Download or read book Reclaiming Civilization written by Brendan Myers and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is civilization, and is it a good thing? It’s a name for the most glorious of humanity’s monuments and cultural achievements; yet it also speaks of the conquests, oppressions, and empires which make their glory possible. This book explains the essence of civilization, then asks what’s wrong with it, and considers what can be done about it.
Download or read book M xico Profundo written by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute the México profundo. Their lives and ways of understanding the world continue to be rooted in Mesoamerican civilization. An ancient agricultural complex provides their food supply, and work is understood as a way of maintaining a harmonious relationship with the natural world. Health is related to human conduct, and community service is often part of each individual's life obligation. Time is circular, and humans fulfill their own cycle in relation to other cycles of the universe. Since the Conquest, Bonfil argues, the peoples of the México profundo have been dominated by an "imaginary México" imposed by the West. It is imaginary not because it does not exist, but because it denies the cultural reality lived daily by most Mexicans. Within the México profundo there exists an enormous body of accumulated knowledge, as well as successful patterns for living together and adapting to the natural world. To face the future successfully, argues Bonfil, Mexico must build on these strengths of Mesoamerican civilization, "one of the few original civilizations that humanity has created throughout all its history."
Download or read book Lost Islamic History written by Firas Alkhateeb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion and neglect some of these personalities and institutions while offering the reader a new narrative of this lost Islamic history. The Umayyads, Abbasids, and Ottomans feature in the story, as do Muslim Spain, the savannah kingdoms of West Africa and the Mughal Empire, along with the later European colonization of Muslim lands and the development of modern nation-states in the Muslim world. Throughout, the impact of Islamic belief on scientific advancement, social structures, and cultural development is given due prominence, and the text is complemented by portraits of key personalities, inventions and little known historical nuggets. The history of Islam and of the world's Muslims brings together diverse peoples, geographies and states, all interwoven into one narrative that begins with Muhammad and continues to this day.
Download or read book Reclaiming Heritage written by Ferdinand de Jong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories preserved by local communities—markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity. Yet, as the contributors to this volume note, questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled. In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. Settings range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana.
Download or read book Dirt written by David R. Montgomery and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Culture written by Alan R. Crippen and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reclaiming Archaeology written by Alfredo González-Ruibal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with perfunctorily as a mere provider of metaphors that other intellectuals have exploited. Scholars from different fields continue to explore areas in which archaeologists have been working for over two centuries, with little or no reference to the discipline. It seems that excavation, stratigraphy or ruins only become important at a trans-disciplinary level when people from outside archaeology pay attention to them and somehow dematerialize them. Meanwhile, archaeologists have been usually more interested in borrowing theories from other fields, rather than in developing the theoretical potential of the same concepts that other thinkers find so useful. The time is ripe for archaeologists to address a wider audience and engage in theoretical debates from a position of equality, not of subalternity. Reclaiming Archaeology explores how archaeology can be useful to rethink modernity’s big issues, and more specifically late modernity (broadly understood as the 20th and 21st centuries). The book contains a series of original essays, not necessarily following the conventional academic rules of archaeological writing or thinking, allowing rhetoric to have its place in disclosing the archaeological. In each of the four sections that constitute this book (method, time, heritage and materiality), the contributors deal with different archaeological tropes, such as excavation, surface/depth, genealogy, ruins, fragments, repressed memories and traces. They criticize their modernist implications and rework them in creative ways, in order to show the power of archaeology not just to understand the past, but also the present. Reclaiming Archaeology includes essays from a diverse array of archaeologists who have dealt in one way or another with modernity, including scholars from non-Anglophone countries who have approached the issue in original ways during recent years, as well as contributors from other fields who engage in a creative dialogue with archaeology and the work of archaeologists.
Download or read book My Name is Chellis I m in Recovery from Western Civilization written by Chellis Glendinning and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it came out in 1994, "My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization" quickly became a classic of the ecopsychology movement. By documenting the entanglement of the ecological crisis with modern addictions, the book gives an unusual glimpse into matters of culture, history, politics, and personal consciousness.
Download or read book Reclaiming the Commons written by Vandana Shiva and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by world renowned activist and environmental leader Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as Family.
