Download or read book Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.
Download or read book A Book of Indonesian Ghosts written by Aulia Khairunnisa and published by StoryTale Studios. This book was released on with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what kind of supernatural beings that are considered frightening in another culture? The way of perceiving horror in one particular culture might be different to another because the values and concept of frightening phenomena that we perceive might be different as well. Through A Book of Indonesian Ghost, StoryTale Studios, the creator of Pamali: Indonesian Horror game, provides the readers 30 chosen Indonesian ghosts with thorough explanations and illustrations on each of them. The ghosts in this book are classified by their origins, explained by their general descriptions, the appearances, and their trivia. Indonesia has a great variation of ghosts that are spread across its provinces. Let’s get to know more Indonesian ghosts through this book!
Download or read book JOAN written by Janah and published by Janah. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seorang anak perempuan yang bernama Joan masuk ke sebuah dimensi alam mimpinya. Dia mengalami berbagaimacam petualangan. Ingin tahu kisah petualangannya? Ayo baca kisah Joan selanjutnya!
Download or read book Mobility at Large written by Justin D. Edwards and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility at Large looks at the work of innovative contemporary travel writers who experiment with form, content, and the politics of representation. Authors such as Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, and Daphne Marlatt have transformed the genre by using a variety of experimental techniques to examine the cultural and political issues raised by travel, migration, mobility, and displacement. This book challenges those who dismiss travel writing as inherently conservative and bound up in a colonial, Eurocentric tradition.
Download or read book Biogenic Reefs at Risk Facing Globally Widespread Local Threats and Their Interaction with Climate Change written by Massimo Ponti and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of Malaya written by June Meyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of Malaya gives an account of colonial life prior to the Independance of Malaya in 1957. The collection of short stories paints an interesting picture of the many cultures, traditions and ways of life.The book is filled with amusing anecdotes, a description of post war Malaya and how different nationalities lived side by side in the 1930's and 1940's. An interesting personal account is given of the family's harrowing escape from the pursuing Japanese invasion down through Malaya to Singapore in 1941. The story continues with an insight into the Communist Emergency years which followed the Second World War.Memories of Malaya is a charming portrait of the author's personal experience and impressions of the era.
Download or read book Zigula Exercises written by Walter Harold Kisbey and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Malay Magic written by Walter William Skeat and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1900.
Download or read book PROJEK SERAM KOLEJ written by FAZRIN FAUZI, ZYRA SAFIYA, JESSY MOJURU and published by Buku Prima. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SUMPAHAN FAZRIN FAUZI Satu sumpahan telah termeterai berpunca daripada keegoan manusia yang mengakibatkan pembinaan Kolej Teknologi Naka tidak dapat disiapkan sepenuhnya. Zamani merupakan penyelia tapak yang terpaksa mengambil alih tugas di kawasan pembinaan kolej itu yang hampir enam bulan terbengkalai. Namun, segalanya bertukar ngeri sebaik sahaja Zamani bertemu dengan roh yang ingin membalas dendam. Satu per satu rahsia dibongkar Zamani hingga membuatkan satu nyawa terancam. Mampukah anak muda itu mematikan sumpahan itu? Adakah pembinaan kolej itu siap dibina? Kerana ego seorang manusia, nyawa seseorang menjadi mangsa! TIGA ZYRA SAFIYA Apabila Tis mengikut kekasihnya yang mahu berseronok mencari hantu, dia tidak menyangka apa yang mereka cari di luar membongkarkan rahsia berdekad lamanya di kolej mereka. Gangguan dan jelmaan kian mengulit kehidupan mereka. Buruan telah bermula. Pemujaan syaitan dilakukan demi kuasa. Dan demi kuasa, manusia sanggup membunuh. Satu manusia. Tiga darah. Darah sama merah. Hati lain-lain! ROH JESSY MOJURU Serakah manusia membuat roh mereka hidup sekian lama. Dalam sisi gelap ini, jiwa dan roh mereka tenat, azab menanggung beban dendam. Seseorang harus dikorbankan sebagai bayaran terhadap kezaliman dan penindasan yang telah disengajakan. Lantas diheret ke dunia kelam ini untuk merungkai jenayah silam. Kau milikku setelah kau cabut nyawaku!
Download or read book MERAH VIOLET BIBIRMU written by INTAN ARNIDA and published by Alaf 21. This book was released on 2014 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dayang Mas Lafina tidak sanggup bersuamikan lelaki tua bernama Tuan Arman. Namun dia dipaksa jua oleh ibu tirinya demi harta dan wang ringgit. Pilihan hatinya Ezroy Aidid itu nun jauh di mata. Sukar baginya untuk menghubungi Ezroy kerana telefon bimbitnya disimpan oleh ibu tirinya. Bagaimana dia mahu menceritakan penderitaan yang ditanggungnya? Dia nekad pada hari pernikahannya, dia melarikan diri dengan bantuan dua orang sahabat baiknya. Dia cuba mendapatkan perlindungan daripada Ezroy, namun kerana termakan hasutan dan fitnah, lelaki itu menuduhnya pisau cukur. Akibatnya dia telah didera, diseksa dan dihina serta disuruh menjadi pembantu rumah. Pedih pilu hatinya hanya TUHAN yang tahu. Ikutkan marah mahu sahaja dia melarikan diri. Namun bimbang akan dicari orang-orang upahan ibu tirinya, dia rela dirinya ditohmah oleh lelaki yang amat dicintai suatu waktu dahulu sehinggalah suatu hari dia koma setelah menjalani pembedahan akibat penderaan fizikal dan mental yang tidak berkesudahan.
