Eyes Of The Ancestors

Author : Reimar Schefold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804851735

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Eyes of the Ancestors by Reimar Schefold Pdf

"Simply the best book ever published on this subject." --Sir David Attenborough Lavish photography and groundbreaking texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor through examples of textiles, sculpture, and metalwork from this prestigious collection. Eyes of the Ancestors takes an in-depth look at the Dallas Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of artworks from Island Southeast Asia. Beautiful photography and essays by distinguished international scholars unlock the magic of the island cultures of this region. Leading cultural anthropologist Reimar Schefold introduces these texts, which investigate various indigenous art forms from a fresh, art history perspective. They describe the contexts, purposes, and aesthetic influences of a range of objects, from intricately woven sacred and ceremonial textiles to carved ancestral figures. Also featured are gold and metalwork designs as well as weaponry and jewelry--most dating back more than a hundred years. A 19th-century mouth mask in the collection, from the Leti Islands, is one of only our known to be in existence. Carved in the shape of a bird's head, this wooden mask was used in ritual dances. Other spectacular examples from the collection also reflect the beliefs and practices of these island cultures.

Author : Patience Turtoe-Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798584573812

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Eyes of The Ancestors by Patience Turtoe-Sanders Pdf

Are we shrouded in mystery? Are we being watched by mysterious eyes? Are there still taboos left in the world, if so, how do ancestors react to forbidden behavior? Read this book. It's captivating. It's different. It's watching you!

Author : June Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Mayas
ISBN : OCLC:251627156

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In the Eyes of the Ancestors by June Nash Pdf

Author : Carlos Andrade
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824831196

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Ha'ena by Carlos Andrade Pdf

The land of Ha'ena in Hawaii is known to Hawaiians as Hale Le'a (House of Pleasure and Delight). This book recounts the history of Ha'ena, outlining the relationships developed by Hawaiians with the environment as well as the impact of immigrants.

Author : Martina Deuchler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684175536

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Under the Ancestors’ Eyes by Martina Deuchler Pdf

Under the Ancestors’ Eyes presents a new approach to Korean social history by focusing on the origin and development of the indigenous descent group. Martina Deuchler maintains that the surprising continuity of the descent-group model gave the ruling elite cohesion and stability and enabled it to retain power from the early Silla (fifth century) to the late nineteenth century. This argument, underpinned by a fresh interpretation of the late-fourteenth-century Koryŏ-Chosŏn transition, illuminates the role of Neo-Confucianism as an ideological and political device through which the elite regained and maintained dominance during the Chosŏn period. Neo-Confucianism as espoused in Korea did not level the social hierarchy but instead tended to sustain the status system. In the late Chosŏn, it also provided ritual models for the lineage-building with which local elites sustained their preeminence vis-à-vis an intrusive state. Though Neo-Confucianism has often been blamed for the rigidity of late Chosŏn society, it was actually the enduring native kinship ideology that preserved the strict social-status system. By utilizing historical and social anthropological methodology and analyzing a wealth of diverse materials, Deuchler highlights Korea’s distinctive elevation of the social over the political.

Author : Maureen Alice Taylor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 039586982X

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Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors by Maureen Alice Taylor Pdf

Discusses genealogy, the study of one's family, examining how such an interest develops, how to get started, how to use family stories and keepsakes, where to get help, and the positive effects of such study.

Author : Carl Sagan,Ann Druyan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307801036

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan,Ann Druyan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Exciting and provocative . . . A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read.”—The Washington Post Book World World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a thrilling saga that starts with the origin of the Earth. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits—self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics—are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Sagan and Druyan conduct a breathtaking journey through space and time, zeroing in on critical turning points in evolutionary history, and tracing the origins of sex, altruism, violence, rape, and dominance. Their book culminates in a stunningly original examination of the connection between primate and human traits. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a triumph of popular science.

Author : Edley J. Moodley PhD
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630879969

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Shembe, Ancestors, and Christ by Edley J. Moodley PhD Pdf

The Christian axis has shifted dramatically southward to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, so much so that today there are more Christians living in these southern regions than among their northern counterparts. In the case of Africa, the African Initiated Churches-founded by Africans and primarily for Africans-has largely contributed to the exponential growth and proliferation of the Christian faith in the continent. Yet, even more profoundly, these churches espouse a brand of Christianity that is indigenized and thoroughly contextual. Further, the power and popularity of the AICs, beyond the unprecedented numbers joining these churches, are attributed to their relevance to the existential everyday needs and concerns of their adherents in the context of a postcolonial Africa. At the heart of Christian theology is Christology-the confessed uniqueness of Christ in history and among world religions. Yet this key feature of Christianity, as with other important elements of the Christian faith, may be variously understood and re-interpreted in these indigenous churches. The focus of this study is the amaNazaretha Church, an influential religious group founded by the African charismatic prophet Isaiah Shembe in 1911 in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The movement today claims a following of some two million adherents and has proliferated beyond the borders of South Africa to neighboring countries in Southern Africa. The book addresses the complex and at times ambivalent understanding of the person and work of Christ in the amaNazaretha Church, presenting the genesis, history, beliefs, and practices of this significant religious movement in South Africa, with broader implications for similar movements across the continent of Africa and beyond.

Author : June C. Nash
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Mayas
ISBN : 0881331422

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In the Eyes of the Ancestors by June C. Nash Pdf

Author : Donna Marie Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0464901855

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The Eyes and Ears of My Ancestors by Donna Marie Powell Pdf

Book describes America's cultural mix and family values!

Author : Stephen Shennan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351507073

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Mapping Our Ancestors by Stephen Shennan Pdf

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual. Mapping Our Ancestors demonstrates how various genealogical or "phylogenetic" methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history. Anthropologists are increasingly turning to quantitative phylogenetic methods. These methods depend on the transmission of information regardless of mode and as such are applicable to many anthropological questions. In this way, phylogenetic approaches have the potential for building bridges among the various subdisciplines of anthropology; an exciting prospect indeed. The structure of Mapping Our Ancestors reflects the editors' goal of developing a common understanding of the methods and conditions under which ancestral relations can be derived in a range of data classes of interest to anthropologists. Specifically, this volume explores the degree to which patterns of ancestry can be determined from artifactual, genetic, linguistic, and behavioral data and how processes such as selection, transmission, and geography impact the results of phylogenetic analyses. Mapping Our Ancestors provides a solid demonstration of the potential of phylogenetic methods for studying the evolutionary history of human populations using a variety of data sources and thus helps explain how cultural material, language, and biology came to be as they are.

Author : Raven Grimassi
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633410176

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Communing with the Ancestors by Raven Grimassi Pdf

Explore the realm of the ancestors with author and Pagan scholar Raven Grimassi. In this fascinating and far-ranging guide, you will learn practices and rituals both ancient and new for communing with the ancestors, specifically: How to build shrines and altars and make offers. Where to find and work with sacred sites, power places, and special portals to the ancients. Guided imagery that will take you into the “Cavern of the Ancestors,” the spiritual corridor where the ancestors can be directly approached. How to access the Spirit-Rider, an ancestor that can travel between the realms of mortals and ancients. How to see and understand the restless dead who remain bound to the Earth realms. The role of reincarnation in the soul’s relationship to ancestral lineage. Plus some of the extraordinary folklore, legend, and superstition surrounding the topic.

Author : Martina Deuchler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Confucianism and state
ISBN : 0674504305

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Under the Ancestors' Eyes by Martina Deuchler Pdf

Under the Ancestors' Eyes elucidates the role of Neo-Confucianism as an ideological and political device by which the elite in Korea regained and maintained dominance during the Chosŏn period. Using historical and social anthropological methodology, Martina Deuchler highlights Korea's distinctive elevation of the social over the political.

Author : Ronald A. Jenner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009302647

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Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology by Ronald A. Jenner Pdf

Phylogenetics emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as a speculative storytelling discipline dedicated to providing narrative explanations for the evolution of taxa and their traits. It coincided with lineage thinking, a process that mentally traces character evolution along lineages of hypothetical ancestors. Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology traces the history of narrative phylogenetics and lineage thinking to the present day, drawing on perspectives from the history of science, philosophy of science, and contemporary scientific debates. It shows how the power of phylogenetic hypotheses to explain evolution resides in the precursor traits of hypothetical ancestors. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the topic of ancestors, which is central to modern biology, and is therefore of interest to graduate students, researchers, and academics in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, philosophy of science, and the history of science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 9781424302093

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The Desperate Genealogist's Idea Book: Creative Ways to Outsmart Your Elusive Ancestors by Anonim Pdf