Author: Isaiah BowmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundaries
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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The New World
Author: Isaiah BowmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boundaries
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
Author: Linda M. HeywoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The New World of Central Africa
Author: Mrs. Henry Grattan GuinnessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Author: Vernon L. ScarboroughPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816513604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
The New World
Author: The History of the Church Missionary Society
Author: Eugene StockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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The New World
Author: Park Benjaminevangelical chritendom
Author: Criminology, Civilisation and the New World Order
Author: Wayne MorrisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113533112X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Expertly authored by the co-editor of the best-selling text Cultural Criminology Unleashed, this book re-examines criminology in a global context. Wide-ranging and up-to-date, it covers the topics of colonialism and post-colonialism, genocide, state control, the impact of September 11th and the post-9/11 world. Exploring the relationship between a modern discipline and modernity, it reworks the history and composition of criminology in light of September 11th and the prevalence of genocide in modernity. Analizing statistics, anthropology and the everyday assumptions of criminology's history, this text addresses the political and scholarly grip on the territorial state and the absence of a global criminology. Rejecting the prevalent belief that September 11th and the responses it evoked were exceptions that either destroyed or revealed the absence of global legal order, the author argues that, in fact, they confirm the nature of the world order of modernity. A compelling and topical volume, this is a must read for anyone interested or studying in the areas of criminology and criminal justice.
The Future of Africa
Author: Donald FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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