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Download or read book Venancio's Gift written by Sandra Leal and published by Editorial Tiempo de Leer. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venancio was an old inventor who lived alone in a small house on the outskirts of the city. He had so many rare objects all around the house. One day he got a violin as a gift; so he started to play it; after sometime he liked it really much, so he stopped using his tools: CASIMIRO “The wind up mouse” and CLEMENTE “the robot”. Because of that, Venancio’s tools got jealous of the violin and they decided to destroy it. However, at the end they repaired the violin to restore their happy relationship that they used to have with his friend Venancio.
Book Synopsis Keepers of the Sacred Chants by : Jonathan D. Hill
Download or read book Keepers of the Sacred Chants written by Jonathan D. Hill and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wakuenai of the upper Rio Negro region in southern Venezuela employ a form of singing called malikai for ceremonies of childbirth, initiation, and healing. This ritual chanting is a rich amalgam of myth and music, and serves as a means of integrating individuals into a vertical hierarchy of power relations between mythic ancestors and human descendants. Jonathan Hill here shows how the musical and semantic transformations of everyday discourse in malikai integrate the everyday world into a poetic process of empowerment.
Book Synopsis May it Please the Honorable Court by : Alejandro De Santos
Download or read book May it Please the Honorable Court written by Alejandro De Santos and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Underdogs written by Mariano Azuela and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to a fresh translation of Los de Abajo, Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, this volume offers both a general Introduction to the work and an extensive appendix setting the novel in its historical, literary, and political context. Related texts include contemporary reviews of Azuela's book, an excerpt from Anita Brenner's Idols Behind Altars (1929), and selections from John Reed's Insurgent Mexico (1914).
Download or read book Official Gazette written by Philippines and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience by : Nelson Varas-Díaz
Download or read book Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience written by Nelson Varas-Díaz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and musicians frequently identify as part of a collective group, larger than any particular individual. Still, when examined in detail, the idea raises more questions than answers. What criteria are used to define groups of people as part of the community? How are metal communities formed and maintained through time? How do metal communities interact with local cultures throughout the world? How will metal communities change over the lifespan of their members? Are metal communities even possible in light of the importance placed on individualism in this musical genre? These are just some of the questions that arise when the concept of “community” is used in relation to heavy metal music. And yet in the face of all these complexities, heavy metal fans continue to think of themselves as a unified collective entity. This book addresses this notion of “metal community” via the experiences of authors and fans through theoretical reflections and empirical research. Their contributions focus on how metal communities are conceptualized, created, shaped, maintained, interact with their context, and address internal tensions. The book provides scholars, and other interested in the field of metal music studies, with a state of the art reflection on how metal communities are constituted, while also addressing their limits and future challenges.
Book Synopsis Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present by : Anna Roosevelt
Download or read book Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present written by Anna Roosevelt and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonia has long been a focus of debate about the impact of the tropical rain forest environment on indigenous cultural development. This edited volume draws on the subdisciplines of anthropology to present an integrated perspective of Amazonian studies. The contributors address transformations of native societies as a result of their interaction with Western civilization from initial contact to the present day, demonstrating that the pre- and postcontact characteristics of these societies display differences that until now have been little recognized. CONTENTS Amazonian Anthropology: Strategy for a New Synthesis, Anna C. Roosevelt The Ancient Amerindian Polities of the Amazon, Orinoco and Atlantic Coast: A Preliminary Analysis of Their Passage from Antiquity to Extinction, Neil Lancelot Whitehead The Impact of Conquest on Contemporary Indigenous Peoples of the Guiana Shield: The System of Orinoco Regional Interdependence, Nelly Arvelo-Jiménez and Horacio Biord Social Organization and Political Power in the Amazon Floodplain: The Ethnohistorical Sources, Antonio Porro The Evidence for the Nature of the Process of Indigenous Deculturation and Destabilization in the Amazon Region in the Last 300 Years: Preliminary Data, Adélia Engrácia de Oliveira Health and Demography of Native Amazonians: Historical Perspective and Current Status, Warren M. Hern Diet and Nutritional Status of Amazonian Peoples, Darna L. Dufour Hunting and Fishing in Amazonia: Hold the Answers, What are the Questions?, Stephen Beckerman Homeostasis as a Cultural System: The Jivaro Case, Philippe Descola Farming, Feuding, and Female Status: The Achuara Case, Pita Kelekna Subsistence Strategy, Social Organization, and Warfare in Central Brazil in the Context of European Penetration, Nancy M. Flowers Environmental and Social Implications of Pre- and Post-Contact Situations on Brazilian Indians: The Kayapo and a New Amazonian Synthesis, Darrell Addison Posey Beyond Resistance: A Comparative Study of Utopian Renewal in Amazonia, Michael F. Brown The Eastern Bororo Seen from an Archaeological Perspective, Irmhilde Wüst Genetic Relatedness and Language Distributions in Amazonia, Harriet E. Manelis Klein Language, Culture, and Environment: Tup¡-Guaran¡ Plant Names Over Time, William Balée and Denny Moore Becoming Indian: The Politics of Tukanoan Ethnicity, Jean E. Jackson
Book Synopsis Anthropology and History in Yucatán by : Grant D. Jones
Download or read book Anthropology and History in Yucatán written by Grant D. Jones and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology and History in Yucatán is a collection of ten essays that offer new evidence and interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s. These case studies reflect a growing interest in the use of historical approaches in the development of models of cultural change that will integrate archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data. The portrait of the Maya emerging from this collection is that of a remarkably vital people who have skillfully resisted total incorporation with their neighbors and who continue even today to emphasize their cultural independence and historical uniqueness. In his introduction, Grant D. Jones synthesizes previous studies of the anthropological history of Yucatán and summarizes the theoretical issues underlying the volume. Section I, which focuses on continuity and change in the boundaries of Maya ethnicity in Yucatán, includes contributions by the late Sir Eric Thompson, France V. Scholes, and O. Nigel Bolland. Section II presents comparative regional perspectives of Maya adaptations to external forces of change and contains essays by D. E. Dumond, Grant D. Jones, James W. Ryder, and Anne C. Collins. In the closing section, three articles, by Victoria Reifler Bricker, Allan F. Burns, and Irwin Press, treat Maya concepts of their own history. Throughout the book, the authors demonstrate that models far more complex than Robert Redfield’s folk-urban continuum must be developed to account for the great regional variations in responses by the Maya to the pressures of economic, cultural, and political control as exerted by Spanish, Mexican, Guatemalan, and British authorities over the past four centuries. The essays demonstrate a variety of methodological approaches that will be of interest to historians, ethnohistorians, ethnologists, archaeologists, and those who have a general interest in the survival of Maya culture.
Book Synopsis Greimas's Model by : Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio
Download or read book Greimas's Model written by Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algirdas Julien Greimas was born in the Russian city of Tula on March 9, 1917, the son of Lithuanians in exile because of World War I. When he died in Paris in 1992, Greimas was recognized as a reference in the field of literary and linguistic studies.The legacy of A. J. Greimas is undeniable, both in the field of semiotics and in the study of narratives. He and his great friend, Roland Barthes, are attributed the creation of the narrative analysis field called Narratology.While in semiotics, Greimas's semiotic square is extremely popular, in Narratology, the great highlight goes to the analysis of the positioning of the narrative actants, their subjects. From this analysis, the actuarial model emerges.Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio's book provides an in-depth analysis of the actantial model and how it can be applied to the analysis of various types of narratives. Using classic books (The Miserables) and bestsellers (The Da Vinci Code), going through the movies (Star Wars, Days of Thunder, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan) and series (Friends, How I Met Your Mother), coming up to narratives of games (RPG, board games) and videogame (GTA Vice City), the professor at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia builds a theoretical framework of reference in Narratology - providing the dialogue of the concepts of A. J. Greimas with the ideas of famous authors such as such as Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Umberto Eco, Jean-Paul Sartre, among others - for use by students and researchers interested in Narrative Analysis and Narratology applied to various media.Thus, the book Greimas's model is a must-have book for anyone who loves the world of stories and stories, as well as those who want to build their own in books, movies and other media.Note: Machine Translation of "O Modelo de Greimas", originally published in Portuguese at Amazon KDP in 2017.
Book Synopsis Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa by : United States. Joint Publications Research Service
Download or read book Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa written by United States. Joint Publications Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality by : Bonnie A. Lucero
Download or read book Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality written by Bonnie A. Lucero and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality. Here a historian addresses this issue by examining the ways soldiers and politicians coded their discussions of race in ideas of masculinity during Cuba’s transition from colony to republic. Cuban insurgents, the author shows, rarely mentioned race outright. Instead, they often expressed their attitudes toward racial hierarchy through distinctly gendered language—revolutionary masculinity. By examining the relationship between historical experiences of race and discourses of masculinity, Lucero advances understandings about how racial exclusion functioned in a supposedly raceless society. Revolutionary masculinity, she shows, outwardly reinforced the centrality of color blindness to Cuban ideals of manhood at the same time as it perpetuated exclusion of Cubans of African descent from positions of authority.
