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Author: Alexander B. Dolitsky
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is a creative compilation of traditional stories of the aboriginal peoples of the Chukchi Peninsula. Fifty-nine Asiatic Eskimo tales and legends make this book both educational and entertaining.
Author: Howard J Sherman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1317451643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a treasury of favorite and little known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information of their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of folklore, its purpose in world cultures and in contemporary society and popular culture. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. Each section begins by comparing the tales cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the folkloric narratives. Tales from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion.
Author: Дмитрий Нагишкин
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of 4 folktales form the Russian Far East, translated from Russian into English.
Author: Katharine Berry Judson
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander B. Dolitsky
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of articles, essays and speeches that together illuminate a remarkable chapter in human history: the Alaska-Siberia Airway during World War II.
Author: Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1602230048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects the oral literature, poetry, and life stories of Alaska's Native speakers of Yupik, Inupiaq, and Alutiiq, including ancient tales spanning generations as well as new traditions, accompanied by essays on each Native group's background.--(Source of description unspecified.)
Author: Alexander B. Dolitsky
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a translation of ninety-five Kerek, Koryak, and Itelmen tales collected as oral narratives in their original languages and translated into Russian and later into English. These tales along with 111 other tales appeared in the Russian book "Skazki i mify narodov Chukotki i Kamchatki" ("Fairy tales and myths of the people of Chukotka and Kamchatka") compiled by Georgiy Menovshchikov and edited by Eleazar Meletinsky published in 1974. This collection, which includes a glossary, will interest those fond of oral folk creations as well as specialists of comparative-typological research in anthropology.
Author: Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2018-08-20
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1607327473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. The volume cross-examines traditional understanding of agency and personhood, presenting a globally diverse set of case studies that cover a range of cultural, geographical, and historical contexts. Agency (the ability to act) and personhood (the reciprocal qualities of relational beings) have traditionally been strictly assigned to humans. In case studies from Ghana to Australia to the British Isles and Mesoamerica, contributors to this volume demonstrate that objects, animals, locations, and other nonhuman actors also potentially share this ontological status and are capable of instigating events and enacting change. This kind of other-than-human agency is not a one-way transaction of cause to effect but requires an appropriate form of reciprocal engagement indicative of relational personhood, which in these cases, left material traces detectable in the archaeological record. Modern dualist ontologies separating objects from subjects and the animate from the inanimate obscure our understanding of the roles that other-than-human agents played in past societies. Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology challenges this essentialist binary perspective. Contributors in this volume show that intersubjective (inherently social) ways of being are a fundamental and indispensable condition of all personhood and move the debate in posthumanist scholarship beyond the polarizing dichotomies of relational versus bounded types of persons. In this way, the book makes a significant contribution to theory and interpretation of personhood and other-than-human agency in archaeology. Contributors: Susan M. Alt, Joanna Brück, Kaitlyn Chandler, Erica Hill, Meghan C. L. Howey, Andrew Meirion Jones, Matthew Looper, Ian J. McNiven, Wendi Field Murray, Timothy R. Pauketat, Ann B. Stahl, Maria Nieves Zedeño
Author: Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2022-02-23
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1527580113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic plays an integral role in many facets of human life, from the biological and social to the spiritual and political. This book brings together interdisciplinary and cross-cultural studies on the functions, purposes, and meanings of music in human experience.
Author: Birgitte Sonne
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2018-01-15
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 1602233381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNinety years ago, Knud Rasmussen’s popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research has grown around the Inuit and Yupiit of North America—but, until now, English-language readers have had little access to the broad corpus of work on Greenlandic natives. Worldviews of the Greenlanders draws upon extensive Danish and Greenlandic research on Inuit arctic peoples—as well as Birgitte Sonne’s own decades of scholarship and fieldwork—to present in rich detail the key symbols and traditional beliefs of Greenlandic Natives, as well as the changes brought about by contact with colonial traders and Christian missionaries. It includes critical updates to our knowledge of the Greenlanders’ pre-colonial world and their ideas on space, time, and other worldly beings. This expansive work will be a touchstone of Arctic Native studies for academics who wish to expand their knowledge past the boundaries of North America.
