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Book Nala and the Gala

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  • Author : N. Cox
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2016-04-02
  • ISBN : 1365014045
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Nala and the Gala written by N. Cox and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Nala's latest adventure, she visits an Apple Orchard with

Book Current Trends in Caucasian  East European  and Inner Asian Linguistics

Download or read book Current Trends in Caucasian East European and Inner Asian Linguistics written by Dee Ann Holisky and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. Some authors utilize their field data to address problems of general linguistic interest, such as reflexivization. A number of papers look at the evidence for contact-induced change in multilingual areas. Some of the most exciting contributions to the collection represent significant advances in the reconstruction of the prehistory of such understudied language families as Northeast Caucasian, Tungusic and the baffling isolate Ket. This book will be of interest not only to specialists in the indigenous languages of the former USSR, but also to historical and synchronic linguists seeking to familiarize themselves with the fascinating, typologically diverse languages from the interior of the Eurasian continent. Dee Ann Holisky is Professor of English and Linguistics, and Associate Dean for Academic Programs of the College of Arts & Sciences at George Mason University. She is the author of Aspect and Georgian Medial Verbs (Caravan Books, 1981) and of numerous articles on Georgian and Kartvelian linguistics. Kevin Tuite is Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. Among his books are An Anthology of Georgian Folk Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994) and Ethnolinguistics and Anthropological Theory (co-edited with Christine Jourdan; Montréal: Éditions Fides, 2003).

Book The Kuhls of Kangra

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  • Author : J. Mark Baker
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2011-06-01
  • ISBN : 0295800917
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Kuhls of Kangra written by J. Mark Baker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed kuhl systems - intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels - for their rice and wheat farming. Over the years, earthquakes and floods have repeatedly destroyed villagers' kuhls. More recently, increasing nonfarm employment has drawn labor away from kuhl maintenance and from farming itself. Prevailing theories of common property resource management suggest that such conditions should cause the kuhls to die out; instead, most have beentransformed and remain alive and well. In this book, Mark Baker offers a comprehensive explanation for the durability of the kuhls of Kangra in the face of recurring environmental shocks and socioeconomic change. In addition to describing how farmers use and organize the kuhls, he employs varied lines of theory and empirical data to account for the persistence of most kuhls (and the demise of a few) in the late twentieth century. Into his explanatory framework he incorporates the history of regional politics and economics as they affected kuhls during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods; the role of state involvement in kuhl construction and management; the benefits of exchanges of labor and water among members of networked kuhls; and the ways in which kuhl systems are embedded in and reproduce core cultural beliefs and practices. Scholars interested in common property resource regimes have long focused on self-organizing, community-based irrigation systems. Yet their theories cannot entirely account for the durability of common property regimes under the extreme conditions of ecological stress, economic change, and social differentiation that exist in Kangra. Baker adds new dimensions to such theories by reaching beyond them to incorporate "exogenous" factors such as the roles statemaking practices play in common property resource regimes, the importance of networks in buffering individual resource regimes from environmental stress, and the ways in which regimes are sites for reproducing and occasionally contesting the relations that constitute place and region. In doing so, he advances a new way of thinking about community-based systems of resource management--a timely subject given recent trends in many countries toward the devolution of authority over natural resource management from government to rural communities.

Book Looma dowo woloi

Download or read book Looma dowo woloi written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Trade Journal

Download or read book Indian Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-10 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tungusic Languages

Download or read book The Tungusic Languages written by Alexander Vovin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tungusic Languages is a survey of Tungusic, a language family which is seriously endangered today, but which at the time of its maximum spread was present all over Northeast Asia. This volume offers a systematic succession of separate chapters on all the individual Tungusic languages, as well as a number of additional chapters containing contextual information on the language family as a whole, its background and current state, as well as its history of research and documentation. Manchu and its mediaeval ancestor Jurchen are important historical literary languages discussed in this volume, while the other Tungusic languages, around a dozen altogether, have always been spoken by small, local, though in some cases territorially widespread, populations engaged in traditional subsistence activities of the Eurasian taiga and steppe zones and the North Pacific coast. All contributors to this volume are well-known specialists on their specific topics, and, importantly, all the authors of the chapters dealing with modern languages have personal experience of linguistic field work among Tungusic speakers. This volume will be informative for scholars and students specialising in the languages and peoples of Northeast Asia, and will also be of interest to those engaged with linguistic typology, cultural anthropology, and ethnic history who wish to obtain information on the Tungusic languages.

Book Mangarayi

Download or read book Mangarayi written by Francesca Merlan and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latvia

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  • Author : Robert Barlas
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780761448570
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Latvia written by Robert Barlas and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Latvia. All books of the critically-acclaimed Cultures of the World(R) series ensure an immersive experience by offering vibrant photographs with descriptive nonfiction narratives, and interactive activities such as creating an authentic traditional dish from an easy-to-follow recipe. Copious maps and detailed timelines present the past and present of the country, while exploration of the art and architecture help your readers to understand why diversity is the spice of Life.

