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Book Synopsis Magnificent Masks by : Sharon Parsons
Download or read book Magnificent Masks written by Sharon Parsons and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2000 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookwise is a carefully graded reading scheme organized into five cross-curricular strands, encouraging links to other subjects. Comprising 16 fiction and ten non-fiction titles, the 25 books at each level span a two-year reading age and the three-tier levelling system within each level facilitates an accurate match of reading ability and text. The full-colour readers are accompanied by teacher's guides and resource sheets to help teachers get the most out of their guided reading and writing sessions.
Book Synopsis Carnival Masks of Venice by : J. C. Brown
Download or read book Carnival Masks of Venice written by J. C. Brown and published by Artist's and Photographers' Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year in Venice the weeks preceeding the privations of Lent are forgotten in the exuberant release of carnival. The dissolute behaviour of its citizens in the 18th century reached such depths that the use of masks was banned, but revived in the 1970s it has since become the prevailing image of Carnevale. In this elegantly- designed book the reader is offered a concise introduction to the history of the carnival and mask-wearing, illustrated by J.C. Brown's moody and evocative photos of Venetian masks and the beautiful city.
Book Synopsis Crafting Identity by : Pavel Shlossberg
Download or read book Crafting Identity written by Pavel Shlossberg and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafting Identity goes far beyond folklore in its ethnographic exploration of mask making in central Mexico. In addition to examining larger theoretical issues about indigenous and mestizo identity and cultural citizenship as represented through masks and festivals, the book also examines how dominant institutions of cultural production (art, media, and tourism) mediate Mexican “arte popular,” which makes Mexican indigeneity “digestible” from the standpoint of elite and popular Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore. The first ethnographic study of its kind, the book examines how indigenous and mestizo mask makers, both popular and elite, view and contest relations of power and inequality through their craft. Using data from his interviews with mask makers, collectors, museum curators, editors, and others, Pavel Shlossberg places the artisans within the larger context of their relationships with the nation-state and Mexican elites, as well as with the production cultures that inform international arts and crafts markets. In exploring the connection of mask making to capitalism, the book examines the symbolic and material pressures brought to bear on Mexican artisans to embody and enact self-racializing stereotypes and the performance of stigmatized indigenous identities. Shlossberg’s weaving of ethnographic data and cultural theory demystifies the way mask makers ascribe meaning to their practices and illuminates how these practices are influenced by state and cultural institutions. Demonstrating how the practice of mask making negotiates ethnoracial identity with regard to the Mexican state and the United States, Shlossberg shows how it derives meaning, value, and economic worth in the eyes of the state and cultural institutions that mediate between the mask maker and the market.
Download or read book Bookwise written by Sharon Parsons and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a balance of fiction and non-fiction text types and genres, Bookwise is carefully graded and organised into five cross-curricular strands, encouraging links to other subjects. The full-colour readers are accompanied by Teacher's Guides and Resource Sheets to help you get the most out of your Guided Reading and Writing sessions.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Magnificent Contents of Alton Towers, the Princely Seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury by : Bertram Arthur Earl of Shrewsbury
Download or read book Catalogue of the Magnificent Contents of Alton Towers, the Princely Seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury written by Bertram Arthur Earl of Shrewsbury and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mexican Masks by : Donald Bush Cordry
Download or read book Mexican Masks written by Donald Bush Cordry and published by Austin : University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life of Mary, Queen of Scots by : Henry Glassford Bell
Download or read book Life of Mary, Queen of Scots written by Henry Glassford Bell and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns by : Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Download or read book Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns written by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life of Mary Queen of Scots by : Henry Glassford Bell
Download or read book Life of Mary Queen of Scots written by Henry Glassford Bell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.
