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Author : Marcel Griaule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Ogotemmêli written by Marcel Griaule and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610697529
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book African Religions written by Douglas Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book supplies fundamental information about the diverse religious beliefs of Africa, explains central tenets of the African worldview, and overviews various forms of African spiritual practices and experiences. Africa is an ancient land with a significant presence in world history—especially regarding the history of the United States, given the ethnic origins of a substantial proportion of the nation's population. This book presents a broad range of information about the diverse religious beliefs of Africa that serves to describe the beliefs, practices, deities, sacred places, and creation stories of African religions. Readers will learn about key forms of spiritual practices and experiences, such as incantations and prayer, dance as worship, and spirit possession, all of which pepper African American religious experiences today. The entries also discuss central tenets of the African worldview—for example, the belief that humankind is not to fight nature, but to integrate into the natural environment. This volume is specifically written to be highly accessible to students. It provides a much-needed source of connections between the religious traditions and practices of African Americans and those of the people of the continent of Africa. Through these connections, this work will inspire tolerance of other religions, traditions, and backgrounds. The included selection of primary documents provides users first-hand accounts of African religious beliefs and practices, serving to promote critical thinking skills and support Common Core State Standards.
Author : Richard H. Bell
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415939379
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Understanding African Philosophy written by Richard H. Bell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : P.H. Coetzee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135884196
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The African Philosophy Reader written by P.H. Coetzee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.
Author : Jan Fernback
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948666
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Understanding African Philosophy written by Jan Fernback and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical guide to some of the most important issues in modern African philosophy. Topics include the legacy of colonialism, the challenges of post-independence Africa and African oral and written philosophical traditions.
Author : G. Scott Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199583900
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Believing and Acting written by G. Scott Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should religion and ethics be studied if we want to understand what people believe and why they act the way they do? An energetic guide to the study of religion and ethics, rejecting theories from postmodernism and cognitive science in favour of a return to pragmatic enquiry.
Author : Wojciech Maria Zalewski
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610978285
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Crucible of Religion written by Wojciech Maria Zalewski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is commonly viewed through the lens of the world's religious traditions, stressing the differences, and often the conflicts, among them. The author of this book instead presents religion as a common and universal human phenomenon, based deeply in a human nature shared by all. In this view, the underlining and unifying principle of religion is a particular affirmative attitude toward life, which he presents as the Ultimate Value, and as such the key cultural constituent and defining factor of all religion. This Ultimate Value finds its expressions in various civilizations, and results in a variety of forms; these are what we know as the world's religious traditions. By analyzing the roles of both culture and civilization in their attitudes toward life, the author places religion beyond religious traditions, and shows how the latter, regardless of whether they are theistic or atheistic, draw their principles from the former, mainly by promoting the Golden Rule in its applications.
Author : Tommy L. Lott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470751630
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book A Companion to African-American Philosophy written by Tommy L. Lott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African-American social and political thought. Provides a comprehensive critical survey of African-American philosophical thought. Collects wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, newly commissioned articles in one authoritative volume. Serves as a benchmark work of reference for courses in philosophy, social and political thought, cultural studies, and African-American studies.
Author : Henry Odera Oruka
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004452265
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sage Philosophy written by Henry Odera Oruka and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sage Philosophy is an anthology of three main parts: Part one contains papers by Odera Oruka clearing the way and arguing about his research over the last decade on indigenous sages in Kenya. Part Two introduces verbatim interviews with a given number of those sages, while Part Three consists of published papers by scholars who are critics or commentators on the Oruka project. The author has spent the last decade in Kenya carrying out his research. It is the general stand of the book that the sages turn out to be thinkers or philosophers in no trivial sense, despite their lack of modern formal education. This study is a critique for all those scholars who hitherto have found no practice of critical philosophy in traditional Africa.
Author : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carmen Gillespie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108575
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Critical Companion to Toni Morrison written by Carmen Gillespie and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is perhaps the most important living American author. This work examines Morrison's life and writing, featuring critical analyses of her work and themes, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.
Author : American Museum of Natural History. Library
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History: 56.9-57.1(6)2 written by American Museum of Natural History. Library and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford Wilcox
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739107287
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Robert Redfield and the Development of American Anthropology written by Clifford Wilcox and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying upon close readings of virtually all of his published and unpublished writings as well as extensive interviews with former colleagues and students, this book traces the development of Robert Redfield's ideas regarding social change and the role of social science in American society.
Author : Richard Grossinger
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 155643359X
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)
Download or read book Embryogenesis written by Richard Grossinger and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embryogenesis is an unusual book in that it brings together a highly illustrated, practical embryology book in simple language, perfect for health practitioners, with a fascinating read on the history and philosophy of biological science. It discusses the various stages of embryonic development (meiosis, fertilization, blastula development, and gastrulation, and then the embryology of each of the human organs and organ systems in detail). It puts each of them in context, both in terms of its phylogeny: the evolutionary trajectory of cell-organized systems on Earth, and its ontogeny: the formation of individual organisms in the modern world. There are 24 color plates, many of them commissioned uniquely for this volume, and several hundred black and white illustrations. The book is 950 pages hardcover, 8-1/2 by 10.Chapters include: The Original Earth; The Materials of Life; The First Beings; The Cell; The Genetic Code; Sperm and Egg; Fertilization; The Blastula; Gastrulation; Morphogenesis; Biological Fields; Chaos, Fractals, and Deep Structure; Ontogeny and Phylogeny; and Biotechnology. The Origin of the Nervous System; The Evolution of Intelligence; Neurulation and the Human Brain; Organogenesis; The Musculoskeletal and Hematopoietic Systems; Mind; The Origin of Sexuality and Gender. Healing; Transsexuality, Intersexuality, and the Cultural Basis of Gender; Self and Desire; Cosmogenesis and Mortality
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Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religious Books, 1876-1982 written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xuemei Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000877078
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Architecture, Ritual and Cosmology in China written by Xuemei Li and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author’s extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong’s buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong’s cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the architecture, and the symbolic meanings. It examines how the buildings and techniques of the Dong are ordered and influenced by the local culture and context. The timber bridges and drum towers are the Dong’s most prominent architectural monuments. Usually built elaborately with multiple roofs, these bridges and drum towers were designed and maintained by the local carpenters who also built the village suspended houses, in an oral tradition carried down from father to son or to apprentice. They were funded entirely by the local people, and the bridges tend to be built in places without great pressure of traffic or another bridge already existing close by. Why does such great expense go into the Dong’s buildings with elaboration? How were they built? And what do they mean to their users and builders? This book is an anthropological study on the Dong’s architecture and technique, and it aims to contribute a discourse on the interdisciplinary research area. It is suitable for graduate and postgraduate readers.
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Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book International Philosophical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
