Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil
Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil

Author: Joseph Beal Steere

Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13:

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Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil by Joseph Beal Steere, first published in 1903, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil (Classic Reprint)
Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil (Classic Reprint)

Author: Joseph Beal Steere

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-11

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780332633510

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Excerpt from Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil During a recent trip to Brazil I was commissioned by the United States National Museum to make collections in natural history and anthropology, with a view to completing certain series of exhibits for the pan-american Exposition at Buffalo. The present paper relates to brief visits made to certain native tribes of the river Purus, western Brazil, and the collections and data obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil
Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil

Author: Joseph Beal Steere

Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13:

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Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil by Joseph Beal Steere, first published in 1903, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil
Narrative of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil

Author: Joseph Beal Steere

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781296702656

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Creatures of the Air
Creatures of the Air

Author: J. Q. Davies

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023-08-11

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0226826139

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"From the sounds of West Central African harps to the sounds of the European J. S. Bach revival, Creatures of the Air is a nineteenth-century music history told as a history of the art's elemental media system, air. Air is here understood as a human domain and music as an art of that domain, as such embedded in histories of environmental and colonial struggle around a thickened consciousness of the air and of breathing itself. The narrative moves across malarial equatorial climates and polluted industrial ones; the loss and recovery of the human voice in hazardous environmental conditions; scenes of suffocation and breathing mirrored in the creation and performance of Mendelssohn's enormous Elijah oratorio. No longer just an innocent luxury, by its claim to invisibility music is shown to be implicated in the struggle for control over air as a most precious natural resource. What emerges is a complex political ecology where differentiated musical systems combined, struggled against, and co-constituted one another in the course of the global nineteenth century and beyond"--