Ancestral Voice

Author : Lara Medina,Martha R. Gonzales
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539567

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Voices from the Ancestors by Lara Medina,Martha R. Gonzales Pdf

Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Author : Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0226616525

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Ancestral Voices by Conor Cruise O'Brien Pdf

Scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates why peace has been so elusive in Northern Ireland. He explains the conflation of religion and nation through Irish history into our own time. Using his life as a prism through which he interprets Ireland's past and present, O'Brien identifies case after case of the lethal mixing of God with country that has spilled oceans of blood throughout this century of nationalism and that, from Bosnia to Northern Ireland, still curses the world. "O'Brien's bravura performance [is] seductive in its intellectual sweep and literary assurance."—Toby Barnard, Times Literary Supplement "Has the magical insistence which Conor Cruise O'Brien can produce at his best. . . . Where he looks back to his own childhood the book shines. He writes of his mother and father with effortless grace and candor, with a marvelous, elegant mix of affection and detachment."—Observer

Author : N. Scott Momaday,Charles Woodard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014515533

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Ancestral Voice by N. Scott Momaday,Charles Woodard Pdf

Six conversations between Woodard and author/artist N. Scott Momaday paralleling the progression of the artist's life.

Author : Joice Christine Bailey Lewis
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647017903

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My Ancestral Voices by Joice Christine Bailey Lewis Pdf

Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis wrote My Ancestral Voices at the age of seventy-four. She tells stories about people and events that occurred in the Alabama community where her ancestors lived for five generations. Dr. Lewis uses autobiographies and biographies to describe events by details and dialogue that are either true, assumed, or plausible. Dr. Lewis, a member of the fifth generation, tells how she drew strength from the historical accounts of survival of people through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, racial segregation, educational inequality, sharecropping, the civil rights movement, the Second World War, Northern and Western Diaspora, and her ancestors beating great odds to succeed in landowning and community development and in fields of medicine, law, education, and business. The Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church was erected by the first generation of ancestors who were all freed slaves. It is still in service to the community of Romulus (Ralph) Alabama. The church stands as a monument to its members, who rose up from slavery to create a lasting legacy of hope, love, and family.

Author : Ramesh Chandra Shah
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8120830547

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Ancestral Voices by Ramesh Chandra Shah Pdf

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Author : John Mears
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450251315

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Ancestral Voices by John Mears Pdf

Ancestral Voices is multi-generational epic that traces the histories of several families from the earliest settlement of America to contemporary times. The main conflict of the story develops from a dispute between two brothers in the wake of the War of Independence that has disastrous, as well as joyous consequences almost two centuries later for some of their descendants when the family is reconnected. The novel begins in 1969, the height of the Vietnam War. The central character, Katharine Carter Harrison--about to enter Yale's first coed class--struggles with her identitiy, which is an amalgam of her Connecticut father and her Virginia mother, and with the fate of her beloved brother who enlists to fight in Vietnam. When a distant cousin, Aaron Keeler, unexpectedly enters the lives of Katharine and her brother, it seems that some perverse hand of destiny is at work, as well as a curse that has run through the family for centuries. Ancestral Voices is a compelling love story, a tale of generational revenge, and a saga where the main characters suffer from obsessions with their ancestral past and a terrifying nexus between fiction and reality.

Author : Etienne van Heerden
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143528531

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Ancestral Voices by Etienne van Heerden Pdf

In the wild night hours, or during the heat of the day - whenever man's thoughts whirl feverishly - then truth and fantasy, the past and the future, life and death are indiscriminately mingled on Toorberg, home of the Moolman family. So the magistrate is to learn as he investigates the strange circumstances of the death of little Noah, child of grief, who was not entirely of this world. Every day the case becomes more complex, until it challenges the very foundations of the law. It seems as if the magistrate will have to judge an entire dynasty, both the living and the dead. Everyone's guilt has to be affirmed, or denied, and this means he will have to rip open the lives of all. The Moolmans are a tribe who have long since learned how to deal with their own. Parents cut children out of their lives, shunt them aside to live as stepchildren, scrag-ends of the clan, or as city-dwellers whose names are never uttered. The Moolmans cannot forgive; not when their tribal blood is betrayed.

Author : Aoife Assumpta Hart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773598676

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Ancestral Recall by Aoife Assumpta Hart Pdf

Despite distance and differences in culture, the early twentieth century was a time of literary cross-pollination between Ireland and Japan. Notably, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats had a powerful influence on Japanese letters, at the same time that contemporary and classical Japanese literature and theatre impacted Yeats’s own literary experiments. Citing an extraordinary range of Japanese and Irish texts, Aoife Hart argues that Japanese translations of Irish Gaelic folklore and their subsequent reception back in Ireland created collisions, erasures, and confusions in the interpretations of literary works. Assessing the crucial roles of translation and transnationalism in cross-cultural exchanges between the Celtic Revival and Japanese writers of the modern period, Hart proves that interlingual dialogue and folklore have the power to reconstruct a culture’s sense of heritage. Rejecting the notion that the Celtic Revival was inward and parochial, Hart suggests that, seeking to protect their heritage from the forces of globalization, the Irish adapted their understanding of heritage to one that exists within the transnational contexts of modernity – a heritage that is locally produced but internationally circulated. In doing so, Hart maintains that the cultural contact and translation between the East and West traveled in more than one direction: it was a dialogue presenting modernity’s struggles with cosmopolitanism, gender, ethnic identity, and transnationalism. An inspired exploration of transpacific literary criticism, Yeats scholarship, and twentieth-century Japanese literature, Ancestral Recall tracks the interplay of complex ideas across languages and discourses.

