Dancing In The Forest

Author : Helen Hong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666741476

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Dancing in the Forest by Helen Hong Pdf

Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the “othered” life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate the present with the past, life with death, the living with the ancestral spirits, and Confucian moral virtue with Protestant belief, and fill the geographical and collective mental gap in a life of transition. This book introduces Korean shamanism within the Protestant context of immigration in the United States, including an ethnography of Korean shamans in order to observe this landscape of not only conflictive but also ambivalent episodes through rituals and narratives of participants.

Author : Sara Maitland
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781619021365

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From the Forest by Sara Maitland Pdf

An insightful, beautifully written study of how nature has influenced popular fairy tales like Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood—pairing 12 modern retellings with detailed histories of Northern European forests. Fairy tales are one of our earliest cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke similar sensations: At times, they are beautiful and magical, at others—spooky and sometimes horrifying. Maitland argues that the terrain of these fairy tales are intimately connected to the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts, and perils. With each chapter focusing on a different story and a different forest visit, Maitland offers a complex history of forests and how they shape the themes of fairy tales we know best. She offers a unique analysis of famous stories including Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretal, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumplestiltskin, and Sleeping Beauty. Maitland uses fairy tales to explore how nature itself informs our imagination, and she guides the reader on a series of walks through northern Europe’s best forests to explore both the ecological history of forests and the roots of fairy tales. In addition to the twelve modern retellings of these traditional fairy tales, she includes beautiful landscape photographs taken by her son as he joined her on these long walks. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Maitland has infused new life into tales we’ve always thought we've known.

Author : Sara Maitland
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847085955

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Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland Pdf

Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms are intimately connected: the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils of the forests were both the background and the source of the fairytales made famous by the Grimms and Hans Christian Andersen. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter. She camps with her son Adam, whose beautiful photographs are included in the book; she takes a barefoot walk through Epping Forest with Robert Macfarlane; she walks with a mushroom expert through an oak wood, and with a miner through the Forest of Dean. Maitland ends each chapter with a unique, imaginitive re-telling of a fairytale. Written with Maitland's wonderful clarity and conversational grace, Gossip from the Forest is a magical and unique blend of nature writing, history and imaginative fiction.

Author : Michael Heaney
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803274720

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The Ancient English Morris Dance by Michael Heaney Pdf

The idea that morris dancing captures the essence of ancient Englishness, inherently carefree and merry, has been present for over four hundred years. The Ancient English Morris Dance traces the history of those attitudes, from the dance's introduction to England in the fifteenth century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, during which morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living. Thereafter it developed and diversified, neglected and disdained, until antiquaries began to take an interest in its history, leading to its re-invention as emblematic of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the nineteenth century. The quest for authentic understanding of what that meant led to its revival at the beginning of the twentieth century, but that was predicated on the perception of it as part of England's declining rural past, to the neglect of the one area (the industrial north-west) where it continued to flourish. The revival led in turn to its further evolution into the multitude of forms and styles in which it may be encountered today.

Author : Andy Davis,Mary Alice Amidon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Children's songs
ISBN : 099067164X

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I'm Growing Up by Andy Davis,Mary Alice Amidon Pdf

Mary Alice and Andy have drawn on their extensive experience in the classroom to assemble this collection: book/CD/DVD in one package, which includes fifty-four of their favorite movement activities for children in preschool, kindergarten and the early primary grades.

Author : Eline Kieft
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739189030

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Dancing in the Muddy Temple by Eline Kieft Pdf

Drawing from nature experience, dance, anthropology, and shamanism, Dr. Eline Kieft explores improvised movement as a pathway to insight, healing, transformation, and direct interaction with source. Dancing in the Muddy Temple takes the reader on a journey through multiple layers of embodied spirituality based in movement and embedded in the land. Addressing existential questions outside of mainstream religions, the book seeks possibilities for a spirituality that dances with the sacred life force within and all around us. Starting within the body, and always using movement as a way of knowing, Kieft expands on further concrete and subtle layers of connection. A sensorial immersion in the land develops into an expansion of consciousness and meeting intangible aspects of nature. After exploring the role of ceremony in contemporary times, the book concludes with an unexpected chapter on healing, drawing together insights for a dynamic approach to health and wholeness as innate part of an embodied spirituality. Moving seamlessly between her personal, professional, and academic background, Kieft creates an unusual scholarship in which bodily and autobiographical narrative are neatly interwoven with interdisciplinary literature. Its uniqueness lies in a radical integration of theory and practice, which brings an aliveness to the material that stirs an inquisitive desire to move, rooted in language that inspires confidence for personal inquiry into a rich and complex territory. This inspiring book offers an intricate road map to explore and strengthen the interwovenness of various layers of self, surroundings and the sacred, distilling tools for a practical, moving spirituality of the everyday.

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008569546

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A Dance of the Forests by Wole Soyinka Pdf

This drama was first performed as part of the Nigerian Independence Celebrations.

Author : Masiana Kelly
Publisher : Inhabit Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1772273694

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The Dancing Trees by Masiana Kelly Pdf

Thomas loves to tell stories. Big stories. Stories about how skilled he is on the land. But when one of his friends grows tired of his tall tales, Thomas has to prove how skilled he really is. Taking the challenge to spend a night alone in the forest, Thomas heads into the wilderness. The trees, who have heard his stories, watch him tear off their bark and litter as he goes. And so, while Thomas sleeps, they dance a dance that will leave Thomas with a very different kind of story to tell--if he can find his way home... In this book, Masiana Kelly draws on the beauty of the Northwest Territories and the wisdom of Elders to illustrate the importance of treating the land around us with respect.

