Download or read book Cult of the Sacred Spear written by Brian Hugh MacDermot and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1972 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the author's experiences among the Nuer Includes index.
Download or read book The Slain God written by Timothy Larsen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the relationship between the discipline of anthropology and the Christian faith. It explores how leading anthropologists have come to believe that ethnographic findings and evidence made Christianity no longer tenable.
Download or read book The Listening Ebony written by Wendy James and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notions of the person and of the foundations of bodily and moral experience lie at the heart of this ethnographic volume devoted to the Uduk-speaking people of Sudan. A new introduction looks at how Uduk villages were destroyed in the war in 1987.
Download or read book Playing Different Games written by Dereje Feyissa and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on ethnicity and its relation to conflict, this book goes beyond sterile debates about whether ethnic identities are ‘natural’ or ‘socially constructed’. Rather, ethnic identity takes different forms. Some ethnic boundaries are perceived by the actors themselves as natural, while others are perceived to be permeable. The argument is substantiated through a comparative analysis of ethnic identity formation and ethnic conflict among the Anywaa and the Nuer in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia. The Anywaa and the Nuer are not just two ethnic groups but two kinds of ethnic groups. Conflicts between the Anywaa and Nuer are explained with reference to three variables: varying modes of identity formation, competition over resources and differential incorporation into the state system.
Download or read book Seven Tribes Part 1 The Spear s Point written by Eric Guindon and published by Melancholy Stegosaurus Press. This book was released on with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Exciting and Different Fantasy Series Begins! Seven Tribes Part 1: The Spear's Point is the first novella of a new epic series. Thirteen escaped the doom of the Old World. Through an unlikely path they found a New World; but they brought the doom with them. From the Thirteen, Seven Tribes were formed. Through years of suffering they worked to contain the doom. Now, almost a thousand years later, a great army of the Seven Tribes goes to take the war to the enemy. But who remains to watch over home? This is their story. ˃˃˃ First book in a series of five!
Download or read book Race to Fashoda written by David Levering Lewis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Levering Lewis is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University and was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 received the Bancroft, Parkman, and Pulitzer Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award.
Download or read book Sulhan written by Richard Gorman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a deep, rich and truly fantastical world where charm and legend are woven into the very fabric of reality. Exploration, intrigue, conflict and adventure await you at every turn. Opportunity and danger and stalk your path from the soaring solar towers of Imperial Mandar and the demon haunted wastes of war shattered Izahar to the labyrinthine nightmare ziggurats of Horounisal and beyond. Between these covers you'll discover - - Unique, challenging and extraordinary character races - A vast array of monstrous and magical phenomena - Engrossing backgrounds for a host of major cultures - A coherent and comprehensive cosmography, geography, climate, history and ecology - An adventure packed introductory campaign setting - A collection of detailed regional maps - More fun than you can poke a stick at! Sulhan is a unique Fantasy setting written for the Horizons fantasy role-playing game but easily adaptable to other rules systems.
Download or read book Secrets of the Holy Lance written by Jerry E. Smith and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither debunking nor worshiping, Smith pierces the veil of myth and mystery around the Holy Lance--the spear that pierced the side of Jesus Christ on the cross. Illustrations.
Download or read book Readings in Sexualities from Africa written by Rachel Spronk and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images and stories about African sexuality abound in today's globalized media. Frequently old stereotypes and popular opinion inform these stories, and sex in the media is predominately approached as a problem in need of solutions and intervention. The authors gathered here refuse an easy characterization of African sexuality and instead seek to understand the various erotic realities, sexual practices, and gendered changes taking place across the continent. They present a nuanced and comprehensive overview of the field of sex and sexuality in Africa to serve as a guide though the quickly expanding literature. This collection offers a set of texts that use sexuality as a prism for studying how communities coalesce against the canvas of larger political and economic contexts and how personal lives evolve therein. Scholars working in Africa, the U.S., and Europe reflect on issues of representation, health and bio-politics, same-sex relationships and identity, transactional economies of sex, religion and tradition, and the importance of pleasure and agency. This multidimensional reader provides a comprehensive view of sexuality from an African perspective.
