The Memory Of Bones

Download The Memory Of Bones full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Memory Of Bones ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Memory of Bones

Author : Stephen D. Houston
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756186
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Memory of Bones by : Stephen D. Houston

Download or read book The Memory of Bones written by Stephen D. Houston and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions. All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed an approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. Starting with a cartography of the Maya body as depicted in imagery and texts, the authors explore how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.

Can These Bones Live?

Author : Bella Brodzki
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755429
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Can These Bones Live? by : Bella Brodzki

Download or read book Can These Bones Live? written by Bella Brodzki and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentally concerned with the means by which translation ensures the afterlife of literary and cultural texts, this book examines multiple processes of translation, temporal and spatial, through acts of intercultural exchange and intergenerational transmission.

The Memory Bones

Author : B. R. Spangler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781800196667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (966 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Memory Bones by : B. R. Spangler

Download or read book The Memory Bones written by B. R. Spangler and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shape of Bones

Author : Daniel Galera
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143131494
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Shape of Bones by : Daniel Galera

Download or read book The Shape of Bones written by Daniel Galera and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of visceral and tender beauty whose echoes persist long after the final page." —David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks A coming of age tale of brutal beauty and disarming tenderness from one of Brazil's most exciting young novelists, an author writing in the footsteps of "Roberto Bolaño, Jim Harrison, the Coen brothers and...Denis Johnson" (The New York Times) A young man wakes up at dawn to drive to the Andes, to climb the Cerro Bonete--a mountain untouched by ice axes and climbers, one of the planet's final mountains to be conquered--as an act of heroic bravado, or foolishness. But instead, he finds himself dragged, by the undertow of memory, to Esplanada, the neighborhood he grew up in, to the brotherhood of his old friends, and to the clearing in the woods where he witnessed an act that has run like a scar through the rest of his life. Back in Esplanada, the young man revisits his initiation into adulthood and recalls his boyhood friends who formed a strange and volatile pack. Together they play video games, get drunk around bonfires, pick fights, and goad each other into bike races where the winner is the boy who has the most spectacular crash. Caught between the threat of not being man enough, the desire to please his friends, and the intoxicating contact-high of danger, the boy finds himself following the rules of the pack even as the risks mount. And in a moment that reverberates and repeats itself in new ways in his adulthood, his fantasies of who he is and what it means to be a man come crashing down, and life asserts itself as an endless rehearsal for a heroic moment that may never arrive. From one of Brazil's most dazzling writers, The Shape of Bones is an exhilarating story of mythic power. Daniel Galera has written a pulse-racing novel with the otherworldly wisdom of a parable.

Memory of Bones

Author : Alex Connor
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780857389626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (896 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Memory of Bones by : Alex Connor

Download or read book Memory of Bones written by Alex Connor and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The head of Francisco Goya was stolen from his tomb in the wake of his death. No one has ever known what happened to it. Until now. Leon Golding has always been ignored by the art world he loves, but he's finally going to make his name as the man who found the skull of Goya. But he's asked the wrong people to help him prove he's right. Now everyone wants to own the most prized piece of art history ever to come to light ... And they're ready to kill for it.

Solar Bones

Author : Mike McCormack
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 178689128X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Solar Bones by : Mike McCormack

Download or read book Solar Bones written by Mike McCormack and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.

The Memory of Bones

Author : Stephen Houston
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292712944
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Memory of Bones by : Stephen Houston

Download or read book The Memory of Bones written by Stephen Houston and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. The authors open with a cartography of the Maya body, its parts and their meanings, as depicted in imagery and texts. They go on to explore such issues as how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality that were intimately bound up in these domains; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.

Dreaming of the Bones

Author : Deborah Crombie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451617658
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dreaming of the Bones by : Deborah Crombie

Download or read book Dreaming of the Bones written by Deborah Crombie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the call Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid never expected -- and one he certainly doesn't want. Victoria, his ex-wife, who walked out without an explanation more than a decade ago, asks him to look into the suicide of local poet, Lydia Brooke -- a case that's been officially closed for five years. The troubled young writer's death, Victoria claims, might well have been murder. No one is more surprised than Kincaid himself when he agrees to investigate -- not even his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James. But it's a second death that raises the stakes and plunges Kincaid and James into a labyrinth of dark lies and lethal secrets that stretches all the way back through the twentieth century -- a death that most assuredly is murder, one that has altered Duncan Kincaid's world forever.

