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Book Paris Savages

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  • Author : Katherine Johnson
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
  • Release : 2020-07-23
  • ISBN : 0749026073
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Paris Savages written by Katherine Johnson and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fraser Island, 1882. The population of the Badtjala people is in sharp decline following a run of brutal massacres. When German scientist Louis Müller offers to sail three Badtjala people - Bonny, Jurano and Dorondera - to Europe to perform to huge crowds, the proud and headstrong Bonny agrees, hoping to bring his people's plight to the Queen of England.Accompanied by Müller's bright, grieving daughter, Hilda, the group begins their journey to belle-époque Europe to perform in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and eventually London. While crowds in Europe are enthusiastic to see the unique dances, singing, fights and pole climbing from the oldest culture in the world, the attention is relentless, and the fascination of scientists intrusive. When disaster strikes, Bonny must find a way to return home.

Book Revival  Studies of Savages and Sex  1929

Download or read book Revival Studies of Savages and Sex 1929 written by Alfred Ernest Crawley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of my revised edition of Mr Crawley's The Mystic Rose has encouraged me to bring together in the present volume some of his papers previously unpublished in book-form, on subjects akin to those of his great work. Mr Crawley's treatment of these problems of sexual anthropology, especially on the psychological side, was, in the years in which he was most actively at work, too uncompromisingly original to meet with general acceptation, even in academic circles. But now his standpoint, which can perhaps be best described as being that of a profound psychological analysis on the basis of biological common-sense, is beginning to be appreciated. And the following papers will be found, I think, to contain all those qualities which so sharply differentiate Mr Crawley's work from that of most other students in the same fields.

Book Franklin Bibliography

Download or read book Franklin Bibliography written by Paul Leicester Ford and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Threshold of a New World

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  • Author : Lloyd S. Kramer
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-15
  • ISBN : 1501745972
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Threshold of a New World written by Lloyd S. Kramer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Threshold of a New World examines two broad themes in modern European intellectual history: the importance of exile as a formative experience in the lives and thought of influential European writers, and the role of July Monarchy Paris as a unique social context that contributed decisively to the development and diffusion of modern European thought.

Book Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth Century Paris

Download or read book Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth Century Paris written by Miranda Gill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism provoked anxiety, disgust, and often secret yearning. In a culture preoccupied by the need for order yet simultaneously drawn to the values of freedom and innovation, eccentricity continually tested the boundaries of bourgeois identity, ultimately becoming inseparable from it. This interdisciplinary study charts shifting French perceptions of the anomalous and bizarre from the 1830s to the fin de siècle, focusing on three key issues. First, during the July Monarchy eccentricity was linked to fashion, dandyism, and commodity culture; to many Parisians it epitomized the dangerous seductions of modernity and the growing prestige of the courtesan. Second, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution eccentricity was associated with the Bohemian artists and performers who inhabited 'the unknown Paris', a zone of social exclusion which middle-class spectators found both fascinating and repugnant. Finally, the popularization of medical theories of national decline in the latter part of the century led to decreasing tolerance for individual difference, and eccentricity was interpreted as a symptom of hidden insanity and deformity. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, the study highlights the central role of gender in shaping perceptions of eccentricity. It provides new readings of works by major French writers and illuminates both well-known and neglected figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.

Book The London and Paris Observer

Download or read book The London and Paris Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards  with Sketches of English and American Branches of the House of Savage

Download or read book The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards with Sketches of English and American Branches of the House of Savage written by George Francis Savage-Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saint Among Savages

Download or read book Saint Among Savages written by Francis Xavier Talbot and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint among Savages tells the remarkable story of St. Isaac Jogues, a French Jesuit who was killed by Mohawks while serving as a missionary in New France. Coming from a upper middle class life in Orleans, he knew from an early age that he wanted to be a priest and serve abroad as a missionary to risk his life in order to save souls. Along with several others, collectively known as the North American Martyrs, he followed his dreams and met death in the American wilderness. Living with the Huron people in what is now Ontario, he was captured by Mohawk warriors and tortured and held captive for over a year. He escaped back to France with help from the Dutch in New York, and remarkably insisted on going back to New France, even though he knew what he might be facing. Besides Jogues' life there is also a lot of material about the lives and customs of the Native American peoples who lived along the St. Lawrence River.

Book Images of Savages

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  • Author : Gustav Jahoda
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-10-03
  • ISBN : 1317724909
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Images of Savages written by Gustav Jahoda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Images of Savages, the distinguished psychologist Gustav Jahoda advances the provocative thesis that racism and the perpetual alienation of a racialized 'other' are a central leagacy of the Western tradition. Finding the roots of these demonizations deep in the myth and traditions of classical antiquity, he examines how the monstrous humanoid creatures of ancient myth and the fabulous "wild men" of the medieval European woods shaped early modern explorers' interpretations of the New World they encountered. Drawing on a global scale the schematic of the Western imagination of its "others," Jahoda locates the persistent identification of the racialized other with cannibalism, sexual abandon and animal drives. Turning to Europe's scientific tradition, Jahoda traces this imagery through the work of 18th century scientists on the relationship between humans and apes, the new racist biology of the 19th century studies of "savagery" as an arrested evolutionary state, and the assignment, especially of blacks, to a status intermediate between humans and animals, or that of children in need of paternal protection from Western masters. Finding in these traditional tropes a central influence upon the most current psychological theory, Jahoda presents a startling historical continuity of racial figuration that persists right up to the present day. Far from suggesting a program for the eradication of racial stereotypes, this remarkable effort nevertheless isolates the most significant barriers to equality buried deep within the Western tradition, and proposes a potentially redemptive self-awareness that will contribute to the gradual dismantling of racial injustice and alienation. Gustav Jahoda demonstrates how deeply rooted Western perceptions going back more than a thousand years are still feeding racial prejudice today. This highly original socio-historical contextualisation will be invaluable to scholars of psychology, sociology and anthropology, and to all those interested in the sources of racial prejudice.

Book Lawyers and Savages

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  • Author : Kaius Tuori
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-09-19
  • ISBN : 1317815998
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Lawyers and Savages written by Kaius Tuori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, this book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter the hypothetical constructs of legal formalism, this book also shows how, despite their explicit rejection, the central themes of primitive law continue to influence current ideas – about indigenous legal systems, but also of the place and role of law in development. Written in an engaging style and rich in examples from history and literature, this book will be invaluable to those with interests in legal realism, legal history or legal anthropology.

Book Academy and Literature

Download or read book Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salvage the Bones

Download or read book Salvage the Bones written by Jesmyn Ward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.

Book Little Robinson Crusoe of Paris

Download or read book Little Robinson Crusoe of Paris written by Eugenie Foa and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic French tale by Eugenie Foa, translated into English by Julia Olcott. Introduction by Clara Whitehill Hunt. Illustrations by Marion Mildred Oldham.

Book Little Robinson Crusoe of Paris

Download or read book Little Robinson Crusoe of Paris written by Eugénie Foa and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphaned boy and a dog left on their own in Paris find friends and a home for themselves.

Book Sketches of a Tour from Canada to Paris

Download or read book Sketches of a Tour from Canada to Paris written by Andrew Learmont Spedon and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867

Download or read book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867 written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports on the Paris universal exhibition  1867  Vol 2 6  and  Index to vol 2 5

Download or read book Reports on the Paris universal exhibition 1867 Vol 2 6 and Index to vol 2 5 written by Parliament proc, Vict and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: