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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Cowry written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0531302881
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Only One Cowry written by and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever young fellow persuades an equally clever chief's daughter to marry the king of Dahomey, and both the young man and future queen prosper in the bargain.
Author : Whilhelmina Mathew
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543703585
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Maya and the Studded Cowry written by Whilhelmina Mathew and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unfair world for girls, Maya is an iconic protagonist having learnt to balance riding on a trident with single minded focus in her quest for the Studded Cowry. This can set her free from her present state of affairs and she can seek her identity, ambitions and aspirations. The Studded Cowry is symbolic with a precious gem inside that has a discrete substance with amazing powers. The gem can change any gem into the most precious gem: A magic formula that can automatically melt away all hurdles and set free her ancient and traditional beliefs. The two in one “The Magical Elixirs” an alchemical, the discovery of a Universal concept to transform things for the better from the ancient world of social, cultural and religious taboos. Mrs. Rumberstin Maya’s step aunt a crafty and ostentatious woman runs a Trident Riding school for girls. The riding school is a cover up, to distract Maya and keep her away from the Studded Cowry that had an unambiguous meaning to her. Amulets, charms, magical formulas- Nothing could hamper her search. The Apartment Castle is abstruse with ancient Asian magical enchantments. Can she break the barrier of finding the Studded Cowry?
Author : Jerry G. Walls
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Cowries written by Jerry G. Walls and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General information about cowries precedes color photographs and brief descriptions of numerous varieties.
Author : David Tarrant
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ISBN 13 : 9780646947389
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Cowries of New South Wales written by David Tarrant and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description and taxonomic history of the cowry shells found in New South Wales.
Author : Binwell Sinyangwe
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435912024
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Cowrie of Hope written by Binwell Sinyangwe and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reimagining of the Robin Hood legend tells the story of the young boy behind the bandit hero's rise to fame. Will Shackley is the son of a lord, and though just thirteen, he's led a charmed, protected life and is the heir to Shackley House, while his father is away on the Third Crusade with King Richard the Lionheart. But with King Richard's absence, the winds of treason are blowing across England, and soon Shackley House becomes caught up in a dangerous power struggle that drives Will out of the only home he's ever known. Alone, he flees into the dangerous Sherwood Forest, where he joins an elusive gang of bandits readers will immediately recognize. How Will helps a drunkard named Rob become one of the most feared and revered criminals in history is a swashbuckling ride perfect for anyone who loves heroes, villains, and adventure. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Nana Nkweti
Publisher : Black Spot Books
ISBN 13 : 1911648349
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Walking on Cowrie Shells written by Nana Nkweti and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their every twist and turn” (Publishers Weekly starred review), named one of the Most Anticipated Books for Brittle Paper, The Millions, and The Rumpus, penned by a finalist for the AKO Caine PrizeIn her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story “It Takes a Village, Some Say,” Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes. In “The Devil Is a Liar,” a pregnant pastor's wife struggles with the collision of western Christianity and her mother's traditional Cameroonian belief system as she worries about her unborn child.In other stories, Nkweti vaults past realism, upending genre expectations in a satirical romp about a jaded PR professional trying to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa, and in a mermaid tale about a Mami Wata who forgoes her power by remaining faithful to a fisherman she loves.
Author : Bin Yang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429952333
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money written by Bin Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era, and in many cases, it was gradually transformed into a form of money in various societies for a long span of time. Yang provides a global examination of cowrie money within and beyond Afro-Eurasia from the archaeological period to the early twentieth century. By focusing on cowrie money in Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian and West African societies and shell money in Pacific and North American societies, Yang synthsises and illustrates the economic and cultural connections, networks and interactions over a longue durée and in a cross-regional context. Analysing locally varied experiences of cowrie money from a global perspective, Yang argued that cowrie money was the first global money that shaped Afro-Eurasian societies both individually and collectively. He proposes a paradigm of the cowrie money world that engages local, regional, transregional and global themes.
Author : Gloria Repp
Publisher : Light Line
ISBN 13 : 9780890844595
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)
Download or read book The Secret of the Golden Cowrie written by Gloria Repp and published by Light Line. This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago a beautiful golden cowrie was part of Uncle Philip's collection of rare shells. Now it's missing because Uncle Philip hid it. But where did he put it? With Aunt Laura's help, Connie begins to search for the golden cowrie. But someone else is also looking for the shell--someone who could be dangerous. Connie's visit to Aunt Laura takes a mysterious turn in The Secret to the Golden Cowrie.
Author : Abigail Hilton
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ISBN 13 : 9781499708943
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Hunters Unlucky written by Abigail Hilton and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's not bigger. He's not faster. He's not meaner. So he'd better be smarter.Storm is born into a world of secrets - an island no one visits, names no one will say, and deaths that no one will talk about. The answers are locked in his species' troubled past, guarded by the fierce creasia cats. But when Storm's friends are threatened, he decides that he must act, pitting himself against the creasia to show that they can be resisted and outwitted. To prove his point, he must stay one step ahead of clever hunters, who have more to lose than Storm imagines.Hunters Unlucky is an animal story for anyone who loved Richard Adams's Watership Down, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, and Jack London's Call of the Wild. Kids who enjoyed Erin Hunter's Warriors books will also enjoy Hunters. The animals in this story do not carry swords, walk on two legs, or drink tea. They fight. They starve. Sometimes, they eat each other.
Author : Robert Stephen Briffault
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mothers written by Robert Stephen Briffault and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Russell Bascom
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208477
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Sixteen Cowries written by William Russell Bascom and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1980-05-22 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a landmark in research of African oral traditions." —African Arts " . . . a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious belief, magic, and art." —Journal of Religion in Africa Yoruba texts and English translations of a divination system that originated in Nigeria and is widely practiced today by male and female diviners in the diaspora. A landmark edition.
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Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Malacological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold John Massingham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum written by Harold John Massingham and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Henry Yule
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Hobson-Jobson written by Sir Henry Yule and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1886 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alma Gottlieb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633063X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Afterlife Is Where We Come From written by Alma Gottlieb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way the Beng rear their children? In this unique and engaging ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb explores how religious ideology affects every aspect of Beng childrearing practices—from bathing infants to protecting them from disease to teaching them how to crawl and walk—and how widespread poverty limits these practices. A mother of two, Gottlieb includes moving discussions of how her experiences among the Beng changed the way she saw her own parenting. Throughout the book she also draws telling comparisons between Beng and Euro-American parenting, bringing home just how deeply culture matters to the way we all rear our children. All parents and anyone interested in the place of culture in the lives of infants, and vice versa, will enjoy The Afterlife Is Where We Come From. "This wonderfully reflective text should provide the impetus for formulating research possibilities about infancy and toddlerhood for this century." — Caren J. Frost, Medical Anthropology Quarterly “Alma Gottlieb’s careful and thought-provoking account of infancy sheds spectacular light upon a much neglected topic. . . . [It] makes a strong case for the central place of babies in anthropological accounts of religion. Gottlieb’s remarkably rich account, delivered after a long and reflective period of gestation, deserves a wide audience across a range of disciplines.”—Anthony Simpson, Critique of Anthropology
