Sacred Bundles Unborn

Author : Morningstar Mercredi,Fire Keepers
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781039116399

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Sacred Bundles Unborn by Morningstar Mercredi,Fire Keepers Pdf

Sacred Bundles Unborn acknowledges the voices of women who have come forward and recognizes that coerced forced sterilization is happening, while establishing a narrative on this critical issue as it is currently playing out in 2021, while educating people of the dark reality of Canada’s negligence of the human rights of Indigenous women and women of color, whom are at a greater risk within the health system in their most vulnerable state during pregnancy. Each piece takes a unique approach to the many overlapping aspects informing this issue from the individual writer’s perspective, yet there is a thread of synergy between each piece. All are written in an accessible way as each author has eloquently and effectively spoken to the “unspoken” with integrity and grace, granting the reader as much ease as any human being can conceive in order to process this form of inhumane torture. All submissions are in the first person, whether a poem or narrative prose, in lay (non-academic) terms. “The goal of our collective, first and foremost, is the documentation of this ongoing genocide, from our perspective, in order to bring to the forefront of readers’ consciousness this archaic and barbaric atrocity that continues and is not “criminalized” in Canada.” Morningstar Mercredi

Author : Ranjan Datta
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773383804

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Decolonization in Practice by Ranjan Datta Pdf

Decolonization in Practice speaks to the practical work of dismantling colonial ideologies and features contributions from Indigenous, Black, racialized immigrant, refugee, and ally scholars, researchers, and practitioners who share their experiences enacting decolonizing work in their communities. Each chapter presents stories of inspiration, resistance, unlearning, relearning, and transformation on the journey towards reconciliation. This edited collection asks, “How do we understand anti-racist practice as a framework for reconciliation?” “How can we identify areas of obstacle and opportunity?” and “How can we take responsibility for decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting?” These questions are asked in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s assertion that meaningful engagement among Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous people will be key in advancing reconciliation through anti-racist solidarity. Contributors share personal decolonial stories and explore taking responsibility for building a decolonial community from and within everyday practice for transforming our learning into action to achieve social and environmental justice goals. This unique collection serves a variety of courses, including as a primary text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Canada focused on decolonization, as a supplementary text for introductory-level courses in Canada that are incorporating discussions of decolonization, and as a primary or supplementary text for international courses.

Author : David H. Dye
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793650603

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Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles by David H. Dye Pdf

In Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles, the contributors examine Mississippian artistic traditions and society through an archaeological analysis of religious objects.

Author : Dawn Martin-Hill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442690431

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The Lubicon Lake Nation by Dawn Martin-Hill Pdf

Many argue that the Lubicon, a small Cree nation in northern Alberta, have been denied their unalienable right to self-determination by the Canadian government. In a country such as Canada, some see the plight of the Lubicon people as an enduring reminder that certain democratic principles and basic freedoms are still kept from minorities, indigenous groups in particular.The Lubicon Lake Nation strives, through a critique of historically-constructed colonial images, to analyze the Canadian government's actions vis-à-vis the rights of the Lubicon people. Dawn Martin-Hill illustrates the power of indigenous knowledge by contrasting the words, ideas, and self-conceptualizations of the Lubicon with official versions of Lubicon history as documented by the state. In doing so, she offers a genuine sense of the gravity of their lived experiences. By giving voice to the Lubicon, this study seeks to develop an exclusively indigenist framework in which the circumstances facing the people can be described and analyzed more accurately than they can using popular conceptions of native rights as put forth by the government. The Lubicon Lake Nation is a story of one culture and the pursuit of indigenous rights in Canada as told from the perspective of those who know the situation best, the Lubicon themselves.

Author : Carolyn E. Tate
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742567

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Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture by Carolyn E. Tate Pdf

Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and fetuses in monuments and portable objects dating from 1400 to 400 BC and originating throughout much of Mesoamerica. This highly original study sheds new light on the prominent roles that women and gestational beings played in Early Formative societies, revealing female shamanic practices, the generative concepts that motivated caching and bundling, and the expression of feminine knowledge in the 260-day cycle and related divinatory and ritual activities. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture is the first study that situates the unique hollow babies of Formative Mesoamerica within the context of prominent females and the prevalent imagery of gestation and birth. It is also the first major art historical study of La Venta and the first to identify Mesoamerica's earliest creation narrative. It provides a more nuanced understanding of how later societies, including Teotihuacan and West Mexico, as well as the Maya, either rejected certain Formative Period visual forms, rituals, social roles, and concepts or adopted and transformed them into the enduring themes of Mesoamerican symbol systems.

