The Hunter The Stag And The Mother Of Animals

Author : Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190202378

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The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Pdf

The ancient landscape of North Asia gave rise to a mythic narrative of birth, death, and transformation that reflected the hardship of life for ancient nomadic hunters and herders. Of the central protagonists, we tend to privilege the hero hunter of the Bronze Age and his re-incarnation as a warrior in the Iron Age. But before him and, in a sense, behind him was a female power, half animal, half human. From her came permission to hunt the animals of the taiga, and by her they were replenished. She was, in other words, the source of the hunter's success. The stag was a latecomer to this tale, a complex symbol of death and transformation embedded in what ultimately became a struggle for priority between animal mother and hero hunter. From this region there are no written texts to illuminate prehistory, and the hundreds of burials across the steppe reveal little relating to myth and belief before the late Bronze Age. What they do tell us is that peoples and cultures came and went, leaving behind huge stone mounds, altars, and standing stones as well as thousands of petroglyphic images. With The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals, Esther Jacobson-Tepfer uses that material to reconstruct the prehistory of myth and belief in ancient North Asia. Her narrative places monuments and imagery within the context of the physical landscape and by considering all three elements as reflections of the archaeology of belief. Within that process, paleoenvironmental forces, economic innovations, and changing social order served as pivots of mythic transformation. With this vividly illustrated study, Jacobson-Tepfer brings together for this first time in any language Russian and Mongolian archaeology with prehistoric representational traditions of South Siberia and Mongolia in order to explore the non-material aspects of these fascinating prehistoric cultures.

Author : Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190272838

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The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Pdf

The ancient landscape of North Asia gave rise to a mythic narrative of birth, death, and transformation that reflected the hardship of life for ancient nomadic hunters and herders. Of the central protagonists, we tend to privilege the hero hunter of the Bronze Age and his re-incarnation as a warrior in the Iron Age. But before him and, in a sense, behind him was a female power, half animal, half human. From her came permission to hunt the animals of the taiga, and by her they were replenished. She was, in other words, the source of the hunter's success. The stag was a latecomer to this tale, a complex symbol of death and transformation embedded in what ultimately became a struggle for priority between animal mother and hero hunter. From this region there are no written texts to illuminate prehistory, and the hundreds of burials across the steppe reveal little relating to myth and belief before the late Bronze Age. What they do tell us is that peoples and cultures came and went, leaving behind huge stone mounds, altars, and standing stones as well as thousands of petroglyphic images. With The Hunter, the Stag, and the Mother of Animals, Esther Jacobson-Tepfer uses that material to reconstruct the prehistory of myth and belief in ancient North Asia. Her narrative places monuments and imagery within the context of the physical landscape and by considering all three elements as reflections of the archaeology of belief. Within that process, paleoenvironmental forces, economic innovations, and changing social order served as pivots of mythic transformation. With this vividly illustrated study, Jacobson-Tepfer brings together for this first time in any language Russian and Mongolian archaeology with prehistoric representational traditions of South Siberia and Mongolia in order to explore the non-material aspects of these fascinating prehistoric cultures.

Author : Morten Tønnessen,Kristin Armstrong Oma,Silver Rattasepp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498527972

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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene by Morten Tønnessen,Kristin Armstrong Oma,Silver Rattasepp Pdf

The term “Anthropocene”, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind´s rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

Author : Richard J. Chacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031375033

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The History and Environmental Impacts of Hunting Deities by Richard J. Chacon Pdf

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It documents the antiquity and widespread occurrence of the belief in supernatural gamekeepers at the global level. This interdisciplinary volume documents both the antiquity and the widespread geographical distribution of this belief along with surveying the various manifestations of this cosmology by way of studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. Some chapters explore the manifestations of this belief as they appear in petroglyphs/pictographs and other forms of material culture. Others focus on the environmental impacts of these beliefs/rituals and prescribed foraging restrictions by analyzing how they affect game harvests. The internationally recognized scholars in this volume assess the efficacy of this particular form of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and investigate if adherence to the belief in animal masters actually causes hunters to refrain from overharvesting wild game and thereby contributes to sustainable hunting practices. This volume is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists and other social scientists researching traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), indigenous conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability practices, and animal deities.

Author : Petya Andreeva
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399528559

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Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea by Petya Andreeva Pdf

Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term "e;animal style"e;, this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia. This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the "e;Other"e;. In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.

Author : Courtney Nimura,Helen Chittock,Peter Hommel,Chris Gosden
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789253979

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Art in the Eurasian Iron Age by Courtney Nimura,Helen Chittock,Peter Hommel,Chris Gosden Pdf

Since early discoveries of so-called Celtic Art during the 19th century, archaeologists have mused on the origins of this major art tradition, which emerged in Europe around 500 BC. Classical influence has often been cited as the main impetus for this new and distinctive way of decorating, but although Classical and Celtic Art share certain motifs, many of the design principles behind the two styles differ fundamentally. Instead, the idea that Celtic Art shares its essential forms and themes of transformation and animism with Iron Age art from across northern Eurasia has recently gained currency, partly thanks to a move away from the study of motifs in prehistoric art and towards considerations of the contexts in which they appear. This volume explores Iron Age art at different scales and specifically considers the long-distance connections, mutual influences and shared ‘ways of seeing’ that link Celtic Art to other art traditions across northern Eurasia. It brings together 13 papers on varied subjects such as animal and human imagery, technologies of production and the design theory behind Iron Age art, balancing pan-Eurasian scale commentary with regional and site scale studies and detailed analyses of individual objects, as well as introductory and summary papers. This multi-scalar approach allows connections to be made across wide geographical areas, whilst maintaining the detail required to carry out sensitive studies of objects.

Author : Scott Pearce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197600399

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Northern Wei (386-534) by Scott Pearce Pdf

"This is a study of an Inner Asian people called the *Taghbach (Ch. Tuoba), who half a century after collapse of the Han state (206 BCE-220 CE) began the process of building a new kind of empire in East Asia. Though addressing larger historiographical issues, the book's main purpose is, within the limits of our sources, to see this people in and of themselves, in a detailed narrative that follows them from the emergence of the khan Liwei in the mid-third century, in the highland frontier between Inner Asia and the Chinese world, and ends almost three hundred years later, with the drowning of the dynasty's last matriarch in the Yellow River. Across the centuries, they repeatedly changed their name, nature and location. What remained relatively consistent, however, was their reliance on cavalry armies, filled with loyal men of Inner Asian origin. When that ended, the dynasty ended as well. Underlying the narrative are two main issues. One is that Northern Wei was the first major example of a kind of empire seen often in East Asian histories, the "conquest dynasties," regimes of Inner Asian origin which would over the centuries repeatedly seize control of territories inhabited for the most part by Chinese to create cultural and ethnically complex state systems. The second is historiographical: that this dynasty was renamed and reimagined to fit into the textual tradition of its Chinese subjects. Being our only primary written sources for the dynasty, these texts are here used with care"--

Author : David L. Clough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567660879

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On Animals by David L. Clough Pdf

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of human practice in relation to other animals, together with a Christian ethical analysis building on the theological account of animals which David Clough developed in On Animals Volume I: Systematic Theology (2012). It argues that a Christian understanding of other animals has radical implications for their treatment by humans, with the human use and abuse of non-human animals for food the most urgent immediate priority. Following an introduction examining the task of theological ethics in relation to non-human animals and the way it relates to other accounts of animal ethics, this book surveys and assess the use humans make of other animals for food, for clothing, for labour, as research subjects, for sport and entertainment, as pets or companions, and human impacts on wild animals. The result is both a state-of-the-art account of what humans are doing to other animals, and a persuasive argument that Christians in particular have strong faith-based reasons to acknowledge the significance of the issues raised and change their practice in response.

Author : Ann Moura
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738717838

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Grimoire for the Green Witch by Ann Moura Pdf

The author of the popular Green Witchcraft series presents her personal Book of Shadows, designed for you to use just as she uses it-as a working guide to ritual, spells, and divination. This ready-made, authentic grimoire is based on family tradition and actual magical experience, and is easily adaptable to any tradition of Witchcraft. Grimoire for the Green Witch offers a treasury of magical information—rituals for Esbats and Sabbats, correspondences, circle-casting techniques, sigils, symbols, recitations, spells, teas, oils, baths, and divinations. Every aspect of Craft practice is addressed, from the purely magical to the personally spiritual. It is a distillation of Green practice, with room for growth and new inspiration. 2004 COVR Award First Runner Up

Author : Jules Michelet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909254701

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On History by Jules Michelet Pdf

Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. Kaplan in his Michelet’s Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volume. One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came after him and who regarded his work with disdain as "literature." In the 1920s and 30s, however, he began to be rediscovered and rehabilitated by the members of the influential Annales school. The objects of Michelet’s interest—living conditions, popular mentalities, laws and the arts, the historian’s relation to the objects of his study, no less than political history—have since come to occupy a central place in modern historical research. A free online-only supplement contains an essay on Michelet by John Stuart Mill from the Edinburgh Review (January 1844) and several studies of Michelet by Lionel Gossman.

Author : William Jakab
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480889736

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Basa by William Jakab Pdf

Basa is a tiny, snow-white Kuvasz puppy when she begins living with peasant newlyweds intent on turning her into a guard dog. As Basa grows into an adult dog with a pleasant nature, she becomes the ruler of the village who is unafraid of both man and other animals. But one day when Basa hears a group approaching her house on horseback, her life is altered forever. After the invading German soldiers beat her beloved master, Basa bravely attacks the men, until they overwhelm her, kill her master and his entire family including Basa’s only pup, and whisk her away as a prize dog for their captain. But when Basa manages to escape and finds her way into the wild countryside to live amidst the reeds, she meets a wolf who soon becomes the father of her new litter of pups. Now as she begins a new adventure, Basa must teach her pups how to survive in an unpredictable world where life is never taken for granted. Basa is a story of survival, hope, and love as a Kuvasz puppy grows into an adult dog who must bravely make her way in an uncertain world after her master is killed.

Author : Mark G. Boyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498237932

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An Abecedarian of Animal Spirit Guides by Mark G. Boyer Pdf

Almost every person has owned a pet at one time or another in life or known someone who has. In all world religions, animals serve as spirit guides; there is spirituality to animal and human dialogue. Animals have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into our lives. This abecedarian--a book whose contents are in alphabetical order--explores the spiritual growth that is possible by reflecting on the wisdom of creatures, which serve as spirit guides in all world religions and help humans experience the divine. The author explores animal spirit guides in the Bible, The Quran, The Dhammapada, The Rig Veda, The Analects of Confucius, stories from Aesop and Grimm, and much more. In these pages you can explore bears and bees, eagles and elephants, ravens and roosters, tadpoles and turtles, and many more. For each of the thirty-two entries, the author presents a text identifying the animal spirit guide, a reflective study, a question for journaling or personal meditation, and a concluding prayer. The spiritual life can be nourished in many ways; in this book it is enhanced by animal spirit guides.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016684511

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Profiles in Canadian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher : London : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Animals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041619441

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The Trail of the Sandhill Stag by Ernest Thompson Seton Pdf

Author : J. G. Wood
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:4057664635853

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Bible Animals by J. G. Wood Pdf

Bible Animals is a book by J.G. Wood. It provides the reader with a vivid and precise description of every living creature mentioned in biblical scripture, ranging from the apes to the coral reed flora and fauna.