: to catalogue and describe those languages, making up the vast majority of the world's six thousand or more distinct tongues, which are in danger of disappearing within the next few decades. Endangerment is a complex issue, and the reasons why so many of the world's smaller, less empowered languages are not being passed on to future generations today are discussed in the book's introduction. The introduction is followed by regional sections, each authored by a notable specialist, combining to provide a comprehensive listing of every language which, by the criteria of endangerment set out in the introduction, is likely to disappear within the next few decades. These languages make up ninety per cent of the world's remaining language stocks. Each regional section comprises an introduction that deals with problems of language preservation peculiar to the area, surveys of known extinct languages, and problems of classification. The introduction is followed by a list of all known languages within the region, endangered or not, arranged by genetic affiliation, with endangered and extinct languages marked. This listing is followed by entries in alphabetical order covering each language listed as endangered. Useful maps are provided to pinpoint the more complex clusters of smaller languages in every region of the world. The Encyclopedia therefore provides in a single resource: expert analysis of the current language policy situation in every multilingual country and on every continent, detailed descriptions of little-known languages from all over the world, and clear alphabetical entries, region by region, of all the world's languages currently thought to be in danger of extinction. The Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages will be a necessary addition to all academic linguistics collections and will be a useful resource for a range of readers with an interest in development studies, cultural heritage and international affairs.
Book Synopsis The Language Instinct by : Steven Pinker
Download or read book The Language Instinct written by Steven Pinker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
