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Author : Carolyn Turgeon
Publisher : Unbridled Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781932961249
In this hypnotic, magically real debut novel, a tiny young woman from the heart of the Midwest overcomes an abusive childhood by following her mysterious and beautiful mentor's footsteps to become a circus trapeze artist.
Author : Carolyn Turgeon
Publisher : Unbridled Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609530266
Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not education for his misfit daughter. When a mysterious, entrancing librarian comes to town, full of fabulous stories, earthy wisdom and potions for the lovelorn, she takes Tessa under her wing, teaching her to read and to believe in herself—and a whole new magical world of possibilities opens up. But even as she blooms, Tessa’s father begins sexually abusing her. And her mentor carries a dark secret of her own that finally causes her to drown herself. Tessa runs off, following Mary’s footsteps, to join the circus as a trapeze artist, where she marries a loving man and finds a fulfilling life for herself amidst her new circus family. But she remains haunted by her past. And when a stranger from one of Mary’s fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor’s tragic secret. A brilliantly evocative debut set in the early part of the 20th century, steeped in emotional turbulence and down-to-earth wisdom, where a young woman must reconcile the inner traumas from her past and learn to live in the present in order to avoid becoming prisoner to her future. Rain Village casts a fabulous spell, pulling us into a world of mystery and possibility where love, friendship and loyalty might either destroy or set one free.
Author : Poona Sarvajanick sabha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : India
ISBN : OXFORD:590798916
Author : Daniel Biebuyck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351037648
Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa. The papers - in English and French but with summaries in the other language - analyse case studies illustrating the various basic factors and problems connected with land in Tropical Africa. Indigenous systems of tenure and their adaptation to commercial agriculture, the balance between rights and obligations of groups and individuals, and the authority and duties of chiefs and headmen are discussed in detail for many different areas. Against this background important contributions are made towards the better understanding of problems raised by economic and political development, population increase, migration and scarcity of land.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106500929
Author : Peter Loizos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450678
In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective unusual in the social sciences, this study yields unconventional insights into the deeper meanings of displacement. It focuses on reconstruction of livelihoods, conservation of family, community, social capital, health (both physical and mental), religious and political perceptions. The author argues for a closer collaboration between anthropology and the life sciences, particularly medicine and social epidemiology, but suggests that qualitative life-history data have an important role to play in the understanding of how people cope with collective stress.
Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780804137119
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Author : Thomas Smith,John Overton Choules
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Missions
ISBN : UOM:39015080399952
Author : William Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Climatology
ISBN : MINN:31951000893449E
Author : A. R. Vasavi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022135649
This Ethnographic Study, Based On Bijapur District In Karnataka, First Identifies The Cultural Complex Of The Region And Then Indicates The Ways In Which It Is Contested By The State`S Technological And Bureaucratic Programmes Of `Development`.
Author : Nadia Abu Zahra
Publisher : Ithaca Press (GB)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005126191
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UOM:39015034738271
Author : Albert I. Baumgartner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004379169
This book presents revised papers delivered at the 1998 and 1999 Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences. The papers from the 1998 conference discuss the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective. Those from the second conference examine alternatives to sacrifice. The first theme has been much elaborated in recent scholarship, and the essays here participate in that on-going inquiry. The second theme has been less explored, and the goal of this volume is to stimulate examination of the topic by offering a set of test cases. In both sections of the volume a wide variety of religious traditions are considered. The essays show that in spite of the inclination we may sometimes have to consider sacrifice part of the idolatrous past, long overcome, it remains a persistent and meaningful part of religious experience.
Author : Hugh Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351043045
Originally published in 1952 and as a second edition in 1967 this volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and their changing culture, and reviews the developments and changes leading up to 1966 when Basutoland achieved independence as Lesotho. It describes in detail daily lives, the education and upbringing of children, initiation, marriage, economic activities and political developments within and outside the country. It includes a discussion of tribal and modern law and the workings of the courts and a study of the part played by magic and sorcery and an analysis of the motives leading to the out break of 'medicine' murders in the 1940s.
Author : Arthur H. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010232705
