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Book Enemy Ancestors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Matlock
  • Publisher : Northland Publishing
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Enemy Ancestors written by Gary Matlock and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular history of the putative Pueblo Indian ancestors, their abundant ruins and artifacts, with fine photos by Scott Warren which take advantage of the lush warm light coming off the sandstone walls.

Book Viewing the Ancestors

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  • Author : Robert S. McPherson
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2014-03-17
  • ISBN : 0806145706
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Viewing the Ancestors written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anaasází people left behind marvelous structures, the ruins of which are preserved at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. But what do we know about these people, and how do they relate to Native nations living in the Southwest today? Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history. McPherson’s approach to oral tradition reveals evidence that, contrary to the archaeological consensus that these groups did not coexist, the Navajos interacted with their Anaasází neighbors. In addition to examining archaeological literature, McPherson has studied traditional teachings and interviewed Native people to obtain accounts of their history and of the relations between the Anaasází and Athapaskan ancestors of today’s Hopi, Pueblo, and Navajo peoples. Oral history, McPherson points out, tells why things happened. For example, archaeological findings indicate that the Hopi are descended from the Anaasází, but Hopi oral tradition better explains why the ancient Puebloans may have left the Four Corners region: the drought that may have driven the Anaasází away was a symptom of what had gone wrong within the society—a point that few archaeologists could derive from what is found in the ground. An important text for non-Native scholars as well as Native people committed to retaining traditional knowledge, Viewing the Ancestors exemplifies collaboration between the sciences and oral traditions rather than a contest between the two.

Book From the Enemy s Point of View

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  • Author : Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2020-05-02
  • ISBN : 022676883X
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book From the Enemy s Point of View written by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Araweté are one of the few Amazonian peoples who have maintained their cultural integrity in the face of the destructive forces of European imperialism. In this landmark study, anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro explains this phenomenon in terms of Araweté social cosmology and ritual order. His analysis of the social and religious life of the Araweté—a Tupi-Guarani people of Eastern Amazonia—focuses on their concepts of personhood, death, and divinity. Building upon ethnographic description and interpretation, Viveiros de Castro addresses the central aspect of the Arawete's concept of divinity—consumption—showing how its cannibalistic expression differs radically from traditional representations of other Amazonian societies. He situates the Araweté in contemporary anthropology as a people whose vision of the world is complex, tragic, and dynamic, and whose society commands our attention for its extraordinary openness to exteriority and transformation. For the Araweté the person is always in transition, an outlook expressed in the mythology of their gods, whose cannibalistic ways they imitate. From the Enemy's Point of View argues that current concepts of society as a discrete, bounded entity which maintains a difference between "interior" and "exterior" are wholly inappropriate in this and in many other Amazonian societies.

Book The Seed Master

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  • Author : Ken Nunoo
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2008-05-01
  • ISBN : 1435717325
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book The Seed Master written by Ken Nunoo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God exist? Who and what is God? Is there scientific proof of the existence of God? What is the nature of the soul? Is there life after death? Do angels exist? The SEED MASTER, is the second volume of THE TRINITY OF LIGHTS; and is a compilation of four books in one. These books are "THE SEED MASTER", "POEMS OF INSPIRATION & POEMS OF WISDOM", THE BOOK OF PSALMS", THE BOOK OF GAMES BY KEN NUNOO". This book includes personalities and genders of the Hebrew alphabets.The bible code; Beresit = 77 = Leminehu = 77 = ELoahum = 77 = Emmanuel = 77 = Christ = 77. The formula above means: Christ is Emmanuel, Emmanuel is God, God is the Seed, the Seed is the Beginning. The code translates these words into numerical values as: Beresit = 7,3,19,3,20,8,17 = 77. Leminehu = 9,3,14,8,10,3,12,18 = 77. Eloahum = 3,9,15,6,12,18,14 = 77. Emmanuel = 3,14,14,6,10,18,3,9 = 77. Christ = 1,12,19,9,20,17=77. Beresit = Beginning; Leminehu = Seed, Eloahum = God.

Book Enemy Tribe

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  • Author : Lori Holmes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-29
  • ISBN : 9781838029876
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Enemy Tribe written by Lori Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breathtaking story that has enthralled readers from around the world, The Ancestors Saga continues with Book 3, Enemy Tribe... Betrayed. Captured. Terrified. The forests of home lie far behind. Nyriaana is now the captive of Khalvir, the Wove raider she mistakenly trusted with her life. Gripped by the agony of betrayal and the dire consequences her naïvety wrought, the thirst for revenge alone keeps Nyriaana breathing. Surrounded by predators, both human and animal alike, not everything is as it seems in this vast and perilous world beyond her homeland. Nyriaana must learn who to trust and learn fast if she is to survive the journey through enemy territory. One misstep and she will fall into the clutches of the mysterious chief who awaits her arrival...

Book Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World

Download or read book Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World written by Julian Baldick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand. Encompassing both scattered archipelagos and major landmasses, Austronesia - derived from the Latin australis,'southern',and Greek nesos,'island' - is used primarily as a linguistic term, designating a family of languages spoken by peoples with a shared heritage. Julian Baldick, a celebrated historian of ancient religion, here argues that the diverse inhabitants of the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, New Guinea and Oceania show a common inheritance that extends beyond language. This commonality is found above all in mythology and ritual, which reach back to an ancient, prehistoric past. From around 1250 BCE the original proto-Oceanic speakers migrated eastwards from South-East Asia. Navigating by the sun, the stars, bird flight, the swells of the sea and cloud-swathed mountain islands, Austronesian voyagers used canoes and outriggers to settle on new territories. They developed a unified pattern of religion characterised by mortuary rites, headhunting and agrarian rituals of the annual calendar, culminating in a post-harvest festival often sexual in nature. This unique overview of Austronesian belief and tradition - the author's final book, and published posthumously - will be essential reading for students of religion, prehistory and anthropology.

Book Stories and Stone

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  • Author : Reuben J. Ellis
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780816523665
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Stories and Stone written by Reuben J. Ellis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep . . . For many, such historic places evoke images of stone ruins, cliff dwellings, pot shards, and petroglyphs. For others, they recall ancestry. Remnants of the American Southwest's ancestral Puebloan peoples (sometimes known as Anasazi) have mystified and tantalized explorers, settlers, archaeologists, artists, and other visitors for centuries. And for a select group of writers, these ancient inhabitants have been a profound source of inspiration. Collected here are more than fifty selections from a striking body of literature about the prehistoric Southwest: essays, stories, travelers' reports, and poems spanning more than four centuries of visitation. They include timeless writings such as John Wesley Powell's The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Tributaries and Frank Hamilton Cushing's "Life at Zuni," plus contemporary classics ranging from Colin Fletcher's The Man Who Walked Through Time to Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian to Edward Abbey's "The Great American Desert." Reuben Ellis's introduction brings contemporary insight and continuity to the collection, and a section on "reading in place" invites readers to experience these great works amidst the landscapes that inspired them. For anyone who loves to roam ancient lands steeped in mystery, Stories and Stone is an incomparable companion that will enhance their enjoyment.

Book Webster s II New College Dictionary

Download or read book Webster s II New College Dictionary written by Webster's New World Dictionary and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly updated edition of the dictionary features more than 200,000 definitions, as well as revised charts and tables, proofreaders' marks, synonym lists, word histories, and context examples.

Book Both Sides of the Moon

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  • Author : Alan Duff
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 1869798775
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Both Sides of the Moon written by Alan Duff and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful novel by the author of Once Were Warriors about a half caste and his Maori warrior ancestor, cast out of his tribe. Jimmy understands all about belonging and not belonging. he sees himself as part of both sides of the moon: 'Kind of black man, sort of nigger, in my own country, and kind of white, sort of The Man, by the other half of me. I am torn, yet I am more whole since I am both . . .' He is part of a fractured family, and it's only when he learns about his forebear - a brave warrior who became an outcast from his tribe - that he begins to understand the darker implications of his heritage.

Book 40 Rules for Effective Deliverance

Download or read book 40 Rules for Effective Deliverance written by Dr. D. K. Olukoya and published by The Battle Cry Christian Ministries. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three categories of people miss out greatly on the immense benefits of the deliverance ministry - those who are ignorant of the deliverance ministry and its purposes, those who do not believe in deliverance, and those who do not know how to obtain genuine and complete deliverance.This book is written for all three categories so they can find help and be free. It unravels the mysteries surrounding deliverance, makes it clearer and easier to understandPractical, instructive and life-changing, Forty Rules for Effective Deliverance is one of the greatest deliverance manuals ever written. It will keep you from becoming and remaining a permanent deliverance candidate.

Book Enemies from the East

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2007-11-06
  • ISBN : 0810124173
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Enemies from the East written by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In various contexts V. S. Soloviev (1853-1900), the most distinguished representative of nineteenth-century Russian religious philosophy, anticipated our current global dilemma by more than a hundred years. These essays, presented together for the first time in English, consider from a number of perspectives how a future clash of cultures between East and West threatens human progress toward the harmonic unity that, for Soloviev, represented the ultimate human telos.

