Living Kinship Fearing Spirits

Author : Rosalie Stolz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8776947165

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Living kinship, fearing spirits by Rosalie Stolz Pdf

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters,Michael T. Heneise
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000598582

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Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia by Jelle J.P. Wouters,Michael T. Heneise Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general.

Author : Rosalie Stolz,Jonathan Alderman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805392378

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Houses Transformed by Rosalie Stolz,Jonathan Alderman Pdf

Over the decades, there has been a world-wide transformation of so-called ‘vernacular houses’. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology as well as the rhetoric of the vernacular. The volume provides new anthropological pathways to understanding the dynamics of dwelling in the 21st century.

Author : Martin Stuart-Fox,Simon Creak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538120286

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Historical Dictionary of Laos by Martin Stuart-Fox,Simon Creak Pdf

Laos has the smallest population, the weakest military, and despite rapid economic growth in recent years, one of the lowest levels of per capita income in mainland Southeast Asia. Yet a glance at the map reveals its strategic location, between China and Cambodia and Thailand and Vietnam. As Laos was formerly a crossroads for trade routes, the socialist government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic seeks to transform the country into a prosperous crossroads at the heart of this rapidly developing region. Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition provides an in-depth examination of one of the least-known countries in Southeast Asia through a detailed chronology, comprehensive introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book will be an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Laos.

Author : Giuseppe Bolotta
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788776943004

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Belittled Citizens by Giuseppe Bolotta Pdf

Exploring the intersection between Thai politics, urban poverty, religion, and global humanitarianism from the perspective of “slum children” in Bangkok, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study offers startling new insights into how ideas of “parenthood” and “infantilization” shape Thai political culture.

Author : Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows),Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623176433

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Restoring the Kinship Worldview by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows),Darcia Narvaez, PhD Pdf

Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future. Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by the editors’ own analyses, each chapter reflects the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts like: Egalitarian rule versus hierarchical governance A fearless trust in the universe, instead of a fear-based culture The life-sustaining role of ceremony Emphasizing generosity and the greater good instead of pursuing selfish goals and for personal gain The laws of nature as the highest rules for living The editors emphasize our deep need to move away from the dominant Western paradigm--one that dictates we live without strong social purpose, fails to honor the earth as sacred, leads with the head while ignoring the heart, and places individual “rights” over collective responsibility. Restoring the Kinship Worldview is rooted in an Indigenous vision and strong social purpose that sees all life forms as sacred and sentient--that honors the wisdom of the heart, and grants equal standing to rights and responsibilities. All author proceeds from Restoring the Kinship Worldview are donated to Indigenous non-profit organizations working on behalf of Indigenous Peoples. Inviting readers into a world-sense that expands beyond perceiving and conceiving to experiencing and being, Restoring the Kinship Worldview is a salve for our times, a nourishment for our collective, and a holistic orientation that will lead us away from extinction toward an integrated, sustainable future.

Author : Robert Brain
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1972-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521083117

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Bangwa Kinship and Marriage by Robert Brain Pdf

Author : Marilyn Gregerson,Joyce Sterner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Reference
ISBN : UCSD:31822026053470

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Symbolism and Ritual in Irian Jaya by Marilyn Gregerson,Joyce Sterner Pdf

Author : Janice Manning
Publisher : Your Own World, Inc.
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1597720054

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The Kolbrin Bible by Janice Manning Pdf

"The Kolbrin Bible is a 2-part, 11-book secular anthology. The first six books are called the "Egyptian texts" and were penned by Egyptian academicians following the Hebrew Exodus. The last five books are called the "Celtic texts" and were penned by Celtic priests following the death of Jesus. Several accounts describe an object in orbit around our sun sun called the "Destroyer," which the Celtic authors call the "Frightener." According to recently translated Sumerian texts, this object (also known as Nibiru or Planet X) is in a 3600-year orbit around our sun, and The Kolbrin Bible warns us of its imminent return and of yet another Biblical tribulation." -- Amazon.com.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429931113

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000714057

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The Christian Union by Anonim Pdf

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781625584021

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Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further. It would perhaps be rash to ask where these people are going, but it is surely a sign of breeding and culture for me to assume that everybody has faith, for otherwise it would be queer for them to be . . . going further. In those old days it was different, then faith was a task for a whole lifetime, because it was assumed that dexterity in faith is not acquired in a few days or weeks. When the tried oldster drew near to his last hour, having fought the good fight and kept the faith, his heart was still young enough not to have forgotten that fear and trembling which chastened the youth, which the man indeed held in check, but which no man quite outgrows. . . except as he might succeed at the earliest opportunity in going further. Where these revered figures arrived, that is the point where everybody in our day begins to go further.

Author : Harold E. Driver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226221304

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Indians of North America by Harold E. Driver Pdf

The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories—a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organization, incorporating many new discoveries and interpretations in archeology and related fields. He also revised several of the maps and added more than 100 bibliographical items. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been an increased interest in the activities of Indians in the twentieth century; accordingly, the author placed much more emphasis on this period.

Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300142266

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From Land to Mouth by Paul Sillitoe Pdf

After 35 years of research in the New Guinea Highlands, esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley. This is a seminal work intent on reinstating certain core values in anthropological scholarship.

Author : James McConkey Robinson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Gnostic literature
ISBN : 9004071857

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The Nag Hammadi Library in English by James McConkey Robinson Pdf