The Memory Of Bones
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The Memory Of Bones
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Author : Stephen D. Houston
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
The Memory Of Bones written by Stephen D. Houston and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Social Science categories.
An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions. All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed an approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. Starting with a cartography of the Maya body as depicted in imagery and texts, the authors explore how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.
The Memory Bones
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Author : B. R. Spangler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Memory Bones written by B. R. Spangler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
The Memory Palace Of Bones
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Author : Jeff Rockwell
language : en
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Release Date : 2023-03-21
The Memory Palace Of Bones written by Jeff Rockwell and has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-21 with Health & Fitness categories.
The Memory Palace of Bones: Exploring Embodiment Through the Skeletal System is an unprecedented exploration of the anatomy of the bones of the body, and a unique set of reflections on the role each individual bone plays in our lives, looking at both its physical and energetic contributions. Written and presented in an imaginative and highly readable style, the book describes each individual bone and, where appropriate, the surrounding joints. It combines the anatomical expertise of the authors with their appreciation for the beauty of the body, presenting a unique perspective that values extensive clinical expertise as well as imagination as a source of wisdom and depth. Seeing and discussing bones as a wisdom source is a topic that until now has never been systematically covered. The Memory Palace of Bones will be read and treasured by practitioners and students of massage therapy, bodywork, movement professionals, Zero Balancers, chiropractors, osteopaths, Rolfers, body-centered psychotherapists, students and teachers of yoga, performing artists and other health professionals as well as by laymen wanting a greater understanding of and connection to their bodies.
Remembering The Bones
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Author : Frances Itani
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2009-01-19
Remembering The Bones written by Frances Itani and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-19 with Fiction categories.
A life hangs in the balance of memory in this poignant, witty and “effective feminine counterpoint to . . . Philip Roth’s 2006 novel, ‘Everyman’” by the award-winning author (The Washington Post). Born on the same day as Queen Elizabeth II, Canadian Georgina Danforth Witley is one of ninety-nine lucky Commonwealth residents invited to Her Majesty’s eightieth birthday lunch at Buckingham Palace. But en route to the airport to board the plane for London, Georgina’s car slips off the road and plunges into a thickly wooded ravine. Thrown from the car, injured, and unable to move, she must rely on her full store of family memories, her no-nonsense wit, and a recitation of the names of the bones in her body—an exercise from childhood—to remind her that she is still very much alive. But what has the entirety of her life meant? As Georgina lies stranded and helpless, she reflects on her eighty years as a daughter, mother, sister, wife, and widow, on lost loves and secrets, and on painful moments of the past she struggles not to recall. With this exquisite, suspenseful, and surprising tale of the staying power of family through time and memory, “Itani exposes the richness and depth beneath the surface of one ordinary life” (The New Yorker).
Memory Of The Bones
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Author : Eryuelan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12
Memory Of The Bones written by Eryuelan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12 with categories.
Memory Of Bones
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Author : Alex Connor
language : en
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Memory Of Bones written by Alex Connor and has been published by Quercus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Fiction categories.
The head of Francisco Goya was stolen from his tomb in the wake of his death. No one has ever known what happened to it. Until now. Leon Golding has always been ignored by the art world he loves, but he's finally going to make his name as the man who found the skull of Goya. But he's asked the wrong people to help him prove he's right. Now everyone wants to own the most prized piece of art history ever to come to light ... And they're ready to kill for it.
On The Bones Of The Serpent
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Author : Debbora Battaglia
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990-03
On The Bones Of The Serpent written by Debbora Battaglia and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-03 with Family & Relationships categories.
Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of themselves as true "islanders": persons separated from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl struggle for continuity—of the physical and social person and of social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a matrilineal society—is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim culture area and an important contribution to studies of personhood in Melanesia. The creative focus of Sabarl cultural life is a series of mortuary feasts and rituals known as segaiya. In assembling and disassembling commemorative food and objects in segaiya exchanges, Sabarl also assemble and disassemble the critical social relations such objects stand for. These commemorative acts create a collective memory yet also a collective experience of forgetting social bonds that are of no future use to the living. Sabarl anticipate this disaggregation in patterns of everyday life, which reveal the importance of categorical distinctions mapped in beliefs about the physical and metaphysical person. Using remembrance and forgetting as an analytic lens, Battaglia is able to ask questions critical to understanding Melanesian social process. One of the "new ethnographies" addressing the limits of ethnographic representation and the fragmented nature of knowledge from an indigenous perspective, her finely wrought study explores the dynamics of cultural practices in which decontruction is integral to construction, allowing a new perspective on the ephermeral nature of sociality in Melanesia and new insight into the efficacy of cultural images more generally.
The Shape Of Bones
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Author : Daniel Galera
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-04-06
The Shape Of Bones written by Daniel Galera and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-06 with Fiction categories.
'Like a cross of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and American Psycho' Financial Times From one of Brazil's foremost literary voices comes a gripping, visceral new novel about youth, power and the nature of manhood A man rises at 5 a.m. and leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or child to bid them goodbye. He starts his car - an SUV filled with survival gear - but does not drive to his friend's house as planned. Instead he glides through the sleeping streets of Porto Alegre, haunted by ghosts of himself: the fearless boy riding a battered stunt bike, the silent adolescent fascinated by bodies and violence, the obsessive young surgeon, the distant husband. As the dawn comes on and people slowly fill the streets, the man drives unthinkingly, inexorably, toward the old neighbourhood of his youth. What is pulling him back there? Perhaps the need to make something happen, perhaps just nostalgia. Or perhaps the search for absolution - from a crime he has carried in his heart for fifteen years.
Memory Bones
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Author : Sara Claytor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-10
Memory Bones written by Sara Claytor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with categories.
The Memory Bones An Absolutely Unputdownable Mystery Thriller
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Author : B. R. Spangler
language : en
Publisher: Bookouture
Release Date : 2021-12-02
The Memory Bones An Absolutely Unputdownable Mystery Thriller written by B. R. Spangler and has been published by Bookouture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Fiction categories.
Looking down at the familiar, pale and lifeless face floating in the salty waters of the marsh, her blood freezes. It's a face she hasn't seen for years, but used to know so well... When Detective Casey White is called to a murder scene in the Outer Banks saltmarshes, she's devastated to find the strangled body of her ex-husband-father of her missing daughter Hannah. And nearby, an older, unidentifiable body is buried too... but how are these bones linked to her ex? Painful memories flood back as Casey desperately searches his apartment, surrounded by photos of them happy with their little girl. Finding a notepad with the name of the hospital where Hannah was last seen scrawled on it, Casey realizes her ex recently discovered something about their child's disappearance. But who was trying to silence him? Then forensics show the bones belong to a sweet young nurse who worked at the same hospital. Delving into hospital records, Casey is shocked to learn she once held Hannah as a little baby... Her boss insists she can't work such a personal investigation, but Casey is in too deep. Interviewing all the staff at the hospital, she's sure one of the doctors is acting suspiciously... and that night, Casey wakes up barely able to breathe as flames devour her home. Now she's in the killer's sights. To finally catch this twisted monster and learn what happened to her stolen girl, Casey will have to risk everything... An absolutely unputdownable thriller that will have you gasping at the twists and turns. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner and Robert Dugoni will be completely addicted. Read what everyone's saying about B.R. Spangler: "WOW!!! Explosive page-turner with so many twists and turns!... I loved this book!!" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Oh wow. What a fantastic book! I was totally hooked... I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. It was full of tension, twists and turns that kept me totally engrossed... I read it in one day as I just couldn't put it down." NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A real thrill ride... literally blew me away. Everything and more you expect from a real gritty crime thriller. LOVED IT!!!!" Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This fabulous crime thriller with its super mix of characters will keep you on the edge of your seat and deeply engrossed from the very first page to the nail-biting twist at the end... Loved it and deserves all of its 5 stars from me." NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Absolutely phenomenal... devoured in practically one sitting!... I would recommend this one to crime thriller and police procedural enthusiasts everywhere!... keeps the reader frantically turning the page!" Misty's Corner Reviews, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wow! What a story!... suspense, intrigue, action, and lots of crazy twists and turns!... Definitely gave me goosebumps!" Sassysouthernbook