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Book Food and Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Goody
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781859848296
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Food and Love written by Jack Goody and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Food and Love, Jack Goody surveys phenomena as diverse as the uniqueness of the European family, the development of romantic love, the evolution of national and regional cuisines, and the globalization of Chinese food, effortlessly incorporating fascinating examples ranging from Europe to Asia and Africa. Throughout the book, Goody shows that the ethnocentricity of much of Western scholarship has distorted not only the comprehension of the East but also of developments in Europe's past and present.

Book Carribean Fish Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zaneveld
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-12-14
  • ISBN : 9004631909
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Carribean Fish Life written by Zaneveld and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth  Ritual and the Oral

Download or read book Myth Ritual and the Oral written by Jack Goody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, subjects that have long been a touchstone in anthropological thinking. Combining classic papers with recent unpublished work, this volume brings together some of the most important essays written on these themes in the past half century, representative of a lifetime of critical engagement and research. In characteristically clear and accessible style, Jack Goody addresses fundamental conceptual schemes underpinning modern anthropology, providing potent critiques of current theoretical trends. Drawing upon his highly influential work on the LoDagaa myth of the Bagre, Goody challenges structuralist and functionalist interpretations of oral 'literature', stressing the issues of variation, imagination and creativity, and the problems of methodology and analysis. These insightful, and at times provocative, essays will stimulate fresh debate and prove invaluable to students and teachers of social anthropology.

Book African Oral Literature

Download or read book African Oral Literature written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." —Reviews in Anthropology " . . . the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most important authority writing on African oral literature right now . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Truly a tour de force of individual scholarship . . . " —World Literature Today " . . . excellent . . . " —African Affairs " . . . a thorough synthesis of the main issues of oral literature criticism, as well as a grounding in experienced fieldwork, a wide-ranging theoretical base, and a clarity of argument rare among academics." —Multicultural Review "This is a breathtakingly ambitious project . . . " —Harold Scheub " . . . a definitive accounting of the evidence of living oral traditions in Africa today. Professor Okpewho's authority as an expert in this important new field is unrivaled." —Gregory Nagy "Isidore Okpewho's African Oral Literature is a marvelous piece of scholarship and wide-ranging research. It presents the most comprehensive survey of the field of oral literature in Africa." —Emmanuel Obiechina " . . . a tour de force of scholarship in which Okpewho casts his net across the African continent, searching for its verbal forms through voluminous recent writings and presents African oral literature in a new voice, proclaiming the literariness of African folklore." —Dan Ben-Amos "This is an outstanding book by a scholar whose work has already influenced how African literature should be conceived. . . . Professor Okpewho is a scholar with a special talent to nurture scholarship in others. After this work, African literature will never be the same." —Mazisi Kunene Isidore Okpewho, for many years Professor of English at the University of Ibadan, is one of the handful of African scholars who has facilitated the growth of African oral literature to its status today as a literary enterprise concerned with the artistic foundations of human culture. This comprehensive critical work firmly establishes oral literature as a landmark of high artistic achievement and situates it within the broader framework of contemporary African culture.

Book New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures  Languages and Cultures

Download or read book New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures Languages and Cultures written by Dannabang Kuwabong and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume showcases new research on popular academic topics in Ghana. Its wide range of focus across disciplines includes topics such as pidgin, performing apologies and politeness, music, the argument for adopting geographical indications (GI) policies for Ghana’s unique agricultural products, and the poetics of names, among many others. It will appeal particularly to students pursuing degrees in Africana and Ghanaian studies.

Book Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America

Download or read book Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America written by Roberto E. Reis and published by EDIPUCRS. This book was released on 2003 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elsevier s Dictionary of Fishery  Processing  Fish and Shellfish Names of the World

Download or read book Elsevier s Dictionary of Fishery Processing Fish and Shellfish Names of the World written by R. Negedly and published by . This book was released on 1990-10-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained in this dictionary are terms and names arranged in alphabetical order covering the following areas: fisheries engineering, fishing methods, fishing vessels, deck equipment, fish processing, fish processing equipment, fish products, fish farming, inland fishery, fishery biology, ichthyology, names of crustaceans, moluscs and marine mammals. The names include all the fauna of economic or potential interest to fisheries from all the oceans and freshwaters of the world. The dictionary contains every category of name: local, vernacular and common, with official names (names used by international organizations and institutions) stated as the first name for each species. The original spelling as taken from a given source has been used. The appendices comprise a table of catch units and a list of abbreviations of international institutions, organizations, programmes and other fishery and related terms. The dictionary is intended to be of assistance to all those involved with fish or fish industry in everyday practice as well as in translating scientific articles.

