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Author: Ron Emoff Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 9780819565006 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar. The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, Recollecting from the Past evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of remembering the past, aesthetics of everyday life, and Malagasy concepts of self and community. Ron Emoff focuses on tromba spirit possession ceremonies in which Malagasy use devotional practice as an occasion to expressively re-figure worlds often impeded by colonialism and postcolonial phenomena, extreme material poverty, and widespread illness. Malagasy not only preserve the past, but they interpret, revalue and transform it to their own ends. Music is crucial to these performances since powerful ancestral spirits will not enter into the present if not enticed by masterful musical performances, and so music itself provides a complex symbolic system with which Malagasy can recall and reconstruct the past. This groundbreaking study will be of interest to readers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, African studies, postcolonial and performance studies.
Author: Ron Emoff Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 9780819565006 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar. The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, Recollecting from the Past evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of remembering the past, aesthetics of everyday life, and Malagasy concepts of self and community. Ron Emoff focuses on tromba spirit possession ceremonies in which Malagasy use devotional practice as an occasion to expressively re-figure worlds often impeded by colonialism and postcolonial phenomena, extreme material poverty, and widespread illness. Malagasy not only preserve the past, but they interpret, revalue and transform it to their own ends. Music is crucial to these performances since powerful ancestral spirits will not enter into the present if not enticed by masterful musical performances, and so music itself provides a complex symbolic system with which Malagasy can recall and reconstruct the past. This groundbreaking study will be of interest to readers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, African studies, postcolonial and performance studies.
Author: Victoria Carpenter Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039119288 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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This volume addresses the representation of history and collective memory in Latin American literature. The book presents a variety of novel perspectives on the subject, linked by the common themes of the subjectivity of time and history, literature used as a political tool and the representation of marginalized groups. The collection takes an original approach to viewing national histories as represented in literature by adopting a cross-disciplinary position. While there are other publications addressing some of the issues raised in this collection, this book goes beyond literary representations of history. The essays collected here examine technological, political and social developments as a means of creating, re-structuring and (in some cases) potentially destroying nations.
Author: Melissa A. Stewart Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 144388930X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
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This collection explores the role of memoria histórica in its broadest sense, bringing together studies of narrative, theatre, visual expressions, film, television, and radio that provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural production in Spain in this regard. Employing a wide range of critical approaches to works that examine, comment on, and recreate events and epochs from the civil war to the present, the essays gathered here bring together research and intercultural memory to investigate half a century of cultural production, ranging from “high culture” to more popular productions, such as television series and graphic novels. A testament to the conflation of multiple silencings – be they of the defeated, victims of trauma or women – this project is about hearing the voices of the unheard and recovering their muted past.
Author: Sarah Carter Publisher: Athabasca University Press ISBN: 1897425821 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth-century to the mid twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman - while others examine cohorts of women - wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing also on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories.
Author: Ian Stevenson, M.D. Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786450878 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 356
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The concept of reincarnation has been around for thousands of years, and is a part of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. In addition to these religious beliefs, many people believe it offers an explanation for the mysteries of life. There are children that claim to remember previous lives as adults or even animals. These claimed memories might affect the development of the child and be incorporated into the child's personality. This book presents an in-depth look at Dr. Stevenson's forty years studying children who claim to remember previous lives. It is an informative, professional read that dispels common misconceptions about reincarnation and offers an open-minded perspective. It provides an overview of the history of the belief in and evidence for reincarnation, with new material relating to birthmarks and birth defects, independent replication studies, and recent developments in genetic study. It also covers research on children, the methods used, the cases studied, and the analyses of the data. The idea of reincarnation is explored as an explanation for some unsolved problems in psychology and medicine. • INTRODUCTION TO REINCARNATION--Provides an introduction to the study of reincarnation, including a discussion of the belief in reincarnation. • VARIATIONS IN DIFFERENT CULTURES--Looks at how reincarnation is viewed in different cultures around the world and how it has changed over time. • EXPLANATORY VALUE OF THE IDEA OF REINCARNATION--The idea of reincarnation has been around for thousands of years, and many people believe it offers an explanation for the mysteries of life. • TYPES OF EVIDENCE FOR REINCARNATION--There are many types of evidence for reincarnation, including anecdotal evidence, case studies, and research studies. • TYPICAL CASES OF CHILDREN--Looks at typical cases of children who remember previous lives, with a focus on their characteristics. • METHODS OF RESEARCH--Discusses the methods of research and the various ways in which previous-life memories can be investigated. • ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF CASES--Analyzes a number of cases from the author's 40-year career.
