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Author : Erna Fergusson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0826310508
"A clear, sympathetic, and informed introduction to these people and their ceremonies ... should give every new onlooker a deeper appreciation of the dance which is really a prayer."--The Denver Post
Author : Erna Fergusson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163772219
Author : Marion Kilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761859970
Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s, the essays present descriptive analyses of verbal and non-verbal ritual action. While verbal ritual actions specify ideas pertinent to a particular rite, non-verbal ritual actions express more general concepts. Kilson's analyses show how the same motifs of non-verbal ritual action recur in sacred and secular Ga rites. Whenever and wherever such motifs occur, they convey the same basic underlying Ga concepts, thereby creating a unified conceptual network of belief that is the foundation of the Ga ritual system. The essays in this collection previously appeared in Anthropos, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, Parabola, and Sextant.
Author : Jack L. Chalker
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Armageddon
ISBN : 0345308921
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812491831
Author : Jack L. Chalker
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-30
Category : Magic
ISBN : 0345402464
BEYOND THE SEA OF DREAMS Life had never been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to Throckmorton P. Ruddygore--a stranger who met them on a road that wasn't there--they were due to die in nineteen minutes. But across the Sea of Dreams lay a new and perhaps better life, in a place where fairies danced by moonlight. Joe could become a mighty-thewed barbarian warrior. Marge could be beautiful and find her magical self. It was just as Ruddygore had promised, plus a great deal more. For this was a world where Hell still strove to win its ancient war, where demon princes sent men into battles of dark magic, and where Joe and Marge must somehow help prevent the coming of Armageddon!
Author : Robert Gish
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0890967199
The American Southwest has assumed the status of a cultural icon over the last few decades, and one of the writers who helped it to do so was Erna Fergusson, named by the Hopis Beautiful Swift Fox. An Anglo American whose travel writing featured the multi-ethnicity of her region, she popularized the culture and landscapes of her native New Mexico and its surrounding states in a range of writing that prefigured the genre-defying art that has come to be called the New Journalism.Much has been written about New Mexico's remarkable Fergusson family, especially brother Harvey and his novels. But Erna Fergusson's literary career has been largely overlooked. An iconoclast at the forefront of the Southwest Renaissance movement, Erna gained a wide reputation beginning in the 1930s for her "written versions of the Southwest," which embraced the complexities of regional culture and sympathetically and intelligently portrayed the Indian and Mexican influences.Distinguished Southwestern writer Robert Franklin Gish assesses Fergussons's literary contributions and unlocks the inner workings of the prose stylist who operated at the interstices of genres. With his postmodern reappraisal of the creative nonfiction forms she used, Gish prompts readers to reconsider how they view the art of nonfiction writing. Gish argues persuasively that Fergusson's identity as a native New Mexican and the region's singular landscape informed the attitudes and values present in her art. He explores the ways her entrepreneurial stint as a New Mexico tour guide during the 1920s and 1930s shaped the organizational strategies for her writing. He considers thoughtfully her various forms of writing and how she used travelogue, journalistic report, popular history, and persuasive essay to elevate the Southwest to prominence. Gish shows her writing as highly evocative, descriptive, and metaphorical, defying the conventions of the nonfiction forms she used and paving the way for America's school of New Journalism.Beautiful Swift Fox is not strictly biography; nor does it, in a traditional sense, seek to explicate a body of work. Rather, like its subject, it bridges genres, offering a meditation on one Southwestern writer's sense of place.
Author : Jack L. Chalker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1029049020
Author : Erna Fergusson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826310507
"A clear, sympathetic, and informed introduction to these people and their ceremonies ... should give every new onlooker a deeper appreciation of the dance which is really a prayer."--The Denver Post
Author : Jack L Chalker
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649730276
Joe has reunited with his son, who has accompanied Joe to Husaquahr. But their joy at being united is cut short by news that the Dark Baron has escaped once again and is gathering a force in the North to capture and enslave them all. *** Can Joe and Tiana
Author : Joanne Pillsbury,Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos,James A. Doyle
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397317
An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period Lives of the Gods reveals how ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian deities. Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, the authors show how this powerful cosmology informed some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization.
Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292778184
Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010 The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an association with feasting and gift exchange. These performances allowed rulers to forge political alliances and demonstrate their control of trade in luxury goods. The aesthetic values embodied in these performances were closely tied to Maya social structure, expressing notions of gender, rank, and status. Dance was thus not simply entertainment, but was fundamental to ancient Maya notions of social, religious, and political identity. Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, Matthew Looper examines several types of data relevant to ancient Maya dance, including hieroglyphic texts, pictorial images in diverse media, and architecture. A series of case studies illustrates the application of various analytical methodologies and offers interpretations of the form, meaning, and social significance of dance performance. Although the nuances of movement in Maya dances are impossible to recover, Looper demonstrates that a wealth of other data survives which allows a detailed consideration of many aspects of performance. To Be Like Gods thus provides the first comprehensive interpretation of the role of dance in ancient Maya society and also serves as a model for comparative research in the archaeology of performance.
Author : Jack L. Chalker
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612420915
In this final volume of the Dancing Gods series, Ruddygore and his heroes must face an ancient evil seeping forth from the Sea of Dreams. **** Long dormant evil is rising to challenge reality as we know it and it will destroy Earth and the magical world of Husaguahr if left to its own devices. **** The Rules require the Great McGuffin to challenge and stop the evil forces, but McGuffini is lost in Hell and Ruddygore must, once again, depend on the skills Marge and Joe (and Joe's estranged son, Irving).
Author : Jack L Chalker
Publisher : Phoenix Pick
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649730284
In this final volume of the Dancing Gods series, Ruddygore and his heroes must face an ancient evil seeping forth from the Sea of Dreams. **** Long dormant evil is rising to challenge reality as we know it and it will destroy Earth and the magical world o
Author : Jack L. Chalker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812411587