Download or read book American Journal of Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuer Dilemmas written by Sharon E. Hutchinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-05-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not just a brilliant restudy of one of anthropology's most famous 'peoples' but an exemplary historical ethnography that will be a landmark in the discipline. . . . With extraordinary sensitivity Hutchinson reveals how the Nuer have confronted the most profound moral, social, and political dilemmas of their—and our—changing world."—Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Writing Women's Worlds
Download or read book Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures written by David W. Kim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism. In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of contemporary history.
Download or read book Religion of the Gods written by Kimberley Christine Patton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many of the world's religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic, a seemingly enigmatic and paradoxical image is found--that of the god who worships. Various interpretations of this seeming paradox have been advanced. Some suggest that it represents sacrifice to a higher deity. Proponents of anthropomorphic projection say that the gods are just "big people" and that images of human religious action are simply projected onto the deities. However, such explanations do not do justice to the complexity and diversity of this phenomenon.In Religion of the Gods, Kimberley C. Patton uses a comparative approach to take up anew a longstanding challenge in ancient Greek religious iconography: why are the Olympian gods depicted on classical pottery making libations? The sacrificing gods in ancient Greece are compared to gods who perform rituals in six other religious traditions: the Vedic gods, the heterodox god Zurvan of early Zoroastrianism, the Old Norse god Odin, the Christian God and Christ, the God of Judaism, and Islam's Allah. Patton examines the comparative evidence from a cultural and historical perspective, uncovering deep structural resonances while also revealing crucial differences.Instead of looking for invisible recipients or lost myths, Patton proposes the new category of "divine reflexivity." Divinely performed ritual is a self-reflexive, self-expressive action that signals the origin of ritual in the divine and not the human realm. Above all, divine ritual is generative, both instigating and inspiring human religious activity. The religion practiced by the gods is both like and unlike human religious action. Seen from within the religious tradition, gods are not "big people," but other than human. Human ritual is directed outward to a divine being, but the gods practice ritual on their own behalf. "Cultic time," the symbiotic performance of ritual both in heaven and on earth, collapses the distinction between cult and theology each time ritual is performed. Offering the first comprehensive study and a new theory of this fascinating phenomenon, Religion of the Gods is a significant contribution to the fields of classics and comparative religion. Patton shows that the god who performs religious action is not an anomaly, but holds a meaningful place in the category of ritual and points to a phenomenologically universal structure within religion itself.
Download or read book American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropology Art and Aesthetics written by Jeremy Coote and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthropology of art is a fast-developing area of intellectual debate and academic study. This beautifully illustrated volume is a unique survey of the current state of anthropological thinking on art and aesthetics. The distinguished contributors draw on contemporary anthropological theory and on classic anthropological topics such as myth and ritual to deepen our understanding of particular aesthetic traditions in their socio-cultural and historical contexts. Many of the essays present new findings based on recent field research in Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and Mexico; while others draw on classical anthropological accounts of the Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia and the Nuer of the Southern Sudan to form new arguments and conclusions. The introductory overview of the history of the anthropology of art, by Sir Raymond Firth, makes this volume especially useful for those interested in learning what anthropology has to contribute to our understanding of art and aesthetics in general.
Download or read book Knot of Stone written by Nicolaas Vergunst and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical fiction on South Africa.
Download or read book Encyclop dia of Religion and Ethics Suffering Zwingli written by James Hastings and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1922 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles on all the religions of the world and the great systems of ethics; on every religious belief or custom and ethical movement; on every philosophical idea and moral practice. The Encyclopaedia embraces the whole range of theology and philosophy, together with aspects of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology. Every article has been prepared by specialists. Includes bibliographies and index.
