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Book Brief van G A G  van Maanen aan W P  van Stockum Den Haag

Download or read book Brief van G A G van Maanen aan W P van Stockum Den Haag written by W.P. van Stockum (Den Haag) and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of John Keats  Volume 1  1814 1818

Download or read book The Letters of John Keats Volume 1 1814 1818 written by Hyder Edward Rollins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1958 book forms the first part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering 1814 to 1818.

Book The Ten Thousand Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Dermout
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2014-11-25
  • ISBN : 1590178823
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermout and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.

Book Why Suy   Sing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Seeger
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780252072024
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Why Suy Sing written by Anthony Seeger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like many other South American Indian communities, the Suya Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil, devote a great deal of time and energy to making music, especially singing. In paperback for the first time, Anthony Seeger's Why Suya Sing considers the reasons for the importance of music for the Suya - and by extension for other groups - through an examination of myth telling, speech making, and singing in an initiation ceremony." "This new paperback edition features a CD offering examples of the myth telling, speeches, and singing discussed, as well as a new afterword that describes the continuing use of music by the Suya in their recent conflicts with cattle ranchers and soybean farmers." -- Prové de l'editor.

Book Remapping Sound Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gavin Steingo
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2019-03-14
  • ISBN : 1478002190
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Remapping Sound Studies written by Gavin Steingo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in the global North, this volume broadens the scope of sound studies and challenges some of the field's central presuppositions. The contributors show how approaches to and uses of technology across the global South complicate narratives of technological modernity and how sound-making and listening in diverse global settings unsettle familiar binaries of sacred/secular, private/public, human/nonhuman, male/female, and nature/culture. Exploring a wide range of sonic phenomena and practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors offer diverse ways to remap and decolonize modes of thinking about and listening to sound. Contributors Tripta Chandola, Michele Friedner, Louise Meintjes, Jairo Moreno, Ana María Ochoa Gautier, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Jeff Roy, Jessica Schwartz, Shayna Silverstein, Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes, Benjamin Tausig, Hervé Tchumkam

Book Colonial Collections Revisited

Download or read book Colonial Collections Revisited written by Pieter ter Keurs and published by Phoenix Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of colonial collecting is complex and full of contradictions. Collectors often appreciated the 'other' cultures where they obtained collections, but at the same time they had a close relationship with the colonial authorities who were willing to subjugate societies with military violence. This book addresses colonial collecting with examples from the Dutch East Indies and, by means of comparison, with a discussion about collecting in British India. Since the 1990s the phenomenon of collecting has become an important part of anthropological discourse. This development touches upon the foundations of the discipline, since it throws light on how the white colonizers dealt with local cultures, and thus on how the formation of the anthropological discourse took place. The study of collecting can help us to develop an anthropology of intentionality, instrumentality and desire, as Anthony Shelton argues in one of the contributions to this book. Objects do not stop 'to live' when collected. Margaret Wiener discusses the magic of the kris, which is influential even in Europe, far from the context in which the magic is created. Other chapters treat in detail the military entanglement with collecting in the Dutch East Indies. There is also attention for ethnographic collecting in the context of scholarly activities, particularly in the chapter by Ruth Barnes. The broad picture of colonial collecting ,as presented in this book, includes an analysis of the appropriation of the Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist culture by means of collecting Javanese antiquities, detailed descriptions of colonial wars (North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, Bali and Lombok) and a discussion of the cultural heritage of the Ethische Politiek. With contributions by Ruth Barnes, Francine Brinkgreve, Hari Budiarti, Brian Durrans, Wahyu Ernawati, Pieter ter Keurs, Susan Legêne, Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer, Anthony Shelton, Harm Stevens, David Stuart-Fox and Margaret Wiener.

Book Music in Java

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jaap Kunst
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-12-11
  • ISBN : 9401771308
  • Pages : 653 pages

Download or read book Music in Java written by Jaap Kunst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems

Download or read book The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kaluli

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  • Author : K. Briggs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 22 pages

Download or read book The Kaluli written by K. Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Audible Empire

