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Book Synopsis Voices from the Ancestors by : Lara Medina
Download or read book Voices from the Ancestors written by Lara Medina and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Voice of the Ancestors by : Chase McGhee
Download or read book Voice of the Ancestors written by Chase McGhee and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to break out of your mental boundaries and overcome societal limitations with this ultimate guide to black self-empowerment. Going through life as a person of color, it can often seem, with good reason, that the system is rigged against you. You're basically forced to play life on hard mode with no end or reward in sight, walking on eggshells when interacting with the wider world and having to question if you will ever be good enough. Sometimes--especially if you're focused on improving yourself--you're forced to prove yourself to both subordinates, peers and superiors that you're more than your "less than ideal" background. But it doesn't have to be this way. In this powerful guide to self-improvement designed for black people, Chase McGhee has taken it upon himself to carefully re-educate and re-acquaint every black man, woman and child with our history and open your eyes to our collectively vast potential just waiting to be tapped. With profound insights into black history, economics and culture that has yet to be taught on a systemic level, Voice of the Ancestors is a book that is full of unconventional, yet effective solutions for problems that we've been forced to deal with as a race, providing people of color everywhere with a solid foundation their consciousness needed to build a strong, prosperous black culture. Scroll up and click the button to buy now and get started on your journey of empowerment today!
Book Synopsis Giving a Voice to the Ancestors by : Emily Allen Garland
Download or read book Giving a Voice to the Ancestors written by Emily Allen Garland and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is considered fiction, although it is based on the lives of the author's ancestors. Five year-old Emily (Bay-Chile), growing up in rural central Georgia in 1940, becomes curious about color differences within her family and questions her talkative great-aunt and grand-parents. Through numerous inquiries, she learns that her great-grandfather, Josh Ellis, fought with the Confederate Army in the Civil War while her great-grandmother, Charity was a slave. The two met after the Emancipation of the slaves and lived in a loving relationship until his death, raising seven children together. Further explorations connect the child to the lives of Charity's mother, Ansacka, a mulatto slave woman who conceived Charity through a forced relationship with the slave master; another great-grandmother, Martha, whose parents escaped into the mountains of Georgia to avoid the forced march of the Cherokee from Georgia to Mississippi, becomes enthralled by Troupe Allen, a white man who deserts her just before the birth of their son. Great-great-grandma Judy, among the last of the slaves imported from Africa tells her story .The progress of the descendants, spanning five generations, is traced following the Reconstruction Period through World War II, with some notable achievements. Broader issues include white/black kinship ties in the antebellum and post-bellum South, race relations, intra-racial color conflict, and blended families. Historical events occurring during the lifetimes of the author's various ancestors are superbly blended within the story. The story illustrates the devastating effects of racism on the human spirit as well as the ability to press onward despite adversity.
Book Synopsis Voices of Our Ancestors by : Dhyani Ywahoo
Download or read book Voices of Our Ancestors written by Dhyani Ywahoo and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1987-11-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers advice on obtaining happiness, finding fulfillment, clarifying the emotions, and promoting family harmony.
Book Synopsis Voice of Our Ancestors by : Wulf Sorensen
Download or read book Voice of Our Ancestors written by Wulf Sorensen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally released in 1935, Frithjof Fischer's (Wulf Sorensen's) work "Voice of our Ancestors" has been conflated with an early Heinrich Himmler writing and not without good reason; the quasi-mystical and obvious folkish overtones (here explicit in nature) fit in well with the latter's own philosophy. As the world approaches the same level of alienation and misery which preceeded the Second World War, once again such literature is as before finding its audience, and the silent voices of the past, for good or for ill, are once again heard.
Book Synopsis Voices of the Ancestors by : Tony Allan
Download or read book Voices of the Ancestors written by Tony Allan and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is filled with strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests and magic symbols at the heart of African culture.
Book Synopsis Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors by : Gerald R. Alfred
Download or read book Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors written by Gerald R. Alfred and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive study of the driving force behind Native political activism, and the only scholarly treatment of North American Indian politics which integrates an explicitly Native perspective. With a broad historical scope rich in detail, and drawing on the particular experience of the Mohawks of Kahnawake, it offers an explanation of Indian and Inuit political activism focusing on the importance of traditional values and institutions in shaping Native responses to the state. The book explains the recent rise of a militant assertion of sovereignty on the part of Native people in terms of three major factors: the existence of alternative institutions in the body of the nation's traditional culture; the self-conscious development of an alternative identity; and a persistent pattern of negative interaction with the state. It differs from other analyses focusing on similar factors in that it views nationalism not as a movement which activates in response to external factors, but as a persistent feature of political life which manifests itself in either a latent or active form in response to the interaction of the three factors discussed in the model.
Book Synopsis O, My Ancestor by : Claudia K. Jurmain
Download or read book O, My Ancestor written by Claudia K. Jurmain and published by Heyday. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives voice to the Tongva Faced with the challenge of reconst
Download or read book Ancestor Trouble written by Maud Newton and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” (The Boston Globe). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogy—her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.
