Download or read book When Women Held the Dragon s Tongue written by Hermann Rebel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peasants tell tales," one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins among others, this book presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies and thereby bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture. In challenging the methodology and theoretical frameworks currently used by social scientists interested in aspects of popular culture, the author suggests a common discursive ground can be found in an historical anthropology that recognizes how myths, fairytales and histories speak to a universal need for imagining oneself in different timescapes and for linking one's local world with a "known" larger world.
Download or read book Down the Dragon s Tongue written by Margaret Mahy and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twins Harry and Miranda bring their buttoned-down father to the playground, he discovers that he does not want to stop sliding down the dragon's-tongue slide.
Download or read book Tongues of Serpents written by Naomi Novik and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A latest work by the award-winning author of Victory of Eagles continues the adventurous partnership between a British naval captain and a fighting dragon who work to protect their island home from the forces of Napoleon.
Download or read book Dragon s Tongue written by Laura J. Underwood and published by Meisha Merlin Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaric Braidwine, young mageborn bard in training, has no idea that he's about to become part of a legend. Traveling to Dun Gealach to learn magecraft under the Council of Mageborn, he finds himself drawn into a fiendish plot by a blood mage who wants to be a god.
Download or read book The Dragon s Tongue written by CJ. Brightley and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When Women Held the Dragon s Tongue written by Hermann Rebel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peasants tell tales," one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins among others, this book presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies and thereby bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture. In challenging the methodology and theoretical frameworks currently used by social scientists interested in aspects of popular culture, the author suggests a common discursive ground can be found in an historical anthropology that recognizes how myths, fairytales and histories speak to a universal need for imagining oneself in different timescapes and for linking one's local world with a "known" larger world. Hermann Rebel was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and educated at the University of Toronto and at UC Berkeley. He has taught at York University in Toronto, the University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona and has published Peasant Classes (Princeton, 1983) as well as articles on Austrian and German agrarian and cultural history.
Download or read book The Dragon Tongue in Thirty Simple Lessons written by Madeline Palmer and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to do something never attempted before: to teach the language of the fearsome dragons. Is this serious? Yes it is. This language, called Srínawésin, which has a depth and complexity of any human language and is as rich as the fabled dragons themselves. The author has written this primer based on notes from a man who claimed to get his information from several actual dragons; Bloody Face, Moonchild, Ash Tongue, Frost Song, Black Honey, Owl Claw and others. Do these notes, found in the linguistics department of NYU, actually describe a real language that real dragons speak? Even the author does not know. But this book, arranged in a matter of thirty lessons that build from basic concepts and sounds to more and more complex sentences and thoughts, requires no previous knowledge or ability of foreign languages. All a reader needs is the desire to learn and the open mindedness to believe, even for a moment, the tongue of these fascinating creatures. Each chapter has exercises to test the basic grammatical concepts dealt therein as well as the lore, culture, history and worldview of dragons. Young or old, language-savvy or not, this book is written to all those that think, feel and believe that the powerful beasts that live in every corner of the world and in every mythology, might have a culture and language that they are proud of and which is not seen through the lens of human thoughts and biases. They have an oral literature as deep as any human culture, with a language, songs, stories, poems, riddles and history that is as ancient as it is alien. This book is the first of a two-part series covering basic and advanced concepts as well as a dictionary and thesaurus of Srínawésin, the Reader, Dictionary and Thesaurus . You are only Thirty lessons away from learning the Dragon Tongue!
Download or read book How to Be a Dragon written by Arlene Williams and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young teen in Nevada must come to terms with her estranged father and the impending death of her mother as she works through her resentment and loneliness in the fantasy world of dragons, angels and dreams.
Download or read book The Dragon s Tongue Tiny Tales written by Donato DiCristino and published by Donato DiCristino. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dragon's Tongue (Tiny Tales) is the fourth compilation of prose by American author DONATO. As always the poems are pieced together to tell a story but if the reader chooses he or she can open the book to any random page. The story marches through several difficult subjects including unrequited love and drug addiction."This is a personal journey through a deep darkness I once called home. The words I use to illustrate the sadness are meant to be mirrors for the reader." -The Author- As always, the book ends on a positive note. Enjoy!
Download or read book An Instinct for Dragons written by David E. Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Dragon s Tongue written by C. Brightley and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While hiding with Lord Owen, the Fae, and the human resistance, Aria questions everything she thought she understood. What are the Fae? Who is Aria herself? More than refuge, Aria needs answers. Despite the appeal of Dr. Bartok's talk of grace, the Empire's darkness threatens to overwhelm Aria as she wrestles with questions of sin, justice, and love. Colonel Grenidor has his own questions as he makes a new, powerful ally. How much can Edwin really be trusted? And what of the Slavemaster, who Edwin claims is an ally of the vampires opposing the Empire? Colonel Grenidor's research on the vampires has grown increasingly dangerous, with consequences for the Fae, the Empire, and supernatural entities on both sides of the conflict. Following Things Unseen, this second book in A Long-Forgotten Song is a riveting Christian fantasy that explores the depth of sin and the miracle of redemption.
Download or read book Tafod Y Ddraig written by Mike Church and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giants Monsters and Dragons written by Carol Rose and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-12-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the imaginary creatures found in legends, religions, folklore, oral history, and theologies around the world.
Download or read book Dragons Serpents and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons featured are well known: the Hydra, slain by Heracles; the Dragon of Colchis, the guardian of the golden fleece overcome by Jason and Medea; and the great sea-serpent from which Perseus rescues Andromeda. But the less well known dragons are often equally enthralling, like the Dragon of Thespiae, which Menestratus slays by feeding himself to it in armor covered in fish-hooks, or the lamias of Libya, who entice young men into their striking-range by wiggling their tails, shaped like beautiful women, at them. The texts are arranged in such a way as to allow readers to witness the continuity of and evolution in dragon stories between the Classical and Christian worlds, and to understand the genesis of saintly dragon-slaying stories of the sort now characteristically associated with St George, whose earliest dragon-fight concludes the volume. All texts, a considerable number of which have not previously been available in English, are offered in new translations and accompanied by lucid commentaries that place the source-passages into their mythical, folkloric, literary, and cultural contexts. A sampling of the ancient iconography of dragons and an appendix on dragon slaying myths from the ancient Near East and India, particularly those with a bearing upon the Greco-Roman material, are also included. This volume promises to be the most authoritative sourcebook on this perennially fascinating and influential body of ancient myth.
Download or read book The Discovery of Dragons written by Graeme Base and published by Viking. This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new edition of the classic book of Serpentology brought to you by the brilliant Graeme Base Was Bjorn of Bromme one of the greatest explorers of the Viking Age or just a simple-minded, lice-infested Barbarian with a passion for beach volleyball? Could Soong Mei Ying really have discovered every Asiatic Dragon known to Serpentology, or was she just a thirteenth-century teenage who wanted to travel and meet people? Did Dr E. F. Liebermann perish after discovering the Common Green Draak, also known as the 'Awful Gurgler', or was he suffering from a severe bout of jungle madness? The answers to these questions and more will not be found within the pages of this book - but a lot of great big Dragons will . . . Visit graemebase.com
Download or read book The Dragon s Tongue written by C. J. Brightley and published by Spring Song Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While hiding with Lord Owen, the Fae, and the human resistance, Aria questions everything she thought she understood. What are the Fae? Who is Aria herself? More than refuge, Aria needs answers. Despite the appeal of Dr. Bartok's talk of grace, the Empire's darkness threatens to overwhelm Aria as she wrestles with questions of sin, justice, and love. Colonel Grenidor has his own questions as he makes a new, powerful ally. How much can Edwin really be trusted? And what of the Slavemaster, who Edwin claims is an ally of the vampires opposing the Empire? Colonel Grenidor's research on the vampires has grown increasingly dangerous, with consequences for the Fae, vampires, and the supernatural entities on both sides of the conflict. Following Things Unseen, this second book in A Long-Forgotten Song is a riveting Christian fantasy that explores the depth of sin and the miracle of redemption.
Download or read book Falling Into the Dragon s Mouth written by Holly Thompson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this novel in verse, a resilient American boy deals with bullying and the challenges of being an outsider that come with living in a Japanese fishing village"--
