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Author : Angeline Koh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810998394
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (983 download)
Download or read book How the Moken Sea Gypsies Got Their Book written by Angeline Koh and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Ivanoff
Publisher : White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Moken written by Jacques Ivanoff and published by White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand). This book was released on 1997 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacques Ivanoff
Publisher : White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Moken written by Jacques Ivanoff and published by White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand). This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicole Revel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443852805
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Songs of Memory in Islands of Southeast Asia written by Nicole Revel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three years of joint endeavors and extensive field collecting of the narratives referred to in the present volume have resulted in the availability of a multimedia archive of Philippine epics, ballads and rituals both at the Pardo de Tavera collection of the Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University, and online. The linguists, anthropologists, and ethno-musicologists who have contributed to this book have long been conscious of the close links between ‘Intangible Heritage’ and ‘Tangible Heritage’. In the Philippines, sung narratives have been recorded in situ (through both audio and audio-video media), transcribed, translated, digitized, and analyzed by scholars and knowledgeable persons from fifteen cultural communities in the islands of Luzon, Panay, Palawan, Mindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. Meanwhile, other scholars have dedicated their lifelong research to the Mergui Archipelago, central Sulawesi, southwest Maluku, and East Timor. Emerging from international collaboration, the scholarship provided here seeks not only to safeguard and comprehend the uniqueness and evolving beauty of ancient sung narratives that are currently performed in the islands of Southeast Asia, but also to defend their vitality in today’s changing world. This collection of twelve essays is the most recent achievement of ongoing studies of performances by singers of tales and ritualists in contemporary socio-cultural contexts by means of pioneering initiatives in the Digital Humanities, multiple analytical approaches and expert use of our growing technical capacity to safeguard and explore Intangible Heritage.
Author : Tanya J. King
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789201438
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book At Home on the Waves written by Tanya J. King and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
Download or read book The Moken written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan de Queiroz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465069762
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Monkey's Voyage written by Alan de Queiroz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life. In the tradition of John McPhee's Basin and Range, The Monkey's Voyage is a beautifully told narrative that strikingly reveals the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery.
Author : Michael Craig Campbell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595344070
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book written by Michael Craig Campbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great towers have been destroyed! Our nuclear power plants remain vulnerable to attack. Many questions trouble the population of the world: Did the Bible predict 21st Century terrorism? Did World War III, begin September 11, 2001? Do we live in the chaotic last days described by ancient prophets? Are we sufficiently prepared? Will good prevail over evil? Are the dangers of the last days both physical and spiritual? The Bible contains alarming news. But, all the biblicalshock and aweis secondary to learning the purpose of life. Coincidences, between scripture and current events, provide clues to the catastrophic signs that will precedethe 1000 year Reign of Christ.God's teachings, Satanic opposition, terrorism, prophesies, both Bush Administrations, nuclear war and fallout, terrible disasters, the Gulf and Iraq Wars, World War III, pornography, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, are all fitting together to complete and reveal agreat puzzle.Eternal consequences are of great importance. The scriptures counsel how to cope with latter day challenges. Commandmentscan't be ignored without suffering consequences. Procrastination is a thief! Apathy towards Jesus Christ poisons the eternal soul. So study, ponder and pray to unlock the secrets of scripture. Then chart your eternal future!
Author : John R. Gillis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922251
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Human Shore written by John R. Gillis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. In The Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from its origins among the people who dwelled along the African shore to the bustle and glitz of today’s megacities and beach resorts. He takes readers from discussion of the possible coastal location of the Garden of Eden to the ancient communities that have existed along beaches, bays, and bayous since the beginning of human society to the crucial role played by coasts during the age of discovery and empire. An account of the mass movement of whole populations to the coasts in the last half-century brings the story of coastal life into the present. Along the way, Gillis addresses humankind’s changing relationship to the sea from an environmental perspective, laying out the history of the making and remaking of coastal landscapes—the creation of ports, the draining of wetlands, the introduction and extinction of marine animals, and the invention of the beach—while giving us a global understanding of our relationship to the water. Learned and deeply personal, The Human Shore is more than a history: it is the story of a space that has been central to the attitudes, plans, and existence of those who live and dream at land’s end.
Author : Tom Vater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789628563791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Sacred Skin written by Tom Vater and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred tattoos, called 'sak yant' in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young women get tattooed with love charms in order to attract partners, while adolescent men use the protective power of their yants in fights with rival youth gangs. For most though, the tattoos serve as reminders to follow a moral code that endorses positive behavior. During the application of a sak yant, the tattoo master establishes a series of life 'rules' that need to be closely adhered to, starting with Buddhism's first five precepts. Failure to observe the master's instructions will cause the sak yant to lose their power. Beautifully photographed these are tattoos that are the essence and 'key' to individual identity, a philosophy for living, the translation of soul to skin, as complex as the leaves of an autobiography, the story of a life.
Author : Walter Grainge White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sea Gypsies of Malaya written by Walter Grainge White and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous generations.
Author : Xanthe Verschuur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Tourism on the Livelihood Strategies of the Moken ‘Sea Gypsies’ written by Xanthe Verschuur and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1932361715
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Marco Polo Didn't Go There written by Rolf Potts and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram. Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track”—endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.
Author : Christophe Wiart
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420006800
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific written by Christophe Wiart and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the author's extensive personal experience, Medicinal Plants of Asia and the Pacific provides comprehensive coverage of the medicinal plants of the region. Describing more than 300 compounds, the book discusses every important class of natural products while highlighting cutting-edge research and recent developments. With its broa
Author : Walter Grainge White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330574546
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Sea Gypsies of Malaya written by Walter Grainge White and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sea Gypsies of Malaya: An Account of the Nomadic Mawken People of the Mergui Archipelago With a Description of Their Ways of Living, Customs, Habits, Boats, Occupations Etc;, Etc;, Etc When Mr White came to Oxford to read a paper on the Mawken before our Anthropological Society, most of us had hitherto never heard of those people, at any rate under that name. Thereupon, having gauged his attitude towards wild folk in general, I gladly promised to furnish any book that Mr White should write about them with an introductory note, not because I was in any way competent to supplement the information collected by him, but simply in order to associate myself with an enterprise that I felt to be useful. For surely it is useful in the highest degree to everyone who takes an interest in his fellow-men that he should be taught to respect them even when their circumstances are lowly. These Mawken are, to judge by externals, scarcely better off than the mud-fish on which they live. To accompany our author on a trip in one of their reeking dug-outs is a trying experience, even when but imagined from the depth of an arm-chair. Nevertheless, as we follow Mr White in his efforts to make friends with the Mawken, we find ourselves becoming friendly towards them too. This book, then, in my view at least, is thoroughly anthropological in spirit, because all anthropology, whether pure or applied, has its root in human sympathy. Hoc fundamentum rei est. Human nature is only to be understood from within. The supreme object of the study of our fellow-man is to join souls with him. Nor is such contact so difficult to achieve as it might at a first glance seem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Eliza Griswold
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713707
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book If Men, Then written by Eliza Griswold and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”—a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.
Author : Kenneth D. Keith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107189977
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Culture Across the Curriculum written by Kenneth D. Keith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides background content and teaching ideas to support the integration of culture in a wide range of psychology courses.
