Feast, Famine or Fighting?
Feast, Famine or Fighting?

Author: Richard J. Chacon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-20

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 3319484028

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The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, organized conflict, perennial wartime leadership, wealth finance, opportunistic leadership, climatological change, transport and trade monopolies, resource circumscription, surplus and redistribution, ideological imperialism, and the consideration of individual agency. However, recent approaches such as the inclusion of bioarchaeological perspectives, prospection methods, systematically-investigated archaeological sites along with emerging technologies are necessarily transforming our understanding of socio-cultural evolutionary processes. In short, many pre-existing ways of explaining the origins and development of social complexity are being reassessed. Ultimately, the contributors to this edited volume challenge the status quo regarding how and why social complexity arose by providing revolutionary new understandings of social inequality and socio-political evolution.

Love, Fight, Feast
Love, Fight, Feast

Author: Khanh Trinh

Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess

Published: 2021-12-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9783039420247

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A uniquely comprehensive survey of Japanese narrative art across eight centuries. The use of pictures to communicate a story has a long tradition in Japanese culture that dates back more than a thousand years. Such narrative illustrations draw on Buddhist texts, classic literature, poetry, and theatrical scenes to create rich visual imagery realized in a wide range of media and formats. Quotations from and allusions to heroic epics and romances were disseminated through exquisite paintings, woodblock prints, and in pieces of applied arts such as lacquerware or ceramics, thus becoming anchored in the collective consciousness. As story-telling art found expression in a variety of materialities, it became an integral part of daily life. A fascinating narrative space evolved that combined artistic excellence and aesthetic pleasure. Love, Fight, Feast features some one hundred paintings, woodblock prints, illustrated woodblock-printed books, as well as lacquer and metal objects, porcelain, and textiles from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, alongside scholarly essays on a range of aspects of Japanese narrative art. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the renowned Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the book offers a unique survey of the multifaceted, colorful, and imaginative world of Japanese narrative art across eight centuries.

Feast Fight!
Feast Fight!

Author: Peter Bently

Publisher: Stripes Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847154347

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When Sir Percival the Proud holds a banquet for the King and Queen, it's up to Cedric to ensure it runs smoothly...

Study, Practise and Read Biblical Hebrew and Greek With Me. A Reader for Elementary Biblical Hebrew and Greek with the Original Biblical Language Texts of Ecclesiastes in Biblical Hebrew and the Three Letters of John in Biblical Greek
Study, Practise and Read Biblical Hebrew and Greek With Me. A Reader for Elementary Biblical Hebrew and Greek with the Original Biblical Language Texts of Ecclesiastes in Biblical Hebrew and the Three Letters of John in Biblical Greek

Author: Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt

Publisher: disserta Verlag

Published: 2017-02-26

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 3959353561

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This Book contains the brief Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes and the brief Greek texts of the Three Letters of John from the Hebrew Old Testament or Tanakh in Jewish Holy Scripture and the Greek New Testament. These texts are intended for students of Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Greek to help them develop their reading comprehension skills in either of these two ancient Biblical languages. Additional study aids for each of these Biblical languages are included, namely Biblical Hebrew/Greek-English glossaries as well as concordances for each word and its grammatical word form variants in both texts with exact references of their occurrences in the chapters and verses of these texts and their number of occurrences in the entire text body. After initial instruction in the Hebrew and Greek scripts and elementary Biblical Hebrew and Greek grammar, the user of this book will certainly benefit from applying what he has learned before by a study of these texts and thus developing his reading comprehension skills.

Classic Movie Fight Scenes
Classic Movie Fight Scenes

Author: Gene Freese

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1476629358

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Both brawls and elaborate martial arts have kept movie audiences on the edges of their seats since cinema began. But the filming of fight scenes has changed significantly through the years--mainly for the safety of the combatants--from improvised scuffles in the Silent Era to exquisitely choreographed and edited sequences involving actors, stuntmen and technical experts. Camera angles prevented many a broken nose. Examining more than 300 films--from The Spoilers (1914) to Road House (1989)--the author provides behind-the-scenes details on memorable melees starring such iconic tough-guys as John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan.

