Download or read book Manas Lost Found written by Richard Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manas Lost and Found written by Risbek and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Kyrgyz have many traditions that appear biblical, causing an observer to ponder a link between the prophets and Central Asian tribes. Comparing Kyrgyzstan's national epic Manas with ancient scripture reinforces such a bond; especially obvious is the similarity between the tribal patriarch "Manasseh son of Jacob" and the Kyrgyz hero "Manas son of Jakyb." Many of the chapters in this book were essays presented at academic conferences in Kyrgyzstan. They were first published in the Kyrgyz language for a Central Asian mindset.
Download or read book Fragile Conviction written by Mathijs Pelkmans and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do specific secular and religious ideologies—such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism—gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies as they move into the post-Soviet frontier in Central Asia. Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Residents became enchanted by the truths of Muslim and Christian missionaries, embraced the teachings of neoliberal and nationalist ideologues, and were riveted by the visions of shamanic healers. But no matter how much enthusiasm and hope these ideas first engendered, the commitment to any of them rarely lasted very long.Pelkmans finds that there is an inverse relationship between the tenacity and the effervescence of collective ideas, between their strength to persist and their ability to trigger committed action. Introducing the concept of pulsation, he argues in Fragile Conviction that ideational power must be understood in relation to three aspects: the voicing of the idea, its tension with everyday reality, and its reverberation within groups of listeners. The conclusion that the power of conviction is rooted in the instability of sociocultural contexts is a message that has relevance far beyond urban Central Asia.
Download or read book Lost Tribes of Israel Found in the Kyrgyz Epic written by Richard Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of academic essays defending why the author believes ethnic Kyrgyz descended from Israel's Ten Lost Tribes.
Download or read book The Corporate Alexander written by Ajay Kumar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can employees emulate the rules that make business owners succeed? How do you navigate through twists and turns at your work place? Is your career sorted? Do you know the secrets you learn only when you earn? Peek into the life of Manas, a budding business graduate, who starts as an intern and navigates through the challenges on his way to the top of the ladder. The book, which draws from real-life incidents, reveals the secrets he needed to learn and unlearn to get there and the bunch of well-wishers who helped him on the way.
Download or read book Lost Tribes of Israel Found in the Kyrgyz Epic written by Risbek (richard Hewitt) and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are themes like the lost tribes of Israel for whacky religious extremists, or are the historical parallels telling us to wake up and deal with historical reality? Check out Kyrgyz-biblical similarities and make your own decision.
Download or read book Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech written by Marklen E. Konurbaev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive science in the beginning of the 21st century has brought us through various stages of natural human language analysis and comprehension – from deep structures, transformational grammar and behaviorism to cognitive linguistics, theory of encapsulation, and mentalism. Thus, drawing upon new developments in cognitive science, philosophy and hermeneutics, the author reveals how to obtain the real vision of life lurking behind the spoken word. Applying methodology introduced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Martin Heidegger, the author examines how we can see the ‘living’ and dynamic essence of speech hidden in the world of linear linguistic strings and casual utterances. This uniquely researched work will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of cognitive stylistics, pragmatics and the psychology of language.
Download or read book Spirited Performance written by Nienke van der Heide and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of Asia, straddling the western Tien Shan mountain range, lies the former Soviet republic Kyrgyzstan. The country prides itself in an age old oral epic tradition that recounts the mighty deeds of the hero Manas. When explorers first encountered Manas performers in the late nineteenth century, they hailed their art as a true representation of the heroic age, and compared it to masterpieces such as the Kalevala and the Iliad. Today there are still many excellent performers who can keep their audiences spellbound. They are believed to draw their inspiration from the spirit of Manas himself. This book portrays the meaning of this huge work of art in Kyrgyz society. Based on extended periods of anthropological fieldwork between 1996 and 2000, it explores the calling of its performers, describes the transformations of the oral tradition in printed media and other forms of art, and examines its use as a key symbol for identity politics. It deals extensively with the impact of the Soviet period, during which Kyrgyzstan became an autonomous republic for the first time in history. The tremendous changes initiated during these years had far-reaching consequences for the transmission and reception of the Manas epic. The specific Soviet approach to ethnicity was also elementary in the decisions to assign the Manas epic the role of national symbol after 1991, when Kyrzygstan was thrown into the turnoil of a post-socialist existence.
Download or read book The Mall written by Saroj Rathi and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story revolves around the today's mall where a dead magician is brought back to life through his magic locket. The power of the locket brings life in the mannequins also. Only the dead magician and his granddaughter could listen and speak to them. The magician's granddaughter works in the same mall and the mannequins help her in sales as they could read other's mind. Read this interesting story to know how she meets her love and how the mannequins and her dead grandfather help her in getting her love and her lost property.
