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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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House documents
Author: index to reports of committees of the house of representatives for the second session of the forty-fourth congress.
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Coming Prince
Author: Robert AndersonPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602062307
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
He was one of the most popular lay preachers and Christian apologists of his day: Sir Robert Anderson devoutly believed that the Bible was the inerrant word of God, and in this popular 1881 book-a companion to his Daniel in the Critics' Den-he mounts a defense of the prophetic Old Testament Book of Daniel, an early example of apocalyptic philosophy in Christianity. Students of the Bible will appreciate this historically valuable attempt to set straight the many controversies surrounding Daniel regarding its authorship and even the date of its writing. And anyone interested in the apocalyptic fervor of modern-day fundamentalist Christianity will find this an instructive and enlightening read. While at Scotland Yard, Irish police official and religious scholar SIR ROBERT ANDERSON (1841-1918) helped investigate the Jack the Ripper murders, but he is best remembered for his works of Bible study, including Forgotten Truths and The Silence of God.
Caciques and Cemi Idols
Author: José R. OliverPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817355154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The relationships address the important questions of identity and personhood of the cemí icons and their human “owners” and the implications of cemí gift-giving and gift-taking that sustains a complex web of relationships between caciques (chiefs) of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Oliver provides a careful analysis of the four major forms of cemís—three-pointed stones, large stone heads, stone collars, and elbow stones—as well as face masks, which provide an interesting contrast to the stone heads. He finds evidence for his interpretation of human and cemí interactions from a critical review of 16th-century Spanish ethnohistoric documents, especially the Relación Acerca de las Antigüedades de los Indios written by Friar Ramón Pané in 1497–1498 under orders from Christopher Columbus. Buttressed by examples of native resistance and syncretism, the volume discusses the iconoclastic conflicts and the relationship between the icons and the human beings. Focusing on this and on the various contexts in which the relationships were enacted, Oliver reveals how the cemís were central to the exercise of native political power. Such cemís were considered a direct threat to the hegemony of the Spanish conquerors, as these potent objects were seen as allies in the native resistance to the onslaught of Christendom with its icons of saints and virgins.
The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542
Author: George Parker WinshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A History of Irish Music
Author: William Henry Grattan FloodPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Becoming irlandés
Author: Edmundo MurrayPublisher: Edmundo Murray
ISBN: 9509725714
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Survey of Documents in Private Keeping
Author: Edward MacLysaghtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fictions of the Bad Life
Author: Claire SolomonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814212479
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Placing the prostitute at the center of reading, Fictions of Bad Life moves between text and meta-text, exploring how to rescue the prostitute from her imprisonment and turn her into the subject of history.