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Art of Mana

Author : Square Enix
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506712630
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Art of Mana written by Square Enix and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the first twenty-five years of Mana adventures! Since the first game's release in 1991, Square Enix has been dazzling fans worldwide with the fantastical and action-packed world of Mana. More than twenty-five years later, the magic of Mana still lives on and now Dark Horse Books and Square Enix are proud to present The Art of Mana. The first official art book of Square Enix's hit Mana video game series, The Art of Mana collects more than twenty-five years' worth of memories with over 200 pages featuring more than 400 illustrations from the original creative team along with detailed explorations of every character, original sketches, world designs, and much more. Presented in English for the first time, this beautiful collection is not to be missed.

Mana: A History of a Western Category

Author : Nicolas Meylan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004349243
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Mana: A History of a Western Category written by Nicolas Meylan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mana: A History of a Western Category Nicolas Meylan proposes a critical account of Western imaginations of mana, a word belonging originally to Oceanic languages but borrowed by European languages in which it acquired the meaning ‘supernatural power.’ While mana is best known for its tenure in the disciplines studying religion, Nicolas Meylan situates such academic uses in a wider context, analyzing the ways Westerners conceptualized mana in the earlier colonial context as well as its mobilizations in the late 20th and early 21st centuries by (video)game designers and Neo-Pagan witches. This focus on various Western uses of mana allows for the critical investigation of the ways power has been mystified in conjunction with religion.

New Mana

Author : Matt Tomlinson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460087
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book New Mana written by Matt Tomlinson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous sovereignty movements, Christian missions and Bible translations, the commodification of cultural heritage, and the dynamics of diaspora. Their investigations move across diverse island groups—Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawai‘i, and French Polynesia—and into Australia, North America and even cyberspace. A key insight that the volume develops is that mana can be analysed most productively by paying close attention to its ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Since the late nineteenth century, mana has been an object of intense scholarly interest. Writers in many fields including anthropology, linguistics, history, religion, philosophy, and missiology have long debated how the term should best be understood. The authors in this volume review mana’s complex intellectual history but also describe the remarkable transformations going on in the present day as scholars, activists, church leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs take up mana in new ways.

The Mana of Mass Society

Author : William Mazzarella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643639X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Mana of Mass Society written by William Mazzarella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power? Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of “mana,” which served in early anthropology as a troubled bridge between “primitive” ritual and the fascination of mass media. Thinking about mana, Mazzarella shows, means rethinking some of our most fundamental questions: What powers authority? What in us responds to it? Is the mana that animates an Aboriginal ritual the same as the mana that energizes a revolutionary crowd, a consumer public, or an art encounter? At the intersection of anthropology and critical theory, The Mana of Mass Society brings recent conversations around affect, sovereignty, and emergence into creative contact with classic debates on religion, charisma, ideology, and aesthetics.

Mana Master

Author : Bruce Sentar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Mana Master written by Bruce Sentar and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where mages and monster grow from cultivating mana. Isaac joins the class of humans known as mages who absorb mana to grow more powerful. To become a mage he must bind a mana beast to himself to access and control mana. But when his mana beast is far more human than he expected; Isaac struggles with the budding relationship between the two of them as he prepares to enter his first dungeon.Unfortunately for Isaac, he doesn't have time to ponder the questions of his relationship with Aurora. Because his sleepy town of Locksprings is in for a rude awakening, and he has to decide which side of the war he is going to stand on.Disclaimer: There are adult situations and harem relationships.

Potent Mana

Author : Wende Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438434367
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Potent Mana written by Wende Elizabeth Marshall and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly elucidating and weaving together the forces of indigenous sovereignty, colonialism, and personal health, Potent Mana offers a uniquely holistic and intimate portrait of the long-term effects of colonialism on an indigenous people., the kānaka maoli (Native Hawaiians). An ethnographic exploration based on fifteen months of research, the book moves the conversation on the dangerous effects of colonialism forward by exploring the theories and practices of Native Hawaiians engaged in decolonization. Decades of substance abuse, mental illness, depression, language loss, and the concomitant dispossession from sacred lands have accompanied colonialism. Consequently, healing, both mental and physical, are essential to decolonization and indigenous sovereignty in twenty-first century Hawai'i. Native Hawaiian-run treatment centers and clinics more than political rallies are centers for healing and decolonization on O'ahu today. The effects of colonialism and the measures taken to counter and move beyond it, as Wende Marshall convincingly argues, do not take place solely on a supralocal level but shatteringly involve the physical and emotional well-being of real individuals. Becoming decolonized is about overcoming the shame of colonialism, and requires a process of remembering the traditions of ancestors and reinterpreting and rewriting histories that have only been told from a colonial point of view. Decolonization is an indigenous perspective, and an understanding that health was impossible without political power and cultural integrity.

11:11

Author : Mana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515278320
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book 11:11 written by Mana and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11:11 means unity within yourself, with your Higher Self, and with everything else. When the Higher Self is guiding, abundance will automatically come as the fruit of a healed and whole Soul!In this easy-to-read book eleven specific Soul Steps and Soul Affirmations are given which liberate the Soul back to natural states of ease and prosperity.In eleven Soul Steps, allow for rapid soul healing, integration, and activation of self-healing ability and highest destiny via Higher Self connection. Blessings on this Journey! ~Mana

Mana,the Place and Its People

Author : John Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733084406
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Mana,the Place and Its People written by John Martin and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal memoir of author, John Martin of growing up in M?n? Camp, the westernmost sugar plantation camp on Kauai, and in Hawaii. John Martin includes stories of his family and shares memories of his life, playing and working with plantation camp kids of different ethnicities. Hunting for pigs and goats, freshwater and salt water fishing, swimming in the ocean and other fresh water ponds and ditches were only some of the exciting things they did. Working on the plantation during summer breaks was also an important part of the lifestyle of a plantation camp kid. In 1987 the camp was closed, and the two remaining families moved to Kekaha. Rows of vacant houses, which once were the homes of families with dreams were leveled. Nothing remains of the small but proud community.

Mana Series

Author :
Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mana Series written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mana Tangata

Author : Huia Tomlins-Jahnke
Publisher : Huia Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1775500217
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Mana Tangata written by Huia Tomlins-Jahnke and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of papers by senior Maori academics who are experts and have considerable mana in their chosen fields. The ten contributing authors, who are academics at Massey University, discuss the Maori language, marae, religion, the Treaty of Waitangi, the State and Maori, citizenship education, mental health, the health workforce, kaitiakitanga and horticulture. The book discusses Maori development and contemporary issues concerning Maori, both from the authors� perspectives and across different disciplines.

Manifestations of Mana

Author : Paul van der Grijp
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643904967
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Manifestations of Mana written by Paul van der Grijp and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of mana in past and present configurations of chiefly power in the Pacific. Chiefs are often seen as transitional figures between traditional (tribal or feudal) and modern forms of leadership, the latter characterized by rationality and the nation-state with its accompanying bureaucracy. Today, the political arena in the Pacific, although occupied by presidents, members of parliament and court justices, is still ruled by chiefs supporting their authority by tradition, including the notion of mana. Mana may be defined as divine inspiration or energy that manifests itself in persons, objects, places and natural phenomena. Polynesian chiefs have mana because of their descent from ancient gods. Other key concepts such as asymmetrical ideology, mythical constructions of social reality, and social drama are elaborated and applied to a wide specter of ethnographic examples. The configuration and reconfiguration of Tongan chieftaincy and kingship in this book are analyzed as an extended case study of the gradual, and sometimes shock-like, integration of a Polynes ian culture into a global structure, a nation-state, partly imposed from the outside (missionarization, colonization) but also generated from within including state formation and the recent quest for democracy. Together with other Polynesian examples, this forms a relevant illustration of both continuity and change in the configuration of mana and chieftaincy in processes of globalization in the Pacific.

The Mana of Translation

Author : Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824899962
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Mana of Translation written by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2024-12-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mana of Translation: Translational Flow in Hawaiian History from the Baibala to the Mauna, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada makes visible the often unseen workings of translation in Hawaiʻi from the advent of Hawaiian alphabetic literacy to contemporary struggles over language and land. Translation has had a massive impact on Hawaiian history, both as it unfolded and how it came to be understood, yet it remains understudied in Hawaiian and Indigenous scholarship. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Kuwada examines illuminative instances of translation across the last two centuries through the analytic of mana unuhi: the mana (power/authority/branch/version) attained or given through translation. Translation has long been seen as a tool of colonialism, but examining history through mana unuhi demonstrates how Hawaiians used translation as a powerful tool to assert their own literary, cultural, and political sovereignty, something Hawaiians think of in terms of ea (life/breath/sovereignty/rising). Translation also gave mana to particular stories about Hawaiians—some empowering, others harmful—creating a clash of narratives that continue to this day. Drawing on sources in Hawaiian and English that span newspapers, letters and journals, religious and legal documents, missionary records, court transcripts, traditional stories, and more, this book makes legible the utility and importance of paying attention to mana unuhi in Hawaiʻi and beyond. Through chapters on translating the Hawaiian Bible, the role of translation in the Hawaiian Kingdom’s bilingual legal system, Hawaiians’ powerful deployment of translation in nineteenth-century nūpepa (newspapers), the early twentieth-century era of extractive scholarly translation, and the possibilities that come from refusing translation as demonstrated in legal proceedings related to the protection of Maunakea, Kuwada questions narratives about the inevitability of colonial victory and the idea that things can only be “lost in translation.” Writing in an accessible yet rigorous style, Kuwada follows the flows of translation and its material practices to bring forth the power dynamics of languages and how these differential forces play out on ideological and political battlefields. Specifically rooted in Hawaiʻi yet broadly applicable to other colonial situations, The Mana of Translation provides us with a transformative new way of looking at Hawaiian history.

Honour, Mana, and Agency in Polynesian-European Conflict

Author : Annette Wilkes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429676840
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Honour, Mana, and Agency in Polynesian-European Conflict written by Annette Wilkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the era of "first encounters" in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships. The case studies chosen enable comparison of New Zealand Māori–European transactions with similar Pacific ones. The book examines the conflict situations that arose and the reasons for physical violence, highlighting the roles of honour, mana, and agency. Drawing on a range of archival materials, sailor and missionary journals, as well as indigenous narratives, Wilkes applies an analytical method typically used for examining much more recent conflict. She compares different ways of "seeing" and "knowing" the world and reflects on the reasons for poor decision-making amongst all the social actors involved. The evidence presented in the book strongly suggests that preventing violence – promoting and negotiating peace – happens most effectively when mana and honour are acknowledged between parties.

The Analysis of Mana: An Empirical Approach

Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Analysis of Mana: An Empirical Approach written by Raymond Firth and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at Home and in Society, 1609-1760

Author : Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta at Home and in Society, 1609-1760 written by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mana Beast

Author : Bruce Sentar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mana Beast written by Bruce Sentar and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac's story continues. He knows being a mage is more than just simple luck. His mother tipped the dice in his favor. But that's ended. Lucky can only carry you so far.Arriving at the Ferrymen Sect, he hopes to ignite a war between the corrupt mages and those sworn to defend to the average person. But he finds the world of Sects more complex than he'd hoped.In order to direct the sects into a war with the corrupt mages, Isaac must first overcome genius mages even more blessed than himself.Join Isaac and his girls in their next adventure.

Mana Cards

Author : Catherine Kalama Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966014204
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Mana Cards written by Catherine Kalama Becker and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: