Download or read book The Return of Cultural Treasures written by Jeanette Greenfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of Greenfield's pioneering study about the legal, political and historical aspects of cultural restitution.
Download or read book Cultural Treasures of the World written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebrated objects ever created. Revered, admired, and protected - every country and culture has certain artifacts that are prized above all others. Cultural Treasures of the World brings together more than 200 of these objects, exploring the fascinating and unique stories behind each of them. From the Bust of Nefertiti to the Benin Bronzes, and the Altamira cave paintings to Van Gogh's Sunflowers, these artifacts and artworks are revered for their beauty, artistry, or historical significance - and often all three at once. Discover how and why they were created, unravel the hidden meanings and symbolism they contain, and learn about the cultural legacy they have left behind. So what are you waiting for? Dive into this awe-inspiring history of art book to explore: - An immersive “visual tour” approach, combining stunning photography with accessible text and annotation - Feature boxes on cultural influences, symbolism, and technique offer additional context - Covers a wide range of regions, periods, and media – including sculpture, painting, jewelry, tapestry, rock art, documents, sacred objects, and more A treasure trove of human creativity that offers a fresh and unforgettable new perspective on civilizations and societies, Cultural Treasures of the World is the perfect gift for gallery- and museum-lovers, and armchair travelers everywhere. Doubling up as a great coffee table book, Cultural Treasures of the World combines stunning photography with detailed annotation to highlight key elements of technique, artistry, and symbolism, making this museum in a book perfect for anyone with an interest in art, history and culture alike.
Download or read book Heirloom Treasures The Cultural Tapestry of India written by Arunima Hoskote and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology of stories from the magazine India Beckons. We have picked up the best stories in the heritage, culture and travel space and made a volume on that. The stories talk about travel, culture, heritage, and traditions of Indians. India is a profoundly complex and beautiful country and, as you travel across the country, you can find some beautiful stories and places unravelling for the traveller. The book is for people who would like to learn more about India’s heritage and are looking for the right places in India to include in their travel plans. This book is also a good read for children who want to learn about the diverse traditional and cultural values that stitch into the very fabric of India, making it a popular tourist destination. From Pochampally Ikat sarees to the Kuchipudi dance form, from festivals like Ugadi to a recount of the life and teachings of Adi Shankaracharya, from the celebration of Lathmaar Holi in Mathura to the spiritual journey at the Kumbh Mela in Pragyaraj (which has been declared an intangible heritage by UNESCO), this book documents India's glorious and rich heritage thoroughly. The editor of the magazine endeavours to keep the readers engaged with novel and interesting articles.
Download or read book Treasures Of Canada written by Alan Samuel and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tome is an extensive record of Canadas treasures including art, architecture, historical sites, and spots of natural beauty.
Download or read book Lost Treasures of the Bible written by Clyde E. Fant and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lost Treasures of the Bible contains photographs and detailed descriptions of more than one hundred biblically significant archaeological objects housed in over twenty-five museums worldwide. Clyde Fant and Mitchell Reddish's selection of artifacts - many of them relatively unknown - illuminates the history, culture, and practices of the biblical world as a whole. Each entry also explains that particular object's relevance for understanding the Bible and locates the artifact not only at its museum site but also by its specific identification number, which is particularly valuable for smaller and lesser-known objects - true "lost treasures.""