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Author: Arone Raymond Meeks
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781865045252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Sisi slips away from her mothers and sisters to catch a tortoise in the waterhole, she surfaces from a deep dive and realises she is lost. A boy offers to help, then disappears. How will Sisi get back to her people? And what part do the bright blue quandong berries play in her return?
Author: Donald Tuzin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997-09-02
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226819501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling event: the village’s men voluntarily destroyed their secret cult that had allowed them to dominate women for generations. The cult’s collapse indicated nothing less than the death of masculinity, and Tuzin examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, self-devastating act. The villagers' mythic tradition provided a basis for this revenge of Woman upon the dominion of Man, and, remarkably, Tuzin himself became a principal figure in its narratives. The return of the magic-bearing "youngest brother" from America had been prophesied, and the villagers believed that Tuzin’s return "from the dead" signified a further need to destroy masculine traditions. The Cassowary's Revenge is an intimate account of how Ilahita’s men and women think, emote, dream, and explain themselves. Tuzin also explores how the death of masculinity in a remote society raises disturbing implications for gender relations in our own society. In this light Tuzin's book is about men and women in search of how to value one another, and in today's world there is no theme more universal or timely.
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 9780646526058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCassy's Tale is a Cassowary Children's Story Book and Australian Made & Owned! The cassowary is an endangered flightless bird, which is protected. The kid's book reflects the unique Australian wildlife and nature in its beautiful illustrations. Above all, it's educational, funny & cute! The outstanding art work is glossy, bright & colourful!11 Australian book titles available! Very popular!About Cassy's Tale Cassowary Children's Story Book: This Cassowary kid's picture book is about a cassowary chick from the moment she hatches. Her father teaches her about the rainforest, food and cyclones. Their habitat is Tropical North Queensland, Australia. It's a threatened species and protected. Additionally, other Australian animals are included. It's a very cute kid's story. Great illustrations of the diversity of the Australian rainforest are also included.Details about Cassy's Tale: The cassowary children's story book begins with a cassowary chick hatching out of her egg. Her proud father is watching. In nature, male cassowaries tend their young. Cassy learns to walk and discovers her powerful legs. Clearly, she enjoys jumping up trying to catch butterflies. Dad shows Cassy how to push through dense rainforest. The cassowary chick is amazed by the colourful rainforest fruits, and learns that they are good to eat. Later on, Cassy trips over a log. It's a fallen tree from the last cyclone. Subsequently, dad takes the opportunity to explain about the destruction caused by cyclones. But now, the rainforest has regrown and Cassy can be seen following the trail of colourful berries.Other Australian animals in this kids book include pythons, green tree snakes, green tree frogs, frog-mouth owls, Rainbow lorikeets, flying foxes, Cairns Birdwing butterflies, Ulysses butterflies, Azure Kingfishers and Sulphur Crested cockatoos. Tropical rainforest plants featured include Licuala Palms, Tree ferns, stag horn ferns, birds nest ferns and many more.Other book titles of evabooks are:Where is Croaky? (green tree frog), Bobby the Tree Kangaroo, Nipper the Crocodile, Paddles the Platypus, Shelly the Sea Turtle, Lyssie the Butterfly (Ulysses butterfly), Who is Laughing? (kookaburra), Spikey's Day Out (echidna), Fuzzy the Koala, Tippy the Kangaroo.
Author: Donald Tuzin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997-09-02
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226819518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling event: the village’s men voluntarily destroyed their secret cult that had allowed them to dominate women for generations. The cult’s collapse indicated nothing less than the death of masculinity, and Tuzin examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, self-devastating act. The villagers' mythic tradition provided a basis for this revenge of Woman upon the dominion of Man, and, remarkably, Tuzin himself became a principal figure in its narratives. The return of the magic-bearing "youngest brother" from America had been prophesied, and the villagers believed that Tuzin’s return "from the dead" signified a further need to destroy masculine traditions. The Cassowary's Revenge is an intimate account of how Ilahita’s men and women think, emote, dream, and explain themselves. Tuzin also explores how the death of masculinity in a remote society raises disturbing implications for gender relations in our own society. In this light Tuzin's book is about men and women in search of how to value one another, and in today's world there is no theme more universal or timely.
Author: Samantha Wheeler
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0702256218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Smooch & Rose and Spud & Charli comes another thrilling adventure about Australia s endangered cassowaries Cassowaries are not just birds, Dad growled. They re the most dangerous birds in the world. When Flynn and Dad arrive at Grandad Barney s banana farm, it s clear that Flynn has a lot of investigating to do. Everything in the place is a mystery, especially his grandad who died almost a year ago, and the strange dinosaur-like birds called cassowaries that make his dad so scared. Why won t Dad tell Flynn what happened? After Flynn meets local girl Abby and discovers two orphaned baby cassowaries, the mystery deepens. Can Flynn find out the truth about his grandad and the cassowaries before it s too late?"
Author: Andrew L. Mack
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780989390323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrew Mack immersed himself in a vast expanse of roadless, old growth rainforest of Papua New Guinea in 1987. He and his co-investigator Debra Wright, built a research station by hand and lived there for years. Their mission was to study the secretive and perhaps most dinosaur-like creature still roaming the planet: the cassowary. The ensuing adventures of this unorthodox biologistOCostudying seeds found in cassowary droppings (pekpek), learning to live among the indigenous PawaiOCOia, traversing jungles, fighting pests and loneliness, struggling against unscrupulous oil speculators, and moreOCoare woven into a compelling tale that spans two decades.a Mack shares the insights he garnered about rainforest ecology while studying something as seemingly mundane as cassowary pekpek. He ultimately gained profound insight into why conservation is failing in places like Papua New Guinea and struggled to create a more viable strategy for conserving some of EarthOCOs last wild rainforests."
Author: Alfred Gell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-10-09
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1000320944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this substantial book, Gell guides the reader systematically through an analysis of the social structure, language and ritual of the Umedia-Punda connubium of the West Sepik district. One of the central areas explored is the ida fertitility ritual and the decipherment and the unravelling of symbolic relationships between words of similar construction. One one side is the anaylsis on the temporal sequence of events (or ritual roles) metamorphosing the casswary (nature) into the 'new man' (culture) and the on other side, the associated 'harmonic levels' which allude to body painting, choreography and social status. His approach substantiates the view that the ritual is not so much about the establishing of linear causality in the relationship between a society and its environment, but with the 'an act of poetic legislation over the course of nature'.
Author: John LeVert
Publisher: Starfire
Published: 1988-06-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780553273892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixteen-year-old John finds life in high school and at home increasingly distorted when he becomes obsessed with the parallels between people and animals and starts responding to everything around him according to the laws of nature.
Author: Garry Fleming
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Published: 2016-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780977572069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalvin the cassowary is left to mind the nest while his partner Carla goes away. All is well as Calvin quietly counts away the days -- until he is tricked by a wily, lisping goanna who wants some eggs for his supper. This is a rollicking tale with wonderful illustrations.
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Published: 2017-05-23
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9788129146496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere was a clumsy flapping of wings, a tremendous swelling of the bird's wattle and an undignified getting up, as if it were a floored boxer doing his best to beat the count of ten. Two mismatched animals meet and the result is a hilarious tale of how one got the better of the other. A photographer takes pictures of animals in the wild and writes about the hidden and mysterious world of the jungle. A tiger, used to its habitat, has to keep running from the humans who take up his home, till he has no more place for escape. Filled with descriptions of animals both in the wild and at home, of jungles and of the people who wander the forests in search of animals, this collection contains stories that are exhilarating and thought-provoking.
