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Author: Japan. Dept. of Railways
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frog
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 952222376X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations. The eighteen articles of Mythic Discourses address the many facets of myth in Uralic cultures, from the Finnish and Karelian world-creation to Nenets shamans, offering multidisciplinary perspectives from twenty eastern and western scholars. The mythologies of Uralic peoples differ so considerably that mythology is approached here in a broad sense, including myths proper, religious beliefs and associated rituals. Traditions are addressed individually, typologically, and in historical perspective. The range and breadth of the articles, presenting diverse living mythologies, their histories and relationships to traditions of other cultures such as Germanic and Slavic, all come together to offer a far richer and more developed perspective on Uralic traditions than any one article could do alone.
Author: Mark Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780520070875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.
Author: Frank Edward Brightman
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 772
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rustam Shukurov
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-05-09
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9004307753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.
Author: S. M. Michael
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2007-05-08
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780761935711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second, revised and enlarged edition looks back at the aspirations and struggle of the marginalised Dalit masses and looks forward to a new humanity based on equality, social justice and human dignity. Within the context of Dalit emancipation, it explores the social, economic and cultural content of Dalit transformation in modern India. These articles, by some of the foremost researchers in the field, are presented in four parts: Part I deals with the historical material on the origin and development of untouchability in Indian civilisation. Part II contests mainstream explanations and shows that the Dalit vision of Indian society is different from that of the upper castes. Part III offers a critique of the Sanskritic perspective of traditional Indian society, and fieldwork-based portraits of the Hinduisation of Adivasis in Gujarat, Dalit patriarchy in Maharashtra and Dalit power politics in Uttar Pradesh. Part IV concentrates on the economic condition of the Dalits.
Author: Avtar Singh Bhasin
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 1330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSources on foreign relations of India culled from speeches by government representatives heading the official delegations to various countries.
Author: Frances A Yates
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-10-31
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1448104130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance. Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.
Author: Leo Hartley Grindon
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 882
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