Author: Laura Mattoon D’Amore Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 144384585X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 415
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Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes current trends in the study of historical memory that are particularly relevant to our own present – our biases, our politics, our contextual moment – and strive to name forgotten, overlooked, and denied pasts in traditional histories. Race, gender, and sexuality, for example, raise questions about our most treasured myths: where were the slaves at Jamestowne? How do women or lesbians protect and preserve their own histories, when no one else wants to write them? Our current social climate allows us to question authority, and especially the authoritative definitions of nation, patriotism, and heroism, and belonging. How do we “un-commemorate” things that were “mis-commemorated” in the past? How do we repair the damage done by past commemorations? The chapters in this book, contributed by eighteen emerging and established scholars, examine these modern questions that entirely reimagine the landscape of commemoration as it has been practiced, and studied, before.
Author: Alexander Feldman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136155007 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 272
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This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 100
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Chapter 1 YOU CAN USE THE BIBLE. 4 Why study books of bible?. 4 Bible books help us to grow well: 4 Bible helps us to grow our souls well: 4 Bible helps us to Learn GOD’s Future Plan for our lives: 5 Bible helps us to know about GOD’s love for us: 5 The Bible builds the foundation of our lives: 6 The Bible books inspire our faith for salvation: 6 Bible instructs us to obey truth: 8 Old Testament: 9 The complete list of Old Testament Books with Inside Phrases: 9 New Testament: 17 The complete list of New Testament Books with Inside Phrases: 17 Be a Detective?. 23 Interpret the Bible on Basis of Context: 23 Interpret the Bible on Basis of Cultural Context: 24 Interpret the Bible on Basis of Genre: 24 Study the Bible: 26 Make your Observation (What does the Passage Say): 26 Make an Interpretation (What does the Passage mean): 26 Apply Bible to your Life (What does the Passage mean): 26 Verses of the Bible: 26 Verses of Bible regarding GOD’s protection: 26 Verses of Bible regarding GOD’s help: 27 Verses of Bible regarding GOD’s love: 27 Verses of Bible regarding future hope: 27 Verses of Bible regarding peace: 27 How to Memorize Verses of Bible: 28 Reasons to memorize Bible books: 28 How to memorize Bible: 29 Write the verses in your record: 29 Incorporation of verses into your prayers: 29 Repeat the verses in your free time: 29 Say the verses out loud: 29 Time for the Bible: 29 Chapter 2 THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST. 30 A true story. 30 GOD made a promise to send Jesus to earth: 30 Jesus will be sent as Human & Divine: 31 Jesus will be born in Bethlehem: 33 Jesus will be sent as a Prophet, Priest, and King: 33 The angel Visits Mary and Joseph: 34 Jesus is born: 37 Different People witnessed Jesus after birth: 37 Geographic & Historical overview of few cities described in the current chapter: 37 Bethlehem: 37 Jerusalem: 38 Judaea: 41 Samaria: 42 Jesus as a boy: 43 Teachers at the temple: 44 Story behind the temple: 44 Jesus grew up with an increased in wisdom and stature in favor of GOD and man: 45 Jesus as a man: 45 The Importance of Jesus Baptism: 46 Jesus shows us how to live: 47 Jesus saves people: 47 Salvation to save people: 47 Why we all deserve to die: 48 Jesus is the son of GOD: 48 Jesus Died on the Cross: 49 Jesus died on the cross to fulfil the process of atonement: 50 Why people crucified Jesus: 51 Bible verses about Jesus Crucifixion: 52 Jesus lives again: 53 Jesus came back to life again after being crucified: 53 Jesus made a visit to the hell afterwards: 53 GOD proclaimed His victory over Satan, death, and sin: 53 Jesus came back to life (rose from the dead): 53 Jesus ascended up into the heaven: 53 Jesus will come back again: 54 Jesus is now at the right hand of GOD: 54 Jesus definitely lived again after death: 54 Chapter 3 JOSEPH! WHAT WAS GOD'S PLAN?. 54 Meet Joseph. 54 A Deep, Dark Pit: 55 Traders: 56 Life in Egypt: 57 Bible Explains about the Joseph’s life in Potiphar’s house. 57 Bible Explains that GOD never left Joseph alone: 57 Prison: 58 Still More Dreams: 59
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