Mountain Arapesh
Mountain Arapesh

Author: Margaret Mead

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 1086

ISBN-13: 1351319906

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For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation. In contrast to the aggressive Arapesh who lived on the plains, both the men and the women of the mountain settlements were found to be, in Mead's word, maternal. The Mountain Arapesh exhibited qualities that many might consider feminine: they were, in general, passive, affectionate, and peaceloving. Though Mead partially explains the male's "femininity" as being due to the type of nourishment available to the Arapesh, she maintains social conditioning to be a factor in the type of lifestyle led by both sexes. Mead's study encapsulates all aspects of the Arapesh culture. She discusses betrothal and marriage customs, sexuality, gender roles, diet, religion, arts, agriculture, and rites of passage. In possibly a portent for the breakdown of traditional roles and beliefs in the latter part of the twentieth century, Mead discusses the purpose of rites of passage in maintaining societal values and social control. Mead also discovered that both male and female parents took an active role in raising their children. Furthermore, it was found that there were few conflicts over property: the Arapesh, having no concept of land ownership, maintained a peaceful existence with each other. In his new introduction to The Mountain Arapesh, Paul B. Roscoe assesses the importance of Mead's work in light of modern anthropological and ethnographic research, as well as how it fits into her own canon of writings. Roscoe discusses findings he culled from a trip to Papua New Guinea in 1991 to clarify some ambiguities in Mead's work. His travels also served to help reconstruct what had happened to the Arapesh since Mead's historic visit in the early 1930s.

Alive in Christ
Alive in Christ

Author: Charles W. Price

Publisher: Kregel Publications

Published: 1995-02-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780825493508

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Using several Old Testament types, Price explores the biblical principles for finding and renewing one's spiritual purpose and power.

Into All the World
Into All the World

Author: Mark Harding

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0802875157

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Into All the World--the third volume from editors Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs on the content and social setting of the New Testament--brings together a team of eminent Australian scholars in ancient history, New Testament, and the early church to take the story of Christianity into the Jewish and Greco- Roman world of the first century. In thirteen chapters, the contributors discuss all the post-Pauline New Testament writings, devoting attention to both their content and their context. They examine the impact of the growth of the church on both Jews and Gentiles, exploring issues such as the diaspora, minorities, the Book of Acts, and the Fourth Gospel. The book then proceeds to a discussion of the impact of Christianity on the Roman state, including consideration of the book of Revelation and the imperial cult. A final chapter investigates how the church was perceived by Clement of Rome at the end of the first century.

The Aphrodisia
The Aphrodisia

Author: William Percy

Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1681145626

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A rare marinal about disguised identities and loves among the Greco-Roman deities under the Mediterranean Sea. Percy described Aphrodisia as an experiment in a new genre he was inventing, the marinal, designed to contrast the pastoral set on land in the countryside. Beyond this setting, this comedy focuses on taking to an extreme the popular European trope of disguises by having most of the main characters reveal themselves to have an identity other than the one they present themselves as. Arion relates a sad story that is an original translation of a segment out of Bartas’ Weeks about him being a poor singer who was captured by pirates, but in the conclusion, Arion reveals himself to actually be Jupiter, the King of the gods in Roman mythology. And Talus pretends to be an engineer and Vulcan’s (god of fire) son, when he is really Neptune (god of water). In standard published plots from the Renaissance, these revelations prove to have been necessary to further the goals of the characters, but in this censored story, the disguises cause lifetimes of misery and prevent all who are disguised from achieving their romantic and power goals. Percy has designed a plot that subversively shows how common pseudonyms and fraudulent identities are in British society, as it confesses the Workshop’s role in selling ghostwriting services. On the surface, the story is dense with innovative love entanglements, and the mythological misadventures of complex and stumbling characters. The preparations for Empress Cytherea’s arrival and the Aphrodisia feast in her honor also showcases realistic details about what a day might have been like when the aristocratic Percy family prepared for James I’s visit to their Sion House on June 8, 1603, just before James was crowned. “Fascinating study of disguise, identity, self-fashioning, metamorphosis, and authorship. *****” —LibraryThing, Early Reviewers, Charles Alan Ralston Plot and Staging Text Terms, References, Questions, Exercises