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Author : Kirk M. Endicott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Headman was a Woman written by Kirk M. Endicott and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecil Henry Bompas
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Folklore of the Santal Parganas written by Cecil Henry Bompas and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecil Henry Bompas' 'Folklore of the Santal Parganas' is a seminal work that delves into the rich tapestry of Santal folklore, offering readers a unique insight into the customs, beliefs, and traditions of the Santal people. Bompas showcases his meticulous research by presenting a collection of myths, legends, and anecdotes that provide a glimpse into the cultural heritage of this indigenous community. Through his narrative style, Bompas weaves together a vivid portrayal of the Santal Parganas, inviting readers to explore the mystical world of these forest-dwelling people. This book serves as a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of folklore studies, offering a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of Santal folklore in its literary context. Bompas' careful attention to detail and his passion for preserving the oral traditions of the Santals shines through in every page, making 'Folklore of the Santal Parganas' a captivating read for anyone interested in the rich cultural heritage of India.
Author : René Kuppe
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780792331421
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Law and Anthropology: International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology written by René Kuppe and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 of "Law and Anthropology" brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject. This volume developed from the idea that it can be useful to consider current discussions in various legal systems facing issues of cultural difference that cannot be regarded as legal problems related to indigenous societies alone. The book focuses on contradiction between national law and complex and diverse kinship structures, which are essential for the cultural identity of both indigenous groups and cultural minorities. The social construction of gender relations and gender conflicts is an important theme in many essays. Some of the essays examine the area of conflict between cultural practices and universal human rights standards. The demand for cultural rights may collide with human rights standards, especially with the principles of gender equality. This volume will be of great interest to academics and to all those with practical involvement in the field of cultural pluralism. Previously published by VWGO Verlag in Austria, "Law and Anthropology" will be published and distributed by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers from Volume 7 onwards.
Author : Riane Eisler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190935723
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Nurturing Our Humanity written by Riane Eisler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.
Author : Коллектив авторов
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040010966
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Folk Tales of the Russian Empire written by Коллектив авторов and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been known that the folk tale is the soul of people. Since ancient times, the Russian Empire was formed as a multi-ethnic country. The Russian language and Russian culture are the fruit of the interaction of different cultures and peoples living in the vast territory. That is why this book presents folk tales of Native peoples inhabiting Russia in different years. Each tale, presented in this book, reflects some features, typical for people of a particular nation.
Author : Tamora Pierce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439115141
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Woman Who Rides Like a Man written by Tamora Pierce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly knighted, Alanna of Trebond seeks adventure in the vast desert at the edge of Tortall in this third book in Tamora Pierce’s Margaret A. Edwards Award–winning young adult series—now with a new look! After achieving knighthood, Alanna leaves the capital city to explore the desert near the kingdom’s borders. When the local Bazhir people discover her, they charge her with trespassing and sentence her to a duel to the death. But when Alanna wins, she’s inducted into the tribe—and soon after, she becomes the tribe’s first female shaman. Still, dire challenges lie ahead. Alanna must convince the Bazhir to change their ancient customs for their sake and for the sake of all Tortall.
Author : Congwen Shen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824862937
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Imperfect Paradise written by Congwen Shen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive and authoritative representation in English of the remarkable Shen Congwen canon, ranging from the polished stories that made him a serious contender for the Nobel literary prize in the 1980s to lesser known, extravagant experimental pieces.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.
Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181332
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Power of Animals written by Brian Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable study focuses on Malawi people and their rich and varied relationship with animals -- from hunting through to their use as medicine. More broadly, through a rigorous and detailed study the author provides insights which show how the people's relationship to their world manifests itself not strictly in social relations, but just as tellingly in their relatioships with animals -- that, in fact, animals constitute a vital role in social relations. While significantly advancing classic African ethnographic studies, this book also incorporates current debates in a wide range of disciplines -- from anthropology through to gender studies and ecology.
Author : Irving Goldman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252007705
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon written by Irving Goldman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176250726
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Indian Women Writers written by Jaydipsinh Dodiya and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed essays.
Author : Namhila, Ellen Ndeshi
Publisher : University of Namibia Press
ISBN 13 : 9991642196
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Mukwahepo. Women Soldier Mother written by Namhila, Ellen Ndeshi and published by University of Namibia Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiance across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventually made their way to Tanzania. There, Mukwahepo became the first woman to undergo military training with SWAPO. For nine years she was the only woman in SWAPO's Kongwa camp. She was then thrust into a more traditional women's role - taking care of children in the SWAPO camps in Zambia and Angola. At Independence, Mukwahepo returned to Namibia with five children. One by one their parents came to reclaim them, until she was left alone. Already in her fifties, and with little education, Mukwahepo could not get employment. She survived on handouts until the Government introduced a pension and other benefits for veterans. Through a series of interviews, Ellen Ndeshi Namhila recorded and translated Mukwahepo's remarkable story. This book preserves the oral history of not only the 'dominant male voice' among the colonised people of Namibia, but brings to light the hidden voice, the untold and forgotten story of an ordinary woman and the outstanding role she played during the struggle.
Author : Elsa Joubert
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868426696
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena written by Elsa Joubert and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted one of the hundred most important books published in Africa during the last century. Winner of the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Literary Award and the Louis Luyt Prize.Sharing the language and religion or the Afrikaners bent on her people's subjugation, Poppie Nongena - a Xhosa woman born in an Upington township - has no choice but to negotiate the riptide of structural violence that is apartheid South Africa. Rootless, her ailing husband emasculated by legislation and her children bearing witness to her degradation, Poppie is forced on a spiritual and cultural journey from Lambert's Bay to a Cape Town township to Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape. Her heartache is the pain of a nation - an emblem of how the human spirit may strain under the weight of tyranny, yet adapts and prevails.Written to break the barrier of ignorance in late-1970s South Africa, The Long, Journey of Poppie Nongena - unsentimental but sensitive - documents a harrowing life lived in a time that a country would rather forget. A literary and commercial success when it was released in Afrikaans in 1979, Elsa Joubert's searing indictment of inhumanity remains universally relevant almost 40 years later in a world in which political dispensations continue to rise and fall. It has won a clutch of literary prizes, including the CNA and Hofmeyr, and has been translated into 13 languages and sold around the world. In 2002 it was selected by a panel of 16 international academi and writers as one of the 100 best African novels of the 20th century.
Author : Jean E. Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521278225
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (782 download)
Download or read book The Fish People written by Jean E. Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bará, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses Bar· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.
Author : Shannon Lowry
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811711029
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Natives of the Far North written by Shannon Lowry and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of photography was still young when Edward Sheriff Curtis joined the Harriman Expedition in 1899. He left home a studio photographer; he returned a zealot with a mission: to document the world of the Natives throughout North America before white settlers destroyed it utterly. This book features the best of Edward Sheriff Curtis's turn-of-the-century Alaska images alongside translations of Native legends and reflections of modern-day Natives.
Author : Elias Khoury
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671618
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Gate of the Sun written by Elias Khoury and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Notable Book of the Year “An imposingly rich and realistic novel, a genuine masterwork” that vividly captures the Palestinian experience following the creation of the Israeli state (New York Times Book Review) After Palestine is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut—entering a vast world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. Khalil holds vigil at the bedside of his patient and spiritual father, a storied leader of the Palestinian resistance who has slipped into a coma. As Khalil attempts to revive Yunes, he begins a story, which branches into many: stories of the people expelled from their villages in Galilee; of the massacres that followed; of the extraordinary inner strength of those who survived; and of love. Khalil—like Elias Khoury—is a truth collector, trying to make sense of the fragments and various versions of stories that have been told to him. His voice is intimate and direct, his memories are vivid, his humanity radiates from every page. Khalil lets his mind wander through time, from village to village, from one astonishing soul to another, and takes us with him. Gate of the Sun is a Palestinian Odyssey and the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss, love and devastation, memory and dream, Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people.
Author : Bobbi S. Low
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069116388X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Why Sex Matters written by Bobbi S. Low and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? In Why Sex Matters, Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics, to show that these and many other questions about human behavior largely come down to evolution and sex. More precisely, as she shows in this uniquely comprehensive and accessible survey of behavioral and evolutionary ecology, they come down to the basic principle that all organisms evolved to maximize their reproductive success and seek resources to do so, but that sometimes cooperation and collaboration are the most effective ways to succeed. This newly revised edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest research and reflect exciting changes in the field, including how our evolutionary past continues to affect our ecological present.
