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Book How to Cook a Tapir

Download or read book How to Cook a Tapir written by Joan Fry and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long working honeymoon in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping experience, the romance of living in a hut and learning to cook on a makeshift stove quickly faded. Guided by the village women and their children, this twenty-year-old American who had never made more than instant coffee came eventually to love the people and the food that at first had seemed so foreign. While her husband conducted his clinical study of the native population, Fry entered their world through friendships forged over an open fire. Coming of age in the jungle among the Kekchi and Mopan Maya, Fry learned to teach, to barter and negotiate, to hold her ground, and to share her space and, perhaps most important, she learned to cook. This is the funny, heartfelt, and provocative story of how Fry painstakingly baked and boiled her way up the food chain, from instant oatmeal and flour tortillas to bush-green soup, agouti (a big rodent), gibnut (a bigger rodent), and, finally, something even the locals wouldn t tackle: a mountain cow, or tapir. Fry s efforts to win over her neighbors and hair-pulling students offers a rare and insightful picture of the Kekchi Maya of Belize, even as this unique culture was disappearing before her eyes.

Book The Emerald Anaconda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Tingle
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2015-12-18
  • ISBN : 1504968603
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book The Emerald Anaconda written by Tim Tingle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travis is persuaded by a lifelong friend to invest in potentially valuable property in the rain forest of Ecuador. The return on their investment is virtually guaranteed. But nothing can be so simple when Travis gets involved. Trouble catches up with him from half a world away.

Book The Raw and the Cooked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1983-03-15
  • ISBN : 9780226474878
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Raw and the Cooked written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1983-03-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."—Natural History

Book A Grammar of Kakataibo

Download or read book A Grammar of Kakataibo written by Roberto Zariquiey and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashibo-Kakataibo is the westernmost Panoan language and, therefore, the one closest to the Andes Mountains. In terms of its typological profile, Kashibo-Kakataibo is a (mainly) postpositional and agglutinating language with a highly synthetic verbal morphology, which includes a highly complex tense system with several markers, some of which also express aspectual meanings. Kashibo-Kakataibo presents a mixed prosodic system, which combines stress and tone features. In addition, like with other Pano languages, Kashibo-Kakataibo exhibits a number of transitivity-related issues of high typological interest. First of all, the language shows an extremely complex system of grammatical relations, which includes tripatite, ergative, accusative, neutral and one horizontal alignment types. In addition, the language exhibits a fascinating interaction between syntactic case and pragmatic function. There are two fixed syntactic classes of verbs: transitive and intransitive. A verb root/base can only change its class by means of explicit morphological derivation (with only 4 ambitransitive verbs in the whole language). As in other Panoan languages, the transitivity class of the main verb is morphologically indicated throughout the clause, by means of complex systems of agreement and harmony (some of which are totally new even from a Panoan perspective)

Book Family of Earth and Sky

Download or read book Family of Earth and Sky written by John Elder and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1996-02-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World An array of vivid responses to nature from indigenous oral traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.

Book I Just Really Like Tapirs  OK

    Book Details:
  • Author : Skizzenmonster Tapir Notebooks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-06-03
  • ISBN : 9781071497999
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book I Just Really Like Tapirs OK written by Skizzenmonster Tapir Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hey, the check out this tapir-rific Tapir-Lovers Journal! Grab your new funky tapir notebook and write about your easy going daily adventures! This cute matte-cover journal or diary in the format 15,24 x 22,86 cm (6" x 9") fits in every bag to take it along during your daily adventures. The notebook contains 120 wide-ruled pages to write down whatever comes to your mind. Use your new fancy journal as you like: as a secret diary for your thoughts, dreams, experiences and adventures as a notebook for ideas, projects or plans for notes, to-do lists, bullet-lists, recipes or addresses or however you can imagine Enjoy relaxed writing!

Book The Tapir s Morning Bath

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Royte
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780618257584
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Tapir s Morning Bath written by Elizabeth Royte and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging portrait of a community of biologists, The Tapir's Morning Bathis a behind-the-scenes account of life at a tropical research station that"conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] fieldwork" (Science). On Panama's Barro Colorado Island, Elizabeth Royte worksalongside the scientists -- counting seeds, sorting insects, collectingmonkey dung, radiotracking fruit bats -- as they struggle to parse theintricate workings of the tropical rain forest. While showing the humanside of the scientists at work, Royte explores the tensions between the slow pace of basic research and the reality of a world that may not have time to wait for answers.

