Necklace And Calabash

Author : Robert van
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226849027

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Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career. An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667632407

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Necklace and Calabash by Robert Hans van Gulik Pdf

Judge Dee's fishing vacation plans are suddenly shattered when the inn cashier is found slain in a river. When he is summoned to the Emperor's palace to find the princess's stolen pearl necklace, he wonders: could the theft be connected to the cashier's death? And what of Master Gourd and the sinister Lang Liu? Only the master detective of ancient China can come to grips with the tangled mystery of Necklace and Calabash.

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610078600

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Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0586028773

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Necklace and Calabash by Robert Hans van Gulik Pdf

Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617411

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The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik by J.K. Van Dover Pdf

From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee's world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the citizens he served with dedication on the emperor's behalf. This book gives a synopsis of each Judge Dee story, along with commentary on plots, characters, themes and historical details. Exploring van Gulik's influence on Chinese and Western detective fiction and on the image of China in popular 20th century American literature, this study brings to light a significant contributor to the development of detective fiction.

Author : Ann Vanderhoof
Publisher : HMH
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780547488431

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The Spice Necklace by Ann Vanderhoof Pdf

The author of An Embarrassment of Mangoes offers “a mouthwatering slice of Caribbean culture” in this blend of travel memoir and cookbook (New York Post). While sailing around the Caribbean, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband Steve track wild oregano-eating goats in the cactus-covered hills of the Dominican Republic, gather nutmegs on an old estate in Grenada, make searing-hot pepper sauce in a Trinidadian kitchen, cram for a chocolate-tasting test at the University of the West Indies, and sip moonshine straight out of hidden back-country stills. Along the way, they are befriended by a collection of unforgettable island characters: Dwight, the skin-diving fisherman who always brings them something from his catch and critiques their efforts to cook it; Greta, who harvests sea moss on St. Lucia and turns it into potent Island-Viagra; sweet-hand Pat, who dispenses hugs and impromptu dance lessons along with cooking tips in her Port of Spain kitchen. Back in her galley, Ann practices making curry like a Trini, dog sauce like a Martiniquais, and coo-coo like a Carriacouan. And for those who want to take these adventures into their own kitchens, she pulls 71 delicious recipes from the stories she tells, which she places at the end of the relevant chapters. The Spice Necklace is a wonderful escape into a life filled with sunshine (and hurricanes), delicious food, irreplaceable company, and island traditions.

Author : Bilinda Straight
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812209372

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Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya by Bilinda Straight Pdf

The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead, "this side" and inia bata, "that side." Cultural anthropologist Bilinda Straight, who has lived with the Samburu for extended periods since the 1990s, bears witness to Samburu life and death in Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya. Written mostly in the field, Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya is the first book-length ethnography completely devoted to Samburu divinity and belief. Here, child prophets recount their travels to heaven and back. Others report transformations between persons and inanimate objects. Spirit turns into action and back again. The miraculous is interwoven with the mundane as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes these fantastic movements inside the cultural logic that makes them possible; thus she calls into question how we experience, how we feel, and how anthropologists and their readers can best engage with the improbable. In her detailed and precise accounts, Straight writes beyond traditional ethnography, exploring the limits of science and her own limits as a human being, to convey the significance of her time with the Samburu as they recount their fantastic yet authentic experiences in the physical and metaphysical spaces of their culture.

Author : J. Lorand Matory
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789205947

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Sex and the Empire That Is No More by J. Lorand Matory Pdf

J. Lorand Matory researches the trans-Atlantic comings and goings of Yoruba religion, as well as ethnic diversity in Black North America. With the support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education's Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, he has conducted extensive field research in Brazil, Nigeria, and the United States. Dr. Matory is also the author of Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (Princeton University Press). He is currently researching a book on the history and experience of Nigerians, Trinidadians, Ethiopians, black Indians, Louisiana Creoles and other ethnic groups that make up black North American society. It focuses on the creative coexistence of these groups at the United States' leading "historically Black university"—Howard University

Author : The Diagram Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135963347

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Encyclopedia of African Peoples by The Diagram Group Pdf

Africa is a vast continent, home to many millions of people. Its history stretches back millennia and encompasses some of the most ancient civilizations in the world. Modern Africa boasts a rich cultural heritage, the legacy of many diverse influences from all around the world, reflecting the central role African plays in world history. Encyclopedia of African Peoples provides extensive information about Africa's cultures, history, geography, economics, and politics; it provides an invaluable overview of the whole continent, region by region, ethnic group by ethnic group, nation by nation, personality by personality. Sections include: *Africa Today * The Peoples of Africa * Culture and History * The Nations of Africa * Biographies Past to Present * Glossary * Index.

Author : Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOMDLP:afl1194:0001.003

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A Preliminary Catalogue of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History ... by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Pdf

Author : Helize van Vuuren
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781920689896

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A Necklace of Springbok Ears by Helize van Vuuren Pdf

?Where once there were twenty-nine San Bushman languages (and/or dialects) in Southern Africa...few now remain.The loss of these languages results in the loss of their stored oral culture and indigenous knowledge. All that remains are archaeological evidence and rock art, or archives recorded by individuals, such as Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and GR von Wielligh, who heard the encroaching language and cultural death knell before it was too late.?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : PSU:000060078681

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The Armchair Detective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1979-11
Category : Literature
ISBN : NWU:35556026832097

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The New Yorker by Harold Wallace Ross,Katharine Sergeant Angell White Pdf

Author : Rahman Yakubu
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374071999

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The Gods are not Jealous by Rahman Yakubu Pdf

Rahman Yakubu critiques the notion that Islam and Christianity in Africa have been benevolent to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in their interreligious encounter. Rather, he argues that ATR plays an active and central role in creating a peaceful interreligious space in Africa. Using an ethnographic study of rituals in the rites of passage among Dagomba Muslims, Christians and adherents of ATR of Ghana, the author concludes that Dagomba religio-culture has influenced not only the identity of adherents of the two faiths, but also the relations between them. This book proposes that, for a constructive negotiating of religious identity and peaceful interreligious existence, Traditional Religions should be considered an equal partner in interreligious dialogue.

Author : Nils Magnus Holmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Cuna language
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018646896

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Mu-igala by Nils Magnus Holmer Pdf