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Author : Jürg Wassmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Song to the Flying Fox written by Jürg Wassmann and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Fajans
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226234441
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)
Download or read book They Make Themselves written by Jane Fajans and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-08-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations of anthropologists, the Baining people have presented a challenge, because of their apparent lack of cultural or social structure. This group of small-scale horticulturists seems devoid of the complex belief systems and social practices that characterize other traditional peoples of Papua New Guinea. Their daily existence is mundane and repetitive in the extreme, articulated by only the most elementary familial relationships and social connections. The routine of everyday life, however, is occasionally punctuated by stunningly beautiful festivals of masked dancers, which the Baining call play and to which they attribute no symbolic significance. In a new work sure to evoke considerable repercussions and debate in anthropological theory, Jane Fajans courageously takes on the "Baining Problem," arguing that the Baining define themselves not through intricate cosmologies or social networks, but through the meanings generated by their own productive and reproductive work.
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674001688
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Song of the Earth written by Jonathan Bate and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first ecological reading of English literature, Jonathan Bate traces the distinctions among "nature," "culture," and "environment" and shows how their meanings have changed since their appearance in the literature of the eighteenth century.
Author : Tessa Laird
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780239378
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Bat written by Tessa Laird and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bats have been maligned in the West for centuries. Unfair associations with demons have seen their leathery wings adorn numerous evil characters, from the Devil to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. But these amazing animals are ecological superheroes. Nectar-feeding bats pollinate important crops like agave; fruit-eating bats disperse seeds and encourage reforestation; and insect-eating bats keep down mosquito populations and other pests, saving agricultural industries billions of dollars. Ranging in size from a bumblebee to creatures with a wingspan the length of an adult human, found on all continents except Antarctica, and displaying extraordinary abilities like echolocation—a built-in sonar system that enables many bats to navigate in the dark—these incredibly diverse mammals are as surprising as they are misunderstood. In Bat, Tessa Laird challenges our preconceptions as she combines fascinating facts of bat biology with engaging portrayals of bats in mythology, literature, film, popular culture, poetry, and contemporary art. She also provides a sobering reminder of the threats bats face worldwide, from heatwaves and human harassment to wind turbines and disease. Illustrated with incredible photographs and artistic representations of bats from many different cultures and eras, this celebration of the only mammals possessing true flight will enthrall batty fans, skeptics, and converts alike.
Author : Raymond Ammann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643801300
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sounds of Secrets written by Raymond Ammann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double flute, shoulder flute, and large standing slit drums with carved decorations are only a few of the unique musical instruments used in the islands of Vanuatu. In many ways, the people of this South Pacific archipelago live according to their traditional cultures and conduct their rituals and ceremonies as their great-grandfathers had. This book deals comprehensively with traditional musical instruments and their role and function in ceremonies on Vanuatu. Music, dance, and musical instruments are not only means to highlight certain moments in ceremonies, but help to set up an entire network of secrets. The field notes, personal opinions, and ideas that are documented in this book are the result of an intensive study of over 20 years on music in south Melanesia. This is the first reference book on the music of Vanuatu that constitutes an invaluable source for musicologists and anthropologists alike, and it will surprise general readers with its interesting and lively accounts. (Series: SoundCultureStudies / KlangKulturStudien - Vol. 7)
Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fernal Songs written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a positive, life-affirming, cosmos-embracing and transcendent Queer mythology look like? In the years 2013-15, artist and poet Bruce Rimell got a chance to find out when he was invited to participate in a collaborative project to create an international art publication, ‘The Encyclopaedia of Fernal Affairs’. Although this was principally an art-oriented initiative, Bruce quickly went off on his own tangent, inventing a complete constructed language and two song-cycles of fernal mythology which resonated with his own burgeoning sense of his Queer identity. ‘The Fernal Songs’ are the shimmering results of that literary side project. Centred around Lucaion, a Queer Hero whose exploits around an animistic cosmos showcase a more compassionate, interactive masculine images than the traditional subduer of enemies, and Afer, an all-gendered Cosmic Creatrix, whose song reverberates across the Fernal World, these are sacred songs which move beyond satirical ‘queering’ of traditional religious forms into a transcendent queer space which simultaneously resonates with ancient memories and indigenous lifeways as well as with possible queer futures of intense beauty and humanism. The ‘Song of Lucaion’, the ‘Thirteen Songs’ and the supplemental ‘Daiarzan’ come with several essays, personal recollections and honest expressions of Bruce’s envisioning of what he calls the ‘sacred and pristine jewel of queeritude within.’
Author : Ronald M. Berndt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136538577
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Djanggawul written by Ronald M. Berndt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Djanggawul religious cult is the focus for this study because it is more important to the Aborigines themselves than other religious cults in the north-eastern region of Arnhem land. The book includes chapters on the following: · Significance of the Djanggawul · The Djanggawul Myth and Content of the Myth · The Djanggawul Songs · The Djanggawul Song Cycle: Parts 1 The book includes an extensive glossary and index. First published in 1952.
Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Leavesley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803132639
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book I’ll Weave a Song for You written by Sandra Leavesley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She holds the verse in the palm of her hand and tells a story she died in. When Megan dies, she leaves a promise with her twin Emily: ‘I’ll weave a song for you…it may take a while, but I’ll come back to you Em, somehow’. Her song threads a tapestry, spinning through a mosaic of memories and weaving into the present day, touching the lives of Alice and Jon. The Café by the Oak is in the heart of Crayshead, a Cornish seaside town with a sleepy tortoise, a vocal parrot, and a dog named Wellington. Emily is charmed by Alice, an old lady with secrets hidden behind the walls of a convent. Jon’s life lacks purpose. After taking up a new teaching post he feels settled enough to begin unravelling his past, but when he finds something he isn’t looking for it causes him to question everything. Emily seeks comfort in her art, reflecting on her childhood, and helping Jon pursue his past. And as Alice slowly reveals her secret, Emily breathes life into a painting on canvas… Can Megan weave a song without leaving them all with a sense of betrayal?
Author : Augustin Krämer
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824822194
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Samoa Islands written by Augustin Krämer and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustin Kramer's account of his sojourn in the Samoa Islands from 1897 to 1899. Of particular importance to Samoans are the original documents containing ceremonial greetings and genealogical pedigrees. All Samoan language texts have been retained in this edition.
Author : Jeannette Mageo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800730551
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters written by Jeannette Mageo and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.
Author : Roy Willis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134866364
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Signifying Animals written by Roy Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.
Author : Qi QingEr
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 164991721X
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Untouchable Cute Baby written by Qi QingEr and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Zuo Xiyan? A professional driving division dealing with all kinds of personal problems, was once a well-known international bandit! However, he did not expect to catch the wrong person in the wrong room on a mission, treating the old warlord of China, the only son, the feared by all, Song Chen, as a mistress! They had faced each other on their first meeting, yet they were defeated by his hands and body. In the end, they were forced to be his nominal lover, and from then on, the path of mutual love and killing unfolded ...
Author : Robert Lindsay Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rainbow Serpent written by Robert Lindsay Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the psychological interpretation of an Australian aboriginal myth ("The Myth of the Wawilak Women") and the making of a medicine-man, the author explores the role of the archetypes in the growth of both individual and collective consciuosness.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wu XianGuangHui
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1636317391
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)
Download or read book My CEO Fiancee written by Wu XianGuangHui and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xiao Yue was a university student who was about to leave the campus, but no one knew that he was a super expert who had already stepped into the Innate Realm. After an accident, beauties such as model girls, beautiful school beauties, dignified young ladies and other kinds of beauties came one after another. This famous model? My wife! The streamer? My lover! Cold superior? Hehe, it's actually my Little Mi. An unreachable CEO? Don't worry, she's our fiancee ...
Author : Richard Eves
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134410506
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Magical Body written by Richard Eves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing exploration of the role and significance of the body in the world of a Pacific Islands People, the Lelet of New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In vivid ethnographic detail, the monograph captures the fluidity and complexity of Lelet conceptions of corporeality and their significance to identity as they encounter the influences of modernity, in the form of colonialism, Christianity and cash-cropping. The author examines the importance of the body to constructions of identity and difference, and its role in the constitution of place and space. The book provides a richly detailed ethnographic study of magical belief and the body whilst paying particular attention to the polyvalent meanings of bodily images and metaphors as they are used in numerous contexts of magic.
