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The Land of Gold

Author : Judith M. Bovensiepen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725920
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Land of Gold written by Judith M. Bovensiepen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, the disturbing events of the twenty-four-year-long Indonesian occupation are rarely articulated in narratives of suffering. Instead, the highlanders emphasize the significance of their return to the sacred land of the ancestors, a place where "gold" is abundant and life is thought to originate. On one hand, this collective amnesia is due to villagers' exclusion from contemporary nation-building processes, which bestow recognition only on those who actively participated in the resistance struggle against Indonesia. On the other hand, the cultural revival and the privileging of the ancestral landscape and traditions over narratives of suffering derive from a particular understanding of how human subjects are constituted. Before life and after death, humans and the land are composed of the same substance; only during life are they separated. To recover from the forced dislocation the highlanders experienced under the Indonesian occupation, they thus seek to reestablish a mythical, primordial unity with the land by reinvigorating ancestral practices. Never leaving out of sight the intense political and emotional dilemmas imposed by the past on people’s daily lives, The Land of Gold seeks to go beyond prevailing theories of postconflict reconstruction that prioritize human relationships. Instead, it explores the significance of people’s affective and ritual engagement with the environment and with their ancestors as survivors come to terms with the disruptive events of the past.

O Rugged Land of Gold

Author : Martha Martin
Publisher : Alaska Vanessa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780940055001
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book O Rugged Land of Gold written by Martha Martin and published by Alaska Vanessa Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Share the triumph and fear of a woman -- alone, injured, and pregnant -- stranded on a remote Alaska island in winter. Her husband fails to return from a trip, leaving her to survive a winter and give birth at their cabin, alone. This true story is hard to put down.

Fields of Gold

Author : Madeleine Fairbairn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501750097
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Fields of Gold written by Madeleine Fairbairn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in two of the most popular investment locations, the US and Brazil, looking at the implications of financiers' acquisition of land and control over resources for rural livelihoods and economic justice. At the heart of Fields of Gold is a tension between efforts to transform farmland into a new financial asset class, and land's physical and social properties, which frequently obstruct that transformation. But what makes the book unique among the growing body of work on the global land grab is Fairbairn's interest in those acquiring land, rather than those affected by land acquisitions. Fairbairn's work sheds ethnographic light on the actors and relationships—from Iowa to Manhattan to São Paulo—that have helped to turn land into an attractive financial asset class. Thanks to generous funding from UC Santa Cruz, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

How Much of These Hills is Gold

Author : C Pam Zhang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525537201
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book How Much of These Hills is Gold written by C Pam Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future.

The Land of Gold

Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Land of Gold written by Hinton Rowan Helper and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) of North Carolina became one of the South's most controversial figures in the 1850s for his criticisms of slavery in The land of gold and his better known book, The impending crisis. Indeed, he found it prudent to move to New York before the Civil War, and he received diplomatic appointments in Latin America from the Lincoln administration. The land of gold (1855) draws on Helper's three years residence in California and leads him to the conclusion, "California is the poorest State in the Union." Aside from gold, he can see nothing to recommend the state economically, and his book damns the state's populace in terms of morals and intelligence. He spends three chapters dismissing San Francisco (although he later has good words for the Vigilance Committee), is disgusted by the Digger Indians at Bodega, finds fault with Sacramento, and reflects on prospecting on Yuba River and at Columbia. Some good words are reserved for Stockton, but on the whole, Helper writes to discourage emigrants from retracing his course round the Horn.

Silence in the Land of Gold

Author : James Finch
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9789814954945
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Silence in the Land of Gold written by James Finch and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Silence in the Land of Gold is an intrigue over a fortune lost in an air crash involving the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army. George Wilford is a foreign lawyer who must solve the mystery of the crash to save his own life and that of the woman with whom he falls in love.

Ancient Ghana

Author : Philip Koslow
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780791031261
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Ghana written by Philip Koslow and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the settlement of West Africa, the spread of Islam, the establishment of the gold trade, and the rise, civilization, and fall of the Soninke states known as Ghana

Gold from the Land of Israel

Author : Abraham Isaac Kook
Publisher : Chanan Morrison
ISBN 13 : 9657108926
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Gold from the Land of Israel written by Abraham Isaac Kook and published by Chanan Morrison. This book was released on 2006 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the celebrated first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, is recognized as being among the most important Jewish thinkers of all times. He was a prominent rabbinical authority and active public leader, but at the same time, a deeply religious mystic. Gold from the Land of Israel uses a clear, succinct style to grant the reader a window into his original and creative insights.