Download or read book Masks written by E. C. Blake and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masks is the first novel in the dystopian fantasy Masks of Aygrima series Cataclysmic events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima—the one land blessed with magical resources—cut off from its former trading partners across the waters, not knowing if any of those distant peoples still live. Yet under the rule of the Autarch, Aygrima survives. And thanks to the creation of the Masks and the vigilance of the Autarch’s Watchers, no one can threaten the security of the empire. In Aygrima, magic is a Gift possessed from birth by a very small percentage of the population, with the Autarch himself the most powerful magic worker of all. Only the long-vanquished Lady of Pain and Fire had been able to challenge his rule. At the age of fifteen, citizens are recognized as adults and must don the spell-infused Masks—which denote both status and profession—whenever they are in public. To maintain the secure rule of the kingdom, the Masks are magically crafted to reveal any treasonous thoughts or actions. And once such betrayals are exposed, the Watchers are there to enforce the law. Mara Holdfast, daughter of the Autarch’s Master Maskmaker, is fast approaching her fifteenth birthday and her all-important Masking ceremony. Her father himself has been working behind closed doors to create Mara’s Mask. Once the ceremony is done, she will take her place as an adult, and Gifted with the same magical abilities as her father, she will also claim her rightful place as his apprentice. But on the day of her Masking something goes horribly wrong, and instead of celebrating, Mara is torn away from her parents, imprisoned, and consigned to a wagon bound for the mines. Is it because she didn’t turn the unMasked boy she discovered over to the Night Watchers? Or is it because she’s lied about her Gift, claiming she can only see one color of magic, when in truth she can see them all, just as she could when she was a young child? Whatever the reason, her Mask has labeled her a traitor and now she has lost everything, doomed to slavery in the mines until she dies. And not even her Gift can show Mara the future that awaits her—a future that may see her freed to aid a rebel cause, forced to become a puppet of the Autarch, or transformed into a force as dangerous to her world as the legendary Lady of Pain and Fire.
Book Synopsis AKASHVANI by : Publications Division (India),New Delhi
Download or read book AKASHVANI written by Publications Division (India),New Delhi and published by Publications Division (India),New Delhi. This book was released on 1958-05-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Akashvani" (English ) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO ,it was formerly known as The Indian Listener.It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists.It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: Akashvani LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 04-05-1958 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 48 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXIII, No. 18 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 12-46 ARTICLE: 1. One Year of Broadcasts to Assam Tribes 2. Young People of Khasi Area 3. Tribal Art of Assam 4. Nobel Prize and the Literary Giants Who Have Won It AUTHOR: 1. Dr. A. M. Natesh 2. Altricia Roy 3. Dr. Verrier Elwin 4. P. S. Sundaram KEYWORDS: Transmitter Gauhati Languages Khasi Children Assam Tapmohkhlieh Tribal People Mahatma Gandhi Assam Manipur Chemistry Philosophers Rudyard Kipling Document ID: APE-1958-(Jan-Jun)-VOL-I-18 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matter published in this and other AIR journals.For reproduction previous permission is essential.
Book Synopsis The Third Eye by : Fatimah Tobing Rony
Download or read book The Third Eye written by Fatimah Tobing Rony and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific. Turning the gaze of the ethnographic camera back onto itself, bringing the perspective of a third eye to bear on the invention of the primitive other, Rony reveals the collaboration of anthropology and popular culture in Western constructions of race, gender, nation, and empire. Her work demonstrates the significance of these constructions--and, more generally, of ethnographic cinema--for understanding issues of identity. In films as seemingly dissimilar as Nanook of the North, King Kong, and research footage of West Africans from an 1895 Paris ethnographic exposition, Rony exposes a shared fascination with--and anxiety over--race. She shows how photographic "realism" contributed to popular and scientific notions of evolution, race, and civilization, and how, in turn, anthropology understood and critiqued its own use of photographic technology. Looking beyond negative Western images of the Other, Rony considers performance strategies that disrupt these images--for example, the use of open resistance, recontextualization, and parody in the films of Katherine Dunham and Zora Neale Hurston, or the performances of Josephine Baker. She also draws on the work of contemporary artists such as Lorna Simpson and Victor Masayesva Jr., and writers such as Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin, who unveil the language of racialization in ethnographic cinema. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, innovative in theory and original in method, The Third Eye is a remarkable interdisciplinary contribution to critical thought in film studies, anthropology, cultural studies, art history, postcolonial studies, and women's studies.
Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Books: Pyramid by : James Putnam
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books: Pyramid written by James Putnam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Pyramids at Giza have stood for over 4,500 years, and the amazing feat of their construction is shrouded in mystery. DK Eyewitness Books: Pyramid tried to answer some of the riddles about them and the people who built them, through fascinating facts and specially commissioned photography. Discover what archeological finds have revealed about life on the banks of the Nile during the Pyramid Age in DK Eyewitness: Pyramid. See the pyramids and temples of Egypt and Mexico in breathtaking detail, as well as statues of pharaohs, officials, workers, and religious texts written on stone and papyrus thousands of years ago. Reconstructions show the step Pyramid Complex at Saqqara, the interior passages of the Great Pyramid, and a pyramid being built. DK Eyewitness: Pyramid is a unique and fascinating introduction to the mysteries of these striking and colossal structures.
Book Synopsis The Last of the Sinners by : Lynn Shurr
Download or read book The Last of the Sinners written by Lynn Shurr and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rex Billodeaux has his life exactly where he wants it. He has returned to New Orleans to play quarterback for Sinners. Super Bowl prospects look good and so does Dre Ames, a young woman he has known since the age of seventeen but overlooked because she has a son she gave birth to as a teen. He is about to propose when the death of the team owner throws the Sinners into turmoil. The trophy wife, who inherits the team, hates football and the city society who snubbed her. She plans to sell the team out of state and will only reconsider if Rex agrees to do her every biding and break up with Dre. He takes one for the team and signs her agreement. Will he be able to save the Sinners and return to Dre? That is the question.
Book Synopsis Claude Lévi-Strauss by : Maurice Godelier
Download or read book Claude Lévi-Strauss written by Maurice Godelier and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology As a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Lévi-Strauss’s assistant. Since then, Godelier has drawn on this experience to develop a profound and intimate grasp on the writings of his former teacher, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched, Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought will prove indispensable to students of Lévi-Strauss and to structural anthropologists more generally. It is a compelling and comprehensive study destined to become the definitive work on the evolution of Lévi-Strauss’s ideas, at the heart of which lies his analysis of kinship and myth.
Download or read book Embodied Texts written by Mary Fleischer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied Texts: Symbolist Playwright-Dancer Collaborations explores the dynamic relationship between Symbolist theatre and early modern dance across Europe from the 1890s through the 1930s. Gabriele D’Annunzio’s projects with Ida Rubinstein; Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s pantomimes for Grete Wiesenthal; W. B. Yeats’s work with Michio Ito and Ninette de Valois; and Paul Claudel’s collaborations with Jean Börlin and the Ballets Suédois are studied in depth to shed new light on an evolving dance-theatre form within Symbolist culture. Buoyed by the era’s heightened interest in the expressive qualities of the body, these playwrights were highly invested in the authority of language, yet were drawn to the capacity of dance to evoke spiritual or psychological states which words could not completely capture. In its belief of fundamental correspondences among the arts, Symbolism encouraged experimentation across disciplines, and this study traces interconnections among many of its significant figures including Max Reinhardt, Claude Debussy, Gertrud Eysoldt, Edward Gordon Craig, Bronislava Nijinksa, Isadora Duncan, Jaques Dalcroze, Darius Milhaud, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mariano Fortuny, Terence Gray, George Antheil, Eleonora Duse, and Michel Fokine.
Book Synopsis Twins in the World by : A. Piontelli
Download or read book Twins in the World written by A. Piontelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling narrative Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her travels around the world, Piontelli has studied the role of twins, especially throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific rim, observing different cultural perspectives and how differing societies treat them.