Download or read book Shamanic and Mythic Cultures of Ethnic Peoples in Northern China I written by Fu Yuguang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the basis of first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author’s insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations extending back to the Qing dynasty, ancient archaeological discoveries, and the legacy of Siberian peoples, this two-volume ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths, and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region’s cultures. Drawing from numerous oral myths, ancient documents, and archaeological findings, this first volume discusses the spiritual world of northern shamanism and investigates the various rituals, including ancestor worship, fertility, nature deities, blood sacrifice and rites, the worshiping of nature, and shrines. The book illuminates how these rituals and worships, animism, and ideas of the soul are imbedded in and interweave with the indigenous environment, culture, and history of the clans and people of northern China. The book will be of great value to scholars of religion and to both anthropologists and ethnologists in the fields of shamanism studies, Northeast Asian folklore, and Manchu studies.
Download or read book Ethnic Snake written by Snake Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snakes are vertebrates. The bodies of snakes have no feet, flippers or legs to propel them along. Snakes have a unique anatomy which allows them to swallow and digest large prey. This Snakes Notebook can be used as a journal, travel notebook, diary, business / office notebook, gift, school journal, daily planner or organizer, for animal lovers, students or teens, etc. - Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" - 120 pages - Softcover Bookbinding - Flexible Paperback
Download or read book Ethnic Snake written by Snake Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snakes are vertebrates. The bodies of snakes have no feet, flippers or legs to propel them along. Snakes have a unique anatomy which allows them to swallow and digest large prey. This Snakes Notebook can be used as a journal, travel notebook, diary, business / office notebook, gift, school journal, daily planner or organizer, for animal lovers, students or teens, etc. - Perfectly sized at 6" x 9" - 120 pages - Softcover Bookbinding - Flexible Paperback
Download or read book Black Snake written by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Snake tells the story of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline through the activism of four women from Standing Rock and Fort Berthold Reservations.
Download or read book Negative Ethnicity written by Koigi Wa Wamwere and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues that these clashes cannot properly be described as ethnically motivated; ethnicity, a positive distinction, has nothing of the hatred here at work. Negative Ethnicity gives a new picture of the force behind untold deaths on the continent, dispelling the myth of an intractable conflict waged along simple, ancient lines. Negative Ethnicity explains the roots, colonial and pre-colonial, of the current "ethnic" tensions. It goes on to describe how, for most Africans, ethnic identity is ambiguous, and analyzes why that fact is obscured. The culprits are many: chronic poverty, a broken education system, preying dictators, corrupt officials, the colonial legacy of hate, the ongoing exploitation of the West. Negative Ethnicity is both a history and a manual for change, intended to introduce Westerners to the crisis and to give Africans a new understanding of it. Perhaps never before has the problem been addressed with such clarity and insight.
Download or read book Don The Snake Prudhomme My Life Beyond the 1320 written by Elana Scherr and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don "The Snake" Prudhomme reveals for the first time ever his incredible life and career on and off of the drag strip.
Imagine spending a year with Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, having coffee together and talking about his life, his racing, his friends, and his family. He’d tell you about how he rose from being a high school drop-out who was painting cars to a respected Top Fuel dragster driver and successful businessman. You’d hear how he toured the country with Tommy Ivo and "The Hawaiian" Roland Leong, racing all the legends from "Big Daddy" Don Garlits to "The Golden Greek" [Chris] Karamesines. He'd say how he met Tom McEwen and recall how they became the Snake and the Mongoose, leading to a career in Funny Cars that netted him four championships in a row. He'd talk about the thrill of first wins and owning his own teams but also the struggles of bad seasons, crashes and fires, broken parts, and broken contracts. Along the way, he’d speak about the people in his life, such as engine-builder Keith Black and NHRA president Wally Parks, and those who were killed in the wild and unpredictable sport of nitro racing. It wouldn’t be only racing, though. Prudhomme would share lessons he learned about business and life from such varied sources as a neighbor in Granada Hills to Ford GT40 driver Dan Gurney. He also would talk about the importance of family: how his wife, Lynn, and daughter, Donna, changed his world and how finding out about his African-American roots opened his eyes to a culture and inheritance he’d always wanted. This is the experience you’ll get in Don "The Snake" Prudhomme: My Life Beyond the 1320.
Download or read book Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia written by Henry N. Michael and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1963-12-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated, because of the lack of field work or because the materials on them had not been analysed and published. Levin has reviewed the old materials, gathered and analysed hitherto unpublished ones, and personally surveyed many of the peoples as a member of the Russian Northeastern Expedition. He makes use of all the data of physical anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, and linguistics on the peoples he describes and has thus provided a definitive work on a nearly forgotten segment of mankind inhabiting an extensive territory. Volume III in the series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America and under the general editorship of H.N. Michael, Temple University.