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  • Author : Ronald Radano
  • Publisher : Duke University Press Books
  • Release : 2016-01-25
  • ISBN : 9780822360124
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Audible Empire written by Ronald Radano and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audible Empire rethinks the processes and mechanisms of empire and shows how musical practice has been crucial to its spread around the globe. Music is a means of comprehending empire as an audible formation, and the contributors highlight how it has been circulated, consumed, and understood through imperial logics. These fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography, and include topics such as the affective relationship between jazz and cigarettes in interwar China; the sonic landscape of the U.S.– Mexico border; the critiques of post-9/11 U.S. empire by desi rappers; and the role of tonality in the colonization of Africa. Whether focusing on Argentine tango, theorizing anticolonialist sound, or examining the music industry of postapartheid South Africa, the contributors show how the audible has been a central component in the creation of imperialist notions of reason, modernity, and culture. In doing so, they allow us to hear how empire is both made and challenged. Contributors: Kofi Agawu, Philip V. Bohlman. Michael Denning, Brent Hayes Edwards, Nan Enstad, Andrew Jones, Josh Kun, Morgan Luker, Jairo Moreno, Tejumola Olaniyan, Marc Perry, Ronald Radano, Nitasha Sharma, Micol Seigel, Gavin Steingo, Penny Von Eschen, Amanda Weidman.

Book Indonesia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pieter ter Keurs
  • Publisher : Kit Pub
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789068324945
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Indonesia written by Pieter ter Keurs and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their colonial rule over Indonesia, the Dutch collected art objects. For each object they exported to The Netherlands they had to leave a similar object in Indonesian care. In most cases the best quality objects remained in Indonesia. Thus a collection was built that consists of two complementary parts. This book describes the history of this collection and provides a unique insight into the way colonial powers collected art and at the same time tried to be just. In December 2005, the two halves of the collection were displayed together for the first time ever in De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. This book marks that historic occasion. The Dutch and Indonesian collections are the top two Indonesian Art collections in the world. This book shows the highlights of both these collections in relation to each other. All objects were photographed especially for this book; many of the objects are unique and have never been photographed before.

Book The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton

Download or read book The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton written by Hugh Robert Mill and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Robert Mill's tells the Exceptional life story of Sir. Ernest Shackleton. There are no simple words to describe Sir. Ernest Shackleton. He was a man with a unique, extraordinarily unique mind, to be able to lead his men in one of the most dismal situations ever. A situation that would have been easiest to buckle to self defeat and surrender; but he was a man that didn't believe in giving up. Shackleton and his men made it because he believed in them and they believed in him.

Book An English Prison from Within

Download or read book An English Prison from Within written by Stephen Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chapters of Brazil s Colonial History 1500 1800

Download or read book Chapters of Brazil s Colonial History 1500 1800 written by João Capistrano de Abreu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits of dramatic events--close fought battles against Dutch occupation in the 1650s, Indian resistance to often brutal internal expansion--with insightful social history. A master of Brazil's ethnographic landscape, he provides detailed sketches of daily life for Brazilians of all stripes. Superbly translated by Arthur A. Brakel and edited by Stuart Schwartz and Fernando Novais, this Brazilian classic has never before available in English. Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History opens Brazil's rich, fascinating past to the general reader, and offers scholars access to a great turning point in historical scholarship.

Book The German Fifth Column in the Second World War

Download or read book The German Fifth Column in the Second World War written by Louis De Jong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in English in 1956, this book is divided into 3 parts : the first outlines how, after 1933, those outside Germany began to become increasingly afraid of sinister operations on the part of German agents and the partisans of National Socialism. The second part examines the role of the German Fifth column during the war and the third part analyses the role of the groups which were living outside Germany at the time Hitler started his assault.

Book The Savage Wars Of Peace

Download or read book The Savage Wars Of Peace written by John Fishel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical overview of UN and non-UN peace operations, this book provides a theoretical framework for informing U.S. military doctrine as it relates to peacekeeping. The contributors, who are drawn from scholars, soldiers, diplomats, and security consultants, lay out the political and strategic context for peace operations and present case studies on traditional, aggravated, and enforcement operations, including UNPROFOR, UNOSOM II, UNFICYP-Cypress, ONUC-Congo. A historical overview of UN and non-UN peace operations, this book provides a theoretical framework for informing U.S. military doctrine as it relates to peacekeeping. The contributors, who are drawn from scholars, soldiers, diplomats, and security consultants, lay out the political and strategic context for peace operations and present case studies on traditional, aggravated, and enforcement operations, including UNPROFOR, UNOSOM II, UNFICYP-Cypress, ONUC-Congo.

Book The USSR Vs  Dr  Mikhail Stern

Download or read book The USSR Vs Dr Mikhail Stern written by Mikhail Shtern and published by Lester and Orpen. This book was released on 1977 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcript of proceedings and other documents relating to the trial held Dec. 11-31, 1974, in the Criminal Section of Vinnytsis Provincial Court.