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The Cord Keepers
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Author : Frank L. Salomon
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-08
The Cord Keepers written by Frank L. Salomon and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-08 with History categories.
None of the world’s “lost writings” have proven more perplexing than the mysterious script in which the Inka Empire kept its records. Ancient Andean peoples encoded knowledge in knotted cords of cotton or wool called khipus. In The Cord Keepers, the distinguished anthropologist Frank Salomon breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of these enigmatic cords to the present day. The “quipocamayos,” as the villagers call them, form a sacred patrimony. Keying his reading to the internal life of the ancient kin groups that own the khipus, Salomon suggests that the multicolored cords, with their knots and lavishly woven ornaments, did not mimic speech as most systems of writing do, but instead were anchored in nonverbal codes. The Cord Keepers makes a compelling argument for a close intrinsic link between rituals and visual-sign systems. It indicates that, while Andean graphic representation may differ radically from familiar ideas of writing, it may not lie beyond the reach of scholarly interpretation. In 1994, Salomon witnessed the use of khipus as civic regalia on the heights of Tupicocha, in Peru’s central Huarochirí region. By observing the rich ritual surrounding them, studying the village’s written records from past centuries, and analyzing the khipus themselves, Salomon opens a fresh chapter in the quest for khipu decipherment. He draws on a decade’s field research, early colonial records, and radiocarbon and fiber analysis. Challenging the prevailing idea that the use of khipus ended under early Spanish colonial rule, Salomon reveals that these beautiful objects served, apparently as late as the early twentieth century, to document households’ contribution to their kin groups and these kin groups’ contribution to their village. The Cord Keepers is a major contribution to Andean history and, more broadly, to understandings of writing and literacy.
Bear Tales For The Ages
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Author : Larry Kaniut
language : en
Publisher: Larry Kaniut
Release Date : 2003-08
Bear Tales For The Ages written by Larry Kaniut and has been published by Larry Kaniut this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08 with Nature categories.
Collector of bear lore for nearly half a century, author Larry Kaniut has chosen these tales and legends for their focus on the wisdom of bears and the strength of the human spirit in encounters with them. An Alaskan legend himself, Larry brings together 28 amazing stories of encounters with this four-legged wonder of the woods, spanning the time period from 1816 to 1999.
Talking Of The Royal Family
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Author : Prof Michael Billig
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Talking Of The Royal Family written by Prof Michael Billig and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with Psychology categories.
To talk about royalty is to talk of many things: privilege, equality, nationality, morality, family life, parenting, divorce, the media and more. Important themes and issues flow through the seemingly trivial everyday chatter about royalty. Now with a new preface, Talking of the Royal Family was the first serious full-length study of royalty to emerge from this rhetorical perspective and remains relevant today.
The Visitor
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
The Visitor written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with Christianity categories.
Discoveries
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Author : Katherine Cuthbert
language : en
Publisher: Folens Limited
Release Date : 1998
Discoveries written by Katherine Cuthbert and has been published by Folens Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Creative activities and seat work categories.
We Care
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Author : Bertie Kingore
language : en
Publisher: Good Year Books
Release Date : 2002
We Care written by Bertie Kingore and has been published by Good Year Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
Hundreds of proven hands-on activities, carefully outlined and using inexpensive materials, emphasize learning by doing, encourage creativity, and afford opportunities to develop responsibility. Organized into 19 thematic units (from "Marvelous Me" to "Summertime and the Sun") and correlated to the school-year calendar, the activities cover key curriculum areas such as language arts, math, and science; they also involve art, music, cooking, movement, block play, and role plays. Jargon-free and clearly written, the book is also a great resource for parents. Grades preK-K. 302 pages. Good Year Books. Second Edition.
Visitor
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
Visitor written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with categories.
Nobody S Hero
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Author : Frank Laumer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012-09-20
Nobody S Hero written by Frank Laumer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Fiction categories.
In December 1835, eight officers and one hundred men of the U.S. Army under the command of Brevet Major Francis Langhorne Dade set out from Fort Brooke at Tampa Bay, Florida, to march north a hundred miles to reinforce Fort King (present-day Ocala). On the sixth day, halfway to their destination, they were attacked by Seminole Indians. By four o'clock in the afternoon, only three wounded soldiers survived what came to be known as the Dade Massacre. Only two of those men managed to struggle fifty miles back to Fort Brooke. One of them—wounded in the shoulder and hip, a bullet in one lung—was Private Ransom Clark. It is the story of great duplicity, not on the part of Seminole Indians, but of the politicians and officers who sent the men of Dade's command to their death. The Dade Massacre was the pretext the U.S. government needed to begin the Second Seminole War, the longest and most expensive Indian war in American history. In 1839 Ransom Clark wrote a brief account of his ordeal, entitled The Surprising Adventures of Ransom Clark, Among the Indians in Florida. Although he promised to later supply an entire account, he didn't live long enough to do so, succumbing to his grave wounds. In Nobody's Hero, Frank Laumer completes Clark's story.
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Author : Robert Henry Mathews
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1943
written by Robert Henry Mathews and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
Higher Education Handbook Of Theory And Research
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Author : J.C. Smart
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Higher Education Handbook Of Theory And Research written by J.C. Smart and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Education categories.
To recapitulate, Greeks differ from Independents and from the academy's value priorities, but for the most part these differences derive from antecedent charac teristics. Moreover, there are some grounds for speculating that these anteced ent differences reflect fundamental temperamental differences (extraversion and gregariousness mediated by social interaction, as opposed to interaction through ideas). Only to a limited degree does the Greek "system" appear to adversely affect the acquisition and assimilation of the academy's value priori ties; i.e., students as a whole, Greek and Independent alike, appear to become more independent, liberal, socially concerned, and culturally sophisticated by graduation. However, the Greek system's effect on the behavior of Greeks is more trou bling, an effect largely mediated by the use and abuse of alcohol and the relative absence of direct institutional supervision. Assuming the retention of the Greek system, then, the promotion of the acad emy's agenda appears dependent on (a) an understanding and accommodation of the personal characteristics of Greeks, using appropriate pedagogical meth ods to advance the academy's educational objectives, and (b) both educational and administrative/regulatory efforts to control the use and abuse of alcohol. With or without the Greek system, the advancement of the academy's agenda involves these considerations, since the characteristics of students as a whole encompass the characteristics emphasized among Greeks.