Bones of Empire

Author : William C. Dietz
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625672721
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bones of Empire by : William C. Dietz

Download or read book Bones of Empire written by William C. Dietz and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author of Battle Hymn comes the conclusion to the electrifying sci-fi thriller duology begun with At Empire’s Edge... On the surface, the Uman Empire seems as glorious as ever, with its citizens reveling in their proud civilization, the Legions defending its borders, and the Emperor ruling benevolently over all. Yet it is a facade. In truth, the alien Vord are pushing deeper into Uman space even as the noble families maneuver for power within a waning Empire. But for Xeno Corps Centurion Jak Cato, all that matters is that he’s still alive. After a disastrous mission that almost cost him everything, he’s returning to the Imperial capital of Corin with his beloved Alamy for some well-deserved down time—which soon becomes no time. For as Cato watches a grand procession, he catches a glimpse of his mighty Emperor—and in one horrifying instant, Cato’s enhanced senses recognize that while the Emperor looks the same, it is not him. It is Fiss Verafti, the murderous Sagathi shape-changer Cato had just hunted down. The creature he thought was dead! As the Empire strains under attacks from within and without, Cato doggedly investigates the mystery of how Verafti made his way from the grave to the throne and who is behind the astounding plot. And when he does discover the truth, it will change Cato—and the entire galaxy—forever... “When it comes to military science fiction, William Dietz can run with the best.”—Steve Perry, author of the Matador series “Adrenaline-fueled, Clancy-esque adventure.”—Publishers Weekly

The Farming of Bones

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569479291
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (694 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Farming of Bones by : Edwidge Danticat

Download or read book The Farming of Bones written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastien are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers. Already acknowledged as a classic, this harrowing story of love and survival—from one of the most important voices of her generation—is an unforgettable memorial to the victims of the Parsley Massacre and a testimony to the power of human memory.

Bones of Contention

Author : Marii?a Nikolaeva Todorova
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789639776241
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (762 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bones of Contention by : Marii?a Nikolaeva Todorova

Download or read book Bones of Contention written by Marii?a Nikolaeva Todorova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical study, taking as its narrative focus the life, death and posthumous fate of Vasil Levski (1837-1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The main title refers to the "thick description" of the reburial controversy during the final phase of communist Bulgaria, which centered on the search for Levski's bones. The book gives a specific understanding also of the relationship between nationalism and religion in the post-communist period, by analyzing the recent canonization of Levski. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in the making, and the living archive expands not only in size but with the constant addition of surprising new forms they take. At another level, the book engages in a variety of general theoretical questions. It offers insights into the problems of history and memory: the question of public, social or collective memory; the nature of national memory in comparison to other types of memory; the variability of memory over time and social space; alternative memories; memory's techniques like commemorations, the mechanism of creating and transmitting memory.

Remembering the Bones

Author : Frances Itani
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848125
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Remembering the Bones by : Frances Itani

Download or read book Remembering the Bones written by Frances Itani and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life hangs in the balance of memory in this poignant, witty and “effective feminine counterpoint to . . . Philip Roth’s 2006 novel, ‘Everyman’” by the award-winning author (The Washington Post). Born on the same day as Queen Elizabeth II, Canadian Georgina Danforth Witley is one of ninety-nine lucky Commonwealth residents invited to Her Majesty’s eightieth birthday lunch at Buckingham Palace. But en route to the airport to board the plane for London, Georgina’s car slips off the road and plunges into a thickly wooded ravine. Thrown from the car, injured, and unable to move, she must rely on her full store of family memories, her no-nonsense wit, and a recitation of the names of the bones in her body—an exercise from childhood—to remind her that she is still very much alive. But what has the entirety of her life meant? As Georgina lies stranded and helpless, she reflects on her eighty years as a daughter, mother, sister, wife, and widow, on lost loves and secrets, and on painful moments of the past she struggles not to recall. With this exquisite, suspenseful, and surprising tale of the staying power of family through time and memory, “Itani exposes the richness and depth beneath the surface of one ordinary life” (The New Yorker).