Download or read book The History of the Protestant Reformation written by Martin John Spalding and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Special Advisers on Reclamation and Rural Development on Their Investigation of Opportunities for Reclamation and Planned Group Settlement in the Southern States written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa written by Olusegun Aganga and published by Practical Inspiration Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A living manual for the renaissance of an eminent African country!' Thabo Mbeki President of South Africa, 1999–2008 A practical roadmap for transforming the largest economy in Africa. Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa is an insider’s account of how to take Nigeria and Africa from its current potential to a lasting legacy for posterity. Drawing on long experience in both the private sector and government, Olusegun Aganga provides practical and pragmatic insights that all Nigerians, and anyone concerned about the broader economic future of Africa, should consider.
Download or read book Muslim Women Reclaim their Gender Legacy written by Moin Qazi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author, Moin Qazi, delineates the trajectory of Islamic feminism, which scholars are now actively researching because of the transformative advances made by Muslim women. These women have escaped the subjugation and oppression they endured for centuries. The continuing grim portrayals of these women hit the author's nerve. He believed it was imperative to highlight modern Muslim women's true breadth of experience. The Islamic feminist landscape is already undergoing a profound transformation. Historically, Islam was incredibly advanced in providing revolutionary rights for women and uplifting their status. Scholarship on Islamic women has expanded exponentially over the past few decades, and there has been cross-pollination between other fields and disciplines. Islamic doctrine has enabled women to participate in battlefields, independently carry on trade and business, and, when circumstances demand it. The most outstanding achievement of early Islam concerning women was its strict prohibition of female infanticide. A preference for male babies was evidence of deep-seated bias against girls. Many of the revelations in the Qur'an were by nature reform-oriented, transforming critical aspects of pre-Islamic customary laws and practices in progressive ways and eliminating injustice for women. The book is a prism from which to view the Muslim feminist revolution. The author analyses how the patriarchal-oriented rulers and clerics have obliquely tried to roll back these reforms. But of late, women have finally been able to morph from their pathetic condition and redefine the contours of their gender space.
Download or read book Great Zimbabwe written by Shadreck Chirikure and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe. It combines archaeological knowledge, including recent material from the author’s excavations, with native concepts and philosophies. Working from a large data set has made it possible, for the first time, to develop an archaeology of Great Zimbabwe that is informed by finds and observations from the entire site and wider landscape. In so doing, the book strongly contributes towards decolonising African and world archaeology. Written in an accessible manner, the book is aimed at undergraduate students, graduate students, and practicing archaeologists both in Africa and across the globe. The book will also make contributions to the broader field such as African Studies, African History, and World Archaeology through its emphasis on developing synergies between local ways of knowing and the archaeology.
Download or read book To Reclaim a Legacy written by William John Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reclaim Your Body written by Saravanan Kandan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book details the solution to the complex health issues faced by human dysevolution. The solution is traced after gross explanation of evolution of human design and the reasons of disruption. Grounded in science and explained with real life case studies, the solution elucidates the catalytic role and prescription of real food, right movement and healthy lifestyle. Backed by research, the author demystifies myths and debunks the hype around modern diets to explain the value of natural wholesome real foods. Detailed content on how exercise cures diseases and prescription to improve the movement deficit lifestyle has been outlined. The book concludes with integrated health framework for society, where preventive healthcare in the true sense could help in focusing all the developmental effort. Thus the book offers a holistic, long-term approach enabling the reader to reclaim the human body in the pursuit of a healthier and happier life.
Download or read book Night of Panic written by Matt Kingsley and published by Matt Kingsley. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the gripping world of "Night of Panic," a heart-pounding post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. When a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse plunges modern civilization into darkness, the fight for survival begins. Jenna, a determined and resourceful leader, must guide her fragmented community through the terrifying new landscape where danger lurks at every turn. "Night of Panic" is not just a story of survival; it's a tale of human spirit, resilience, and the bonds that form when humanity is pushed to its limits. As alliances form and betrayals come to light, Jenna and her community must navigate the treacherous waters of a world where trust is a luxury and every decision could be their last. With relentless action, complex characters, and a narrative that explores the depths of human tenacity, "Night of Panic" promises to be a page-turner that will challenge your perceptions of strength and survival. Dive into a world where every night is a battle, every decision is crucial, and the human spirit is tested like never before. Are you ready to experience the suspense, the courage, and the heartbreak of a world thrown into chaos? Grab your copy of "Night of Panic" today and join Jenna as she fights to carve out a future in a world where every dawn is a victory.