To the Land of Gold

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book To the Land of Gold written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grains of Gold

Author : Gendun Chopel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609202X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Grains of Gold written by Gendun Chopel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Translated with grace and precision . . . gives us a rare glimpse of how Asian religion and life appeared from the perspective of the Tibetan plateau.” —Janet Gyatso, Harvard University In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel sent a manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he did not receive the welcome he imagined: he was arrested by the government of the regent of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason. He emerged from prison three years later a broken man and died soon after. Gendun Chopel was a prolific writer, yet he considered that manuscript, to be his life’s work, one to delight his compatriots with tales of an ancient Indian and Tibetan past, Now available for the first time in English, Grains of Gold is a unique compendium of South Asian and Tibetan culture that combines travelogue, drawings, history, and ethnography. Chopel describes the world he discovered in South Asia, from the ruins of the sacred sites of Buddhism to the Sanskrit classics he learned to read in the original. He is also sharply, often humorously critical of the Tibetan love of the fantastic, bursting one myth after another and finding fault with the accounts of earlier Tibetan pilgrims. The work of an extraordinary scholar, Grains of Gold is a compelling work animated by a sense of discovery of both a distant past and a strange present. “The magnum opus of arguably the single most brilliant Tibetan scholar of the twentieth century.” —Lauran Hartley, Columbia University

Beyond the Land of Gold

Author : Rebecca Valentine
Publisher : Thompson Media
ISBN 13 : 0982708904
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Land of Gold written by Rebecca Valentine and published by Thompson Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry A. Burgess, son of Abram Burgess and Emma Semantha Cheney, was born in 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois. He married Annie Mapes in 1870. They had three children. He died in 1900 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Mali

Author : Joy Masoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972715607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Mali written by Joy Masoff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mali, as seen through the eyes of a griot, a teller of stories and singer of history.

The Land of Gold Or

Author : Walter Colton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Gold Or written by Walter Colton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Muslim Empire and the Land of Gold

Author : Rodney J. Phillips
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606932896
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Muslim Empire and the Land of Gold written by Rodney J. Phillips and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying at the edge of the Rift Valley in Saudi Arabia is perhaps one of the most stunning places uncovered in history. Rediscovered in May of 2007, the Gold Fields of Ophir had once disappeared from man, hiding a veritable treasure trove of ancient history. The Muslim Empire gives us a closer look at the history and geography of this ancient Biblical culture.

The Land Of Gold And Pearls

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Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788178624167
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book The Land Of Gold And Pearls written by and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE LAND OF GOLD REALITY VERSUS FICTION

Author : HINTON R. HELPER
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE LAND OF GOLD REALITY VERSUS FICTION written by HINTON R. HELPER and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1855-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREVIOUS to my departure for California, near and dear friends extracted from me a promise to communicate by letter, upon every convenient occasion, such intelligence as would give them a distinct idea of the truthfulness or falsehood of the many glowing descriptions and reputed vast wealth of California. In accordance with this promise, I collected, from the best and most reliable sources, all that I deemed worthy of record touching the past of the modern El Dorado, relying upon my own powers of observation to depicture its present condition and its future prospects. This correspondence was never intended for the public eye, for the simple reason that the matter therein is set forth in a very plain manner, with more regard to truth than elegance of diction. Indeed, how could it be otherwise? I have only described those things which came immediately under my own observation, and, beside this, I make no pretensions to extensive scholastic attainments, nor do I claim to be an adept in the art of book-making.A weary and rather unprofitable sojourn of three years in various parts of California, afforded me ample time and opportunity to become too thoroughly conversant with its rottenness and its corruption, its squalor and its misery, its crime and its shame, its gold and its dross. Simply and truthfully I gave the history of my experience to friends at home, who, after my return, suggested that profit might be derived from giving these letters to the world in narrative form, and urged me so strenuously, that I at length acceded to their wishes, but not without much reluctance, being doubtful as to the reception of a book from one so incapable as myself of producing any thing more than a plain “unvarnished tale.” In order to present a more complete picture of California, I have added two chapters, that describing the route through Nicaragua, and the general resume at the close of my volume. All that I solicit for this, my first offering, is a liberal and candid examination; not of a part, but of the whole—not a cursory, but a considerate reading.

Journeys to the Land of Gold

Author : Susan Badger Doyle
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780917298486
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Journeys to the Land of Gold written by Susan Badger Doyle and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time ever are the surviving eyewitness accounts of the Bozeman's Trail's civilian emigrants: twenty-four diaries written during the journey and nine reminiscences prepared afterward. These accounts describe life on the West's last great emigrant trail, the shortcut from the Platte River Road to the Montana goldfields, from 1863 until 1866, when the route was closed by "Red Cloud's War." Ample introductions, extensive annotation, historical illustrations, and detailed maps enrich this oversized, two-volume compendium.