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Author: John D. Loftin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003-05-08
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780253215727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes material on shamanism, death, witchcraft, myth, tricksters, and kachina initiations.
Author: John D. Loftin
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780253335173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John D. Loftin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780253341969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes material on shamanism, death, witchcraft, myth, tricksters, and kachina initiations.
Author: Timothy B. Leduc
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0773598804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global. A Canadian Climate of Mind presents stories that emerge from the waters, lands, and climate of Canada, and which have the potential to renew a compassionate energy for changing human relations with each other and with our world. The turbulent effects of climate change are popularly discussed in the modern language of scientific knowledge, political policies, economic mechanisms, and technological innovation. While there is much to be learned from these views, Timothy Leduc suggests a more profound call for change by returning to past understandings of the land and climate. He argues that the world is initiating us into a broader and humbler sense of what it is to be human in an interconnected reality. The world is doing this by responding to unsustainable practices such as our devastating reliance on fossil fuels. Weaving together voices from numerous backgrounds and time periods with Indigenous views on present and past environmental challenges, A Canadian Climate of Mind illuminates a world that is being shaken to its core while we hesitate to act.
Author: Christine S. VanPool
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-05-28
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 3031259203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the cultural importance of spirits, what spirits want, and how humans interact with them, using examples from around the world and through time. Examples range from the vengeful spirits of the Zulu that cast lightning bolts from clear skies to punish wrongdoers, to the benevolent Puebloan Kachina that encourage prosperity, safety, and rain in the arid American Southwest. The case studies illustrate how humans seek to cooperate (or counteract) spirits to heal the physical and spiritual ailments of their people, to divine the truth, or to gain resources. Building from their cross-cultural analyses, the authors further discuss how our physiology and psychology impact our interaction with the spirits. Readers will come away with an appreciation of the beauty and power of the spirits that continue to shape the lives of people around the world.
Author: Alana Robson
Publisher: Banana Books
Published: 2021-01-30
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781800490680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"He is forever and ever here in spirit" An adventure. A magic necklace. Brotherhood. Six-year-old Forrest feels lost now that his big brother Kitchi is no longer here. He misses him every day and clings onto a necklace that reminds him of Kitchi. One day, the necklace comes to life. Forrest is taken on a magical adventure, where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a beautiful, yet mysterious fox, who soon becomes his best friend. www.kitchithespiritfox.com
Author: Walter J. Harrelson
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780687278329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a new study Bible based on The New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, 60 scholars provide background and insight on the biblical text, in a book that features extensive historical and theological annotations, brief introductions and outlines for each biblical book, 19 newly commissioned historical maps and more.
Author: Sam Gill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1498580912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past. Creatively considered in some depth are a wide range of specific examples drawn especially from contemporary film and television, as well as from cosmology, ancient mythology, biblical literature, classical literature, folklore, evolution, popular culture, technology, and futurist studies. This book is distinctive, in part, in drawing on a wide range of resources demonstrating the indispensable interrelationship among these disparate materials. Science, technology, economics, and philosophy are seamlessly interwoven with history, gender, culture, religion, literature, pop culture, art, and film. Written for general as well as academic readers, it offers fascinating and provocative insights into who we are and where we are going.
Author: Patrick J. Ebewo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1443864633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural industry. The combined effect of the volume is to disabuse the fixed, prevailing conception of the role of culture in society; a view that consigns the arts to the periphery of social life, devoid of any meaningful contribution to the alleviation of poverty and general development. Contrary to this view, the volume presents a more comprehensive, meaningful, insightful set of perspectives and paradigms that ascribe agency to creative/cultural products in all facets of human development. The usefulness of the volume extends beyond the industry itself. It is meant for a broader readership and is therefore highly recommended for specialists and the public at large.” – Professor Mokubung Nkomo, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
Author: Don C. Talayesva
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-10-13
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0300198892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1942, Sun Chief is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how scholars have used the book since its publication more than seventy years ago.
