Download or read book The Island of Singing Fish written by Tina Faulk and published by Australian Geographic. This book was released on 2014 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceylon is a magical island which has enchanted adventurers, writers and soldiers for thousands of years. It has, over six centuries, been ruled by three Great European Powers, Portuguese, Dutch and British. The legacy of these remain, in the language, culture, architecture and - most of all - the islanders themselves. This is the story of a Sri Lankan family that began over five hundred years ago when Roelof Dircksz, a young Dutch trader working for the East India Company (the VOC) came ashore and married into a spice trader family in Galle Fort. Five century laters, two official government policies, in two different countries, transform the lives of the author and her family. Compelled to emigrate to Australia, they seek out old family records in an effort to prove their European heritage and their investigations turn up some very surprising family histories. Sri Lanka is a magical island that has enchanted adventurers, writers and soldiers for thousands of years. Over six centuries it has been ruled by three great European powers: the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. Their legacy remains in the history, language, culture, and, most of all, in the islanders themselves.
Download or read book Seek The Singing Fish written by Roma Wells and published by époque press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the lagoon town of Batticaloa, a young girl, with an unquenchable curiosity and love of the natural world, is entangled in the trauma and turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war. Uprooted from everything she holds dear, tragedy and betrayal set in motion an unforgettable odyssey. Torn from east to west, struggling with what it means to belong, she desperately seeks a way home to the land of the singing fish.
Download or read book The Singing Fish Etc written by Edith HOWES and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Fish Can Sing written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner—"a beacon in twentieth-century literature" (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life). A poignant coming-of-age tale marked with the peculiar Icelandic blend of light irony and dark humor. • With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur dreams only of becoming a fisherman like his adoptive grandfather, until he meets Iceland's biggest celebrity. The opera singer Gardar Holm’s international fame is a source of tremendous pride to tiny, insecure Iceland, though no one there has ever heard him sing. A mysterious man who mostly avoids his homeland and repeatedly fails to perform for his adoring countrymen, Gardar takes a particular interest in Alfgrimur’s budding musical talent and urges him to seek out the world beyond the one he knows and loves. But as Alfgrimur discovers that Gardar is not what he seems, he begins to confront the challenge of finding his own path without turning his back on where he came from.
Download or read book The Trumpeter of S kkingen written by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Donald and the Singing Fish written by Peter Lubach and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bagpipe player teams up with a fish that loves to sing everywhere they go--except when they are asked to perform on stage.
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Download or read book The Singing Fish and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Saltwater Sociality written by Katharina Schneider and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of 'saltwater people' in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movements, they take their cues about the current state of social relations. Based on detailed ethnography, this study engages current Melanesian anthropological theory and argues that movements are the Pororans' predominant mode of objectifying relations. Movements on Pororan Island are to its inhabitants what roads are to 'mainlanders' on the nearby larger island, and what material objects and images are to others elsewhere in Melanesia.
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Download or read book The Musical Gift written by Jim Sykes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity, but were gifts to gods and people intended to foster protection and/or healing. Noting that the currently assumed link between music and identity helped produce the narratives of ethnic difference that drove Sri Lanka's civil war (1983-2009), Sykes argues that the promotion of connected music histories has a role to play in post-war reconciliation. The Musical Gift includes a study of how NGOs used music to promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka, and it contains a theorization of the relations between musical gifts and commodities. Eschewing a binary between the gift and identity, Sykes claims the world's music history is largely a story of entanglement between both paradigms. Drawing on fieldwork conducted widely across Sri Lanka over a span of eleven years--including the first study of Sinhala Buddhist drumming in English and the first ethnography of music-making in the former warzones of the north and east--this book brings anthropology's canonic literature on "the gift" into music studies, while drawing on anthropology's recent "ontological turn" and "the new materialism" in religious studies.
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