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Book Sijobang

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nigel Phillips
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1981-09-24
  • ISBN : 9780521237376
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Sijobang written by Nigel Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-09-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sijobang - the singing of a poetic narrative about the legendary hero Anggun Nan Tungga - is a form of popular entertainment in the area around Payakumbuh, in the highlands of West Sumatra. Although the story exists as a written text, it is best known locally as drama and sung narrative, and it is its character as an oral performance that forms the subject of this book. Nigel Phillips begins by setting sijobang in its cultural and literary context, and then goes on to describe the social background and training of the paid storytellers who perform the narrative. He presents a summary of the story, and discusses its transient, fragmentary and unstandardized form. Transcriptions and translations of two recorded performances follow, leading into a description of sijobang's main linguistic and literary features. Finally, Dr Phillips examines in some detail the extent to which performances vary from one occasion to another, and what connection this may have with the storyteller's degree of experience.

Book Sheading of Middle  Kirk Braddan  Kirk Marown and Kirk Santan

Download or read book Sheading of Middle Kirk Braddan Kirk Marown and Kirk Santan written by George Broderick and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 comprises the three central and eastern parishes of Kirk Braddan, Kirk Marown, and Kirk Santan. The material appears in alphabetical form with discussion of any problems of interpretation and a listing of the elements making up the names. This volume yields name-forms and elements not found in Manx literature or dictionaries. As all but a handful of names predate the Scandinavian period (9th-13th centuries) and as documentary material from that time till the 16th century is largely absent, the testimony of place-names is important for the distribution of name elements reflecting the geography and showing patterns of settlement, whether Celtic, Scandinavian, etc, and for comparative place-name research in adjacent areas, particularly Ireland, south-western Scotland, and northern England.

Book Manila Street Atlas First Edition

Download or read book Manila Street Atlas First Edition written by Periplus Editors, and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 1987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding your way around Metro Manila has never been easier! This totally new street atlas from Periplus, Asia's leading book and map publisher, is designed to fit the needs of Metro Manila residents and visitors. This is the first Metro Manila street atlas produced to exacting world class cartographic standards. Highly detailed city maps present information in a logical and clear way. Roads are color-coded, with major arteries shown in orange, so you can find your way more quickly. Important buildings are identified by name and accurately located based on recent satellite imagery. Key transport, business and recreational features are highlighted including expressways, bus terminals, car parks, shopping malls, office buildings, hotels, stadiums, embassies and consulates, government offices, places of worship, hospitals, libraries, police stations, schools, parks, theaters and golf courses. Densely-packed central city areas are shown at 1:10,000 scale for detailed coverage of streets, buildings and city landmarks. Other areas are shown at 1:40,000 scale to fit larger areas on each page and reduce page-flipping. User-friendly indexes listing names of streets, places and buildings provide easy reference.

Book The Conquest of Ainu Lands

Download or read book The Conquest of Ainu Lands written by Brett L. Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Ainu people who live in what is today far Northern Japan. It shows the ecological and cultural processes by which this people's political, economic, and cultural autonomy eroded as they became an ethnic minority in the modern Japanese state.

Book For My Children   What I Cooked for You

Download or read book For My Children What I Cooked for You written by B Bot and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For My Children . . . What I Cooked for You, in two volumes, is her third publication. The book is the result of a request by her children who wanted some record of all that had been cooked for them. Many friends had also asked for her to record her recipes, which some had enjoyed trying out. The book is a different cookbook in that it is full of advice, tips, and notes on how to go about cooking using her recipes. The main idea had been to help the children pick up the way she had cooked their favorite dishes. However, the book should also be useful for anyone learning to cook and for anyone else trying to understand how to cook Malay or Malaysian cuisine.

Book Diverting the Gila

    Book Details:
  • Author : David H. DeJong
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 0816542899
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Diverting the Gila written by David H. DeJong and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans assumed the land and water resources of the West were endless. Water was as vital to newcomers to Arizona’s Florence and Casa Grande valleys as it had always been to the Pima Indians, who had been successfully growing crops along the Gila River for generations when the white settlers moved in. Diverting the Gila explores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of the Gila River. Residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Reservation fought for vital access to water rights. Into this political foray stepped Arizona’s freshman congressman Carl Hayden, who not only united the farming communities but also used Pima water deprivation to the advantage of Florence-Casa Grande and Upper Gila Valley growers. The result was the federal Florence-Casa Grande Project that, as legislated, was intended to benefit Pima growers on the Gila River Indian Reservation first and foremost. As was often the case in the West, well-heeled, nontribal political interests manipulated the laws at the expense of the Indigenous community. Diverting the Gila is the sequel to David H. DeJong’s 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle to regain access to their water.

Book The Hohokam Expressway Project

Download or read book The Hohokam Expressway Project written by W. Bruce Masse and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Programmatic EIS  Pima Maricopa Irrigation Project  Maricopa County  Pinal County

Download or read book Programmatic EIS Pima Maricopa Irrigation Project Maricopa County Pinal County written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excavations at Snaketown

Download or read book Excavations at Snaketown written by Harold S. Gladwin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Gladwin] accomplished, from the 1920's on, a series of fundamentally important studies of the prehistoric cultures of the region from Texas to California. None of these surveys or excavations was more important than the excavation of Snaketown, in the southern Arizona desert. It provided a wealth of details for a major prehistoric culture, the Hohokam, which previously had been scarcely recognized. It dislodged many long-held dogmas of Southwestern archaeology and provided the basis for a major reorientation in thinking about the nature of the prehistoric occupations of Arizona and adjacent states. . . . [This volume] has remained indispensable for its detailed reporting of house remains, ball courts, canals, cremations, pottery, carved stone, and other artifacts."—Science "The reprint will come as a blessing to many archaeologists who have sought in vain to obtain a copy of the original volume. It now stands as a body of data easily accessible to all workers, and we look forward to a new phase of synthesis of Hohokam archaeology."—American Antiquity

Book Principles of Hindu Law

Download or read book Principles of Hindu Law written by Dinshah Fardunji Mulla and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Night   S Children

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary M. Cushnie-Mansour
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2012-04-12
  • ISBN : 1469793040
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Night S Children written by Mary M. Cushnie-Mansour and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia has escaped her year-long imprisonment with her son, Santan. She hopes to raise him to be a good, moral man. Santan, however, is sensitive to sunlight, and he has trouble with solid food. He is the half-human, half-vampire child of Virginia and her former captor, Count Basarab Musat, king of the vampiresand Virginia knows that one day, the boys father will come for him. For the time being, the count is busy in his home country of Transylvania. There is the potential for a family disaster, and he is the only one strong enough to pick up the pieces. Even, in the midst of the drama, he feels he may be losing his passion for the kill. He hunts the streets, searching for blood to rekindle his lust for the living. In the back of his mind, he considers Virginia and his son, but he cannot return to them yet. Far away, Virginia has her own troubles. Her last night with the count left a gift: she is pregnant with another of his o?spring. She is haunted by dreams of Basarab. At ?rst, they are infused with light and love, and she believes she may be able to rekindle her relationship with the count. But soon, the dreams turn dark, and her fear returns. Virginia is being hunted, and the count may be the only monster strong enough to keep her safe.

Book The Outcasts   A Thousand Dreams of Redemption

Download or read book The Outcasts A Thousand Dreams of Redemption written by Lidija Stankovikj and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outcasts is a story of loss, running away, hope and return. Three protagonists boldly confront a tradition-driven and repressive world. Through a series of serendipitous encounters, and against all odds, their paths intertwine at a time when each stands at a personal crossroads. Tabu is a rebellious young Muslim woman, who speaks her mind under the guise of jinn influence. Santan, an aging Hindu man, in the face of a near-death experience, suddenly discovers a new spark for life. And Chameli, a dazzling but emotionally fragile transgender woman, is forced to leave the community which had once provided her with safety and identity. Together, they embark on a transformative journey, laced with doubt and danger. They are forced to re-examine their values, renounce their old risk-averse selves, and face a dark night of the soul. Set in contemporary India, a land of dichotomies, the novel challenges the notions of gender, feminism vis-à-vis spirituality/religion, and culturally appropriate romantic expression.

Book Breast Cancer Survivor Cookbook  UM Press

Download or read book Breast Cancer Survivor Cookbook UM Press written by Hazreen Abd Majid and published by The University of Malaya Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for those who wish to make a difference in their cooking practices. It is important for both breast cancer survivors and general public out there to understand that cooking healthy dishes is possible without jeopardizing the taste and quality of the dishes. Adopting healthy lifestyle is an important strategy to ensure each individual can minimize their chances from developing non-communicable diseases. Eating healthily and having varieties in the food intake is one of the important elements in disease prevention. This book starts with the recipes for breakfast, main course dishes, dessert and some healthy tips at the end. It also provides the nutritional breakdown for each dish thus will help the users to understand more about the recipes/ nutrient content. The uniqueness of this book is the shared recipes by our breast cancer survivors and not just by the diet experts. The recipes were modified so that the dishes can be nutritious and tasty. This book will benefit the breast cancer survivors particularly and general public.

Book Sheading of Rushen  Kirk Malew with Castletown and Ballasalla   Kirk Arbory and Kirk Christ Rushen with the Calf of Man

Download or read book Sheading of Rushen Kirk Malew with Castletown and Ballasalla Kirk Arbory and Kirk Christ Rushen with the Calf of Man written by George Broderick and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6 comprises the three southerly parishes of Kirk Malew (including the town and former capital Castletown and the large village of Ballasalla), Kirk Arbory, and Kirk Christ Rushen (including the Calf of Man island). The material appears in alphabetical form with discussion of any problems of interpretation, and a listing of the various elements making up the names. This volume yields name-forms and elements not found in Manx literature or dictionaries. In addition, reinterpretation of some of the names now places them in the Early Christian period of Manx history (6th-7th centuries), thus adding them to the small list of names predating the Scandinavian period (9th-13th centuries). As documentary material from that time to the 16th century is largely absent, the testimony of placenames is important for the distribution of name elements reflecting the topography and patterns of settlement, and for the development of Manx Gaelic during that period. It also helps to contribute towards comparative placename study in adjacent areas, particularly Ireland, southwest Scotland and northwest England.

Book Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports

Download or read book Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tsunami Simon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Damodar Mauzo
  • Publisher : Ponytale Books
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 9380637845
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book Tsunami Simon written by Damodar Mauzo and published by Ponytale Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Simon lives in a coastal village in South Goa. He juggles school, dancing, karate classes and thoroughly loves the sea, especially going on fishing trips with his father, Gabru. Despite growing up in modern times, Simon nurtures a deep love for their traditional fisher-folk life. This winter Simon goes to Tamil Nadu, to spend his Christmas vacation with his aunt. But the holiday comes to a disastrous end. One morning, when out fishing with his uncle, the gigantic waves of the tsunami strike the coast of South India sparing little that lay in its path. Does Simon survive this calamity? What about his family? Will life ever be the same again?