Book The Singing Mountaineers

Download or read book The Singing Mountaineers written by José María Arguedas and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by José María Arguedas and María Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca dialect, are now presented for the first time in English in the beautiful translations of Ruth Stephan, author of the recent prize-winning novel, The Flight. Also included in this rich collection are nine folk tales collected by Father Jorge A. Lira, translated into Spanish by Sr. Arguedas, and into English by Kate and Angel Flores.

Book Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Fara
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998-09-03
  • ISBN : 9780521572101
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Memory written by Patricia Fara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging volume for the general reader explores how individuals and societies remember, forget and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory, with leading experts from the arts and sciences. We might expect scientists to be concerned with studying just the mental and physical processes involved in remembering, and humanities scholars to be interested in the products of memory, such as books, statues and music. This collection exposes the falseness of such a dichotomy, illustrating the insights into memory which can be gained by juxtaposing the complementary perspectives of specialists venturing beyond the normal boundaries of their disciplines. The authors come from backgrounds as diverse as psychoanalysis, creative writing, neuroscience, social history and medicine.

Book Brazil

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Office of Geography
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 944 pages

Download or read book Brazil written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes

Download or read book Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes written by T.M. Zaret and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1980, near the whistlestop of Maltby, Surely, we would plead, the U. S. A. , a wealthy Washington, Don Stewart and I met in my rented nation,can fund our proposal if only as a gesture of house trailer to sketch a proposal to the National support to foreign scientists. Somehow, however, Science Foundation. Our goal was simple: to re we seemed to miss deadlines, fall in-between the quest from the Foundation air fare and per diem for cracks, and miss the right connections. It was not approximately 20 Latin American scientists to at until May, 1982, several weeks before the proposed tend a workshop entitled the 'Systematics and workshop, that we realized we could not find any Evolutionary Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater funds for bringing Latin American scientists to the Fishes' that would follow the 1982 ASIH (Ameri U. S. The programs for the meeting had been can Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) printed, the meal coupons, banquet tickets, and all meeting. We had presented an initial outline for our the other amenities that come with a professional proposal to a number ofcolleagues in . June of 1980 meeting were ready, but we had no Latin American at the ASIH meeting at Texas Christian University ichthyologists as participants. Some abstracts were in Fort Worth, Texas. The steering committee for being received by the program organizers, but the workshop, consisting of a dozen senior scien without U. S.

Book Balancing Hydropower and Freshwater Environments in the Global South

Download or read book Balancing Hydropower and Freshwater Environments in the Global South written by Pierre Girard and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Field Guide to the Commercial Marine and Brackish water Resources of the Northern Coast of South America

Download or read book Field Guide to the Commercial Marine and Brackish water Resources of the Northern Coast of South America written by Fernando Cervigón and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This field guide covers the major fishery resource group occurring along the norther coast of South America, including seaweeds, gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods, stomatopods, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, sharks, batoid fishes, bony fishes, and marine turtles. The introduction includes a detailed description of the boundaries and the geophysical, oceanographic and ecological features of the area, the distribution and nature of the main fishing grounds, the species dominating in each habitat, and the fishing techniques used.

Book Creating the Qur   an

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen J. Shoemaker
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-07-26
  • ISBN : 0520389034
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Creating the Qur an written by Stephen J. Shoemaker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional narrative of the Qur'an's origins : a scholarly sunnism -- 'Abd Al-Malik, Al-Ḥajjāj, and the composition of the Qur'an -- Radiocarbon dating and the origins of the Qur'an -- The Hijaz in late antiquity : social and economic conditions in the cradle of the Qur'an -- Literacy, orality, and the Qur'an's linguistic environment -- Remembering Muhammad : perspectives from memory science -- Re-remembering Muhammad : oral tradition and collective memory -- The Qur'anic codex as process : writing sacred tradition in late antiquity -- The Qur'an's historical context according to the Qur'an.

Book Rivers of North America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael D. Delong
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release : 2023-04-20
  • ISBN : 0128188480
  • Pages : 1109 pages

Download or read book Rivers of North America written by Michael D. Delong and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 1109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers of North America, Second Edition features new updates on rivers included in the first edition, as well as brand new information on additional rivers. This new edition expands the knowledge base, providing readers with a broader comparative approach to understand both the common and distinct attributes of river networks. The first edition addressed the three primary disciplines of river science: hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology. This new edition expands upon the interactive nature of these disciplines, showing how they define the organization of a riverine landscape and its processes. An essential resource for river scientists working in ecology, hydrology, and geomorphology. Provides a single source of information on North America’s major rivers Features authoritative information on more than 200 rivers from regional specialists Includes full-color photographs and topographical maps to illustrate the beauty, major features, and uniqueness of each river system Offers one-page summaries help readers quickly find key statistics and make comparisons among rivers

Book The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic  Bony fishes  pt  2  Opistognathidae to Molidae  Sea turtles and marine mammals

Download or read book The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic Bony fishes pt 2 Opistognathidae to Molidae Sea turtles and marine mammals written by Kent E. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: