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12 produkter
Performing Environmentalisms
Expressive Culture and Ecological Change
Av John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1275 kr
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Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and …
Performing Environmentalisms
Expressive Culture and Ecological Change
Av John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
585 kr
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Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and …
Performing Environmentalisms
Expressive Culture and Ecological Change
Av John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
396 kr
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Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and …
Animal Tales from the Caribbean
Av George List, John Holmes McDowell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1307 kr
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These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic …
Animal Tales from the Caribbean
Av George List, John Holmes McDowell m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
544 kr
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These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic …
Andean Cosmologies Through Time
Persistence and Emergence
Av Robert V.H. Dover, Katharine E. Seibold m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
647 kr
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Concerned with Andean cosmology both as the manifestation of a system of belief and as a way of thinking or worldview that orders the social environment, this volume advances an explanation of why Andean indigenous communities are still recognizably Andean after a half-millennium of forced exposure …
Sayings of the Ancestors
The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians
Häftad, 2014
445 kr
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The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian culture -- one that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European …
"e;So Wise Were Our Elders"e;
Mythic Narratives from the Kamsa
E-bok, 2014
535 kr
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"So wise were our elders!" Thus exclaims Mariano Chicunque, himself an elder, expressing in a single phrase the thrust of the mythic narrative tradition he simultaneously presents and represents in his storytelling. A remarkable body of mythology is documented for the first time in this volume. …
"So Wise Were Our Elders"
Mythic Narratives from the Kamsá
Häftad, 2014
517 kr
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"So wise were our elders!" Thus exclaims Mariano Chicunque, himself an elder, expressing in a single phrase the thrust of the mythic narrative tradition he simultaneously presents and represents in his storytelling. A remarkable body of mythology is documented for the first time in this volume. …
Sayings of the Ancestors
The Spiritual Life of the Sibundoy Indians
E-bok, 2014
520 kr
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The Sibundoy valley of southwestern Colombia is the home of a unique Indian cultureone that blends Incan elements with those of the aboriginal natives. Moreover, Sibundoy bridges two domains, the Andean highlands and the Amazonian basin, and inter-mixed with all of these elements are European …
¡Corrido!
The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast
Av John Holmes McDowell, John Holmes McDowell
Inbunden, 2015
917 kr
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This compilation of ballads from the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca documents one of the world’s great traditions of heroic song, a tradition that has thrived continuously for the last hundred years. The 107 corridos presented here, gathered during ethnographic research over a period of …
Tales from Another Mother Runner
Triumphs, Trials, Tips, and Tricks from the Road
Av Sarah Bowen Shea, John Holmes McDowell
E-bok, 2015
208 kr
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The authors of Run Like a Mother share a collection of inspiring and insightful stories from women who discovered their own power through running.Every mother runner has a tale to tell. A story about how she discovered the fierce and confident athlete inside her. Maybe it''s about setting a …
