Maka

Maka

Author: Robert Marion

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781519217400

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In the first book of the Tana-Waka series, Tana-Waka is summoned from his dying planet Earth to another world. An earthlike world with two moons inhabited by a native people not unlike the Native American peoples of Earth. He is their hope to end an ongoing war and unify two enemies who were once one people. This is the second book of this otherworldly series. The Anaka dreamer White Dove has prophesied the Inu attack of the peaceful Maka people. As the Maka villages are decimated by thousands of barbaric Inu warriors, the pregnant dreamer heads to the climactic battle between her and the Inu's evil shaman, the likes of which unleash the fearsome power of nature. The Maka are neither friend nor enemy of the Anaka. To enter Maka lands with Anaka warriors would not be taken kindly, but it is their dreamer who insists they can and must help, or the entire Maka people will die. Tana-Waka and War Chief Haka head south to aid Deputy War Chief Five Killer, as they consider the punishment for three of their senior warriors for breaking formation in battle. A new and heinous evil is discovered in the southern lands that border the Anaka. In Crane and Maka villages, women and children are disappearing in the night and none has returned. These crimes may be heinous enough to unleash the wrath of the forest spirits.


The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

Author: Lydia Cabrera

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2020-12-28

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 149682945X

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In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.


Hikajat Andaken Penurat

Hikajat Andaken Penurat

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 9004644148

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This edition of the Classical Malay prose work, the Hikajat Andakén Penurat includes an English translation and an Introduction explaining the place of the work in Malay literature. The Hikajat Andakén Penurat tells the story of the prince Raden Andakén Penurat and his beloved, Kèn Tambuhan. It is closely related to the Shair Kèn Tambuhan, a poem that has appeared in several editions. The story is relatively short and well written; it is representative of its genre. The book is especially intended for readers who have little or no knowledge of Malay.


Niue Language Dictionary

Niue Language Dictionary

Author: Niue

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780824819330

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Tohi Vagahau Niue is a significant new dictionary detailing the Polynesian language of Niue, and will benefit Niuean studies for years to come. While its main aim is to be a repository for native speakers, it will also serve a wider linguistic audience, including comparativists and theorists in lexicography. Detailed user notes introduce the reader to the basic challenges in Niuean lexicography and grammar. With some 10,000 Niuean word entries, the present dictionary is a significant expansion on an earlier work. The Niuean contributors took great care to present their language as a living entity while preserving its valuable past, but they are also aware of its uncertain future. Language revival is essential to preserve a linguistic Pacific jewel, and as such the new dictionary will lend status to Niuean language studies as well as be an invaluable help in using Niuean confidently in everyday life.


Maka the Magic Music Maker

Maka the Magic Music Maker

Author: Shannon Scott

Publisher: Beachhouse Pub Llc

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781933067490

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Maka didn't talk much, but he loved to sing. Wherever he went, his beloved 'ukulele was by his side. And whenever he started to play and sing his song, "The Maka Shaka Shuffle," people would stop what they were doing and sing along¿ Point your thumb, now point your pinky. Shake it back and forth and give a little winky. It's the Maka Shaka Shuffle, oh yeah. The Maka Shaka Shuffle, uh huh. One day, a very big and very hungry pua'a entered his village and started chasing all his friends. Shy little Maka did the only thing he knew how and bravely saved his village from destruction. An audio CD with an original song by Domonic Vespoli, "Maka the Music Maker," and a reading by author Shannon Scott is included.


Riding with Ghosts

Riding with Ghosts

Author: Gwen Maka

Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1908646152

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Frank and often outrageous, this is an account of a 40-something Englishwoman's epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico, via the snow-covered Rockies, mostly alone and camping in the wild. She runs appalling risks and copes in a gutsy, hilarious way with exhaustion, climatic extremes, dangerous animals, eccentrics, lechers, and a permanently saddle-sore backside. We share her deep involvement with the West's pioneering past, and with the tragic traces that history has left lingering on the land. When she rides the faded trails of the vanished American Indian nations she displays a strong sensitivity to the atmosphere of the spectacular landscape, as if the moments of its vibrant past are hanging in the air, only waiting for her to conjure them up vividly—sometimes with humor, and frequently with passion. As she travels, the ghosts of Lewis and Clark, Chief Joseph and Geronimo, Custer and Crazy Horse—all the legendary figures of the Old West—ride with her.


AFLOAT

AFLOAT

Author: Romardro Henderson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2024-03-03

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1728377226

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A young adolescent male desires to prove his manhood to his village. To be more of a man of importance, he takes a boat out fishing to out perform the men in his family to include his father. Instead of triumph, he gets lost at sea and experiences dehydration, starvation, hallucinations along with other tribulations amongst the dangerous shark hunting the waters.


Senegal

Senegal

Author: United States. Office of Geography

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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