The Nomadic Alternative

Author : Thomas Jefferson Barfield
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050779902

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The Nomadic Alternative by Thomas Jefferson Barfield Pdf

Following basic themes in each chapter, this text makes an ethnographic and historical examination of nomadic pastoral societies in Africa, the Near East, Iranian Plateau, and Central Eurasia. It studies the cattlekeepers, the camel nomads, the good shepherds of southwest Asia, the horseriders, the yakbreeders, and the enduring nomad. For anthropologists and all those interested in nomadic cultures.

Author : Wolfgang Weissleder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469851965

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Author : Wolfgang Weissleder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110810233

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Author : Richard Taylor
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0888784287

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House Inside the Waves by Richard Taylor Pdf

In an era of packaged paradises and cyber surfers, Taylors mid-life blues seduced him into recapturing his youthful romance with surfing.

Author : David J. Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1903689058

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Peoples on the Move by David J. Phillips Pdf

"This is the most comprehesive source of information on all the nomadic peoples of the world. Maps help you to locate these nomadic people groups, many of them unevangelized; black and white photographs enable you to visualize them, and people profiles and bibliographic data facilitate research."--Back cover.

Author : Simon Cooke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748675470

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Travellers' Tales of Wonder by Simon Cooke Pdf

Exploring travellers' tales of wonder in contemporary literature, this study challenges a sensibility of disenchantment with travel. It reassesses travel writing as an aesthetically and ethically innovative form in contemporary international literature, and demonstrates the crucial role of wonder in the travel narratives of writers such as Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, and W.G. Sebald. Their 'travellers' tales of wonder' are read as a challenge to the hubris of thinking the world too well known, and an invitation to encounter the world - including its most troubling histories - with a sense of wonder.

Author : Suzanne Richard
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575060835

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Near Eastern Archaeology by Suzanne Richard Pdf

Annotation Filling a gap in classroom texts, more than 60 essays by major scholars in the field have been gathered to create the most up-to-date and complete book available on Levantine and Near Eastern archaeology. The book is divided into two sections: "Theory, Method, and Context," and "Cultural Phases and Topics," which together provide both methodological and areal coverage of the subject. The text is complemented by many line drawings and photographs. Includes a foreword by W.G. Dever.

Author : Robert B. Marks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442277892

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China by Robert B. Marks Pdf

This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment. Tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind, Robert B. Marks illuminates the paradoxes inherent in China’s environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China’s traditional “heroic” storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature and contacts with other peoples that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any student interested in China, past or present, or indeed in the world’s environmental future.

Author : Emma C. Bunker,James C. Y. Watt,Zhixin Sun
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300096880

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Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes by Emma C. Bunker,James C. Y. Watt,Zhixin Sun Pdf

This fascinating book examines the artistic exchange between the nomadic peoples of what is now Inner Mongolia and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C.

Author : Bryan K Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190083694

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Xiongnu by Bryan K Miller Pdf

This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters trace the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise, traversing the wars that challenged it and the reformations that made it stronger, to the legacy left after its eventual fall. Xiongnu expounds the economic practices and social conventions of steppe herders as fertile foundations for institutions and infrastructure of empire, and renders a model of "empires of mobilities," which engaged the control less of towns and territories and more of the movements of communities and capital to fuel their regimes. By weaving together archaeological examinations with historical investigations, Bryan K. Miller presents a more complex and nuanced narrative of how an empire based firmly in the steppe over two thousand years ago managed to formulate a robust political economy and a complex political matrix that capitalized on mobilities and alternative forms of political participation, and allowed the Xiongnu to dominate vast realms of central Eurasia and leave lasting geopolitical effects on the many worlds around them.

Author : Anthony Sattin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324035466

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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin Pdf

“Sattin is a terrific storyteller.” —David Farley, New York Times The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the Neolithic revolution to the twenty-first century via the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the great nomadic empires of the Arabs and Mongols, the Mughals and the development of the Silk Road, nomads have been a perpetual counterbalance to the empires created by the power of human cities. Exploring the evolutionary biology and psychology of restlessness that makes us human, Anthony Sattin’s sweeping history charts the power of nomadism from before the Bible to its decline in the present day. Connecting us to mythology and the records of antiquity, Nomads explains why we leave home, and why we like to return again. This is the history of civilization as told through its outsiders.

Author : Kradin, Nikolay N.,Barfield, Thomas J.
Publisher : MeaBooks Inc
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780994032560

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Nomadic Pathways in Social Evolution by Kradin, Nikolay N.,Barfield, Thomas J. Pdf

The book is written by anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists specializing in nomadic studies. All the chapters presented here discuss various aspects of one significant problem: how could small nomadic peoples at the outskirts of agricultural civilizations subjugate vast territories between the Mediterranean and the Pacific? What was the impetus that set in motion the overwhelming forces of the nomads which made tremble the royal courts of Europe and Asia? Was it an outcome of any predictable historical process or a result of a chain of random events? A wide sample of nomadic peoples is discussed, mainly on the basis of new data

Author : Steven G. Kellman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822986843

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The Restless Ilan Stavans by Steven G. Kellman Pdf

This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on Latino culture, Jewish culture, dictionaries, immigration, language, Spanglish, soccer, translation, travel, selfies, and God. The Restless Ilan Stavans surveys his interests, achievements, and flaws while he is still in the midst of an extraordinarily productive career. A native of Mexico who became a U.S. citizen, he is an outsider to both the Chicano community that often resents him as an interloper and the American Jewish community that he, who grew up speaking Yiddish in Mexico City, often chides. The book examines his unlikely rise to prominence within the context of the spread of multiculturalism as a seminal principle within American culture. A self-proclaimed cosmopolitan who rejects borders, Stavans is both insider and outsider to the myriad of subjects he approaches.

Author : Pavlina Radia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004314436

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Nomadic Modernisms and Diasporic Journeys of Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles by Pavlina Radia Pdf

This book argues that Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.

Author : John Roy Staples
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802037240

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Cross-cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe by John Roy Staples Pdf

In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development.