Download or read book Epic Adventures written by Jan Jansen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many adventures of the "epic" in modern times are fascinating topics in themselves. The Romantics claimed that every self-respecting nation should, at some time, have had one and they set out to reconstruct these epics for political as well as cultural reasons. Such epics represented earlier stages in the development of nation-states and in this modern world they were, for a long time, hard to appreciate. The introduction of tape recorders, however, brought the epic back in the limelight. It became fashionable for scholars to record long oral narratives, and to present them as long written poems that reflected deeply ingrained ideas. Because of this technology, the idea of the epic was revitalized. This volume presents critical analyses of epics in Sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, South-East Asia, Medieval Europe, and America and discusses the process of revitalization, sometimes even invention, of epics in particular historical, political, and academic contexts. Jan Jansen is a member of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Henk M.J. Maier is professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania of the University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Download or read book Words Left Unsaid written by Manas Pal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manas and Ritu are two very different people from two different backgrounds. They end up in Chennai to pursue engineering. This novel talks about how these two became friends and then best friends. In due course of time Manas gets more and more attached to her emotionally. An unexpected turn of events leads to Manas facing the biggest nightmare ever.
Download or read book Soul and Self in Vedic India written by Per-Johan Norelius and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Vedic Indians think of life, consciousness, and personhood? How did they envisage man’s fate after death? Did some part of the person survive the death of the body and depart for the beyond? Is it possible to speak of a “soul” or “souls” in the context of Vedic tradition? This book sets out to answer these questions in a systematic manner, subjecting the relevant Vedic beliefs to a detailed chronological investigation. Special attention is given to the ways in which the early Indians’ answers to the above problems changed over time, with an early pluralism of soul-like concepts later giving way to the unified “self” of the Upaniṣads.
Download or read book Manas written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Manas? Manas is no mere man but a hero of mythic proportions, the protagonist of the Manas Epos. The Manas Epos is hailed as the classic centerpiece of Kyrguz literature, the encyclopaedia of Kyrgyz culture, the touchstone of the Kyrgyz spirit. It is the longest epic poem in the world with close to half a million lines.
Download or read book Goliath the Giant of Palestine written by Lawrence F. Holt and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uglier than Hugo’s Hunchback; more terrifying then Shelly’s Frankenstein and yet more affable then Steinbeck’s Lenny Small is Goliath: the Giant of Palestine. Not the renowned Old Testament villain but a child unwittingly manipulated into the rogue Goliath. While stopping short of suggesting another slinger on a grassy knoll is an intriguing skeptical dissecting of I Samuel’s telling of history’s most famous one-on-one battle. How and why the ancestors of present day Palestinians and Israelis came to struggle for the same land sheds new light on the argument of “Just whose land is it anyway?” Goliath, a seven-year-old boy trapped in the body of a fierce giant, endures many fantastic adventures at the hands of history’s greatest mariners, the Phoenician and ushered throughout the Mediterranean as pirate and circus attraction. The storyline returns to his homeland where his people continually clash with the Tribes of Israel. Initial terrorism, conspiracy, assassination and all-out war of this first Middle East conflict are accurately depicted and fueled by current headlines. Presented also is a tender love story of the granddaughter of the eminent biblical Ruth and a displaced Philistine. After all the necessary covenants are fulfilled a marriage takes place. Ten years of research based on historical evidence, biblical events and well-worn theories depicts the cultural, religious and technological differences of the two peoples.
Download or read book JUSUP MAMAY MASTER PERFORMER OF THE KIRGHIZ MANAS EPIC written by Adil Jumaturdu and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zhenhui Liang, Weiguo Chen and Xu Zhang have done a great service to the study of oral epic poetry by translating Adil Jumaturdu’s and Tokon Isak’s detailed and comprehensive biography of Jusup Mamay (1918-2014), the great Kirghiz epic singer from Xinjiang. In this book, the reader learns how this “singer of tales” acquired his impressively large epic repertoire and becomes acquainted with the Kirghiz tradition of the Manas epic and epic cycle, in particular Jusup Mamay’s version, which comprises eight generations. The authors, native Kirghiz from Xinjiang, have had close contact with the singer over many years and offer unique insights into the mind and art of an exceptional epic singer-narrator. ---- Professor Karl Reichl (studying oral epic poetry at Bonn University) The Kirghiz heroic epic Manas boasts a history of around one thousand years. In the process of its development, generation after generation of singers have passed it down today by oral tradition. Jusup Mamay, one of the epic’s master singers, or manaschi, is renowned as the only performer in the world who was able to narrate eight generations of heroes from a single Kirghiz family, the epic’s namesake Manas chief among them. After years of surveys and interviews, the authors have assembled first-hand materials about Jusup Mamay to write a critical biography detailing the singer’s monumental talents and his great efforts in learning Manas. The biography elaborates on Jusup Mamay’s geographical and cultural environment, his apprenticeships under master manaschi, his passion for learning around 230,000-line epic by heart, his two marriages, his family, the features of his unique version of Manas, his many contributions to the inheritance of Kirghiz folk culture, and his influence both within his native China and across the globe. This book is a valuable contribution to the academic literature about the Manas epic and Kirghiz culture as well.
Download or read book Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry The traditions written by Robert Auty and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost and Found written by Risbek and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Kyrgyz have many traditions that appear biblical, causing an observer to wonder if there is a link. Comparing Kyrgyzstan's national epic Manas with ancient scripture reinforces such a bond; especially obvious is the similarity between “Manasseh son of Jacob” and the Kyrgyz hero “Manas son of Jakyb.”