Book Identification and Characterization of Antimicrobial Peptides with Therapeutic Potential

Download or read book Identification and Characterization of Antimicrobial Peptides with Therapeutic Potential written by Guangshun Wang and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Identification and Characterization of Antimicrobial Peptides with Therapeutic Potential" that was published in Pharmaceuticals

Book Nalarayadavadanticarita  Adventures of King Nala and Davadanti

Download or read book Nalarayadavadanticarita Adventures of King Nala and Davadanti written by Ernest Bender and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1951 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nalarayadavadanticarita is an Old Gujarati rendition of the Jain parallel to the Nala-Damayanti story of the Mahabharata. As with other parallel Jain, Hindu, & Buddhist stories & motifs, the work has many unique features, since the Jain story-teller employed it for the edifying presentation of the Jain religion. The present edition is based upon four paper manuscripts, designated, for facility of reference, B, H, P, & S. Contents: (I) Introduction: The Source of the Materials; The Story & Its Significance; Meters; (II) Grammar: Phonology; Morphology; Notes on Syntax; (III) Text: (IV) Translation; (V) Glossary; & (VI) References. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Book Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings

Download or read book Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings written by Roy C. Amore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1981-03-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes stories about family and social roles and lay and monastic values.

Book The Quarterly Journal

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  • Author : Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Society of India
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1944
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 562 pages

Download or read book The Quarterly Journal written by Geological, Mining, and Metallurgical Society of India and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sensitive Reading

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  • Author : Yigal Bronner
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-01-25
  • ISBN : 0520384474
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Sensitive Reading written by Yigal Bronner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey -- Shriharsha's Sanskrit Life of Naishadha : translator's note and text -- Points and progression : how to read Shriharsha's Life of Naishadha / Gary Tubb -- "If I'm reading you right..." : reading bodies, minds and poetry in the Life of Naishadha / Thibaut d'Hubert -- Ativirarama Pandyan's Tamil Life of Naidatha : translator's note and text -- Hearing and madness : reading Ativirarama Pandyan's Life of Naidatha / N. Govindarajan -- How we read / Sheldon Pollock -- Malamangala Kavi's Malalyalam Naishadha in our language : translator's note and text -- I talk to the wind : Malamangala Kavi's Naishadha in our language / Sivan Goren-Arzony -- In the garden of love : an essay on Naishadha in our language / Meir Shahar -- "Khwaja the Dog-Worshiper" from The story of the four dervishes : translator's note and text -- How not to see a dog-worshiper / Jamal Jones -- A historian reads a fable / Muzaffar Alam -- "Touch" by Abburi Chayadevi : translator's note and text -- How to touch "Touch" / Gautham Reddy -- "Don't stand so close to me!" : remarks on Chayadevi's "Touch" / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- "A street pump in Anantapuram" and five other poems by Ismail : translator's note and text -- Speaking of landscapes, revolutionaries, and donkeys : Ismail's words and images / Afsar Mohammad -- Between sky and road : the wandering scholar, modernism and the poetry of Ismail / Gabriel Levin -- The music contest from Tiruttakkatevar's Tamil Chivakan's gem : translator's note and text -- Love in defeat / Talia Arlav -- Sweetness that melts the heart / Kesavan Veluthat -- What's gained in translation / Sonam Kachru -- Two songs by Muttuswami Dikshitar performed by T.M. Krishna and Eileen Shulman : translator's note, texts, and recordings -- Beyond passion, beyond even the Raga / T.M. Krishna -- Reading as an act of trust / Donald R. Davis -- Desire and passion ride to war (unknown artist) : selector's note -- Pillars of love : a dialogic reading of temple sculpture / Anna Lise Seastrand -- Side observation of a small portion of Varadaraja-svami Temple / Tawfiq Da'adli -- Ravana visits Sita at night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban's Tamil Ramayana : translator's note and text -- Kamban's Tamil as a kind of Sanskrit / Whitney Cox -- Can darkness stand before light? : encountering an episode from a medieval Tamil masterpiece / Yehoshua Granat -- When a mountain rapes a river, from Bhattumurti's Telugu Vasu's Life : translator's note and text -- Irreconcilable differences and (un)conventional love in Bhattumurti's Vasu's Life / Ilanit Loewy Schacham -- Desire, perception, and the poetry of desire : a reading of Vasu's life / Deven Patel -- "The ten on the wild boar" : translator's note and text -- Reading "Ten on the wild boar" / Archana Venkatesan -- Three poems about love's inner modes : translator's note and text -- Between us : reading Tamil Akam poems / Jennifer Clare -- The unbaked clay pot in pouring rain : reading Sangam poetry today / R. Cheran -- Nammalvar's Tamil A hundred measures of time : translator's note and text -- "You came so that we may live" / Anand Venkatkrishnan -- Taking the measure of A hundred measures / Andrew Ollett -- A Persian Ghazal by Hafez and an Urdu Ghazal by Ghaleb : translator's note and text -- How a Ghazal thinks / Rajeev Kinra -- The Ghazal of What's more than real / Peter Cole -- Afterword / Wendy Doniger.

Book History of the European Languages  or  Researches into the affinities of the Teutonic  Greek  Celtic  Sclavonic  and Indian Nations  With a life of the author  by the editor  D  Scot

Download or read book History of the European Languages or Researches into the affinities of the Teutonic Greek Celtic Sclavonic and Indian Nations With a life of the author by the editor D Scot written by Alexander MURRAY (D.D., Orientalist.) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the European Languages  Or  Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic  Greek  Celtic  Sclavonic and Indian Nations by the Late Alexander Murray  D D  Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburg  With a Life of the Author

Download or read book History of the European Languages Or Researches Into the Affinities of the Teutonic Greek Celtic Sclavonic and Indian Nations by the Late Alexander Murray D D Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburg With a Life of the Author written by Alexander Murray and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the European Languages

Download or read book History of the European Languages written by Alexander Murray and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: