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Ancestral Images
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Author : Stephanie Moser
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Ancestral Images written by Stephanie Moser and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with Science categories.
Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed even before a scientific understanding of human origins developed. How did mythological, religious, and historically inspired visions of the past, in existence for centuries, shape this understanding? Moser treats images as primary documents, and her book is lavishly illustrated with engravings, paintings, photographs, and reconstructions. In surveying the iconography of prehistory, Moser explores visions of human creation from their origins in classical, early Christian, and medieval periods through traditions of representation initiated in the Renaissance. She looks closely at the first scientific reconstructions of the nineteenth century, which dramatized and made comprehensible the Darwinian theory of human descent from apes. She considers, as well, the impact of reconstructions on popular literature in Europe and North America, showing that early visualizations of prehistory retained a firm hold on the imagination—a hold that archaeologists and anthropologists have found difficult to shake.
Ancestral Images
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Author : Hugh Baker
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Ancestral Images written by Hugh Baker and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with History categories.
A new edition in one volume of Hugh Baker's celebrated three volumes of Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Each mouthful is complete in itself, but together the articles amount to a substantial feast. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and which still forms the background for life in modern, urban Hong Kong. Esoteric nuggets of information are scattered through the book: How do you ascend a Pagoda with no staircase? How can you marry without attending the wedding? When is it wrong to buy a book?
Ancestral Images
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Author : Hugh Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Ancestral Images written by Hugh Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
Images Of Ancestors
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Author : Jakob Munk Højte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Images Of Ancestors written by Jakob Munk Højte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
A certain intimacy with one's ancestors was essential to achieving status in the classical world. By referring to the illustrious exploits and qualities of his forebears, a man could strengthen his position in society. If his origins lacked sufficient glory, he could construct a family tree and testify to its authenticity through the judicious use of portraits and legendary allusions. In this volume, fifth in the Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, eleven internationally recognised scholars analyse ancestral representation in ancient Greece, Etruria and Rome. While some contributions address the artistic, social and political significance of given portraits, others address broader themes: true and false forefathers in the portraits of Hellenistic rulers, the question of whether women were ancestors in republican Rome, and how the Roman non-elite used funerary statues to acquire an ancestor.
Ancestral Images
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Author : Hugh D. R. Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Ancestral Images written by Hugh D. R. Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Hong Kong categories.
Niniskamijinaqik
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Author : Ruth Holmes Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Release Date : 2015
Niniskamijinaqik written by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and has been published by Nimbus Publishing (CN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art categories.
The Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada were here for thousands of years before the arrival of European peoples. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images: The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography presents their unique culture and way of life through the remarkable and sometime complex lives of individuals, as depicted in artwork or photography. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi'kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova Scotia. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi'kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. Finally we see portraits of Mi'kmaw individuals, ancestors in whom we see their "humanity frozen in the stillness of a photograph," as the writers of the book's foreword describe. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images includes 94 compelling pieces of art and photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi'kmaw people. Each image is an entry point to deeply personal history, a small moment or single person transformed into vivid immediacy for the reader.
Freedom From Failure
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Author : Jaqueline Lapa Sussman
language : en
Publisher: Forge Books
Release Date : 2003-02-01
Freedom From Failure written by Jaqueline Lapa Sussman and has been published by Forge Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-01 with Self-Help categories.
Many of us see closed doors between our goals and our present lives. Here, for the first time, are the keys to unlock those doors--in business, romantic and family relationships, and even athletics. Those keys--the secret, primary Images, known as Eidetics, that we all hold inside--are, when used correctly, a force to heal and enhance our natural abilities, enabling the true self to flourish and succeed. Encoded in the brain but often obscured by negative experiences and unrealistic social expectations, these primary images are the positive forces that propel successful people into self-confidence, action, and pleasure. Here, in easy-to-use "prescriptions" and visualization exercises, acclaimed Eidectic Imagery counselor Jaqueline Lapa Sussman will help you find the "gifts from the gods" within yourself. Whether you wish to enhance your leadership skills, love relationships, parenting skills, or sports performance, these techniques are sure to develop your potential and free you for success. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Mobile Images Of The Ancestral Bodies
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Author : Primitiva Bueno Ramírez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Mobile Images Of The Ancestral Bodies written by Primitiva Bueno Ramírez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Melodies Of Mourning
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Author : Fiona Magowan
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Melodies Of Mourning written by Fiona Magowan and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Presents an ethnographical account of the way that song, dance and musical sensitivity weave into the lives of an aboriginal community of Australia. Invites the reader to rethink the place of ecology in music and emotion, and how emotions transcend cultural difference. It shows how sounds and the senses shape feelings for the land and seascape, exploring these themes in relation to Yolngu of north east Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. This rich ethnographic study makes a distinctive contribution to the tradition of anthropological analysis which focuses on the located nature of human sensual experience. FIONA MAGOWAN is a lecturer in Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast Series editors: Wendy James and N. J. Allen Australia: University of Western Australia Press
The Silent Rhetoric Of The Body
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Author : Matthew Craske
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Silent Rhetoric Of The Body written by Matthew Craske and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Matthew Craske looks closely at tomb sculptures in their social context. He discusses a large number of monuments by many different sculptors, all with a knowledge of the person commemorated and the circumstances behind the commission.