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Book Synopsis The Warrior Herdsmen by : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Download or read book The Warrior Herdsmen written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dodoth—a tall, handsome people of the northern tip of Uganda—are a tribe in transition. They are proud, often cruel, warrior herdsmen whose oldest members live just as they did hundreds of years ago, but whose younger members sometimes learn to read and write and have brushed against the modern world. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas accompanied three anthropological expeditions to Africa and lived among the Dodoth. She displays a remarkable ability to communicate with the tribespeople and describe their lives and customs.
Book Synopsis Warrior Herdsmen by : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Download or read book Warrior Herdsmen written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Warrior Herdsman by : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Download or read book Warrior Herdsman written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies by : Kathryn J. Gutzwiller
Download or read book Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies written by Kathryn J. Gutzwiller and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book as beautifully written as the poetry it celebrates, Kathryn Gutzwiller uses the famous Idylls of Theocritus to show us the formative processes at work in the creation of a literary genre--the pastoral--and how the very structure of a genre both shapes and limits judgments about it. Gutzwiller argues that Theocritus' position as first pastoralist has haunted critical assessments of him. Was he merely a beginner, whose simple descriptions of country life were reworked by Vergil into poems of imagination and tender feeling? Or was he a genius of great creative ability, who first found the way to encapsulate in humble detail a metaphysical vision of man's emotional core? Examining Theocritus from the point of view of "beginnings," Gutzwiller succeeds in placing him both within his native Greek intellectual tradition and within the tradition of critical commentary on pastoral. As she points out, "beginnings are hard to pin down . . . the thing begun did not exist before and yet its composite parts were already somewhere in existence." Gutzwiller provides an analysis of the herdsman figure in pre-Hellenistic Greek literature, showing that the simple shepherd or goatherd had long been used as a figure of analogy for characters of higher rank. Theocritus was the first poet to focus on the shepherd himself and bring the analogies down into the pastoral world. Through her careful analyses of the seven pastoral Idylls, Gutzwiller demonstrates that in turning the focus on the shepherd Theocritus created a group of literary works with an inner structure so unique that later readers considered it a new genre. In her conclusion Gutzwiller explores subsequent controversies about the pastoral, from ancient to modern times, revealing how they continue to reflect the structural pattern that originated in Theocritus's poetry.
Download or read book The State written by Franz Oppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caste and the Economic Frontier by : Frederick George Bailey
Download or read book Caste and the Economic Frontier written by Frederick George Bailey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes by : Emma C. Bunker
Download or read book Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes written by Emma C. Bunker and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book examines the artistic exchange between the nomadic peoples of what is now Inner Mongolia and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C.
Download or read book American Nomads written by Richard Grant and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinated by the land of endless horizons, sunshine, and the open road, Richard Grant spent fifteen years wandering throughout the United States, never spending more than three weeks in one place, and getting to know America's nomads.In a richly comic travelogue, Grant uses these lives and his own to examine the myths and realities of the wandering life, and its contradiction with the sedentary American dream.
Book Synopsis The Circle of the Way by : Barbara O'Brien
Download or read book The Circle of the Way written by Barbara O'Brien and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, accessible guide to the fascinating history of Zen Buddhism--including important figures, schools, foundational texts, practices, and politics. Zen Buddhism has a storied history--Bodhidharma sitting in meditation in a cave for nine years; a would-be disciple cutting off his own arm to get the master's attention; the proliferating schools and intense Dharma combat of the Tang and Song Dynasties; Zen nuns and laypeople holding their own against patriarchal lineages; the appearance of new masters in the Zen schools of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and later the Western world. In The Circle of the Way, Zen practitioner and popular religion writer Barbara O'Brien brings clarity to this huge swath of history by charting a middle way between Zen's traditional lore and the findings of modern historical scholarship. In a clear and often funny style, O'Brien parses fact from fiction while always attending to the greatest interest of contemporary practitioners--the development of Zen doctrine and practice as a living tradition across cultures and centuries.
Book Synopsis A Warriors Manual by : Kendall Ronin
Download or read book A Warriors Manual written by Kendall Ronin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Being Love's Warrior is a guide to freedom. Many of our lives have been shaped by outside forces. We are told how we should look, what we should wear, what kind of car we should drive and what kind of life we should live. If we don't match up to other people's ideas of who we should be, we are made to feel worthless and inferior on the inside. We begin to control ourselves and punish ourselves, until we can become what the church, schools, and the media tell us that we should be. You are about to take a journey, as you explore this manual, into the most frightening place...into your own psyche and into the psyche of humanity. You will learn how you have been shaped and manipulated by many of our institutions. You will see the beauty of human kind and all of the ugliness of human kind appear right before your eyes. You will learn how you have been deceived into using your power to oppress others and pass on the sickness. You will learn about real religion and spirituality. You will learn techiques that will set you free.
