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Author: Richard Katz Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co ISBN: 9780892817672 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 442
Book Description
The inspiring story of one man's exploration of indigenous healing in a culture fighting to preserve its spiritual health. • A firsthand account of a little-known healing tradition. • A dramatic story of self-transformation by a well-respected Harvard-educated anthropologist. In the late 1970s Richard Katz, a clinical psychologist trained in anthropology, spent two years living in a remote island community in Fiji, hoping to record the practices of its healers. At the foundation of their healing, he discovered, was the concept of the straight path, a journey through life whose truth is revealed only to the extent that it is searched for with honesty and faith. It is a way of healing that in its very essence is a way of living, a path that emphasizes the spiritual dimensions of health and the relevance of these to the community. But while interviewing healers at work, Katz was drawn into an increasingly suspenseful drama. Unexplained deaths, rumors and suspicions, and the intrusion of a zealous evangelist rocked the village and soon revealed to the author the dangerous alternative to the straight path: the misuse of power that some call witchcraft. The Straight Path of the Spirit is an engrossing story of indigenous healers and a dramatic account of cultures in collision. Through the story of his own self-transformation, Katz reveals not only those aspects of life essential for the Fijians as they struggle to hold onto their identity, but also what is of importance to all of us who seek to retain our humanity.
Author: Richard Katz Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co ISBN: 9780892817672 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 442
Book Description
The inspiring story of one man's exploration of indigenous healing in a culture fighting to preserve its spiritual health. • A firsthand account of a little-known healing tradition. • A dramatic story of self-transformation by a well-respected Harvard-educated anthropologist. In the late 1970s Richard Katz, a clinical psychologist trained in anthropology, spent two years living in a remote island community in Fiji, hoping to record the practices of its healers. At the foundation of their healing, he discovered, was the concept of the straight path, a journey through life whose truth is revealed only to the extent that it is searched for with honesty and faith. It is a way of healing that in its very essence is a way of living, a path that emphasizes the spiritual dimensions of health and the relevance of these to the community. But while interviewing healers at work, Katz was drawn into an increasingly suspenseful drama. Unexplained deaths, rumors and suspicions, and the intrusion of a zealous evangelist rocked the village and soon revealed to the author the dangerous alternative to the straight path: the misuse of power that some call witchcraft. The Straight Path of the Spirit is an engrossing story of indigenous healers and a dramatic account of cultures in collision. Through the story of his own self-transformation, Katz reveals not only those aspects of life essential for the Fijians as they struggle to hold onto their identity, but also what is of importance to all of us who seek to retain our humanity.
Author: Lloyd L. Lee Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 081655224X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 209
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"The book provides individual Diné/Navajo examinations and understandings of Níhi Kéyah, Navajo homeland. These examinations and understandings represent a distinctive lens of Diné/Navajo peoples and way of life"--
Author: C. Leon Wall Publisher: [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs ISBN: Category : Navajo language Languages : en Pages : 86
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In response to a recent surge of interest in Native American history, culture, and lore, Hippocrene brings you a concise and straightforward dictionary of the Navajo tongue. The dictionary is designed to aid Navajos learning English as well as English speakers interested in acquiring knowledge of Navajo. The largest of all the Native American tribes, the Navajo number about 125,000 and live mostly on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Over 9,000 entries; A detailed section on Navajo pronunciation; A comprehensive, modern vocabulary; Useful, everyday expressions.
Author: Brendan Hudson Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477156658 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 335
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Some doors should never be opened. So when Emily steps through a doorway into another world, she never considers the consequences. For Emily Sutton, being thirteen years old is difficult enough. Now she has dragons to contend with. A world of mystery and adventure is waiting for her to explore. But she quickly discovers there is a reason for her being there, and that some dragons are not happy about it. With lies clouding the truth and danger around every corner, Emily must fight to save the dragon world and herself. The only problem is - who can she trust?
Author: Alyse Neundorf Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826338259 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 894
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This easy-to-use Navajo dictionary is intended primarily for Navajo children learning to read and write the language in bilingual classrooms, but it is also useful for anyone wanting to learn Navajo.
Author: Vijay Mishra Publisher: Anthem Press ISBN: 1839990716 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 152
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Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first comprehensive study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi that moves beyond the hegemonic and colonially-implicated perspectives that have necessarily informed top-down historical accounts. Mishra makes this case using two extraordinary novels Ḍaukā Purān [‘A Subaltern Tale’] (2001]) and Fiji Maa [‘Mother of a Thousand’] (2018) by the Fiji Indian writer Subramani. They are massive novels (respectively 500 and 1,000 pages long) written in the devanāgarī (Sanskrit) script. They are examples of subaltern writing that do not exist, as a legitimation of the subaltern voice, anywhere else in the world. The novels constitute the silent underside of world literature, whose canon they silently challenge. For postcolonial, diaspora and subaltern scholars, they are defining (indeed definitive) texts without which their theories remain incomplete. Theories require mastery of primary texts and these subaltern novels, ‘heroic’ compositions as they are in the vernacular, offer a challenge to the theorist.
Author: Richard Katz Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 9780201608670 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 440
Book Description
Anthropologist/clincial psychologist Katz spent two years on a remote Fijian island in his search for the moral, psychological, and spiritual wisdom known as the Straight Path, an ancient healing tradition with tremendous relevance for health and psychology in the West. Photos.
Author: Brendan Hudson Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479717274 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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Something evil is stirring. With the war over, Emily was hoping to begin her adventure and finally have some fun in the dragon world. But with her transformation into a dragon steadily worsening every time she goes home, she is becoming increasingly frustrated, distancing herself from everyone and behaving recklessly. Emily travels deeper into the dragon world in search of a magical ingredient to cure her problem, but instead she discovers the truth behind the war. A truth she wishes she never unveiled. With evil threatening to return, time is running out. With some new friends to help and old enemies to fight, Emily will have the fight of her life to save both worlds and keep herself alive.
Author: Robert W. Young Publisher: ISBN: Category : Navajo Indians Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
Collects stories and articles by Navajos, originally published in Adahoonitigii, the Navajo language monthly newspaper, recording Navajo attitudes and reactions to important events in the history of the Navajo nation.
Author: Richard Katz
Author: Richard Katz
Author: Lloyd L. Lee
Author: C. Leon Wall
Author: Brendan Hudson
Author: Alyse Neundorf
Author: Vijay Mishra
Author: Richard Katz
Author: Brendan Hudson
Author: Robert W. Young
Author: Robert W. Young