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Book The Case for the Burial of Ancestors  Geography

Download or read book The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Geography written by Paul Zelevansky and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Genealogy  2nd Edition

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Genealogy 2nd Edition written by Christine Rose and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly volume offers readers an opportunity to understand the craft of genealogy, explore their roots, perform online research, and begin to discover their true identities. Includes new information on the release of the 1930 census, the pros and cons of online research, and creating family trees.

Book The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society

Download or read book The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Genealogy

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Genealogy written by Christine Rose and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes methods for conducting genealogical research, explains how to trace the history of a family through the use of living sources and public records, and includes updated information on the latest census data, the art of using online research, and guidelines on how to find valuable offline records. Original.

Book Working with and for Ancestors

Download or read book Working with and for Ancestors written by Chelsea H. Meloche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with and for Ancestors examines collaborative partnerships that have developed around the study and care of Indigenous ancestral human remains. In the interest of reconciliation, museums and research institutions around the world have begun to actively seek input and direction from Indigenous descendants in establishing collections care and research policies. However, true collaboration is difficult, time-consuming, and sometimes awkward. By presenting examples of projects involving ancestral remains that are successfully engaged in collaboration, the book provides encouragement for scientists and descendant communities alike to have open and respectful discussions around the research and care of ancestral human remains. Key themes for discussion include new approaches to the care for ancestors; the development of culturally sensitive museum policies; the emergence of mutually beneficial research partnerships; and emerging issues such as those of intellectual property, digital data, and alternatives to destructive analyses. Critical discussions by leading scholars also identify the remaining challenges in the repatriation process and offer a means to continue moving forward. This volume will appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary audience interested in collaborative research and management strategies that are aimed at developing mutually beneficial relationships between researchers and descendant communities. This includes students and researchers in archaeology, anthropology, museums studies, and Indigenous communities.

Book Druidry and the Ancestors

Download or read book Druidry and the Ancestors written by Nimue Brown and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how we use the past to construct ourselves, and how we imagine the future.

Book The Geographical Journal

Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.

Book Dariali  The  Caspian Gates  in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages

Download or read book Dariali The Caspian Gates in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages written by Eberhard Sauer and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing about the end of the world. Humanity’s fate depended on a gated barrier deep in Europe’s highest and most forbidding mountain chain. Centuries before the emergence of such apocalyptic beliefs, the gorge had reached world fame. It was the target of a planned military expedition by the Emperor Nero. Chained to the dramatic sheer cliffs, framing the narrow passage, the mythical fire-thief Prometheus suffered severe punishment, his liver devoured by an eagle. It was known under multiple names, most commonly the Caspian or Alan Gates. Featuring in the works of literary giants, no other mountain pass in the ancient and medieval world matches Dariali’s fame. Yet little was known about the materiality of this mythical place. A team of archaeologists has now shed much new light on the major gorge-blocking fort and a barrier wall on a steep rocky ridge further north. The walls still standing today were built around the time of the first major Hunnic invasion in the late fourth century – when the Caucasus defenses feature increasingly prominently in negotiations between the Great Powers of Persia and Rome. In its endeavor to strongly fortify the strategic mountain pass through the Central Caucasus, the workforce erased most traces of earlier occupation. The Persian-built bastion saw heavy occupation for 600 years. Its multi-faith medieval garrison controlled Trans-Caucasian traffic. Everyday objects and human remains reveal harsh living conditions and close connections to the Muslim South, as well as the steppe world of the north. The Caspian Gates explains how a highly strategic rock has played a pivotal role in world history from Classical Antiquity into the twentieth century.

Book Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World

Download or read book Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World written by Colin Renfrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

Book Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories

Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Geographic Kids Guide to Genealogy

Download or read book National Geographic Kids Guide to Genealogy written by T. J. Resler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the growing ancestry and DNA-testing crazes, this guide helps readers dig into the past and learn more about their own family history. It offers tips on how to interview family members, create a family tree, and much more. Full color.

Book 1st  12th Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories

Download or read book 1st 12th Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Living Language in Kazakhstan

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  • Author : Eva Marie Dubuisson
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2017-06-30
  • ISBN : 0822982838
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Living Language in Kazakhstan written by Eva Marie Dubuisson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva-Marie Dubuisson provides a fascinating anthropological inquiry into the deeply ingrained presence of ancestors within the cultural, political, and spiritual discourse of Kazakhs. In a climate of authoritarianism and economic uncertainty, many people in this region turn to their forebearers for care, guidance, and advice, invoking them on a daily basis. This "living language" creates a powerful link to the past and a stable foundation for the present. Through Dubuisson's participatory, observational, and lived experience among Kazakhs, we witness firsthand the public performances and private rituals that show how memory and identity are sustained through an oral tradition of invoking ancestors. This ancestral dialogue sustains a unifying worldview by mediating questions of faith and morality, providing role models, and offering a mechanism for socio-political critique, change, and meaning-making. Looking beyond studies of Islam or heritage alone, Dubuisson provides fresh insights into understanding the Kazakh worldview that will serve students, researchers, GMOs, and policymakers in the region.

Book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London

Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.

Book Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity

Download or read book Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity written by Ton Derks and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and original examination of the relationships between ethnicity and political power in the ancient world.

Book Japanese Tree Burial

Download or read book Japanese Tree Burial written by Sébastien Penmellen Boret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head priest of a Zen Buddhist temple in northern Japan. Instead of a conventional family gravestone, perpetuating the continuity of a household and its identity, tree burial uses vast woodlands as cemeteries, with each burial spot marked by a tree and a small wooden tablet inscribed with the name of the deceased. Tree burial is gaining popularity, and is a highly-effective means of promoting the rehabilitation of Japanese forestland critically damaged by post-war government mismanagement. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the phenomenon of tree burial, tracing its development, discussing the factors which motivate Japanese people to choose tree burial, and examining the impact of tree burial on traditional views of death, memorialisation, and the afterlife. The author argues that non-traditional, non-ancestral modes of burial have become a means of negotiating new social orders and that this symbiosis of environmentalism and memorialisation corroborates the idea that graveyards are not only places for the containment of human remains and the memorialisation of the dead, but spaces where people (re)construct, challenge, and find new senses of belonging to the wider society in which they live. Throughout, the book demonstrates how the new practice fits with developing ideas of ecology, with the individual’s corporality nourishing the earth and thus re-entering the cycle of life in nature.

Book The National Geographic Magazine

Download or read book The National Geographic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes kept up to date with supplements.