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Wayfinding

Author : M. R. O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250200237
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Wayfinding written by M. R. O'Connor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. "A marvel of storytelling." —Kirkus (Starred Review) In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O’Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place. "O'Connor talked to just the right people in just the right places, and her narrative is a marvel of storytelling on its own merits, erudite but lightly worn. There are many reasons why people should make efforts to improve their geographical literacy, and O'Connor hits on many in this excellent book—devouring it makes for a good start." —Kirkus Reviews

An Intimate Wilderness

Author : Norman Hallendy
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1771642319
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book An Intimate Wilderness written by Norman Hallendy and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Canadian government. In this unique memoir, Hallendy writes of his adventures, experiences with strange Arctic phenomena, encounters with wildlife, and deep friendships with Inuit elders. Very few have worked so closely with the Inuit to document their traditions, and, in this book, Hallendy preserves their voices and paints an incomparable portrait of a vibrant culture in a remote landscape.

Crystals and Sacred Sites

Author : Judy Hall
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
ISBN 13 : 1610586263
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Crystals and Sacred Sites written by Judy Hall and published by Fair Winds Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pyramids of Giza to Stonehenge to Machu Picchu, people are captivated by the magic of the world’s most sacred and mysterious sites. Crystals and Sacred Sites teaches you how to tap into the healing energy of these sites from anywhere in the world using the power of crystals and sacred stones. Noted crystal authority Judy Hall takes you to the most revered sacred sites in the ancient world as well as newly discovered ones that are emerging as power points critical to our evolution as a planet. With the assistance of specially selected crystals and accompanying meditations and rituals, you can open the doorways to transformation and healing. Sacred sites featured in the book include: Inuksuk at the Circumpolar Regions Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta Mount Shasta, California Sedona, Arizona Pipestone, Minnesota 9/11 Memorial, New York Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Japan Newgrange, Boyne Valley, Ireland Glastonbury, England Stonehenge, England Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina Hajji Bektash Bervish Tekke, Hacibektas, Turkey Goree Island, Senegal The Great Pyramid, Cairo, Egypt Sekhmet Sanctuary, Luxor, Egypt The Hanging Gardens of Haifa, Israel Grand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia Mount Kailash, Tibet Narmada River, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, India Spring Temple Buddha, Lushan County, China Ise Shrine, Honshu Peninsula, Japan Uluru and Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory, Australia Castle Hill Rocks, South Island, New Zealand Kilauea Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii Machu Picchu, Peru Chichen Itza, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World

Author : Alva Robinson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110720221
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World written by Alva Robinson and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume builds on the work of Ilse Laude-Cirtautas (1926-2019), a pioneering Turkologist who introduced the field of comparative Turkic studies to the US in the 1960s. It presents an ongoing dialogue whereby scholars from central and inner Asia and the West engage on issues of Turkic heritage, identity, language and literature. The discussions enrich scholarship in Central and Inner Asian Studies and explore the question "Who are the Turks?"

The News at the Ends of the Earth

Author : Hester Blum
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004487
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The News at the Ends of the Earth written by Hester Blum and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.

Worldviews of the Greenlanders

Author : Birgitte Sonne
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602233381
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Worldviews of the Greenlanders written by Birgitte Sonne and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen’s popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research has grown around the Inuit and Yupiit of North America—but, until now, English-language readers have had little access to the broad corpus of work on Greenlandic natives. Worldviews of the Greenlanders draws upon extensive Danish and Greenlandic research on Inuit arctic peoples—as well as Birgitte Sonne’s own decades of scholarship and fieldwork—to present in rich detail the key symbols and traditional beliefs of Greenlandic Natives, as well as the changes brought about by contact with colonial traders and Christian missionaries. It includes critical updates to our knowledge of the Greenlanders’ pre-colonial world and their ideas on space, time, and other worldly beings. This expansive work will be a touchstone of Arctic Native studies for academics who wish to expand their knowledge past the boundaries of North America.

The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture

Author : Elizabeth Grant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811069042
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture written by Elizabeth Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and other countries. It captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in the field, establishes the historical and present context of the work, and highlights important future directions for research and practice. The topics covered include Indigenous placemaking, identity, cultural regeneration and Indigenous knowledges. The book brings together eminent and emerging scholars and practitioners to discuss and compare major projects and design approaches, to reflect on the main issues and debates, while enhancing theoretical understandings of contemporary Indigenous architecture.The book is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the ways in which Indigenous people have a built tradition or aspire to translate their cultures into the built environment. It is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the field of the built environment, who need up-to-date knowledge of current practices and discourse on Indigenous peoples and their architecture.

Cairns

Author : David B. Williams
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594856826
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Cairns written by David B. Williams and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Download the first section from Cairns now. (Provide us with a little information and we'll send the free section directly to your inbox!) Praise for author David B. Williams: “Makes stones sing” --Kirkus Reviews “Williams’s lively mixture of hard science and piquant lore is sure to fire the readers’ curiosity” --Publisher’s Weekly *Part history, part folklore, part geology * Features charming black-and-white illustrations From meadow trails to airy mountaintops and wide open desert, cairns -- those seemingly random stacks of rocks -- are surprisingly rich in stories and meaning. For thousands of years cairns have been used by people to connect to the landscape and communicate with others, and are often an essential guide to travelers. Cairns, manmade rock piles can indicate a trail, mark a grave, serve as an altar or shrine, reveal property boundaries or sacred hunting grounds, and even predict astronomical activity. The Inuit have more than two dozen terms to describe cairns and their uses! In Cairns: Messengers in Stone, geologist and acclaimed nature writer David B. Williams (Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology) explores the history of cairns from the moors of Scotland to the peaks of the Himalaya -- where they come from, what they mean, why they’re used, how to make cairns, and more. Cairns are so much more than a random pile of rocks, knowing how to make cairns can drastically alter the meaning of the formation. Hikers, climbers, travelers, gardeners, and nature buffs alike will delight in this quirky, captivating collection of stories about cairns.

Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas

Author : Melissa R. Baltus
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498555365
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas written by Melissa R. Baltus and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas, Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires critically examine the current understanding of relationality in the Americas, covering a diverse range of topics from Indigenous cosmologies to the life-world of the Inuit dog. The contributors to this wide-ranging edited collection interrogate and discuss the multiple natures of relational ontologies, touching on the ever-changing, fluid, and varied ways that people, both alive and dead, relate and related to their surrounding world. While the case studies presented in this collection all stem from the New World, the Indigenous histories and archaeological interpretations vary widely and the boundaries of relational theory challenge current preconceptions about earlier ways of life in the Indigenous Americas.

Atiqput

Author : Carol Payne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013356
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Atiqput written by Carol Payne and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our names – Atiqput – are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what’s in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the pictures, back to life." Piita Irniq For over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive. Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling. Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak, form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and research projects that extend Project Naming’s methodology, interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and the filmmaker Asinnajaq. Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.

Tukiliit

Author : Norman Hallendy
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926812484
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Tukiliit written by Norman Hallendy and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries, Inuit and their ancestors have been building beautiful rock structures across the Arctic and sub Arctic world, for a wide variety of reasons. Some show respect for a place or love for a person, or act as abodes for spirits when they visit the human world. Others have more banal uses, such as marking food caches or fishing or hunting spots or acting as landmarks for hunters or other travellers moving vast distances across the featureless tundra. As well as having many uses, these mysterious stone figures have many names; the best known is inuksuk (plural inuksuit), which means “that which acts in the capacity of a human.” But not all Inuit stone figures are inuksuit; a better general word is tukilik (plural tukiliit), literally “they have meaning.” In Inuktitut, this refers to all meaningful stone objects, whatever or wherever they may be, anywhere in the world. Tukiliit: The Stone People Who Live in the Wind is a companion to Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic, Norman Hallendy's first book and the first serious study of these stone figures.

Choice

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

After One Hundred Winters

Author : Margaret D. Jacobs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227144
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book After One Hundred Winters written by Margaret D. Jacobs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A necessary reckoning with America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the individuals and communities who are working together to heal historical wounds—and reveals how much we have to gain by learning from our history instead of denying it. Jacobs traces the brutal legacy of systemic racial injustice to Indigenous people that has endured since the nation’s founding. Explaining how early attempts at reconciliation succeeded only in robbing tribal nations of their land and forcing their children into abusive boarding schools, she shows that true reconciliation must emerge through Indigenous leadership and sustained relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people that are rooted in specific places and histories. In the absence of an official apology and a federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ordinary people are creating a movement for transformative reconciliation that puts Indigenous land rights, sovereignty, and values at the forefront. With historical sensitivity and an eye to the future, Jacobs urges us to face our past and learn from it, and once we have done so, to redress past abuses. Drawing on dozens of interviews, After One Hundred Winters reveals how Indigenous people and settlers in America today, despite their troubled history, are finding unexpected gifts in reconciliation.

The Writers Directory

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quill & Quire

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Quill & Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inuksuit

Author : Norman Hallendy
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706633
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Inuksuit written by Norman Hallendy and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious stone figures known as inuksuit can be found throughout the circumpolar world. Built from whatever stones are at hand, each one is unique. Inuksuit are among the oldest and most important objects placed by humans upon the vast Arctic landscape and have become a familiar symbol of the Inuit and their homeland.In author Norman Hallendy’s forty years of travels throughout the Arctic, he developed deep and lasting friendships with a number of Inuit elders. Through them, he learned that inuksuit are a nuanced, complex and vital form of communication. Hallendy’s dramatic color photos of many different kinds of inuksuit and objects of veneration capture not only a sense of wonder and power but reveal the unfamiliar Arctic landscape in all its magical beauty.

Future Possible

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ISBN 13 : 9781773102047
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Future Possible written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you begin to write an art history and what are the vital questions to ask? Which marks are most prominent in the visual culture of a particular place, and which are nearly invisible? In Future Possible (a riff on an Andy Jones monologue about how Newfoundlanders talk about their future, an attitude which he describes as "Future possible, possibly horrible"), Mireille Eagan and writers and artists such as Heather Igloliorte, Lisa Moore, Andy Jones, and Craig Francis Power navigate the tangled histories and cultures of Newfoundland and Labrador to investigate the visual output and to write the narrative that it has created. The result is an ambitious volume, arising from a two-part exhibition of the same name at The Rooms, that provides a multi-vocal, multi-faceted history spanning pre- and post-Confederation Newfoundland. Lavishly illustrated with 180 images of art and objects from the province's visual history, Future Possible features essays by curators and artists on topics such as pre-Confederation art; contemporary art, craft, and Indigenous culture; and outsider and folk art. This intriguing volume places artifacts from the province's history and work by iconic Newfoundland and Labrador artists such as David Blackwood and Helen Parsons Shepherd in conversation with works by contemporary artists like Jordan Bennett and Kym Greeley. Together they explore how history is told and retold through objects and images and how these objects and images, and the power structures that preserve them, define an understanding of place.