A Ritual Geology

Author : Robyn d'Avignon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023074

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A Ritual Geology by Robyn d'Avignon Pdf

Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic “ritual geology” of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d’Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology.

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters,Dan Smyer Yü
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781040090534

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Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters by Jelle J.P. Wouters,Dan Smyer Yü Pdf

Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region. The collective endeavour of the book is expressed in what the editors characterize as the clime studies of the Himalayan multispecies worlds. Synonymous with place embodied with weather patterns and environmental history, clime is understood as both a recipient of and a contributor to climate change over time. Supported by empirical and historical findings, the chapters showcase climate change as clime change that concurrently entails multispecies encounters, multifaceted cultural processes, and ecologically specific environmental changes in the more-than-human worlds of the Himalayas. As the case studies complement, enrich, and converse with natural scientific understandings of Himalayan climate change, this book offers students, academics, and the interested public fresh approaches to the interdisciplinary field of climate studies and policy debates on climate change and sustainable development.

Author : Luigi Piccardi,W. Bruce Masse
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862392161

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Myth and Geology by Luigi Piccardi,W. Bruce Masse Pdf

"This book is the first peer-reviewed collection of papers focusing on the potential of myth storylines to yield data and lessons that are of value to the geological sciences. Building on the nascent discipline of geomythology, scientists and scholars from a variety of disciplines have contributed to this volume. The geological hazards (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and cosmic impacts) that have given rise to myths are considered, as are the sacred and cultural values associated with rocks, fossils, geological formations and landscapes. There are also discussions about the historical and literary perspectives of geomythology. Regional coverage includes Europe and the Mediterranean, Afghanistan, Cameroon, India, Australia, Japan, Pacific islands, South America and North America. Myth and Geology challenges the widespread notion that myths are fictitious or otherwise lacking in value for the physical sciences." -- BOOK JACKET.

Author : George Nash,Andrew Townsend
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785700538

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Decoding Neolithic Atlantic and Mediterranean Island Ritual by George Nash,Andrew Townsend Pdf

What constitutes an island and the archaeology contained within? Is it the physicality of its boundary (between shoreline and sea)? Does this physical barrier extend further into a watery zone? Archaeologically, can islands be defined by cultural heritage and influence? Clearly, and based on these few probing questions, islands are more than just lumps of rock and earth sitting in the middle of a sea or ocean. An island is a space which, when described in terms of topography, landscape form and resources, becomes a place. A place can sometimes be delineated with barriers and boundaries; it may also have a perimeter and can be distinguished from the space that surrounds it. The 16 papers presented here explore the physicality, and levels of insularity of individual islands and island groups during prehistory through a series of case studies on Neolithic island archaeology in the Atlantic and Mediterranean regions. For the eastern Atlantic (the Atlantic Archipelago) papers discuss the sacred geographies and material culture of Neolithic Gotland, Orkney, and Anglesey and the architecture of and ritual behavior associated with megalithic monuments in the Channel Islands and the Scilly Isles. The Mediterranean region is represented by a different type of Neolithic, both in terms of architecture and material culture. Papers discuss theoretical constructs and ritual deposition, cave sites, ritualized and religious aspects of Neolithic death and burial; metaphysical journeys associated with the underworld in Late Neolithic Malta and the possible role of its Temple Period art in ritual activities; and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Neolithic monuments of Corsica. The cases examined illustrate the diversity of the evidence available that affords a better understanding of the European-Mediterranean Neolithic 'island society', not least the effects of interaction/contact and/or geographical insularity/isolation, all factors that are considered to have consequences for the establishment and modification of cultures in island settings.

Author : Martina Kölbl-Ebert,Geological Society of London
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1862392692

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Geology and Religion by Martina Kölbl-Ebert,Geological Society of London Pdf

The book discusses this long-standing relationship from a historical point of view, which in the past has been sometimes indifferent, sometimes fruitful and sometimes full of conflict. The relationship continues well into the present. While Christian fundamentalists attack evolution and related palaeontological findings as well as the geological evidence of the age of the Earth, mainstream theologians strive for a fruitful dialogue between science and religion. Much of what is written and discussed today can only be understood, when the historical perspective is added. This book considers the following topics: the development of geology from mythological approaches towards the European Enlightenment, Biblical or Geological Flood and the age of the Earth, geology within 'religious' organizations, biographical case studies of geological clerics and religious geologists, religion and evolution, historical aspects of creationism and its motives.

Author : Noah Heringman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801457517

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Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology by Noah Heringman Pdf

Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor "improvement"—provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages.Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of rocks and landforms. Equally interested in the initial surge of curiosity about the earth and the ensuing process of specialization, Heringman contributes to a new understanding of literature as a key forum for the modern reorganization of knowledge.

Author : Klement Podnar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802200874

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Elgar Encyclopedia of Corporate Communication by Klement Podnar Pdf

This comprehensive Encyclopedia captures the intricacies of corporate communication, offering 87 clear, succinct definitions of important concepts within marketing, business, organizational communication and public relations followed by critical, literary analyses of significant research ventures.

Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253066664

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Independent Africa by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong Pdf

"Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations. Drawing on the political careers of four heads of states: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Ahmed Sâekou Tourâe of Guinea, Lâeopold Sâedar Senghor, and Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania, Independent Africa engages four major themes: what does it mean to construct an African nation-state and what should an African nation-state look like; how does one grow a tropical economy emerging from European colonialism; how to explore an indigenous model of economic development, a "third way," in the context of a Cold War that had divided the world into two camps; and how to leverage internal resources and external opportunities to diversify agricultural economics and industrialize. Combining aspects of history, economics, and political science, Independent Africa examines the important connections between the first generation of African leaders, and the shared ideas that informed their endeavors at nation-building and worldmaking"--

Author : Avra Sidiropoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000598919

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Staging 21st Century Tragedies by Avra Sidiropoulou Pdf

Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice. In exploring the tragic in the fields of history and theory of theatre, the book approaches crisis through an understanding of the existential and political aspect of the tragic condition. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, it showcases theatre texts and productions that enter the public sphere, manifesting notably participatory, immersive, and documentary modes of expression to form a theatre of modern tragedy. The coexistence of scholarly essays with manifesto-like provocations, interviews, original plays, and diaries by theatre artists provides a rich and multifocal lens that allows readers to approach twenty-first-century theatre through historical and critical study, text and performance analysis, and creative processes. Of special value is the global scope of the collection, embracing forms of crisis theatre in many geographically diverse regions of both the East and the West. Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis will be of use and interest to academics and students of political theatre, applied theatre, theatre history, and theatre theory.

Author : Betsy A. Weld,Edwin Butt Eckel,Emmett A. Finley,Harry George Rodis,Kenneth Lyle Walters,Louis Wade Currier,Luna Bergere Leopold,Marvin Wilmer Skougstad,Nathaniel M. Perlmutter,Paul McKelvey Johnston,Ralph Alger Bagnold,Raymond Lee Nace,Thomas W. Robinson,William C. Peterson,William Perry Cross,William Wendell Vaughn,Clarence Albert Horr,Erwin S. Asselstine,Harold Phillips Brooks,Robert Schneider,Arthur Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Aquatic plants
ISBN : OSU:32435030456230

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Reports and Maps of the Geological Survey Released Only in the Open Files, 1958 by Betsy A. Weld,Edwin Butt Eckel,Emmett A. Finley,Harry George Rodis,Kenneth Lyle Walters,Louis Wade Currier,Luna Bergere Leopold,Marvin Wilmer Skougstad,Nathaniel M. Perlmutter,Paul McKelvey Johnston,Ralph Alger Bagnold,Raymond Lee Nace,Thomas W. Robinson,William C. Peterson,William Perry Cross,William Wendell Vaughn,Clarence Albert Horr,Erwin S. Asselstine,Harold Phillips Brooks,Robert Schneider,Arthur Johnson Pdf

Author : North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCAL:B4166618

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Geology of North Carolina: chap. 1. The minerals and mineral localities of North Carolina, by F.A. Genth and W.C. Kerr by North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905) Pdf

Author : Christopher Chippindale,George Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134517336

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European Landscapes of Rock-Art by Christopher Chippindale,George Nash Pdf

Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and envisioned their own worlds. European Landscapes of Rock-Art provides a number of case studies, covering arange of European locations including Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia, Scotland and Spain, which collectively address the chronology and geography of rock-art as well as providing an essential series of methodologies for future debate. Each author provides a synthesis that focuses on landscape as an essential part of rock-art construction. From the paintings and carved images of prehistoric Scandinavia to Second World War grafitti on the German Reichstag, this volume looks beyond the art to the society that made it. The papers in this volume also challenge the traditional views of how rock-art is recorded. Throughout, there is an emphasis on informal and informed methodologies. The authors skilfully discuss subjectivity and its relationship with landscape since personal experience, from prehistoric times to the present day, plays an essential role in the interpretation of art itself. The emphasis is on location, on the intentionality of the artist, and on the needs of the audience. This exciting volume is a crucial addition to rock-art literature and landscape archaeology. It will provide new material for a lively and greatly debated subject and as such will be essential for academics, non-academics and commentators of rock art in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007744910

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Geological Survey Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : C.J. Duffin,C. Gardner-Thorpe ,R.T.J. Moody
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786202833

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Geology and Medicine by C.J. Duffin,C. Gardner-Thorpe ,R.T.J. Moody Pdf

The development of the geological and medical sciences shows overlap through numerous historical threads, some of which are investigated here by an international authorship of geologists, historians and medical professionals. Some of the medical men considered here are the relatively well known Steno, Parkinson, William Hunter and Peter Duncan, as well as several more obscure individuals such as Sperling, Hodges, Lemoine, Siqués and a number of Italians. Their work included foundational geological studies, aspects of hydrogeology and the nature of fossils. The therapeutic use of geological materials has been practised since ancient times. A suite of magico-medicinal stones, some purportedly harvested from the bodies of fabulous animals, have ancient folklore roots and were worn as protective amulets and incorporated into medicines. Medicinal earths were credited with wide-ranging medicinal properties. Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections will be of particular interest to Earth scientists, medical personnel, historians of science and the general reader with an interest in science.

Author : North Carolina. State Geologist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015068298341

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Report of the Geological Survey of North Carolina by North Carolina. State Geologist Pdf