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Author: Barbara Alice Mann Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199997209 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 379
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Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.
Author: Barbara Alice Mann Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199997209 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 379
Book Description
Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.
Author: Edith Olivier Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1447263545 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 234
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A contemporary of Cecil Beaton, Siegfried Sassoon and Rex Whistler, Edith Olivier is best known for her first book, the novella, The Love Child but was the author of a variety of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as becoming the mayor of Wilton, Wiltshire, in 1939. In Dwarf's Blood, Olivier has crafted a moral tale, reflecting the Victorian values of her upbringing while also incorporating a psychological study of her main character, Sir Nicholas Roxerby, who comes to England from Australia after inheriting the estate of Brokeyates from his great-uncle. Happy in his ancestral home, with the backing of his mother's millions behind him, Nicholas marries into the local gentry and lives a satisfying life until the birth of his second child. Hans is full of persuasive charm and gifted genius, but to Nicholas's horror carries the 'dwarf's blood' of the title, and he cannot find it within himself to accept a child that brings with him the reminder of a family skeleton he would rather forget. In Nicholas's eyes, Hans suffers in comparison to his elder sister Portia, who is tall, healthy and beautiful, despite being completely insensitive, overbearing and unloveable; and for Althea, his wife, the cold-hearted rejection of her son by his father ruptures her happiness. Though a vivid work of realism, Dwarf's Blood incorporates a touch of the eeriness found within Olivier's first work, The Love Child, and was described as a masterpiece among contemporary novels upon first publication in 1931.
Author: John Irving Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307362000 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 758
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A Hindi film star and an American missionary are twins separated at birth; a dwarf — a former circus clown — mistakes the missionary for the movie star. And stalking one of them is a serial killer...
Author: Henry Clay Trumbull Publisher: Ravenio Books ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 206
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This classic contains the following chapters: I. The Primitive Rite Itself 1. Sources of Bible Study 2. An Ancient Semitic Rite 3. The Primitive Rite in Africa 4. Traces of the Rite in Europe 5. World-Wide Sweep of the Rite 6. Light From the Classics 7. The Bond of the Covenant 8. The Rite and Its Token in Egypt II. Suggestions and Perversions of the Rite 1. Sacredness of Blood and of the Heart 2. Vivifying Power of Blood 3. A New Nature Through New Blood 5. Inspiration Through Blood 6. Inter-Communion Through Blood 7. Symbolic Substitutes for Blood 8. Blood-Covenant Involvings III. Indications of the Rite in the Bible 1. Limitations of Inquiry 2. Primitive Teachings of Blood 3. The Blood Covenant in Circumcision 4. The Blood Covenant Tested 5. The Blood Covenant and Its Tokens in the Passover 6. The Blood Covenant at Sinai 7. The Blood Covenant in the Mosaic Ritual 8. The Primitive Rite Illustrated 9. The Blood Covenant in the Gospels
Author: Christopher Francis Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 129121075X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 80
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"You've all heard the tale. Young princess has an evil Queen of a stepmother. Young princess is truly beautiful, the fairest of them all. Evil Queen gets jealous. She wants her out of the picture. Etc, etc, etc. The story is all wrong. Or at least, most of it is wrong. Like all stories, it's been told over and over again, far and wide. And of course, the details change. They're lost in translation. This is what really happened." Emily and the Seven Dwarfs is a postmodern retelling of Snow White in an approach similar to Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber. Darker than the Disneyisation, Emily and the Seven Dwarfs explores the original tale steeped in the lore created through all the different versions of Snow White to create this, the ultimate version.
Author: William J. Jarema Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1948260328 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 323
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Delko and his companions escaped the Monastery of Fordosheol, having conquered Archbishop Haridan and his evil minions. Now they must face a more dastardly foe: Despot, the son of Archbishop Haridan. Despot plans to steal the last of the four keys that will open one of the Emerald Doors, which provides entrance into the forbidden lands of the Elemental Dragons. Thestral has been dwelling in the underworld for over two thousand years awaiting his rebirth. Despot magically impregnates Princess Adi, who gives birth to Thestral. Thestral will even sacrifice his mother to release the creatures from the dark abyss, so he can conquer the Cave Dwarfs, annihilate the Elf Queendom, and steal the last of the four keys from the Druids to help his father Despot open an Emerald Door. Despot and Humford, a previous governor for the School of Dark Magic, create an alliance with the mother of the underworld, Saligia, who will unleash each of her seven children to create havoc and devastation among the nine dwarf clans, reducing their ability to aid the Druids, the Elf Queendom, and the Cave Dwarfs.
Author: H. Clay Trumbull Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture is a work by Henry Clay Trumbull. It examines the ideas and methods recognized by civilizations all over the world, even in more modern times, concerning blood sacrifice and, particularly, covenant.
Author: Ian Watson Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1479457094 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 31
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This rousing steampunk adventure with timeslip elements finds the intrepid Mademoiselle Hortense and her brave beau, Captain Pierre Marc-Antoine Dumont d’Urville, following a minor writer named Jules Verne "twenty-five leagues under the Earth" for an astonishing series of encounters--troglydytes, Germans, and dinos galore!
Author: Mary Kathryn Barbier Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1612349730 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
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In the 1970s news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to deport offenders. The subsequent creation of the Office of Special Investigations marked the official beginning of Nazi-hunting in the United States, but it was far from the end. Thirty years later, in November 2010, the New York Times obtained a copy of a confidential 2006 report by the Justice Department titled “The Office of Special Investigations: Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust.” The six-hundred-page report held shocking secrets regarding the government’s botched attempts to hunt down and prosecute Nazis in the United States and its willingness to harbor and even employ these criminals after World War II. Drawing from this report as well as other sources, Spies, Lies, and Citizenship exposes scandalous new information about infamous Nazi perpetrators, including Andrija Artuković, Klaus Barbie, and Arthur Rudolph, who were sheltered and protected in the United States and beyond, and the ongoing attempts to bring the remaining Nazis, such as Josef Mengele, to justice.
Author: Barbara Alice Mann
Author: Barbara Alice Mann
Author: Edith Olivier
Author: John Irving
Author: Henry Clay Trumbull
Author: Christopher Francis
Author: William J. Jarema
Author: H. Clay Trumbull
Author: Ian Watson
Author: Mary Kathryn Barbier
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations