Songs Of The Baka And Other Discoveries

Author : Dennis James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510713529

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Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries by Dennis James Pdf

Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the most isolated parts of the world. After their retirement, Dennis James and Barbara Grossman decide to travel where tour buses won’t and where the US government says “don’t,” incorporating trekking into their travels as a way to see untouched areas of the world considered inhospitable by many. Armed with a passport, an interest in non-Western and indigenous cultures, a spirit for adventure, and a sense of humor, they hike through the forests in the highlands of Papua New Guinea; visit the traditional hunter-gatherer Baka Pygmy community in Cameroon; stay with the cliff-dwelling Dogon people in Mali; explore Roman ruins in Algeria; meet a nervous mother rhino in Nepal; and witness bull-jumping, a coming-of-age ritual for young Hamer men in Ethiopia. In defiance of typical tourist travel, ignoring State Department warnings, and with a curiosity and hardiness that belies their ages, Dennis and Barbara choose to travel the roads not taken so frequently—to places like Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and Gaza—seeking the truth behind the headlines and exploring the deeper questions about the local cultures they encounter. Why do these people cling to the art, sexual mores, economic and political hierarchies, and spiritualities that govern their lives? And how and why do they remain resistant to the pressures of globalization? A journey into the other sides of the world, Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries puts aside preconceptions and combines the wisdom of age with the stamina of youth.

Author : Everest Media
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-24T22:59:00Z
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9798822548909

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Summary of Dennis James's Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries by Everest Media Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was 76 years old and Barbara was 70 when we went trekking in Papua New Guinea. We were tired and covered in sweat, and we should have been sipping Pernod at Les Deux Magots café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or wandering through the back streets of the Trastevere in Rome. #2 Papua New Guinea is a destination that is enticingly exotic but too difficult to get to and get around in. We put together a unique itinerary that involves three- to four-day treks in three zones of PNG, interspersed with one-day stays at Western-style hotels. #3 We spend thirty cramped hours in aluminum tubes, plus six or seven hours of layovers in sterile, sprawling airports. Our flight from LA to Brisbane is in almost total darkness as the plane races ahead of the sunrise. We fly through several time zones and cross the international dateline. #4 The Highlanders of New Guinea have never had contact with the outside world. They have lived in isolation for thirty thousand years, and they have developed their own language and culture.

Author : Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538119686

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Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon by Mark Dike DeLancey,Mark W. Delancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh Pdf

Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.

Author : Caroline Bithell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199354542

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A Different Voice, a Different Song by Caroline Bithell Pdf

Caroline Bithell explores the history and significance of the natural voice movement and its culture of open-access community choirs, weekend workshops, and summer camps. Founded on the premise that 'everyone can sing', the movement is distinguished from other choral movements by its emphasis on oral transmission and its eclectic repertoire of songs from across the globe.

Author : Stephanie Karin Rupp
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295803029

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Forests of Belonging by Stephanie Karin Rupp Pdf

Forests of Belonging examines the history and ongoing transformation of ethnic and social relationships among four distinct communities--Bangando, Baka, Bakwéle, and Mbomam--in the Lobéké forest region of southeastern Cameroon. By slotting forest communities into ecological categories such as "hunters" and "gatherers," previous analyses of social relationships in tropical forests have resulted in binary frameworks that render real-life relationships invisible and that have perpetuated correspondingly misleading labels, such as "pygmy." Through rich descriptive detail resulting from field work among the Bangando, Stephanie Rupp illustrates the complexity of social ties among groups and individuals, and their connections with the natural world. She demonstrates that social and ethno-ecological relations in equatorial African forests are nuanced, contested, and shifting, and that the intricacy of these links must be considered in the design and implementation of aid policies and strategies for conservation and development.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015066803274

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin Pdf

Rev. ed. of: The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music. 2nd ed. 1995.

Author : Colin Larkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UOM:39015066803399

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Selected Albums. Bibliographies by Colin Larkin Pdf

Containing 27,000 entries and over 6,000 new entries, the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music includes 50% more material than the Third Edition. Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.

Author : Boston Soko
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789990802504

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Vimbuza The Healing Dance of Northern Malawi by Boston Soko Pdf

The purpose of this book is to show that the possession cult of Vimbuza presents itself as an oral genre which is part and parcel of African Oral Literature. The ethnolinguistic study which we undertake will permit us to catch a glimpse of its whole complexity. The analysis has a bearing on four principal aspects. Historical developments: a certain number of facts concerning the birth of possession among the Tumbuka; possession: the study attempts to show how the cult articulates itself with its beliefs and the use of divination; the social role: analysis of social functions; the style: an analysis of the linguistic procedures which are characteristic of Vimbuza songs. The presence of rhetorical figures would confirm that we are talking about an oral literary genre.

Author : Laennec Hurbon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001799779

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Discoveries: Voodoo by Laennec Hurbon Pdf

Looks at the practices and influences of Voodoo on Haitian society, introducing the basics of its spiritualism, ritual, and magic.

Author : David Zurick,Tim Krasnansky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780292786561

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Errant Journeys by David Zurick,Tim Krasnansky Pdf

Tourism is becoming one of the world's most important economic activities. There is hardly a place on earth, no matter how inaccessible, that has not been visited by some traveler seeking adventure, enlightenment, or simply change from the familiar world back home. In this pathfinding book, David Zurick explores the fastest-growing segment of the travel industry—adventure travel. He raises important questions about what constitutes the travel experience and shows how the modern adventure industry has commercialized the very notion of adventure by packaging it as tours. Drawing on two decades of personal travel, as well as the writings of others, Zurick unravels the paradox of adventure travel—that the very act of visiting remote places untouched by Western culture introduces that culture and begins irreversible changes. This first in-depth look at adventure travel opens new insights into the physical, philosophical, and spiritual attributes of the travel experience. Written in a lively style, the book is intended for everyone interested in travel and its effects on both travelers and the people and places they visit.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822033589524

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The Beat by Anonim Pdf

Author : Magda Lipka Falck
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781452137995

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Anywhere Travel Guide by Magda Lipka Falck Pdf

Seventy-five ways to embrace a spirit of adventure—around the world or around the corner. Ask the next person you meet where his/her favorite street is. Go there. Write down what you like about this city on a small piece of paper. Leave it where someone else will find it later. If you can see a shop from where you are, step inside it. A creative travel guide for anywhere, this handy book includes seventy-five inspirations for exploration. With a unique mix of concrete actions and whimsical prompts, the Anywhere Travel Guide takes you on a journey that encourages you to see things differently, to discover both new and familiar places—and to bring a new spirit of adventure to your life.

Author : Graham Webb
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476681184

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Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959 by Graham Webb Pdf

Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Author : Lawrence Durrell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571288731

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Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell Pdf

Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician.' The Times Despite decades spent poetically chronicling Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the largest island: Sicily. For years, his friend Martine begged him to visit her on this sun-kissed paradise, but it took her sudden death to finally bring him to its shores - and he is not disappointed. Joining an eccentric tour group, Durrell immerses himself in the island's spectacular archaeological remains, and becomes dizzy with Sicily's rich history: its mysterious myths and meanings. Featuring unpublished poems and illustrated with elegant engravings. Sicilian Carousel is a gem that ranks with Durrell's finest work. 'Readers who have been to Sicily will love this book. Readers who have not been to Sicily will love this book.' Paul Fussell 'Like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.' Time

Author : Barry S. Hewlett
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412854122

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Hunter-Gatherers of the Congo Basin by Barry S. Hewlett Pdf

The forest foragers of the Congo Basin, known collectively as "Pygmies," are the largest and most diverse group of active hunter-gatherers remaining in the world. At least fifteen different ethno-linguistic groups exist in the Congo Basin with a total population of 250,000 to 350,000 individuals. Extensive knowledge about these groups has accumulated in the last forty years, but readers have been forced to piece together what is known from many sources. French, Japanese, American, and British researchers have conducted the majority of the research; each national research group has its own academic traditions, history, and publications. Here, leading academic authorities from diverse national traditions summarize recent research on forest hunter-gatherers. The volume explores the diversity and uniformity of Congo Basin hunter-gatherer life by providing detailed but accessible overviews of recent research. It represents the first book in over twenty-five years to provide a comprehensive and holistic overview of African forest hunter-gatherers. Chapters discuss the cultural variation in characteristic features of Congo Basin hunter-gatherer life, such as their yodeled polyphonic music, pronounced egalitarianism, multiple-child caregiving, and complex relations with neighboring farming groups. Other contributors address theoretical issues, such as why Pygmies are short, how tropical forest hunter-gatherers live without the carbohydrates they receive from neighboring farmers, and how hunter-gatherer children learn to share so extensively.