Download or read book Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Ethnomedicine written by Mark Nichter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. The reader of this volume will see how a decade of new work has remade ethnomedicine into one of the livelier and more promising domains of anthropology. Nicthter's encompassing redefinition of the relationship of ethnomedicine to medical anthropology and his critical comments that introduce each chapter are bound to provoke discussion and response over the years to come. - Arthur Kleinman, MD Harvard Medical School.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Mah Meri as Spoken at Bukit Bangkong written by Nicole Kruspe and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mah Meri is an Aslian (Austroasiatic: Mon-Khmer) language spoken in scattered settlements along a section of the southwest coast of Selangor in Peninsular Malaysia. The Mah Meri are the only Aslian speakers who live in a coastal environment. Their language, which may have about 2,000 speakers, has no written language and is highly endangered. This is the first comprehensive dictionary of Mah Meri and is based on the author’s extensive field research and consultation with members of the community over the last ten years. The dialect presented here is spoken by about 600 people at Bukit Bangkong, the most southerly Mah Meri settlement. The dictionary contains around 4,000 entries, each with a phonetic transcription and translations in both English and Malay. Many entries are further complemented by illustrative examples, notes on usage, derivations, ethnographic information, and illustrations—all provide insight into the world of Mah Meri speakers. Two finder lists (English–Mah Meri and Malay–Mah Meri) are included, giving access to the intended audience of international and local scholars and community members. The volume also includes a general introduction to the Mah Meri, notes to assist the reader in using the dictionary, and a short grammatical description.
Download or read book Situated Lives written by Louise Lamphere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated Lives brings together the most important recent feminist and critical research that situates gender in relationship to the historical and material circumstances where gender, race, class and sexual orientation intersect and shape everyday interaction. Contributors include: Barbara Babcock, Jean Comaroff, Sarah Franklin, Faye Ginsburg, Matthew Gutmann, Faye V. Harrison, Louise Lamphere, Ellen Lewin, Jos^'e Lim^'on, Iris Lopez, Emily Martin, Mary Moran, Kirin Narayan, Aihwa Ong, Devon G. Pe^~na, Beatriz Pesquera, Helena Ragon^'e, Rayna Rapp, Judith Rollins, Leslie Salzinger, Denise Segura, Carol Stack, Ann Stoler, Donald D. Stull, Brett Williams, Patricia Zavella.
Download or read book Miracles and Material Life written by Teren Sevea and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past and in the present, uncovering connections between miracles and material life. Sevea demonstrates how societies in which the production and extraction of natural resources, as well as the uses of technology, were intertwined with the knowledge of charismatic religious figures, and locates the role of the pawangs in the spiritual economy of the Indian Ocean world, across maritime connections and Sufi networks, and on the frontier of the British Empire.
Download or read book Alluring Monsters written by Rosalind Galt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who has died in childbirth, and her vengeful return upsets gender norms and social hierarchies. The pontianak first appeared on screen in late colonial Singapore in a series of popular films that combine indigenous animism and transnational production with the cultural and political force of the horror genre. In Alluring Monsters, Rosalind Galt explores how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society. She argues that the figure speaks to a series of intersecting anxieties: about femininity and modernity, globalization and indigeneity, racial and national identities, the relationship of Islam to animism, and heritage and environmental destruction. The pontianak offers abundant feminist potential, but her disruptive gender politics also unsettle queer and feminist film theories by putting them in dialogue with Malay epistemologies. Reading the pontianak as a precolonial figure of disturbance within postcolonial cultures, Galt reveals the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization. From the horror films made by Cathay Keris and Shaw Studios in the 1950s and 1960s to contemporary film, television, art, and fiction in Malaysia and Singapore, the pontianak in all her media forms sheds light on how postcolonial identities are both developed and contested. In tracing the entanglements of Malay feminist animisms with postcolonial visual cultures, Alluring Monsters reveals how a “pontianak theory” can reshape understandings of anticolonial aesthetics and world cinema.
Download or read book Ghostly Encounters written by Joe Conceicao and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists in the telling of 28 ghostly encounters, rounded up by one short story about a strange, supernatural experience. The stories are those which the writer has heard from relatives and friends. The author has expanded some stories out of local, superstitious beliefs. But he has been involved in one encounter himself. Readers may find satirical humour in one or two of the yarns.