Author : Alfred W. Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Hidatsa Indians
ISBN : UCBK:C043083991

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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers Pdf

Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generation of Hidatsas who lived in the historic village of Like-a-Fishhook. This documentary record of their nineteenth-century lifeways is now a classic in American ethnography. The book is distinguished for its presentation of extensive personal and ritual narratives that allow Hidatsa elders to articulate directly their conceptions of traditional culture. It combines archeological and ethnographic approaches to reconstruct a Hidatsa culture history that is shaped by a concern for cultural detail stemming from the American ethnographic tradition of Franz Boas. At the same time, its concern for the understanding of social structure reflects the influence of the British structural-functional approach of A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. The most comprehensive account ever published on the Hidatsas, it is of enduring value and interest.

Author : Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611803723

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Chod: The Sacred Teachings on Severance by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye Pdf

From the legendary cofounder of Tibet's nineteenth-century nonsectarian movement, an encyclopedic survey of the practice of Chod, or severance, a tantric ritual based on the crucial Mahayana sutras to sever clinging to an ego and thereby achieve realization. The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye, one of Tibet’s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet. In its eighteen volumes, Kongtrul brings together some of the most important texts on key topics of Buddhist thought and practice as well as authoring significant new sections of his own. In this, the fourteenth volume, Kongtrul compiles the teachings on Severance, or Chöd. It includes some of the tradition’s earliest source scriptures, such as the “grand poem” of Āryadeva, and numerous texts by the tradition’s renowned founder, Machik Labdrön. Kongtrul also brings together the most significant texts on the rites of initiation, empowerments for practice, and wide-ranging instructions and guides for the support of practitioners. Altogether, this quintessential guide to Severance offers vast resources for scholars and practitioners alike to better understand this unique and remarkable tradition—the way of severing the ego through the profound realization of emptiness and compassion.

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 789 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241964941

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Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth Pdf

WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE 'Gripping . . . SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 and 1765 . . . it concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, and Matthew Paris, a scholar and surgeon just released from prison for "denying Holy Writ" . . . the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, and it carries the reader deep into the history of man's iniquitous greed . . . AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH AND ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT' - Anthony Quinn in the Independent

Author : Walter McClintock
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066429119

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Old Indian trails by Walter McClintock Pdf

"Old Indian trails" by Walter McClintock The author, at the age of 26, joined a Blackfoot Indian camp on the plains of northwestern Montana in 1896. There he met their chief Mad Wolf, who adopted him as a son. This book recounts the history and stories he learned during his time with this tribe, written with the reverence and respect of someone who truly lived the experience.

Author : Claudia Brittenham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477325971

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Unseen Art by Claudia Brittenham Pdf

In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people assigned to the process of making and enlivening the things we now call art, as well as Mesoamerican understandings of sight as an especially godlike and elite power, in order to trace a gradual evolution in the uses of secrecy and concealment, from a communal practice that fostered social memory to a tool of imperial power. Addressing some of the most charismatic of all Mesoamerican sculptures, such as Olmec buried offerings, Maya lintels, and carvings on the undersides of Aztec sculptures, Brittenham shows that the creation of unseen art has important implications both for understanding status in ancient Mesoamerica and for analyzing art in the present. Spanning nearly three thousand years of the Indigenous art of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize, Unseen Art connects the dots between vision, power, and inequality, providing a critical perspective on our own way of looking.

Author : Clementine Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786076649

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Boys Will Be Boys by Clementine Ford Pdf

The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl. Boys Will Be Boys answers the question Clementine Ford is most often asked: 'How do I raise my son to respect women?’ With equal parts passion and humour, Ford reveals how patriarchal society is as destructive for men as it is for women, creating a dangerously limited idea of what it is to be a man. She traces the way gender norms creep into the home from early childhood, through popular culture or the division of housework and shines a light on what needs to change for equality to become a reality.

Author : Betty Bastien,Jürgen W. Kremer
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9781552381090

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Blackfoot Ways of Knowing by Betty Bastien,Jürgen W. Kremer Pdf

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world.

Author : Douglas Kaine McKelvey
Publisher : Every Moment Holy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1951872053

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Every Moment Holy, Volume Two by Douglas Kaine McKelvey Pdf

EVERY MOMENT HOLY, Vol. 2: DEATH, GRIEF, & HOPE, is a book of liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving--liturgies such as "A Liturgy for the Scattering of Ashes" or "A Liturgy for the Loss of a Spouse" or "A Liturgy for the Wake of a National Tragedy" or "A Liturgy for the Weighing of Last-Stage Medical Options." These are ways of reminding us that our lives are shot through with sacred purpose and eternal hopes even when, especially when, suffering and pain threaten to overwhelm us. -over 100 liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving -beautiful leather-bound hardcover -over 20 illustrations by Ned Bustard -silk bookmark -gilded edges

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : MINN:31951001334163I

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Anthropologica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcus Jan Bajema
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916923

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Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain: Comparing material worlds, metaphor and the agency of art in the Preclassic Maya and Mycenaean early civilisations by Marcus Jan Bajema Pdf

This book offers a comparative study of the civilisations of the Late Preclassic lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece. The approach used here seeks to combine traditional iconographic approaches with more recent models on metaphor and the social agency of things.