Women And The Ancestors

Author : Virginia Kerns
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0252066650

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Women and the Ancestors by Virginia Kerns Pdf

This classic study of Black Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organized by older women now includes a foreword by Constance R. Sutton and an afterword by the author. "One of the outstanding studies of this genre. . . . Refreshingly, the book has good photographs, as well as strong endnotes and bibliography, and very useful tables, figures, maps, and index." -- Choice "An outstanding contribution to the literature on female-centered bilateral kinship and residence." -- Grant D. Jones, American Ethnologist "A richly detailed account of a contemporary culture in which older women are important, valued, and self-respecting." -- Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly "A combination of competent research, interwoven themes, and an easily readable, sometimes beautifully evocative, prose style." -- Heather Strange, The Gerontologist

Author : Joyce Marcus
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703487

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Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca by Joyce Marcus Pdf

Author : Adéle Emm
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781526730145

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Tracing Your Female Ancestors by Adéle Emm Pdf

A simple, easy-to-use guide for British family historians wishing to trace their female ancestry. Everyone has a mother and a line of female ancestors, and often their paths through life are hard to trace. That is why this detailed, accessible handbook is of such value, for it explores the lives of female ancestors from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the beginning of the First World War. In 1815, a woman was the chattel of her husband; by 1914, when the menfolk were embarking on one of the most disastrous wars ever known, the women at home were taking on jobs and responsibilities never before imagined. Adèle Emm’s work is the ideal introduction to the role of women during this period of dramatic social change. Chapters cover the quintessential experiences of birth, marriage, and death; a woman’s working and daily life, both middle and working class; through to crime and punishment, the acquisition of an education and the fight for equality. Each chapter gives advice on where further resources, archives, wills, newspapers, and websites can be found, with plentiful common-sense advice on how to use them. “A unique and information packed instructional reference and guide, Tracing Your Female Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians is an extraordinary and thoroughly user friendly manual that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Genealogy collections and supplemental studies lists.” —Midwest Book Review

Author : Farida Shaheed
Publisher : OUP Pakistan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0195476360

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Great Ancestors by Farida Shaheed Pdf

Exploding the myth that struggles for women's rights are alien to societies that embraced Islam, this book profiles women who defied and changed the contours of women's lives from the eighth century to the mid-1950s. These trailblazers fought for personal rights and bodily integrity, extended solidarity to women and other downtrodden people, improved their societies as scholars, saints and political activists.

Author : Margaret Ward
Publisher : Countryside Books (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 1853068187

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The Female Line by Margaret Ward Pdf

This book on researching female side of the family emphasized on British research.

Author : Ann Belford Ulanov
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783856309817

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The Female Ancestors of Christ by Ann Belford Ulanov Pdf

The spiritual power of the Feminine shines forth in this psychological study of four Old Testament heroines from Jesus’ family tree. Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba are the only women mentioned by name in the Gospels’ genealogies and, for Ann Belford Ulanov, this indicates that they impart something essential to the lineage of Christ. By exploring their brave and unconventional lives, she demonstrates how salvation enters the world in the feminine mode of being human, through these women’s embodiment of such powerful and deeply feminine qualities as ingenuity, audacity, determination, compassion, seduction, and devotion. “Like bolts of lightning, the stories of these outcast virgins illuminate what spiritual wholeness can be in the lives of contemporary women and men. Ann Ulanov’s riveting insights into their daring acts reveal their deep significance in the genealogy of Jesus and expand our understanding of the words courage and love.” — Marion Woodman, author of Addiction to Perfection and Leaving my Father’s House

Author : Shirley Boteler Mock
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806186085

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Dreaming with the Ancestors by Shirley Boteler Mock Pdf

Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider's perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these women and their contributions. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and Mexican influences. Mock reveals a unique maroon culture, forged from an eclectic mixture of religious beliefs and social practices. At its core is an amalgam of African-derived traditions kept alive by women. The author interweaves documentary research with extensive interviews she conducted with leading Black Seminole women to uncover their remarkable history. She tells how these women nourished their families and held fast to their Afro-Seminole language — even as they fled slavery, endured relocation, and eventually sought new lives in new lands. Of key importance were the "warrior women" — keepers of dreams and visions that bring to life age-old African customs. Featuring more than thirty illustrations and maps, including historic photographs never before published, Dreaming with the Ancestors combines scholarly analysis with human interest to open a new window on both African American and American Indian history and culture.

Author : Helen Bruch Pearson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498232883

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Mother Roots by Helen Bruch Pearson Pdf

Biblical Storytelling At Its Best! Helen Bruch Pearson examines the biblical witness of: Tamar Rahab Ruth Bathsheba Mary, the mother of Jesus Join Pearson as she fills in the gaps and helps history become her-story.

Author : Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UVA:X004589976

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A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Pdf

This first-ever guide reveals special strategies for overcoming the unique challenges of tracing female genealogy. Readers will be able to uncover historical facts, personal accounts and recorded events to form an intriguing narrative biography of the women in their ancestries.

Author : Marcia Meredith Hensley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131625290

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Staking Her Claim by Marcia Meredith Hensley Pdf

Instead of talking about women's rights, these frontier women grabbed the opportunity to become landowners by homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s. Here they tell their stories in their own words-through letters and articles of the time-of adventure, independence, foolhardiness, failure, and freedom. Book jacket.

Author : Mary Ingham
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781844689811

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Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors by Mary Ingham Pdf

Whether you are interested in the career of an individual service woman or just want to know more about the part played by service women in a particular war or campaign, this is the book for you. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of service women, Mary Ingham explains which records survive, where they can be found and how they can help in your research. She also vividly describes the role of women with the armed services from the Crimean War of the 1850s to the aftermath of the First World War and offers an insight into what the records can tell you about the career of an ancestor who served at home or abroad. From the army schoolmistresses to the Womens Land Army, her account outlines the history of each service, describes uniforms and gives examples of daily life and likely experiences. This is the book you need if you want to follow up those clues in your familys history stories heard from older relatives, pictures in family photograph albums, handed-down uniforms, badges or medals that seem to indicate that one of your women ancestors served in wartime.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : OCLC:884837061

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Tracing Your Female Ancestors by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lara Medina,Martha R. Gonzales
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539567

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Voices from the Ancestors by Lara Medina,Martha R. Gonzales Pdf

Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Author : Bryan Sykes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393323145

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Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes Pdf

This national bestseller, now in paperback, reveals how all humans are descended from seven prehistoric women--the Seven Daughters of Eve.

Author : Maria Campbell
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771024108

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Halfbreed by Maria Campbell Pdf

A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic. An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and Métis woman--a niece of Gabriel Dumont whose family fought alongside Riel and Dumont in the 1885 Rebellion; her mother the daughter of a Cree woman and French-American man. This extraordinary account, originally published in 1973, bravely explores the poverty, oppression, alcoholism, addiction, and tragedy Maria endured throughout her childhood and into her early adult life, underscored by living in the margins of a country pervaded by hatred, discrimination, and mistrust. Laced with spare moments of love and joy, this is a memoir of family ties and finding an identity in a heritage that is neither wholly Indigenous or Anglo; of strength and resilience; of indominatable spirit. This edition of Halfbreed includes a new introduction written by Indigenous (Métis) scholar Dr. Kim Anderson detailing the extraordinary work that Maria has been doing since its original publication 46 years ago, and an afterword by the author looking at what has changed, and also what has not, for Indigenous people in Canada today. Restored are the recently discovered missing pages from the original text of this groundbreaking and significant work.