Author : Navarre Scott Momaday,N. Scott Momaday,Charles L. Woodard
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0803297297

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Ancestral Voice by Navarre Scott Momaday,N. Scott Momaday,Charles L. Woodard Pdf

INTERVIEW WITH N. SCOTT MOMADAY ABOUT HIS WRITINGS, PHILOSOPHY AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS.

Author : James Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252268434

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Ancestral voices by James Norman Pdf

Author : Dalian Y. Adofo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1537260634

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Ancestral Voices by Dalian Y. Adofo Pdf

A classic in its genre, it has been hailed as a seminal piece of work surpassing the only other work in this field, John Mbiti's 'African Religions & Philosophy' (1969), as its coverage is not just of traditional continental Africa but also includes ancient Africa and its legacy in the Diaspora.Described by the esteemed historian Robin Walker as a book that 'deserves a place in every home', it is a complimentary counterpart to the film and is the published findings of over 7 years of literature research as well as content from video interviews carried out in action research during filming.Topics covered include African conception of the Creator/'God', Nature and the Natural Forces, nature of humanity, Ancestral veneration and communication and various forms of African rituals and prayers. In addition, it is an invaluable companion for those seeking to live an African Spiritual-Centred life as it contains a whole chapter dedicated to Ritual with practices for daily living, suited for the initiated and non-initiated alike.It is currently available in English and Spanish, with other language translations due including French and Portuguese.

Author : Renaud Gagné
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107435346

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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece by Renaud Gagné Pdf

Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.

Author : Gerald R. Alfred
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034657059

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Heeding the Voices of Our Ancestors by Gerald R. Alfred Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive study of the driving force behind Native political activism, and the only scholarly treatment of North American Indian politics which integrates an explicitly Native perspective. With a broad historical scope rich in detail, and drawing on the particular experience of the Mohawks of Kahnawake, it offers an explanation of Indian and Inuit political activism focusing on the importance of traditional values and institutions in shaping Native responses to the state. The book explains the recent rise of a militant assertion of sovereignty on the part of Native people in terms of three major factors: the existence of alternative institutions in the body of the nation's traditional culture; the self-conscious development of an alternative identity; and a persistent pattern of negative interaction with the state. It differs from other analyses focusing on similar factors in that it views nationalism not as a movement which activates in response to external factors, but as a persistent feature of political life which manifests itself in either a latent or active form in response to the interaction of the three factors discussed in the model.

Author : Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan
Publisher : Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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KUKUU-TUNTUM The Ancestral Jurisdiction by Odwirafo Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan Pdf

KUKUU-TUNTUM The Ancestral Jurisdiction The KUKUU-TUNTUM is groundbreaking in the sense that we were the first to publish the correct etymologies of the names of the various fictional characters including: jesus/yeshua, muhammed, abraham, isaac, ishmael, moses, solomon, sheba, menelik, buddha, allah, yahweh, brahmin etc. Many writers have put forward false etymologies based on a lack of understanding of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) cosmology and culture. We were the first to demonstrate how these fictional characters were manufactured via the deliberate corruption of names, descriptive titles and functions of Deities of Kamit. We restore the consciousness of the Divine Balance of Male and Female in Creation founded upon Amen and Amenet and reaffirm the nature and function of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion. Finally, we were the first to demonstrate and publish the actual etymological and cosmological origins of the term Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) and thus our true identity as Black people, our role in Creation, the nature of our enemies and our path to restoration. Contents: Origin of Creation Origin of the name Afuraka/Afuraitkait (Africa) Origin and nature of Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut (Africans) Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Culture Origin and nature of the whites and their offspring rooted in the insanity of dissexuality (homosexuality) and incest Cosmological Structure of Creation Nature and function of the Nananom Nsamanfo and Abosom, Egungun and Orisha, Kuvito and Vodou (the Ancestresses and Ancestors and the Goddesses and Gods) in Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion Origin and function of Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Clans Afurakani/Afuraitkaitnit (African) Ancestral Religion Origins of the following FICTIONAL characters: abraham · isaac · ishmael · moses · aaron · david · judah · jesus · mary · yeshua ben pandira · muhammad · allah · yahweh · elohim · solomon · sheba · menelik · brahman · buddha and more Origins of the FALSE religions and FALSE religious writings: christianity and the bible · islam and the quran · judaism/hebrewism and the torah hinduism and the vedas · buddhism and the dhamapadas · european pseudo-esotericism and the qabbalah and more

Author : Craig Harris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496237934

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Rise Up! by Craig Harris Pdf

Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical music, and more. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen award-winning Indigenous musicians, Harris offers an eye-opening look at the growth of Indigenous music. Among a host of North America’s most vital Indigenous musicians, the biographical narratives include new and well-established figures such as Mildred Bailey, Louis W. Ballard, Cody Blackbird, Donna Coane (Spirit of Thunderheart), Theresa “Bear” Fox, Robbie Robertson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joanne Shenandoah, DJ Shub (Dan General), Maria Tallchief, John Trudell, and Fawn Wood.