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Author: Carol Ann Muller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0226548201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this text, Muller breaks new ground in the study of this changing region and along the way she includes details of her own poignant journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the other side of a divided society.
Author: kourtnie Rodney-Brown
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-06-25
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKfertility rites is a collection of poetry and prose that captures all the blood, hesitation, hips and surrender passed from woman to woman, from woman to man and back again. It presents a new mythology, highlighting an experience that is both primal and restrained, sensual, cautious, but entirely trusting of the earth, the universe and all its mysteries. The poems reach back matrilineally throughout history, exorcising the kind of emotions that should not be passed on, but too often are and sharing all the joys and experiences that aren't shared enough. Transcendent and personal, this work is a rite of passage all its own.
Author: Christos Hatzis
Publisher: Promethean Editions Limited
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1776601017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by Inuit throat singing, Fertility Rites (1997) for marimba and digital audio is a haunting and highly expressive work. It is innovative for the way it combines live percussion with the digital audio part, consisting of prerecorded marimba sounds and Inuit throat singing. The katajjaq (vocal games) used in this work are used to evoke the sounds of the fertility ritual, a shamanistic mating call, which makes it particularly engaging for performers and listeners. This version of the publication does not include the digital audio files. These may be purchased from https://43.dpdcart.com/product/131010.
Author: Percy Amaury Talbot
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 200
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Inge Bolin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-06-28
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0292791879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the remoteness of their mountain retreat, the herders of Chillihuani, Peru, recognize that respect for others is the central and most significant element of all thought and action," observes Inge Bolin. "Without respect, no society, no civilization, can flourish for long. Without respect, humanity is doomed and so is the earth, sustainer of all life." In this beautifully written ethnography, Bolin describes the rituals of respect that maintain harmonious relations among people, the natural world, and the realm of the gods in an isolated Andean community of llama and alpaca herders that reaches up to 16,500 feet. Bolin was the first foreigner to visit Chillihuani, and she was permitted to participate in private family rituals, as well as public ceremonies. In turn, she allows the villagers to explain the meaning of their rituals in their own words. From these first-hand experiences, Bolin offers an intimate portrait of an annual ritual cycle that dates back to Inca and pre-Inca times, including the ancient Pukllay; weddings; the Fiesta de Santiago, with its horse races on the top of the world; and Peru's Independence Day, when the Rituals of Respect for elders and young people alike are carried out within male and female hierarchies reminiscent of Inca times.
Author: Donald J. Childs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-06
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521806015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Modernism and Eugenics, first published in 2001, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorization of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. This is an interesting study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.
Author: Mary Melfi
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780920717516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInfertility rites is an intimate account of one woman's agonizing experience to carry a pregnancy to full term. Through Nina DiFiore's numerous miscarriages, Mary Melfi analyzes how much women's self-image is linked to their fertility; for Nina, an artist, this is even more acute as she is of Italian origin, a culture which idolizes the role of the mother.
Author: Renaat Devisch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993-11
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780226143620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body, and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings, and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites—whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification—are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies.
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2023-03-28
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1538765470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost. The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species—rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies—is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species—and they will not tolerate rebellion. Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.