Download or read book Ethnic Identity written by Lola Romanucci-Ross and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1995 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disscusses ethnic identity in contemporary subjects
Download or read book National Cultural and Ethnic Identities written by Jaroslav Hroch (ed) and published by Crvp. This book was released on 1998 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Attitudes Knowledge and Behaviors Toward Animals written by Stephen R. Kellert and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic objectives of this research, which involved children in the 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th grades, were to describe children's uses and perceptions of animals and to discern possible developmental stages in the evolution of attitudes toward animals. Personal interviews were conducted with 267 children from 16 public schools randomly selected from urban, small city, suburban, and rural areas of the state of Connecticut. Three major developmental stages in the evolution of children's perceptions of animals were found. The first stage, occurring from the 2nd to 5th grade, was characterized by a dramatic increase in emotional concern and general affection for animals. Since very young children were the most exploitative, harsh, and unfeeling of all children in their attitudes toward animals, environmental programs should focus on the affective realm. The transition from fifth to eighth grades witnessed the second major developmental stage--a major expansion in children's intellectual and cognitive understandings of animals. Therefore, factual learning should be emphasized at this stage. The third developmental stage occurred between 8th and 11th grades, during which time children's ethical concern for the welfare and kind treatment of animals increased dramatically. This stage offers the best opportunity for teaching about ethical relationships to animals and the concepts of ecology and wildlife management. (RM).
Download or read book Hot Wheels Let s Race Snake Attack written by Eric Geron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed beginning reader based on Hot Wheels Let’s Race, debuting on Netflix in March 2024. Ready, set, race! Look out, Hot Wheels City! An evil scientist and a giant cobra are attacking the city. To defeat these villains, the racers from the Ultimate Garage are going to have to put the pedal to the medal in the GT Scorcher™, Tricera-Truck™, Solid Muscle, and Tooligan™. Challenge accepted! Inspired by Hot Wheels, the number-one selling toy in the world, Hot Wheels Let’s Race is an action-packed comedy series for kids, and follows the newest generation of racers: Coop, Spark, Mac, Brights, Axle, and Sidecar as they attend a racing camp that always puts the pedal to the metal. Through mind-blowing races, extreme stunt contests, and thrill-seeking challenges, Hot Wheels Let’s Race is a show that kids and the whole family can enjoy.
Download or read book The Snake s Pass written by Bram Stoker and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, The Snake’s Pass was published in serialized form in the periodical The People. It is the story of Arthur Severn, an Englishman who has inherited wealth and a title through an aunt who took him under her wing to the exclusion of closer relations. His inheritance includes land in Ireland, and now that he is a man of leisure, he decides to tour the west of Ireland. As Bram Stoker’s first full-length novel, The Snake’s Pass is a heady blend of romance, travel narrative, adventure tale, folk tradition, and national tale. This early novel shows that, long before Dracula, Stoker used the genre of the novel to engage with questions of identity, gender, ethnic stereotype, and imperialism. In this critical edition, Buchelt offers detailed and studied insight into both the novel and Stoker’s life, demonstrating the significance of The Snake’s Pass within the canon of late Victorian literature. The supplementary textual notes, scholarly material, and critical responses enhance the novel without distracting from the text. Readers will find a complexly layered and nuanced work that presents a pointed critique of British cultural attitudes and political positions concerning the Irish and Ireland.
Download or read book Fantastic Stories of Chinese Ethnic Peoples 1 written by 梅子涵主编 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 《中华民族奇幻故事集1》里收录的是中国故事。是中国很多民族的故事。是有神奇灵感、神奇本领的故事。是美丽的故事，勇敢的故事，善良的故事，诗意盎然的故事，当然也有罪有应得的故事。是有很多的中国道理和智慧的故事。《中华民族奇幻故事集1》不仅介绍了汉族、蒙古族、回族、藏族、维吾尔族等民族的神话传说，还介绍了各民族的风俗文化，集知识性和趣味性为一体，情节生动，语言通俗有趣，能让广大读者在阅读故事的同时，加深了解我国各民族的经典文化。本书为英文版。
Download or read book Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America written by William H. Beezley and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music has been critical to national identity in Latin America, especially since the worldwide emphasis on nations and cultural identity that followed World War I. Unlike European countries with unified ethnic populations, Latin American nations claimed blended ethnicities--indigenous, Caucasian, African, and Asian--and the process of national stereotyping that began in the 1920s drew on themes of indigenous and African cultures. Composers and performers drew on the folklore and heritage of ethnic and immigrant groups in different nations to produce what became the music representative of different countries. Mexico became the nation of mariachi bands, Argentina the land of the tango, Brazil the country of Samba, and Cuba the island of Afro-Cuban rhythms, including the rhumba. The essays collected here offer a useful introduction to the twin themes of music and national identity and melodies and ethnic identification. The contributors examine a variety of countries where powerful historical movements were shaped intentionally by music.
Download or read book Cultural Archives of Atrocity written by Muriungi Columba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on the aesthetic representations of atrocity the world over have taken different discursive dimensions from history, sociology, political to human rights. These perspectives are usually geared towards understanding the manifestations, extent, political and economic implications of atrocities. In all these cases, representation has been the singular concern. Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society brings together generic ways of interrogating artistic representations of atrocity in Kenya. Couched on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches, essays in this volume investigate representations of Atrocity in Kenyan Literature, Film, Popular Music and other mediated cultural art forms. Contributors to this volume not only bring on board multiple and competing perspectives on studying atrocity and how they are archived but provide refreshing and valuable insights in examining the artistic and cultural interpellations of atrocity within the socio-political imaginaries of the Kenyan nation. This volume forms part of the growing critical resources for scholars undertaking studies on atrocity within the fields of ethnic studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, peace and conflict, criminology, psychology, political economy and history in Kenya.
Download or read book Charms Charmers and Charming written by J. Roper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. As the most comprehensive collection of research on charms, charmers and charming available in the English language, it forms an essential reader on the topic.
Download or read book Made in Mexico written by W. Warner Wood and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind the international trade in Oaxacan textiles
