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Author : Joseph Francis Rock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China written by Joseph Francis Rock and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Francis Charles Rock
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ISBN 13 : 9780674288508
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (885 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China written by Joseph Francis Charles Rock and published by . This book was released on 1947-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Francis Rock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China written by Joseph Francis Rock and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Francis Charles Rock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China written by Joseph Francis Charles Rock and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph F. Rock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674288492
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (884 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Na-Khi Kingdom of Southwest China, Volume II written by Joseph F. Rock and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Ward
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700713196
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Xu Xiake (1587-1641) written by Julian Ward and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on the importance of the diaries of Xu Xiake (1587-1641), a compulsive traveller who spent a lifetime visiting and writing about China's 'beauty spots'.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069126502X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Shamanism written by Mircea Eliade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, Shamanism remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.
Author : Philip Furia
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271071826
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Pound's Cantos Declassified written by Philip Furia and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1990-12-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By using his Cantos for storing, "making new," and transmitting historical documents, Pound was returning the epic to its ancient function as a tribal archive for the "luminous details" of history that define a culture's past and shape its future. So argues this book, which does not overlook the poem's brilliant lyrical passages but for the first time focuses on those vast stretches of Pound's epic composed not of literary touchstones but of that most unpoetic of literary forms, historical documents. Pound's task as epic poet was complicated by the fact that the documents he wished to renew and transmit to his culture were largely unknown, often because in his mind they had been suppressed by a widespread conspiracy throughout the ages which he termed the "historical black-out." His Cantos therefore, he believed, must be a counter-conspiracy to rescue vital documents from that black-out, renew them, and then recirculate them to combat the economic and political forces behind the black-out. Drawing on recent research by numerous scholars, Furia traces the arcane documents Pound unearthed from libraries around the world and shows how he transmuted this documentary mass into poetry, first by framing passages of prose to highlight their poetic texture and then by weaving these shards and fragments into a collage of intricate structure. Among the documents Furia "declassifies" are Chinese edicts, Italian bank charters, British factory commission reports, Byzantine guild regulations, American Presidential papers, municipal records, judicial writs, parliamentary statutes, legislative codes, contracts, deeds, mandates, treaties, diary entries, and correspondence by such diverse figures as Lorenzo de' Medici, Martin Van Buren, Napoleon, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mustapha Kemal, and Kubla Khan. Pound's Cantos Declassified traces the poet's struggle to shape the content of the epic poem that absorbed most of his creative life.
Author : Carol R. Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 030647770X
Total Pages : 1059 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender written by Carol R. Ember and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central aim of this encyclopedia is to give the reader a comparative perspective on issues involving conceptions of gender, gender differences, gender roles, relationships between the genders, and sexuality. The encyclopedia is divided into two volumes: Topics and Cultures. The combination of topical overviews and varying cultural portraits is what makes this encyclopedia a unique reference work for students, researchers and teachers interested in gender studies and cross-cultural variation in sex and gender. It deserves a place in the library of every university and every social science and health department. Contents:- Glossary. Cultural Conceptions of Gender. Gender Roles, Status, and Institutions. Sexuality and Male-Female Interaction. Sex and Gender in the World's Cultures. Culture Name Index. Subject Index.
Author : Roger Jones
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848760477
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)
Download or read book What's Who? written by Roger Jones and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an enjoyable reference book, which looks at eponymy, the naming of things after people.
Author : Ge Wang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981100661X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China written by Ge Wang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning histories, and by discussing the unequal power relationship between national policies, school curricula, and ethnic multilingual learners,this book provides information at a micro-level on how the two ethnic minority students, who have acquired three languages (L1-native, L2-Mandarin Chinese, and L3-English), successfully navigate the Chinese higher education system as multilingual learners despite various tensions, difficulties, and challenges. How these students construct their multiple identities as well as significant factors affecting such identity construction is also discussed. This book will contribute to the scholarship of policy and practice in ethnic multilingual education in China by addressing the challenges for tertiary institutions and ethnic multilingual learners. The author also points out that multiculturalism as a discourse of education might help ease the tension of being an ethnic minority and a Chinese national, and reduce the danger of being assimilated or being marginalized.
Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804084
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Cultural Encounters on China’s Ethnic Frontiers written by Stevan Harrell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored. Around the geographic periphery of China, as well as some of the less accessible parts of the interior, and even in its cities, live a variety of peoples of different origins, languages, ecological adaptations, and cultures. These people have interacted for centuries with the Han Chinese majority, with other minority ethnic groups (minzu), and with non-Chinese, but identification of distinct groups and analysis of their history and relationship to others still are problematic. Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers provides rich material for the comparative study of colonialism and imperialism and for the study of Chinese nation-building. It represents some of the first scholarship on ethnic minorities in China based on direct research since before World War II. This, combined with increasing awareness in the West of the importance of ethnic relations, makes it an especially timely book. It will be of interest to anthopologists, historians, and political scientists, as well as to sinologists.
Author : Wonsuk Ma
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725220792
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Pentecostalism in Context written by Wonsuk Ma and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentecostalism in Context is a collection of essays produced by Pentecostal scholars from North America, Europe, and Asia. The essays, produced in their various geographical and cultural contexts, reflect the rich diversity that characterizes the Pentecostal movement. Biblical, theological, and missiological issues relevant to the Pentecostal movement are treated. The book thus represents a valuable resource for those seeking to understand better the key intellectual currents within this dynamic and influential movement. The essays are offered in honor of William Menzies, a leading Pentecostal scholar and Chancellor of Asia Pacific Theological Seminary (Baguio City, Philippines).
Author : Duncan Poupard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100048470X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Translation/re-Creation written by Duncan Poupard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of European-language translations of Naxi ritual manuscripts, the ritual literature of a small ethnic group living in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. The author discusses the translations into European languages (in English, French and German) from the late nineteenth century to the second half of the twentieth century, revealing a history of fragmentary yet interconnected translation efforts in the West. By exploring this network, he shows how translation can be understood as a metonymic “recreation” of textual worlds. As Naxi manuscripts are semi-oral texts representing an oral-formulaic tradition, their translation involves a metonymic relay of partial incorporations from manuscript/image to reading/spoken language. Therefore, the book engages in a series of textual excavations to uncover the previously occluded contemporaneous readings that would have led to the translations we can consult today, particularly in an attempt to understand how the Naxi literature came to be part of Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Scholars in the field of ethnic minority literature in China and translation studies will find this book beneficial, and it will make new contributions to comparative literature between the East and West.
Author : Laird Scranton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620553309
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book China's Cosmological Prehistory written by Laird Scranton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the earliest creation traditions and symbols of China and their similarities to those of other ancient cultures • Reveals the deep parallels between early Chinese words and those of other ancient creation traditions such as the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt • Explores the 8 stages of creation in Taoism and the cosmological origins of Chinese ancestor worship, the zodiac, the mandala, and the I Ching • Provides further evidence that the cosmology of all ancient cultures arose from a single now-lost source Building on his extensive research into the sacred symbols and creation myths of the Dogon of Africa and those of ancient Egypt, India, and Tibet, Laird Scranton investigates the myths, symbols, and traditions of prehistoric China, providing further evidence that the cosmology of all ancient cultures arose from a single now-lost source. Scranton explores the fundamental similarities between the language that defined ancient Chinese cosmology and that of other creation traditions, revealing the connections between the phonetic structure of the words, their glyphs, and their use. He demonstrates striking parallels between the earliest systems of writing in China and the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt. He examines the 8 levels of creation in Taoism and the cosmological origins of Chinese ancestor worship, mythical emperors, the zodiac, the mandala, and the I Ching. He details the fundamental principles of land-use in ancient China in relation to the symbolism of a Buddhist stupa and the Dogon granary, ritual shrines that are also the central symbol of other creation traditions. Understanding the true meanings of these symbol complexes also reveals the sophisticated scientific understanding of these ancient cultures, for these creation symbols directly correlate with our modern understanding of atoms and the energetic makeup of matter. In exploring Chinese cosmological traditions, Scranton sheds new light on the contention that the sacred knowledge of the ancients is the legacy of an earlier culture who gave primitive humanity the tools they needed to birth the first known civilizations.
Author : Zhenping Wang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837886
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia written by Zhenping Wang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a synthetic narrative approach, this ambitious work uses the lens of multipolarity to analyze Tang China’s (618–907) relations with Turkestan; the Korean states of Koguryŏ, Silla, and Paekche; the state of Parhae in Manchuria; and the Nanzhao and Tibetan kingdoms. Without any one entity able to dominate Asia’s geopolitical landscape, the author argues that relations among these countries were quite fluid and dynamic—an interpretation that departs markedly from the prevalent view of China fixed at the center of a widespread “tribute system.” To cope with external affairs in a tumultuous world, Tang China employed a dual management system that allowed both central and local officials to conduct foreign affairs. The court authorized Tang local administrators to receive foreign visitors, forward their diplomatic letters to the capital, and manage contact with outsiders whose territories bordered on China. Not limited to handling routine matters, local officials used their knowledge of border situations to influence the court’s foreign policy. Some even took the liberty of acting without the court’s authorization when an emergency occurred, thus adding another layer to multipolarity in the region’s geopolitics. The book also sheds new light on the ideological foundation of Tang China’s foreign policy. Appropriateness, efficacy, expedience, and mutual self-interest guided the court’s actions abroad. Although officials often used “virtue” and “righteousness” in policy discussions and announcements, these terms were not abstract universal principles but justifications for the pursuit of self-interest by those involved. Detailed philological studies reveal that in the realm of international politics, “virtue” and “righteousness” were in fact viewed as pragmatic and utilitarian in nature. Comprehensive and authoritative, Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia is a major work on Tang foreign relations that will reconceptualize our understanding of the complexities of diplomacy and war in imperial China.
Author : Jennifer T. Gehl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620554992
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Science of Planetary Signatures in Medicine written by Jennifer T. Gehl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the cosmic influences that underlie health and how to apply them for profound health and healing • Examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below” • Reveals how one’s astrological chart has implications for personal health and healing • Explains how each sign of the zodiac corresponds not only to parts of the body and its chakras but also to specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions • Explores how to use sound healing to harmonize astrological imbalances When we look at the vast and intricate cosmos--galaxies, planets, organisms, organs, cells, molecules, atoms--there is a fundamental order, a music or harmony of the spheres. Our cells reflect the images of galaxies seen through our telescopes. We are the microcosm, reflecting the macrocosm of the heavens. Our ancestors understood these patterns and connections between humanity and the universe and developed spiritual and healing traditions in line with these cosmic truths. Yet in the 19th century, knowledge of these connections was set aside as medical science sought to create the “one size fits all” approaches to healing that dominate modern medicine today. In this comprehensive exploration of the celestial influences that underlie health and healing, Jennifer Gehl, with Marc Micozzi, examines how ancient and modern traditions of healing interconnect through the doctrine of signatures, “As above, so below”. She reveals how one’s celestial nature--the arrangement of the cosmos at the moment of birth--has implications for personal health and how each sign of the zodiac corresponds to parts of the body, the chakras, and specific plants, herbs, colors, and emotions. She explains how sound re-arranges forms according to the principles of harmony, leveraging not only the human self-regulating capacity to restore health but also that of the Earth to restore balance and harmony. Also explored are the recurrence of geometric forms in nature and how to apply this knowledge in sound healing and medical astrology. Weaving together the threads of ancient science and spirit that formed the original tapestry of medicine, Gehl explains how to restore the cosmic foundations of healing for personal, planetary, and universal health and wellbeing.