--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Treasures Hidden Within the Empire written by Martin Concoyle and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a fundamental re-organization of language which is used, in regard to describing the stable many-(but-few)-body spectral-orbital systems, from nuclei to planetary systems, which, now, have no valid descriptions, based on, what are called, the laws of physics. The current description, based on partial differential equations, results in: non-linear, non-commutative, and an improperly identified and improperly used random basis for physical description. The result is that the properties of stability, which are observed for these systems, have not been describable in such a context. On the other hand, the already identified math patterns of geometrization, along with E Noethers symmetries, which allow the stable set of discrete hyperbolic shapes to be identified with energy-spaces, as well as the many-dimensional structure in which these stable shapes (of any size) are defined, as identified by D Coxeter, are patterns which can be used to form a new context for physical description. This is what this book is about, forming such a new context, wherein, the stable many-(but-few)-body spectral system is formulated and accurately described, ie it is solved. In such a new context, partial differential equations come to play a subordinate role to stable shapes and their relation to defining a finite stable spectral-set, which is a property of the, new, many-dimensional containment-set, a property which determines which stable patterns can exist. But there are many social forces which oppose such a discussion. These opposing social forces are also discussed.t
Download or read book Keepers of the Treasures written by Patricia Lee Parker and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book By roads and Hidden Treasures written by Paul Ashton and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is keeping people strong in isolated and under-populated locales, and how much of that is cultural? In 2008 the Cultural Asset Mapping for Regional Australia (CAMRA) project was born with the very simple question: 'how can we best map regional culture in contemporary Australia so that we can assess that culture's value?' In the five years that followed, what transpired was an unpredicatable journey into unlikely places and too-often neglected communities across regional Australia, from western Sydney to the central desert, from east coast surfboard-shapers to Torres Straight hip-hop musicians. Their experiences, stories and insights confronted existing assumptions, and challenged many of the cherished precepts of cultural policy and creative industries research. By-roads and Hidden Treasures brings together the project's researchers, cultural critics and arts and creative industry figures to discuss culture and its connection to community, particularly in isolated circumstances. The book contains thought-provoking discussions on regional Australia's colonial and cultural heritage, and details innovative new methods for measuring cultural assets, as well as reflecting on fostering collaborations with peak cultural bodies in order to inform imminent policy and planning decisions for regional Australia.
Download or read book Haida Eagle Treasures written by Pansy Collison and published by Brush Education. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey into the heart of Haida culture as it is lived and experienced by an extraordinary woman of the Tsath Lanas Eagle Clan. Pansy Collison, a Haida woman born and raised in Old Massett on Haida Gwaii, tells stories of her clan and community, as well as personal narratives about her history and family. Haida Eagle Treasures embodies a strong Haida woman’s voice, offering a rare glimpse inside Haida culture. Each story and memory is a treasure that captures part of the beauty of the Haida worldview and way of life. Now retired, Pansy taught for 23 years at elementary, secondary, and college levels. From these experiences, she describes some of the challenges and contradictions of living between two worlds. Pansy’s teaching skills, artistic talents, and political affiliations keep her involved in politics and education on Haida Gwaii. Thirteen original illustrations by Pansy’s brother, Paul White, a gifted artist, teacher, pole carver and designer, provide the guideposts within Haida Eagle Treasures.
Download or read book Treasures in Clay Jars written by George B. Thompson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thompson, a prolific author of church leadership resources, believes the continuing decline in membership of mainline denominations and the increasing number of multicultural and multiracial churches call for a new way of thinking: ministers must begin to see their ministry differently in order to do their ministry differently. Treasures in Clay Jars is designed to provide persons in training for ministry with a paradigm-shifting framework to interpret and work effectively with the complex dynamics of local faith communities. Thompson takes an innovative approach by utilizing explicit and relevant conceptual and theoretical tools from the social sciences--sociology, economics, and cultural anthropology--to engage future pastors to minister effectively to twenty-first-century congregations. The book discusses congregations in five different ways: as social group, as bearer of meaning, as locus of exchange, as collective capacity, and as complex organization. A study guide is included for church leaders who would like to engage their congregations in this new paradigm of ministry.
