Download or read book Glennings from the Desert of Arabia 1881 written by Roger D. Upton and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Download or read book Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia written by Roger Dawson Upton and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. NOTES AND REMARKS. I BELIEVE most, if not all, genuine Arabs have a very good idea of a horse, and the Badaween of the interior desert have a consummate knowledge and a very just appreciation of a horse's merits, of his external form in general, and of points and sensorial organs in detail, certainly beyond what is known by the general run of people in this country. The names given by the Arabs to different points of the horse, unknown to the townsmen generally, show that they have a knowledge of comparative anatomy. Thus Reshek, a word expressing the metacarpals in man, is used to describe the same in the horse, i.e. from the knee to the fetlock-)omts. Again, Akab, the human heel, is the word used to denote the hock, the corresponding joint in the horse, and it is astonishing how few, comparatively speaking, in this country know that the heel in man corresponds with the hock in the horse. Upon inquiry, and on comparing notes, both on a horse's form (i.e. his physical structure) and on the subject of breeding, and indeed in all matters connected with horses, we found that they know as much as the best informed among ourselves. Indeed, we might learn from them, or as they quietly say in reply to any remark, " We know all that as well as you can tell us." This is a fitting opportunity to allude to the supposition that certain marks or small scars on the ears of a horse indicate him to be of a good family and of high blood. Travellers and writers have stated that the ears of the high-bred Arabian foal are stitched together to acquire an habitual pricked position, and Europeans look about for these supposed signs of high breeding. The sign of high breeding in the ear is a naturally beautiful form of the ear, and the position and...
Download or read book Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia written by Roger D. Upton and published by London : C.K. Paul. This book was released on 1881 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Kinship and Beyond written by Sandra Bamford and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model--in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission--structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled "kinship." The detailed ethnographic work and analysis included in this text explores how these assumptions have been built into our understandings of race, personhood, ethnicity, property relations, and the relationship between human beings and non-human species. The authors explore the influences of the genealogical model of kinship in wider social theory and examine anthropology's ability to provide a unique framework capable of bridging the "social" and "natural" sciences. In doing so, this volume brings fresh new perspectives to bear on contemporary theories concerning biotechnology and its effect upon social life.
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