Book Synopsis Echoes of the Ancestors by : Geoff King
Download or read book Echoes of the Ancestors written by Geoff King and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling adventure set in recent times, two brothers at opposite ends of Britain find themselves drawn into a mystery of dreams, telepathy, ancient power and loss. When Charlie is approached to undertake a carving commissioned by anonymous but wealthy clients his life takes an unwelcome turn. His brother Adam's lengthy escape into his stoner lifestyle also gradually unravels as elements of his past come back to haunt him. Their lives become linked by strange forces, sinister foes, an alternative version of ancient history and the discovery that humanity is on the verge of a psychic rebirth. As they struggle to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances they find themselves and their companions embroiled in kidnap, murder, extrasensory powers and a flight for their lives.
Book Synopsis What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? by : John Hausdoerffer
Download or read book What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? written by John Hausdoerffer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "challenges our relationship to the environment and to each other, not only now but across generations. It is an important question for our time, when communities have become fragmented by a global consumer society, when our selves have become isolated in a competitive and technology-driven economy, and when our spiritual, social, and ecological impacts on human and other-than-human beings extend farther than ever imagined due to globalization and climate change. Through interviews and poetic snapshots into the experience of Indigenous people and others, this book demands that the reader think about how contemporary concerns oblige us to see ourselves as someone's future ancestor and, in turn, creates for the reader a different way of looking at his or her traditions and self"--
Book Synopsis The Ancestors Are Singing by : Tony Johnston
Download or read book The Ancestors Are Singing written by Tony Johnston and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical meditations on Mexico "Moon over Mexico The moon’s white eye watches over skyscrapers and stone temples alike." The poems in this tribute to the Mexico of the past and present show that history and modernity don’t always meet in an easy alliance. With respect and passion for the lore and legend of its old civilizations, and concern and hope for the Mexico of today, Tony Johnston takes us from Mexico City to Oaxaca to Chiapas, from the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl to a shoeless boy selling newspapers, in this moving collection exuberantly illustrated by Karen Barbour.
Book Synopsis Ancestors and Others by : Fred Chappell
Download or read book Ancestors and Others written by Fred Chappell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestors and Others collects selected stories from the legendary southern writer, Fred Chappell In this collection, Fred Chappell shows his mastery across a range of genres. Featuring folk fables in the Twain tradition, realistic stories of growing up in remote Appalachia, stories of family, kin, and community, and tales of the fantastic and spooky, this book will delight fans and surprise new readers.
Book Synopsis Voice of the Ancestors Volume 2 by : Chase McGhee
Download or read book Voice of the Ancestors Volume 2 written by Chase McGhee and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice of the Ancestors Volume II is the second edition in the critically acclaimed Voice of the Ancestors book series. In the first edition of the series, we talked about removing the shackles and chains from your mind but in the second edition, we will talk about keeping them off. In this powerful guide to self-empowerment, Chase McGhee breaks down why it is important for Blacks in America and around the world to begin to develop an NFF mentality. A mentality that is predicated on never forgiving our enemies who have wronged our ancestors or their descendants. As well as never forgetting those ancestors and what they built, went through and died for. History always repeats itself, the weak will ignore it but the strong will learn from and never forget it. This is why Voice of the Ancestors VII is a must-have in every Black household.
Book Synopsis Spirit of the Ancestors by : Susan Schuster Campbell
Download or read book Spirit of the Ancestors written by Susan Schuster Campbell and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit of the Ancestors: Lessons from Africa explores modern problems using a beautifully simple window to our inner truths. Westerners who have never traveled to Africa, or in some cases had no particular interest in African culture, report their success using the author's healing practice of honoring their ancestors. Mystical guidance was never so clear
Book Synopsis Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by : Carl Sagan
Download or read book Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Exciting and provocative . . . A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read.”—The Washington Post Book World World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a thrilling saga that starts with the origin of the Earth. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits—self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics—are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Sagan and Druyan conduct a breathtaking journey through space and time, zeroing in on critical turning points in evolutionary history, and tracing the origins of sex, altruism, violence, rape, and dominance. Their book culminates in a stunningly original examination of the connection between primate and human traits. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a triumph of popular science.
Author :Frederick Matthew Wiseman Publisher :Hanover, NH : University Press of New England ISBN 13 : Total Pages :320 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Reclaiming the Ancestors by : Frederick Matthew Wiseman
Download or read book Reclaiming the Ancestors written by Frederick Matthew Wiseman and published by Hanover, NH : University Press of New England. This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming the Ancestors sets the record straight about the early history of the Wabanaki - the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Malecite, and Mi'kmaq. Wiseman proposes a sovereigntist approach to understanding the current archaeological understanding of Abenaki prehistory. He begins with an overview of the conflicting views of First Nations and archaeologists regarding Indigenous history and how he developed his research design model. Over the next 10 chapters the book explores and discusses the periods of Wabanaki prehistory. The final chapter takes the history to the beginning of the early contact period. The author makes he point that documentation of Wabanaki territory is of vital importance in today’s political climate of Vermont. The Wabanaki face major obstacles as politicians utilize archaeological evidence against the Wabanaki’s push for self-governance and recognition. The book contains limited black and white photographs of artifacts because the author made a conscious choice to respect items that were from grave sites. A fascinating history that dispels many previously-held academic viewpoints of the Wabanaki First Nations.