Download or read book Teaching Palahniuk The Treasures of Transgression in the Age of Trump and Beyond written by Christopher Burlingame and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written about Chuck Palahniuk and his body of work, next to nothing has been written about when, where and how it is necessary to teach Palahniuk. This collection will reveal that teaching Palahniuk’s work and the discursive dynamic of the classroom interactions create new opportunities for scholarship by both the faculty member and his or her students. Despite early critical success with ‘Fight Club’, ‘Invisible Monsters’, and ‘Choke’, Palahniuk’s novels are increasingly dismissed for the very transgressive content that makes them essential pedagogical tools in the Age of Trump where “truth isn’t truth,” and tribalism is stoked with claims of “fake news”. This collection aims to broaden the scholarship by examining under-represented and unrepresented works from his oeuvre and situating them in the context of their pedagogical implications. In both form and content, the transgressive nature of Palahniuk’s work demands critical thought and reflection, capacities that are necessary for the preservation of a democratic society. Contributors take various approaches to address what students can learn about writing, literature, and society by reading and analyzing Palahniuk’s texts. The collection will discuss the value of teaching Palahniuk, innovations and various disciplinary contexts for teaching his works, and reflections on some of those pedagogical opportunities. Through its multi-faceted discussion of Palahniuk and pedagogy, this collection will legitimize efforts to bring his work onto syllabi and into the classroom, where it can enhance student engagement, create new avenues for inter-disciplinary scholarship, and re-invigorate an expansion of the canon. It will also provide diverse frameworks for incorporating and interpreting Palahniuk’s writing across disciplines. Finally, the collection will offer post-mortems from faculty members who have found the “guts” to teach Palahniuk and will offer insight into what students have gained and stand to gain from a more intensive Palahniuk pedagogy.
Download or read book Caribbean Theology written by Lewin Lascelles Williams and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five full years before the momentous meeting of EATWOT in Dar-es-Salaam in 1976, Caribbean thinkers had met in Trinidad to register the region's need of a contextual theology. Caribbean Theology scrutinizes the gradual but crucial development of theology within the context of the Caribbean since 1971. It examines the charge that the gradualness of the process is due to the insidiousness of missionary theology from which Caribbean theology seeks disengagement. The book further assesses the viability of this indigenization by drawing its many seminal and abridged offerings for interpretation and serious reflection into a systematic whole.
Download or read book The Sounding Museum Box of Treasures written by Hein Schoer and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The »Sounding Museum« fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and trans-cultural communication inside the context of museum education. Based on the piece »Two Weeks in Alert Bay«, it supplies researchers, practitioners, and audiences with an instrument to gain an acoustic image of the contemporary cultural and everyday life of the Kwakwaka'wakw of Alert Bay, BC. The project mediates intercultural competence thorough the affective agency of sound. With the coeval »Session Musician's Approach«, introduced and analysed in text, audio, and interactive form, it also bridges the gap between art, science, and education. With a foreword by Barry Truax. The box includes a book, 2 DVD and 1 CD.
Download or read book The Public Archaeology of Treasure written by Howard Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Select proceedings of the 5th University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference (31 January 2020) reflect on the shifting and conflicting meanings, values and significances for treasure in archaeology’s public engagements, interactions and manifestations.
Download or read book Colorado Treasure Tales written by and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture written by Robert Gregg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a meeting point for world cultures, the USA is characterized by its breadth and diversity. Acknowledging that diversity is the fundamental feature of American culture, this volume is organized around a keen awareness of race, gender, class and space and with over 1,200 alphabetically-arranged entries - spanning 'the American century' from the end of World War II to the present day - the Encyclopedia provides a one-stop source for insightful and stimulating coverage of all aspects of that culture. Entries range from short definitions to longer overview essays and with full cross-referencing, extensive indexing, and a thematic contents list, this volume provides an essential cultural context for both teachers and students of American studies, as well as providing fascinating insights into American culture for the general reader. The suggestions for further reading, which follows most entries, are also invaluable guides to more specialized sources.
Download or read book Secrets of the World s Undiscovered Treasures written by Patricia Fanthorpe and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasures of many kinds still lie hidden below crumbling castles and ruined monasteries; in macabre tombs; in subterranean labyrinths and sinister caverns. Many sunken treasures lie beneath the seas, oceans and lakes of the world. Vast stores of pirate gold are still hidden on many a real life treasure island such as Oak Island at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Many treasures were looted, hidden and lost after the two World Wars - Hermann Goering, for example, one of most powerful leaders of Nazi Germany, is strongly suspected of hiding huge treasures at Veldenstein and Lake Zeller. This fascinating, expertly researched book brilliantly reveals all these unsolved mysteries. The final section covers useful ideas for treasure-seekers: the study of old maps and charts; coded messages; secret symbols; and intensive research into the lives and locations of those people through out history who probably in all certainty, had treasure to hide.
