Deerdancer

Author : Michele Jamal
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000024663946

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Deerdancer by Michele Jamal Pdf

For centuries, shamanic men and women have engaged in shapeshifting rituals - the powerful process of taking on the physical or psychological aspect of an animal to access its strength and perceptions. The imagery of shifting between human and nonhuman form has strongly pervaded folklore, myth, legend, and superstition - from the selkie (or seal shifter) of Celtic myth to bear-human love matches in Native American folklore. In chapters on the buffalo, cat, bird, bear, dragon, frog, and more, Michele Jamal explores the qualities associated with various shapeshifter forms. In her own lyrical style, she retells myths from around the world, and ends each chapter with a poetic and sensual visualization that takes the reader into the heart of each animal's power. Deerdancer shows how to use shapeshifting ritual to find direction, strength, and insight - it will forever transform the way one views other living creatures and the self.

Author : Mary Lyn Ray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442434226

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Deer Dancer by Mary Lyn Ray Pdf

In this mesmerizing picture book from the author of the New York Times bestselling Stars, a young ballerina finds dancing inspiration in the natural world. There’s a place I go that’s green and grass, a place I thought that no one knew— until the deer came. This gorgeous picture book from celebrated author Mary Lyn Ray features luminous and evocative art from Lauren Stringer and will capture the hearts of young dancers everywhere.

Author : Jasinda Wilder
Publisher : Jasinda Wilder
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948445733

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Gamma by Jasinda Wilder Pdf

It was supposed to be happily ever after, but Apollo’s past has returned to haunt us. To save the man I love from his violent history, I have to descend into the underworld and snatch him from the jaws of death. If I want happily ever after, I’m going to have to fight for it.

Author : Richard Schechner,Willa Appel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521339154

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By Means of Performance by Richard Schechner,Willa Appel Pdf

The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance. The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies.

Author : W.C. Holden
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : History
ISBN : 9785872133926

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Studies of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico by W.C. Holden Pdf

Author : J. Nigro Sansonese
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0892814098

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The Body of Myth by J. Nigro Sansonese Pdf

Long ago the ancestors of the Greeks, Romans, and Hindus were one people living on the Eurasian steppes. At the core of their religion was the "shamanic trance," a natural state but one in which consciousness achieves a profound level of inner awareness. Over the course of millennia, the Indo-Europeans divided and migrated into Europe and the Indian subcontinent. The knowledge of shamanic trance retreated from everyday awareness and was carried on in the form of myths and distilled into spiritual practices--most notably in the Indian tradition of yoga. J. Nigro Sansonese compares the myths of Greece as well as those of the Judeo-Christian tradition with the yogic practices of India and concludes that myths are esoteric descriptions of what occurs within the human body, especially the human nervous system, during trance. In this light, the myths provide a detailed map of the shamanic state of consciousness that is our natural heritage. This book carries on from the works of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell to show how the portrayal of consciousness embodied in myth can be extended to a reappraisal of the laws of physics; before they are descriptions of the world, these laws--like myths--are descriptions of the human nervous system.

Author : Culture Clash
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559366724

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OH, WILD WEST! by Culture Clash Pdf

The history of California, according to Culture Clash.

Author : Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816535880

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Yaqui Indigeneity by Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga Pdf

Examines representations of the transborder Yaqui people as interpreted through the writing of Spanish, Mexican, and Chicana/o authors--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ikram Ahmed Elsherif
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781527564398

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Translating Cultures in Search of Human Universals by Ikram Ahmed Elsherif Pdf

Informed by the anthropological research of Professor Donald E. Brown on human universals, this book compiles 10 articles exploring the representation of common human cultural practices and concerns in literature, cinema and language. The book as a whole demonstrates not only that Brown’s human universals are shared by different cultures, but most importantly that they have the potential to form a basis for inter- and intra-cultural communication and consolidation, bridging gaps of misinformation and miscommunication, both spatial and temporal. The contributors are Egyptian scholars who cross temporal and spatial boundaries and borders from Africa and the Middle East to Asia, Europe and the Americas, and dive deep into the heart of the shared human universals of myth, folklore and rituals, dreams, trauma, cultural beliefs, search for identity, language, translation and communication. They bring their own unique perspectives to the investigation of how shared human practices and concerns seep through the porous boundaries of different cultures and into a variety of creative and practical genres of fiction, drama, autobiography, cinema and media translation. Their research is interdisciplinary, informed by anthropological, social, psychological, linguistic and cultural theory, and thus offers a multi-faceted and multi-layered view of the human experience.

Author : Robert Kimball
Publisher : Robert Clayton Kimball
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How to Stop Believing in Hell by Robert Kimball Pdf

This story teller solves the mind/body problem and escapes the fear of Hell

Author : Robert Kimball
Publisher : Robert Clayton Kimball
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Embarrassed Life by Robert Kimball Pdf

After forty years of an unbearable fear of Hell, the narrator escapes his spiritual bondage. Mr. Kimball worked for 13 years in High Schools in Arizona and Mexico. He worked as an attorney for 11 years for the FCC. He is retired.

Author : David Yetman,Thomas R. Van Devender
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520926356

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Mayo Ethnobotany by David Yetman,Thomas R. Van Devender Pdf

The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. Traditional Mayo knowledge is quickly being lost as this culture becomes absorbed into modern Mexico. Moreover, as big agriculture spreads into the region, the natural biodiversity of these lands is also rapidly disappearing. This engaging and accessible ethnobotany, based on hundreds of interviews with the Mayos and illustrated with the authors' strikingly beautiful photographs, helps preserve our knowledge of both an indigenous culture and an endangered environment. This book contains a comprehensive description of northwest Mexico's tropical deciduous forests and thornscrub on the traditional Mayo lands reaching from the Sea of Cortés to the foothills of the Sierra Madre. The first half of the book is a highly readable account of the climate, geology, and vegetation of the region. The authors also provide a valuable history of the people, their language, culture, festival traditions, and plant use. The second half of the book is an annotated list of plants presenting the authors' detailed findings on plant use in Mayo culture.

Author : Muriel Thayer Painter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816550630

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A Yaqui Easter by Muriel Thayer Painter Pdf

The Yaqui Indian Easter Ceremony--from the initial events of Ash Wednesday through the final "Circle" on Easter Sunday--briefly described and interpreted by a long-time student of the tribe.

Author : Larry Evers,Felipe S. Molina
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816552559

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Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam by Larry Evers,Felipe S. Molina Pdf

Winner of the American Folklore Society’s Chicago Folklore Prize Yaqui regard song as a kind of lingua franca of the intelligent universe. It is through song that experience with other living things is made intelligible and accessible to the human community. Deer songs often take the form of dialogues in which the deer and others in the wilderness world speak with one another or with the deer singers themselves. It is in this way, according to one deer singer, that “the wilderness world listens to itself even today.” In this book authentic ceremonial songs, transcribed in both Yaqui and English, are the center of a fascinating discussion of the Deer Song tradition in Yaqui culture. Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam thus enables non-Yaquis to hear these dialogues with the wilderness world for the first time.

Author : Janet Goodridge
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1853025488

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Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance by Janet Goodridge Pdf

Despite the richness of the subject and the importance frequently ascribed to the phenomena of rhythm and timing in the arts, the topic as a whole has been neglected. Janet Goodridge writes from a practical movement background and draws on a wide range of sources to illuminate the subject in relation to theatre, drama, dance, ceremony, and ritual.