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Author : Charles M. Blow
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544228049
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fire Shut Up in My Bones by : Charles M. Blow

Download or read book Fire Shut Up in My Bones written by Charles M. Blow and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected journalist describes the abuse he suffered at the hands of a close family relative, the effect this had on his formative years and how he overcame the anger and self-doubt it left behind. 75,000 first printing.

The Bones of Ruin

Author : Sarah Raughley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534453571
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Bones of Ruin by : Sarah Raughley

Download or read book The Bones of Ruin written by Sarah Raughley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this “bloodily spectacular” (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights) historical fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves. As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly an unusual sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture… She cannot die. Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives…and who doesn’t. To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is. If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember—and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten.

Save the Bones

Author : Shannon O'Donnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982616017
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Save the Bones by : Shannon O'Donnell

Download or read book Save the Bones written by Shannon O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory is elusive, especially when it comes to Alzheimer's and family. Save the Bones traces the path of Memory: remembering, forgetting, making things up along the way, shifting identities and roles, trying to stay on the right track. Nothing is ever straightforward in the living or the telling. There is always an undercurrent, a murmuring soundtrack that accompanies everything. Listen to the undercurrent in the relationship of a mother and daughter caught in the dizzying unraveling that is Alzheimer's. The woman that Shannon O'Donnell knew as her mother Marie-charming, vibrant, political, outgoing-becomes ever more a stranger to her family and friends as the disease nibbles away at her memories, her personality, her singular identity. Save the Bones invites you to accompany Shannon and Marie on that crooked path, a place of darkness and light, heartbreak and even humor.

On the Bones of the Serpent

Author : Debbora Battaglia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226038896
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On the Bones of the Serpent by : Debbora Battaglia

Download or read book On the Bones of the Serpent written by Debbora Battaglia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of themselves as true "islanders": persons separated from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl struggle for continuity—of the physical and social person and of social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a matrilineal society—is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim culture area and an important contribution to studies of personhood in Melanesia. The creative focus of Sabarl cultural life is a series of mortuary feasts and rituals known as segaiya. In assembling and disassembling commemorative food and objects in segaiya exchanges, Sabarl also assemble and disassemble the critical social relations such objects stand for. These commemorative acts create a collective memory yet also a collective experience of forgetting social bonds that are of no future use to the living. Sabarl anticipate this disaggregation in patterns of everyday life, which reveal the importance of categorical distinctions mapped in beliefs about the physical and metaphysical person. Using remembrance and forgetting as an analytic lens, Battaglia is able to ask questions critical to understanding Melanesian social process. One of the "new ethnographies" addressing the limits of ethnographic representation and the fragmented nature of knowledge from an indigenous perspective, her finely wrought study explores the dynamics of cultural practices in which decontruction is integral to construction, allowing a new perspective on the ephermeral nature of sociality in Melanesia and new insight into the efficacy of cultural images more generally.

Splintered Bones

Author : Carolyn Haines
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307423271
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Splintered Bones by : Carolyn Haines

Download or read book Splintered Bones written by Carolyn Haines and published by Dell. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddy’s girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has her own set of problems--like coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a busybody of a ghost who’s set on marrying her off to the first suitor who comes calling. But when an old friend is in trouble, Sarah Booth doesn’t hesitate to get involved. Splintered Bones Eulalee McBride has confessed to murdering her husband...and she wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on the violent scalawag to prove he got what he deserved. Sarah Booth suspects that her friend is lying through her pearly whites...but why? There’s certainly no lack of suspects in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a horse trainer who arouses killer lust in the town’s women. As Sarah Booth begins to put together the pieces of the case, a killer is preparing to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave.