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Author : Pam Skadins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925117578
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Cassowary's Gift written by Pam Skadins and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garry Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977572069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Cassowary's Egg written by Garry Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calvin the cassowary is left to mind the nest while his partner Carla goes away. All is well as Calvin quietly counts away the days -- until he is tricked by a wily, lisping goanna who wants some eggs for his supper. This is a rollicking tale with wonderful illustrations.
Author : Alfred Gell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000320944
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries written by Alfred Gell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this substantial book, Gell guides the reader systematically through an analysis of the social structure, language and ritual of the Umedia-Punda connubium of the West Sepik district. One of the central areas explored is the ida fertitility ritual and the decipherment and the unravelling of symbolic relationships between words of similar construction. One one side is the anaylsis on the temporal sequence of events (or ritual roles) metamorphosing the casswary (nature) into the 'new man' (culture) and the on other side, the associated 'harmonic levels' which allude to body painting, choreography and social status. His approach substantiates the view that the ritual is not so much about the establishing of linear causality in the relationship between a society and its environment, but with the 'an act of poetic legislation over the course of nature'.
Author : Arone Raymond Meeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781865045252
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Sisi and the Cassowary written by Arone Raymond Meeks and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sisi slips away from her mothers and sisters to catch a tortoise in the waterhole, she surfaces from a deep dive and realises she is lost. A boy offers to help, then disappears. How will Sisi get back to her people? And what part do the bright blue quandong berries play in her return?
Author : Sy Montgomery
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0731815408
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Birdology written by Sy Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she's a rock star. In these pages you'll also meet Maya and Zuni, two orphaned baby hummingbirds who hatched from eggs the size of navy beans, and who are little more than air bubbles fringed with feathers. Their lives hang precariously in the balance-but with human help, they may one day conquer the sky. Snowball is a cockatoo whose dance video went viral on YouTube and who's now teaching schoolchildren how to dance. You'll meet Harris's hawks named Fire and Smoke. And you'll come to know and love a host of other avian characters who will change your mind forever about who birds really are. Each of these birds shows a different and utterly surprising aspect of what makes a bird a bird-and these are the lessons of Birdology: that birds are far stranger, more wondrous, and at the same time more like us than we might have dared to imagine. In Birdology, beloved author of The Good Good Pig Sy Montgomery explores the essence of the otherworldly creatures we see every day. By way of her adventures with seven birds-wild, tame, exotic, and common-she weaves new scientific insights and narrative to reveal seven kernels of bird wisdom. The first lesson of Birdology is that, no matter how common they are, Birds Are Individuals, as each of Montgomery's distinctive Ladies clearly shows. In the leech-infested rain forest of Queensland, you'll come face to face with a cassowary-a 150-pound, man-tall, flightless bird with a helmet of bone on its head and a slashing razor-like toenail with which it (occasionally) eviscerates people-proof that Birds Are Dinosaurs. You'll learn from hawks that Birds Are Fierce; from pigeons, how Birds Find Their Way Home; from parrots, what it means that Birds Can Talk; and from 50,000 crows who moved into a small city's downtown, that Birds Are Everywhere. They are the winged aliens who surround us. Birdology explains just how very "other" birds are: Their hearts look like those of crocodiles. They are covered with modified scales, which are called feathers. Their bones are hollow. Their bodies are permeated with extensive air sacs. They have no hands. They give birth to eggs. Yet despite birds' and humans' disparate evolutionary paths, we share emotional and intellectual abilities that allow us to communicate and even form deep bonds. When we begin to comprehend who birds really are, we deepen our capacity to approach, understand, and love these otherworldly creatures. And this, ultimately, is the priceless lesson of Birdology: it communicates a heartfelt fascination and awe for birds and restores our connection to these complex, mysterious fellow creatures
Author : Rena Lederman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521267137
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (671 download)
Download or read book What Gifts Engender written by Rena Lederman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift exchange plays a crucial role in the social and political organization of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. This book reveals how considerable light can be shed on Mendi society, particularly on its political economy, by examining both the well-known ceremonial exchange festivals and the hitherto relatively little-studied everyday gift-giving practices. The author shows that the latter are crucial for understanding inter-group politics, the process of leadership, male-female relationships and the status of women, and the production, distribution and circulation of wealth. Currently the only book available on this society, the work offers an unusual combination of a social structural analysis with a study of local history and change. It is also of interest for its integration of the study of gift exchange and politics with the study of gender roles and relationships.
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788129146496
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Elephant And The Cassowary written by Ruskin Bond and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a clumsy flapping of wings, a tremendous swelling of the bird's wattle and an undignified getting up, as if it were a floored boxer doing his best to beat the count of ten. Two mismatched animals meet and the result is a hilarious tale of how one got the better of the other. A photographer takes pictures of animals in the wild and writes about the hidden and mysterious world of the jungle. A tiger, used to its habitat, has to keep running from the humans who take up his home, till he has no more place for escape. Filled with descriptions of animals both in the wild and at home, of jungles and of the people who wander the forests in search of animals, this collection contains stories that are exhilarating and thought-provoking.
Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520910713
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Gender of the Gift written by Marilyn Strathern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness—and with equal good humor—the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.
Author : Edward LiPuma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521344838
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (448 download)
Download or read book The Gift of Kinship written by Edward LiPuma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward LiPuma presents an ethnography of Maring social organization in order to develop a generative theory of Highland societies.
Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350126055
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan written by Michael Laver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context.
Author : Gregory M. Pflugfelder
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book JAPANimals written by Gregory M. Pflugfelder and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges many of the fundamental assumptions that have shaped contemporary scholarship on Japan, engaging from different perspectives questions of economic growth, isolation from and interaction with the outside world, the tools of conquest and empire, and the character of modernity.
Author : Stephen Cullenberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415110266
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge written by Stephen Cullenberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should serve as a useful reference tool for all those studying postmodernism and the history of economic thought.
Author : Jeffrey L. Clark
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Social and C
ISBN 13 : 9780198233770
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Steel to Stone written by Jeffrey L. Clark and published by Oxford Studies in Social and C. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overall, Clark provides a compelling picture of a contemporary Melanesian culture, at the critical point at which the Wiru people are interpreting, invoking, and reinventing their history in the context of a developing nation state."--Jacket.
Author : Jerry W. Leach
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521232029
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Kula written by Jerry W. Leach and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-05-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646526058
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Cassy's Tale written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassy's Tale is a Cassowary Children's Story Book and Australian Made & Owned! The cassowary is an endangered flightless bird, which is protected. The kid's book reflects the unique Australian wildlife and nature in its beautiful illustrations. Above all, it's educational, funny & cute! The outstanding art work is glossy, bright & colourful!11 Australian book titles available! Very popular!About Cassy's Tale Cassowary Children's Story Book: This Cassowary kid's picture book is about a cassowary chick from the moment she hatches. Her father teaches her about the rainforest, food and cyclones. Their habitat is Tropical North Queensland, Australia. It's a threatened species and protected. Additionally, other Australian animals are included. It's a very cute kid's story. Great illustrations of the diversity of the Australian rainforest are also included.Details about Cassy's Tale: The cassowary children's story book begins with a cassowary chick hatching out of her egg. Her proud father is watching. In nature, male cassowaries tend their young. Cassy learns to walk and discovers her powerful legs. Clearly, she enjoys jumping up trying to catch butterflies. Dad shows Cassy how to push through dense rainforest. The cassowary chick is amazed by the colourful rainforest fruits, and learns that they are good to eat. Later on, Cassy trips over a log. It's a fallen tree from the last cyclone. Subsequently, dad takes the opportunity to explain about the destruction caused by cyclones. But now, the rainforest has regrown and Cassy can be seen following the trail of colourful berries.Other Australian animals in this kids book include pythons, green tree snakes, green tree frogs, frog-mouth owls, Rainbow lorikeets, flying foxes, Cairns Birdwing butterflies, Ulysses butterflies, Azure Kingfishers and Sulphur Crested cockatoos. Tropical rainforest plants featured include Licuala Palms, Tree ferns, stag horn ferns, birds nest ferns and many more.Other book titles of evabooks are:Where is Croaky? (green tree frog), Bobby the Tree Kangaroo, Nipper the Crocodile, Paddles the Platypus, Shelly the Sea Turtle, Lyssie the Butterfly (Ulysses butterfly), Who is Laughing? (kookaburra), Spikey's Day Out (echidna), Fuzzy the Koala, Tippy the Kangaroo.
Author : Thomas H. Slone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0971412707
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)
Download or read book One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales form 1972-1985 written by Thomas H. Slone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin.
Author : Andrew L. Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989390323
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Searching for Pekpek written by Andrew L. Mack and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Mack immersed himself in a vast expanse of roadless, old growth rainforest of Papua New Guinea in 1987. He and his co-investigator Debra Wright, built a research station by hand and lived there for years. Their mission was to study the secretive and perhaps most dinosaur-like creature still roaming the planet: the cassowary. The ensuing adventures of this unorthodox biologistOCostudying seeds found in cassowary droppings (pekpek), learning to live among the indigenous PawaiOCOia, traversing jungles, fighting pests and loneliness, struggling against unscrupulous oil speculators, and moreOCoare woven into a compelling tale that spans two decades.a Mack shares the insights he garnered about rainforest ecology while studying something as seemingly mundane as cassowary pekpek. He ultimately gained profound insight into why conservation is failing in places like Papua New Guinea and struggled to create a more viable strategy for conserving some of EarthOCOs last wild rainforests."
