Lail Speaks

Author : Steven Kolpan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135772710

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A Sense of Place by Steven Kolpan Pdf

In A Sense of Place, renowned wine expert and writer Steven Kolpan tells the story of how Francis Ford Coppola brought California's most distinguished and historic vineyard back to life. Gustave Niebaum's Inglenook Estate, started in 1879, was one of the Napa Valley's first established vineyards and the birthplace of its premium wine industry. Generations after Niebaum's death, the vineyard was sold to Heublein, the wine and spirits monolith, who broke up the land and changed the Inglenook brand from a premium, connoisseur wine to a mass-market jug wine. In 1975, Francis Coppola bought the Niebaum residence and the surrounding estate. Along with the original estate's reputation, he also brought back some of its original workers, including Rafael Rodriquez, who, in h is late seventies, now serves as the vineyard manager and historian. Coppola overcame naysayers, red tape, and financial turmoil to reestablish the winery as a defender of quality, producing wine under four different labels, including the revered wine Rubicon. In 1995, Coppola purchased the Inglenook Chateau and its adjacent vineyards, fulfilling his dream of reuniting the original Napa Valley estate. Kolpan's luscious, flavorful narrative is worth enjoying now and keeping for later.

Author : Kerry M. Hull,Michael D. Carrasco
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607321804

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Parallel Worlds by Kerry M. Hull,Michael D. Carrasco Pdf

Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time. In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews. Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.

Author : Lu Ann De Cunzo,Catharine Dann Roeber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108659871

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The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies by Lu Ann De Cunzo,Catharine Dann Roeber Pdf

Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, and interpretation of objects. It draws on theory and practice from disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, such as anthropology, archaeology, history, and museum studies. Written by leading international scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive view of developments, methodologies and theories. It is divided into five broad themes, embracing both classic and emerging areas of research in the field. Chapters outline transformative moments in material culture scholarship, and present research from around the world, focusing on multiple material and digital media that show the scope and breadth of this exciting field. Written in an easy-to-read style, it is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals with an interest in material culture.

Author : Sued-Badillo, Jalil,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231038327

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General History of the Caribbean by Sued-Badillo, Jalil,UNESCO Pdf

This is the first in a six-volume publication which examines the history of the Caribbean, its people and landscape on a thematic basis. This volume covers the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean peoples and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organisations over time, in and around the region. Topics covered include: ethnohistorical research; biogeographic teleconnections; the Palaeoindians in Cuba and surrounding regions; agricultural societies; indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the hierarchy of chiefdoms; and the development of slavery.

Author : William J. Conklin,Jeffrey Quilter
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770449

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Chavin by William J. Conklin,Jeffrey Quilter Pdf

This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavin phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavin is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a variety of media, including finely carved stone monuments, beautifully formed pottery, and magnificent and complex metallurgy. Also, the textiles from Chavin are incredibly innovative, both iconographically and structurally. They, in fact, form the foundation for the later Andean textile evolution. Chapters in this book cover new interpretations of the history of the site of Chavin de Huantar, studies of related cultures, the role of shamanism, and many other topics of interest to specialists and the general reader, alike.

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292712638

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Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate by Elizabeth Hill Boone Pdf

In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.

Author : Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674065246

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Africa Speaks, America Answers by Robin D. G. Kelley Pdf

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950's and '60's who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. This collective biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered politics and culture on both continents. In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists sought one another out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as indigenous, multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures.

Author : TA Sullivan
Publisher : Planer Publications, an imprint of IM Light Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781507721728

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The Starstone by TA Sullivan Pdf

Two centaras ago, at the end of the war, the Starstone was broken into three pieces. Scattered across the land, the pieces were soon forgotten, and Danaria found a relative peace. Now, one piece of the Starstone has resurfaced, and Lord Darkwind is determined to capture it, along with the one person who can direct its powers. Thrust into the search for the Starstone, Neerah and Joelnar find themselves evading not only Lord Darkwind, but also the Guardians of Starfall—religious zealots who believe that only Neerah’s death can save their world. With the advice of the mysterious Ethereals to guide her, Neerah struggles to retrieve the pieces of the Starstone and save Danaria from the darkness that threatens her world.

Author : Mary H. Preuss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Folk literature, Indian
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000127028

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LAIL Speaks! by Mary H. Preuss Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1674 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : UVA:35007004865907

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Study of Recreational Boating Safety by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018407984

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Boats and boating
ISBN : MINN:31951D03669900G

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Study of Recreational Boating Safety: Elizabeth City, N.C., October 3, 1956; New York, N.Y., November 13 and 14, 1956; Boston, Mass., November 16, 1956; St. Louis, Mo., December 3, 1956; New Orleans, La., December 4, 1956; Miami, Fla., December 6 and 7, 1956 (p. 1061-1638) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Pdf

Author : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136605130

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Icons of Power by Nicholas J. Saunders Pdf

Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years. The jaguar and the puma epitomize ideas of sacrifice, cannibalism, war, and status in a startling array of graphic and enduring images. Natural and supernatural felines inhabit a shape-shifting world of sorcery and spiritual power, revealing the shamanic nature of Amerindian world views. This pioneering collection offers a unique pan-American assessment of the feline icon through the diversity of cultural interpretations, but also striking parallels in its associations with hunters, warriors, kingship, fertility, and the sacred nature of political power. Evidence is drawn from the pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya of Mexico, Peruvian, and Panamanian civilizations, through recent pueblo and Iroquois cultures of North America, to current Amazonian and Andean societies. This well-illustrated volume is essential reading for all who are interested in the symbolic construction of animal icons, their variable meanings, and their place in a natural world conceived through the lens of culture. The cross-disciplinary approach embraces archaeology, anthropology, and art history.

Author : John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Bible
ISBN : OXFORD:600086211

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The Keepsake Scripture text book, with preface by the rev. J.C. Ryle by John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373799

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The Cumulative Book Index by Anonim Pdf

A world list of books in the English language.