Author : Marion Kilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761859970

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Dancing with the Gods by Marion Kilson Pdf

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 : Bill Bishop
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781459749047

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Dancing With Robots by Bill Bishop Pdf

Survive and thrive in a world being taken over by robots and other advanced technology. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithms, blockchains, the Internet of Things, big data analytics, 5G networks, self-driving cars, robotics, 3D printing. In the coming years, these technologies, and others to follow, will have a profound and dramatically disruptive impact on how we work and live. Whether we like it or not, we need to develop a good working relationship with these technologies. We need to know how to “dance” with robots. In Dancing with Robots, futurist, entrepreneur, and innovation coach Bill Bishop describes 29 strategies for success in the New Economy. These new strategies represent a bold, exciting, unexpected, and radically different road map for future success. Bishop also explains how our Five Human Superpowers — embodied pattern recognition, unbridled curiosity, purpose-driven ideation, ethical framing, and metaphoric communication — give us a competitive edge over robots and other advanced technology in a world being taken over by automation and AI.

Author : Joanna van der Hoeven
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781782793267

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Pagan Portals - Dancing with Nemetona by Joanna van der Hoeven Pdf

Nemetona is an ancient goddess whose song is heard deep within the earth and also deep within the human soul. She is the Lady of Sanctuary, of Sacred Groves and Sacred Spaces. She is present within the home, within our sacred groves, our rites and in all the spaces that we hold dear to our hearts. She also lies within, allowing us to feel at ease wherever we are in the world through her energy of holding, of transformation. She holds the stillness and quiet of a perfect day; she is the stillness at the end of it, when the blackbird sings to the dusk. She is the energy of sacred space, where we can stretch out our souls and truly come alive, to be who we wish to be, filled with the magic of potential. Rediscover this ancient goddess and dance with a Druid to the songs of Nemetona. Learn how to reconnect with this goddess in ritual, songs, chants, meditation and more. ,

Author : Les Perysty (Oleksandr Kovalenko)
Publisher : Олександр Коваленко
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Relic of the Fairy Forest by Les Perysty (Oleksandr Kovalenko) Pdf

Events of this book begins in the city - which seems ordinary. But there are many amazing creatures hides under the images of ordinary humans. For example, this is Mara - which looks like an elegant lady, but she can change her image and become the horrible sceleton. And the Cat, the black cat - who can become a handsome man. Or small dwarfs - which lives in mouse's holes. And many other strange creatures. Those creatures are evil and kind. And they search one magic relic. Relic of the fairy forest.

Author : J. Sowerby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Switzerland
ISBN : NYPL:33433066612031

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The Forest Cantons of Switzerland by J. Sowerby Pdf

Author : Hiabu H. Hassebu
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450236829

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Padre from the Monastery to the Forest by Hiabu H. Hassebu Pdf

I initiated my book, by giving the title, "Padre", just to designate my life story in the monastery. I added the subtitle, "From the monastery to the forest", to highlight the content of my memoir. As the Abyssinian saying goes, "GuYiY Kab MeWal KiSad MiHaz" (instead of running non stop, better to be on the hill top), as an author I was highly calibrated, with that passion of telling a story. As there is no "Asha Misila", (silly sayings), I was sure enough not to run aimlessly, at the end do nothing. I believed in the short blessing of my father and the recitation of my mother's rosary. If I am here or there it was only for their blessings. Me and Beyene (Padre), lived in the same religious congregation, served the same poor people and committed to the same principles. Beyene was struck by the initial crises, to leave the congregation, at his early age, to joing the liberation front. The year was 1977. I was hit by the mid-crises, to live the life of an immigrant in USA, at the age of 40. The year was 1997. Two crises for two individual brothers, happened at different place and different times. My book presentation could confuse my readers. That was my greatest fear, when I was compiling it, as a book I was trying to make an issue, to everything that had fallen on my eyes. One experience, one battle, one struggle. I wish I would have mentioned, all the names and lives, of all with whom I had direct contact. In my case I was very selective.

Author : Sandra J. Lindow
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443843027

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Dancing the Tao by Sandra J. Lindow Pdf

Dancing the Tao: Le Guin and Moral Development takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work – speculative fiction, poetry and children’s literature – by considering her Taoist upbringing and then looking through the lens of moral development theorists such as Carol Gilligan and Mary Field Belenky, and psychologists such as Lenore Terr and Jennifer J. Freyd. It is the most comprehensive approach to Le Guin’s moral thinking to date. A particular emphasis is put on Le Guin’s depiction of physical and sexual child abuse and its long term aftereffects such as post traumatic stress disorder. The focus throughout the book is on how morality develops through self-awareness and voice, how moral decisions are made and how Le Guin challenges readers to reconsider their own moral thinking. This book covers all of Le Guin’s major works such as The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, the Earthsea Series, Always Coming Home, The Telling and Lavinia, and it also looks in depth at work that is rarely discussed such as Le Guin’s early work, her poetry, and her picture books.