Book Tapir Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Skizzenmonster Tapir Notebooks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-06-03
  • ISBN : 9781072001577
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Tapir Love written by Skizzenmonster Tapir Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hey, the check out this tapir-rific Tapir-Lovers Journal! Grab your new funky tapir notebook and write about your easy going daily adventures! This cute matte-cover journal or diary in the format 15,24 x 22,86 cm (6" x 9") fits in every bag to take it along during your daily adventures. The notebook contains 120 wide-ruled pages to write down whatever comes to your mind. Use your new fancy journal as you like: as a secret diary for your thoughts, dreams, experiences and adventures as a notebook for ideas, projects or plans for notes, to-do lists, bullet-lists, recipes or addresses or however you can imagine Enjoy relaxed writing!

Book Tropical Cooking

Download or read book Tropical Cooking written by Gladys R. Graham and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Does An Anteater Eat

Download or read book What Does An Anteater Eat written by Ross Collins and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The silliness should have little listeners asking for repeat readings." —Kirkus Reviews Anteater is hungry, but he has completely forgotten what anteaters eat. Baffled, and with his tummy rumbling, he consults the other animals. Sloth is too busy, Toucan is clueless, and Crocodile has his own mouth full. Whatever will Anteater do? It isn't until the ants all run for their lives that Anteater remembers what he should be eating . . . and it’s not what you think! A delightfully silly tale that little ones will return to again and again.

Book Handbook of Amazonian Languages

Download or read book Handbook of Amazonian Languages written by Desmond C. Derbyshire and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1986 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in a series on the languages of Amazonia. This volume includes grammatical descriptions of Wai Wai, Warekena, a comparative survey of morphosyntactic features of the Tupi-Guarani languages, and a paper on interclausal reference phenomena in Amahuaca.

Book Eliza Cook s journal

Download or read book Eliza Cook s journal written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Food and Gender

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carole M. Counihan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 1134416458
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Food and Gender written by Carole M. Counihan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This relationship is considered through two central questions: How does control of food production, distribution, and consumption contribute to men's and women's power and social position? and How does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women? Other issues discussed include men's and women's attitudes towards their bodies and the legitimacy of their appetites.

Book Tapir Evolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Skizzenmonster Tapir Notebooks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-06-03
  • ISBN : 9781072001010
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Tapir Evolution written by Skizzenmonster Tapir Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hey, the check out this tapir-rific Tapir-Lovers Journal - So, the tapir is the end of the evolutionary line, right? Grab your new funky tapir notebook and write about your easy going daily adventures! This cute matte-cover journal or diary in the format 15,24 x 22,86 cm (6" x 9") fits in every bag to take it along during your daily adventures. The notebook contains 120 wide-ruled pages to write down whatever comes to your mind. Use your new fancy journal as you like: as a secret diary for your thoughts, dreams, experiences and adventures as a notebook for ideas, projects or plans for notes, to-do lists, bullet-lists, recipes or addresses or however you can imagine Enjoy relaxed writing!

Book International Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Kurlansky
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2014-08-19
  • ISBN : 1620400553
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book International Night written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical. Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe, and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International Night--the recipes, stories, and insights he's collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world writing about food, culture, and history, and his charming pen-and-ink drawings, which appear throughout the book. International Night is brimming with recipes for fifty-two special meals--appetizers, a main course, side dishes, and dessert for each--one for every week of the year. Some are old favorites from Mark's repertoire, and others have been gleaned from research. Always, they are his own version, drawn from techniques he learned as a professional chef and from many years of talking to chefs, producers, and household cooks around the world. Despite these insights, every recipe is designed to be carried out--easily--by any amateur chef, and to be completed with the assistance of children. Mark and Talia invite you and your family into their kitchen, outfitted with overflowing packets of exotic spices and aromas of delicacies from Tanzania and Kazakhstan to Cuba and Norway. From there, recipes and toothsome morsels of cultural and historical information will fill your bellies and your minds, and transport you to countries all around the world.

Book The Mammals of Costa Rica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Wainwright
  • Publisher : Comstock Publishing Associates
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book The Mammals of Costa Rica written by Mark Wainwright and published by Comstock Publishing Associates. This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published 2002 as The natural history of Costa Rican mammals by Zona Tropical"--T.p. verso.

Book Doing Rebellious Research

Download or read book Doing Rebellious Research written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together an extraordinary range of international scholars and practitioners that include contemporary visual artists, poets, choreographers, activists, film-makers, theatre-makers, magicians, and circus artists, the contributors situate their rebellious practices of knowledge production and upheaval in the academy and in society.