Book Synopsis Area Handbook for Mongolia by : Historical Evaluation and Research Organization
Download or read book Area Handbook for Mongolia written by Historical Evaluation and Research Organization and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study on Mongolia - covers historical and geographical aspects, social structure, family, living conditions, education, the arts, ethics, political system, economic structure, agriculture, industry, work, defence and the administration of justice. Bibliography pp. 455 to 479, diagrams, maps and statistical tables.
Download or read book The Family Herds written by P.H. Gulliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1955, this is a study of two pastoral tribes in East Africa, The Jie and the Turkana.
Book Synopsis Creatures of Cain by : Erika Lorraine Milam
Download or read book Creatures of Cain written by Erika Lorraine Milam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murder After World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed man’s evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials and in-depth interviews, Erika Lorraine Milam reveals how the scientists who advanced this “killer ape” theory capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve humanity’s problems, even to answer the most fundamental questions of human identity. The killer ape theory spread quickly from colloquial science publications to late-night television, classrooms, political debates, and Hollywood films. Behind the scenes, however, scientists were sharply divided, their disagreements centering squarely on questions of race and gender. Then, in the 1970s, the theory unraveled altogether when primatologists discovered that chimpanzees also kill members of their own species. While the discovery brought an end to definitions of human exceptionalism delineated by violence, Milam shows how some evolutionists began to argue for a shared chimpanzee-human history of aggression even as other scientists discredited such theories as sloppy popularizations. A wide-ranging account of a compelling episode in American science, Creatures of Cain argues that the legacy of the killer ape persists today in the conviction that science can resolve the essential dilemmas of human nature.
Download or read book Genghis Khan written by John Man and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a murderer of millions, a brutal oppressor. Yet in his homeland of Mongolia he is the revered father of the nation, and the Chinese honor him as the founder of a dynasty. In his so-called Mausoleum in Inner Mongolia, worshippers seek the blessing of his spirit. In a supreme paradox, the world's most ruthless conqueror has become a force for peace and reconciliation. As a teenager, Genghis was a fugitive, hiding from enemies on a remote mountainside. Yet he went on to found the world's greatest land empire and change the course of world history. Brilliant and original as well as ruthless, he ruled an empire twice the size of Rome's until his death in 1227 placed all at risk. To secure his conquests and then extend them, his heirs kept his death a secret, and secrecy has surrounded him ever since. His undiscovered grave, with its imagined treasures, remains the subject of intrigue and speculation. This is more than just a gripping account of Genghis' rise and conquests. John Man uses first-hand experiences in China and Mongolia to reveal the khan's enduring influence. He has traveled the length of the empire. He spotlights the tension between Mongols and Chinese, who both claim Genghis' spirit. He is the first writer to explore the hidden valley where Genghis is believed to have died, and one of the few westerners to climb the mountain where he was likely buried. This stunning narrative paints a vivid picture of the man himself, the places where he lived and fought, and the passions that surround him still. For in legend, ritual and intense controversy, Genghis lives on.
Book Synopsis The Quick And The Dead by : Andrew Andrew Hunt Gordon
Download or read book The Quick And The Dead written by Andrew Andrew Hunt Gordon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-disciplinary approach suggesting that the origin of ancient Egyptian medicine began with the domestication of cattle in Africa and the attempt to control disease. With the sacrifice of these animals, the Egyptians began to understand anatomy and physiology, which they then applied to humans.
Book Synopsis Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea by : Petya Andreeva
Download or read book Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea written by Petya Andreeva and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "e;animal style"e;, this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "e;Other"e;. In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.
Book Synopsis On the Oceans of Eternity by : S. M. Stirling
Download or read book On the Oceans of Eternity written by S. M. Stirling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Turtledove hailed Island in the Sea of Time as “one of the best time travel/alternative history stories I’ve ever read,” and Jane Lindskold called Against the Tide of Years “another exciting and explosive tale.” Now the adventures of the Nantucket islanders lost in the time of the Bronze Age continues with On the Oceans of Eternity. Ten years ago, the twentieth century and the Bronze Age were tossed together by a mysterious Event. In the decade since, the Republic of Nantucket has worked hard to create a new future for itself, using the technological know-how retained from modern times to explore and improve conditions for the inhabitants of the past. Some of these peoples have become allies. Some have turned instead to the renegade Coast Guard officer William Walker. And for ten years, the two sides have tested each other, feinting and parrying, to decide who will be the ones to lead this brave new world into the future. Now the official battle lines have been drawn. And only one side can emerge the victor…
