Download or read book Austronesian Art and Genius written by J. G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come on a journey to discover an ancient lost city that could tell us about our Austronesian ancestors. Learn about their amazing art, and see how that leads us to an understanding of their inspirational genius. When we recognize the Austronesian Art and Genius, we will begin to see it everywhere...even in ourselves
Download or read book The Austronesian Dilemma written by J.G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book opened our eyes to the amazing art and inspirational genius of our Austronesian ancestors. It leads us to the question of 'what happened to them?'. Book 2, The Austronesian Dilemma seeks to answer this question by allowing nephrite jade artifacts and ancient texts tell the story.
Download or read book The Austronesian Story in Western Zhou Bronze written by J.G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austronesian Art and Genius brought us on a journey of discovery Book 2, The Austronesian Dilemma explored the abundant jade artifacts left by our ancestors to find answers to the questions of our past. In the 3rd book of the Austronesian series, The Austronesian Story in Western Zhou Bronze, we listen to the story told by ancient bronze vessels found on the Philippine islands and correlate them with similar artifacts of Classical China. These bronze vessels made in the piece-mold casting method were able to hold extremely fine detail, including ancient texts that captured historical events, giving us a precious opportunity to learn about the past as narrated by those who were actually there.
Download or read book Austronesian Myth or History written by J.G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to the story told by our ancestors in the myths and legends, treasured and preserved through the ages. A narrative passed on through words and graphic images that come to life as we shine a light on our past in order to understand the present, and prepare for our future.
Download or read book Prehistoric Philippine Money written by J.G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical records revealed in Prehistoric Philippine Money becomes an valuable resource about our past, preserved in the treasures of our ancestors.Money is essential and flourish. This book serves to shine a light on the sophistication and capabilities of our amazing ancestors from the beginning it also reveals the wealth of international connections they had from antiquity. an abundance of currencies from numerous ancient peoples that are found in the Philippines remain a silent but convincing witness to the truth of our histories.
Download or read book Handbook to Ruling the World written by J.G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 3,000 year old step-by-step guide on how to destroy nations and bring them to the point where Colonizers are welcomed and loved, while making them despise their own land and people. These amazing ancient secret methods to Ruling the World, written by King Wen of the Zhou dynasty, may still be observed in practice today.
Download or read book The First World War You Never Learned About written by J.G. Cheock and published by J.G. Cheock. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bronze Age was indisputably a time of war. Warriors raised weapons against each other. Cities fought battles with cities. Nations campaigned against nations. But did the nations ever come together from every known continent to bear arms in a bloody war that affected world history? A war whose glorious story continues to be sung in epics around the world?
Download or read book Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages written by Victoria Rau and published by Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a National Foreign Language Resource Center conference volume and special issue of Language Documentation and Conservation, an open-access journal (http: //nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/).
Download or read book African Pacific and Pre Columbian Art in the Indiana University Art Museum written by Indiana University, Bloomington. Art Museum and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genius of Kinship written by German Valentinovich Dziebel and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dziebel has doctorates in both history and anthropology and is currently both advisor to the Great Russian Encyclopedia and senior anthropologist at Crispin Porter + Bogusky advertising agency. His extremely dense work is actually three books in one. The first is a history of kinship studies from the early 19th century to the present. The second is a comparative study of kinship terminology among non-Indo-European languages, for which he has also prepared a data base published on the internet. The third section, highly controversial, as he admits, uses anthropology, mitochondrial studies and linguistics to suggest that the "out of Africa" model of human origins may be in error and that the first humans actually came from the Americas and spread from there to the rest of the world.
Download or read book Spirits and Ships written by Andrea Acri and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to foreground a borderless history and geography of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be maritime-focused, and thereby explore the ancient connections and dynamics of interaction that favoured the encounters among the cultures found throughout the region stretching from the Indian Ocean littorals to the Western Pacific, from the early historical period to the present. Transcending the artificial boundaries of macro-regions and nation-states, and trying to bridge the arbitrary divide between (inherently cosmopolitan) high cultures (e.g. Sanskritic, Sinitic, or Islamicate) and local or indigenous cultures, this multidisciplinary volume explores the metaphor of Monsoon Asia as a vast geo-environmental area inhabited by speakers of numerous language phyla, which for millennia has formed an integrated system of littorals where crops, goods, ideas, cosmologies, and ritual practices circulated on the sea-routes governed by the seasonal monsoon winds. The collective body of work presented in the volume describes Monsoon Asia as an ideal theatre for circulatory dynamics of cultural transfer, interaction, acceptance, selection, and avoidance, and argues that, despite the rich ethnic, linguistic and sociocultural diversity, a shared pattern of values, norms, and cultural models is discernible throughout the region.
Download or read book Paintings and the Past written by Ivan Gaskell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for pictorial meaning in paintings yields limited results and should be replaced by attempts to define the point of such things, which is cumulative and ever subject to change. He shows that while it is not possible to define what art is—other than being an open kind—it is possible to define what a painting is, as a species of drawing, regardless of whether that painting is an artwork or not at any given time. The book demonstrates that things can be artworks on some occasions but not necessarily on others, though it is easier for a thing to acquire artwork status than to lose it. That is, the movement of a thing into and out of the artworld is not symmetrical. All such considerations are properly matters not of ontology—what is and what is not an artwork—but of use; that is, how a thing might or might not function as an artwork under any given circumstances. These considerations necessarily affect the approach to paintings that at any given time might be able to function as an artwork or might not be able to function as such. Only by taking these factors into account can anyone make viable knowledge about the past. This lively discussion ranges over innumerable examples of paintings, from Rembrandt to Rothko, as well as plenty of far less familiar material from contemporary Catholic devotional works to the Chinese avant garde. Its aim is to enhance philosophical acuity in respect of the analysis of paintings, and to increase their amenability to philosophically satisfying historical use. Paintings and the Past is a must-read for all advanced students and scholars concerned with philosophy of art, aesthetics, historical method, and art history.
Download or read book The Art of Not Being Governed written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
Download or read book Art International written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encounters in the Arts Literature and Philosophy written by Jérôme Brillaud and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts, texts, and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting. With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology, and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century, while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches.
Download or read book Claude L vi Strauss written by Maurice Godelier and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology As a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Lévi-Strauss’s assistant. Since then, Godelier has drawn on this experience to develop a profound and intimate grasp on the writings of his former teacher, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched, Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought will prove indispensable to students of Lévi-Strauss and to structural anthropologists more generally. It is a compelling and comprehensive study destined to become the definitive work on the evolution of Lévi-Strauss’s ideas, at the heart of which lies his analysis of kinship and myth.
Download or read book Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries written by David G. Marr and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Asia has sometimes been portrayed as a static place. In the ninth to fourteenth centuries, however, the region experienced extensive trade, bitter wars, kingdoms rising and falling, ethnic groups on the move, the construction of impressive monuments and debate about profound religious issues. Readers of this volume will learn much of how people lived in Southeast Asia five hundred to one thousand years ago; the region today cannot be comprehended without reference to the seminal developments of that period.
