Taming My Elephant
Taming My Elephant

Author: Amulungu, Tshiwa Trudie

Publisher: University of Namibia Press

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9991642188

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In Oshiwambo, the elephant is likened to the most challenging situation that people can face. If an elephant appears in the morning, all planned activities are put on hold and the villagers join forces to deal with it. For Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu, the elephant showed up on many mornings and she had no choice but to tame it. Growing up in a traditional household in northern Namibia, and moving to a Catholic school, Amulungu’s life started within a very ordered framework. Then one night in 1977 she crossed the border into Angola with her schoolmates and joined the liberation movement. Four months later she was studying at the UN Institute for Namibia in Lusaka Zambia, later going on to study in France. Amulungu recounts the cultural shocks and huge discoveries she made along her journey with honesty, emotion and humour. She draws the reader into her experiences through a close portrayal of life, friends and community in the different places where she lived and studied in exile. This is a compelling story of survival, longing for home, fear of the return, and overcoming adversity in strange environments. It is also a love story that brought two families and cultures together.

Taming the Wind of Desire
Taming the Wind of Desire

Author: Carol Laderman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0520913701

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Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits—the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore—in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns. Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships—among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits—the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore—in a kind of performance. These healing cere

One Voice
One Voice

Author: Barbara M. Britsch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1995-09-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 031307786X

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Enhance student appreciation of music and literature while building listening (i.e., reflecting and analyzing), composition, and performing skills. After experiencing a variety of songs, child-centered art, and stories, students explore elements of each (e.g., rhythm, repetition, theme) and compose and perform their own dramatic and musical productions. Music and story bibliographies, directions for making simple musical instruments, and more accompany practical suggestions for your classroom.

Engaging Musical Practices
Engaging Musical Practices

Author: Suzanne Louise Burton

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1607094371

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Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music presents numerous ways to engage adolescents in active music making that is relevant to their lives so that they may be more apt to continue their involvement with music as a lifetime endeavor.

Taming Cannibals
Taming Cannibals

Author: Patrick Brantlinger

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0801462649

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In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior—an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species. Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts—including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.

Taming the Storm
Taming the Storm

Author: Jack Bass

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2002-12-01

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780820325316

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Thrust into the center of a raging storm over civil rights, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., was the youngest federal judge in the country at the time of his appointment in 1955. During his twenty-four years on the district court in Montgomery, Alabama, Johnson handed down a string of precedent-setting decisions that were vastly unpopular at the time but that would prove to have profound consequences for America's future. Not only did Johnson's trailblazing opinions greatly expand the access of African Americans to their constitutional rights, but his opinions also helped to dismantle discrimination against women, prison inmates, and the mentally ill. Johnson paid a heavy price for his judicial vision, however, for he had to endure public scorn, death threats, and the outrage of a society that felt itself and its values to be under siege. Eventually Johnson prevailed, winning honor even in his native Alabama and a respected place in the history of the civil rights movement. Taming the Storm is the story of an authentic American hero and the era he did so much to define.

Taming the Dragon Series
Taming the Dragon Series

Author: Helen Webster

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-06-08

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1524613185

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There Is No Rainbow is a fictionalized account of what happens to a twelve-year-old boy growing up in a violent home. The characters are fictional, but all the violent incidents are true. They depict the emotional, physical, and psychological abuse done to Jason Winters and his siblings by his brutal father. Jasons mother appears helpless to stop the abuse but is herself a victim of traumatic bonding, unable to break free of her abuser, her husband.

The Taming of the Shrew (Routledge Revivals)
The Taming of the Shrew (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 131752831X

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William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed to penetrate to the most modern media of mass communications. This book, first published in 1991, examines some of the different literary and oral versions of The Taming of the Shrew. This book is ideal for students of literature, drama, and theatre studies.