Book Strange Enemies

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  • Author : Aparecida Vilaça
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2010-05-19
  • ISBN : 0822391287
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Strange Enemies written by Aparecida Vilaça and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the whites reported to their own people that “the region’s most warlike tribe has entered the pacification phase!” Initially published in Brazil, Strange Enemies is an ethnographic narrative of the first encounters between these peoples with radically different worldviews. During the 1940s and 1950s, white rubber tappers invading the Wari’ lands raided the native villages, shooting and killing their victims as they slept. These massacres prompted the Wari’ to initiate a period of intense retaliatory warfare. The national government and religious organizations subsequently intervened, seeking to “pacify” the Indians. Aparecida Vilaça was able to interview both Wari’ and non-Wari’ participants in these encounters, and here she shares their firsthand narratives of the dramatic events. Taking the Wari’ perspective as its starting point, Strange Enemies combines a detailed examination of these cross-cultural encounters with analyses of classic ethnological themes such as kinship, shamanism, cannibalism, warfare, and mythology.

Book Your Ministry and Your Ancestry

Download or read book Your Ministry and Your Ancestry written by Dr. D. K. Olukoya and published by Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries . This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUR MIN1STRY AND YOUR ANCESTRY The battles of life are common to all and sundry, therefore the fact that you are a minister does not erase your ancestral roots. To this end, many pastors, ministers and church leaders are ignorant of the impact ancestral factors have on the lives of men and women of Cod. A lot of ministers who have failed in the ministry could not really understand the reason(s) behind their failures. Some are even blinded to the fact that they have battles to fight. These battles are deeply entrenched in the foundations of many ministers of the gospel and if something is not done urgently, many more will die miserably without fulfillingtheir destinies. While the battles and challenges faced by those who are not ministers are ordinary, the battles faced by ministers are complicated and advanced in nature. This book exposes you to those battles, how to tackle them and it explains what you need to do to deal with them and be permanently free from them. Be blessed on this journey of discovery and recovery.

Book The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother

Download or read book The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother written by Ned Harold Benson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fired on Fort Sumter, and served until the end of the War of Rebellion, being mustered out on 22 June 1865. He then returned to Kansas where he prospered, married, and fathered 5 children. He lost all his worldly possessions due to drought and the economic collapse following The Panic of 1873, and then moved about Kansas seeking a new start. During this difficult period, his wife died, leaving him a widower with 4 children ages 6 to 11. He soon married a divorcee who brought her 3 children, ages 1 to 3, to the marriage. In his second marriage, John Lewis fathered three more children. After the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory were opened for settlement in 1899, John Lewis and his blended family moved there and share-cropped 40 acres southeast of Guthrie, Oklahoma, which he eventually bought. He died on this farm on 23 March 1906. This book by one of his great-grandsons tells the story of his life, the lives of his five sisters and one brother, and their ancestry back to 16th century Oxfordshire, England.

Book Insiders  Guide   to Albuquerque

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Albuquerque written by Tania Casselle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insiders' Guide to Albuquerque is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to one of New Mexico's most colorful cities. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Albuquerque and its surrounding environs.

Book Confucian Governmentality and Socialist Autocracy in Contemporary China

Download or read book Confucian Governmentality and Socialist Autocracy in Contemporary China written by Chih-yu Shih and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2022, the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded, extending Xi Jinping's leadership indefinitely, which many view as a one-party dictatorship. Exploring Confucian and socialist principles, this book examines the relationship between the citizens and leaders in the Chinese autocracy. By applying a Foucauldian twist to a range of topics – from discussing the politics of love and pandemic nationalism to analysing Xi’s personality – it challenges the binary of authoritarianism and democracy. Interdisciplinary in nature, it will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of politics, international relations, culture studies and critical theory.

Book Encyclopedia of American Indian History  4 volumes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Indian History 4 volumes written by Bruce E. Johansen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page 1730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new four-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource available on the history of Native Americans, providing a lively, authoritative survey ranging from human origins to present-day controversies. From the origins of Native American cultures through the years of colonialism and non-Native expansion to the present, Encyclopedia of American Indian History brings the story of Native Americans to life like no other previous reference on the subject. Featuring the work of many of the field's foremost scholars, it explores this fundamental and foundational aspect of the American experience with extraordinary depth, breadth, and currency, carefully balancing the perspectives of both Native and non-Native Americans. Encyclopedia of American Indian History spans the centuries with three thematically organized volumes (covering the period from precontact through European colonization; the years of non-Native expansion (including Indian removal); and the modern era of reservations, reforms, and reclamation of semi-sovereignty). Each volume includes entries on key events, places, people, and issues. The fourth volume is an alphabetically organized resource providing histories of Native American nations, as well as an extensive chronology, topic finder, bibliography, and glossary. For students, historians, or anyone interested in the Native American experience, Encyclopedia of American Indian History brings that experience to life in an unprecedented way.