Book Synopsis Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ... by : United States National Museum
Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ... written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life Configurations by : Gert Melville
Download or read book Life Configurations written by Gert Melville and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their “becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.
Book Synopsis Habsburg England by : Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer
Download or read book Habsburg England written by Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Habsburg England, Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer offers a reassessment of the much-maligned joint rulership of Philip I of England (Philip II of Spain) with his second wife, Mary I. Traditionally portrayed as an anomaly in English history, previous assessments of the regime saw in it nothing but a record of backwardness and oppression. Using fresh archival material, and paying full attention to the levels of integration and collaboration of Spain and England in the political and religious domains, Velasco Berenguer explores Philip’s role as king of England, looks at the complexities of the reign in their own terms and concludes that during this brief but highly significant period, England became an integral part of the Spanish Monarchy.
Book Synopsis Ghost Tribes by : Venancio Gomani Jr
Download or read book Ghost Tribes written by Venancio Gomani Jr and published by Venancio Gomani Books. This book was released on with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost Tribes takes place in a semi-fictional verisimilitude of the continent of Africa wherein which all the tribes are ruled by kings, smaller breakaway tribes are ruled by chiefs, and all are governed by the council of paramount—a legion of the noble tribes of the continent. The principal story follows the tale of Likando and the war of the brother kings. Likando is the Lozi tribe’s princess, heir-elect to the throne, and the only legitimate child of the Lozi king, Simasiku Lumeta. However, growing without the presence of her mother, and her father never having told her the story of who her mother is or where she is or if she is even alive today, causes her to begin searching for the truth against her father’s permission and/or consent. She stumbles upon darker truths that result in her to learn that her birth may not have been a result of love or mere chance, but a carefully considered and planned series of events. This leads the princess into taking courses of action that bring her tribe, family, and overall kingdom to the brink of near-extinction. The second part of the tale which begins eight years before the events of the first novel follows the story of Kaleya, the lost son of nothing who, after waking up alone in the jungle with no memory of his identity or his past prior, goes on a quest to discover the truth behind his stolen memories but entangles himself in a series of circumstances that result in him having to fight for his survival more often than not. The second part of the story simultaneously chronicles the Ghost of Africa, an enigma thought to be a demon that terrorizes tribes around a territory it claimed as its own three years before the events of the novel. Before the Ghost of Africa occupied the territory it occupies, there lived a thriving tribe with an organized structure and an army of possessed soldiers, ten thousand strong. However, when the Ghost of Africa first emerged, it led an army of exiled tribesmen-turned cannibal, who form the population referred to as the cannibals tribeless in the millions, against the growing tribe and thus, overwhelming its army and having the cannibals devour the raw flesh of the men, women, and children of the tribe. After wiping out of existence the tribe that existed in its territory prior, the demon goes on to fence that very territory with the skulls of the tribe’s populist on barbed wooden stakes in the hundreds of thousands all around that territory as a warning for anyone who ever dared to trespass. The first book in the series, The Ghost of Africa, opens with Likando, the heir-elect to the Lozi throne, preparing for the maturity ceremony who gets ambushed by a gang of purported ‘mixed-breeds’. This series of events leads her to come face-to-face with the Ghost of Africa.
Book Synopsis Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward II. (5 v. ) by : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Download or read book Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward II. (5 v. ) written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800–1870 by : John Hoyt Williams
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800–1870 written by John Hoyt Williams and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paraguay plays a very small role in the modern world, but for part of the nineteenth century it was a significant regional force. Between 1800 and 1865 it changed from an imperial backwater into a dynamic, dictator-led, financially sound nation. Then came the terrible War of the Triple Alliance, and by 1870 Paraguay had virtually been destroyed. John Hoyt Williams re-creates the era’s people, places, and events in rich detail and a vigorous style, but this is much more than a mere narrative. His archival research in Paraguay and several other countries enables him to offer new facts and interpretations, correct a number of misapprehensions, and explode a few myths. He also provides the clearest, most objective portraits available of the three extraordinary men who ruled Paraguay during this time: Dr. José Gaspar de Francia, “El Supremo”; Carlos Antonio López, “the Corpulent Despot”; and López’s flamboyant son Francisco Solano López. Discussions of social, economic, and cultural conditions round out a masterly account of a remarkable historical period.
