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Body Of Victim Body Of Warrior
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Author : Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-03-08
Body Of Victim Body Of Warrior written by Cabeiri deBergh Robinson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-08 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, Robinson explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. She reveals the fraught social processes by which individuals and families produce and maintain a modern jihad, and she shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of rights—a hybrid of global political ideals that adopts the language of human rights and humanitarianism as a means to rethink refugees’ positions in transnational communities. Jihad is no longer seen as a collective fight for the sovereignty of the Islamic polity, but instead as a personal struggle to establish the security of Muslim bodies against political violence, torture, and rape. Robinson describes how this new understanding has contributed to the popularization of jihad in the Kashmir region, decentered religious institutions as regulators of jihad in practice, and turned the families of refugee youths into the ultimate mediators of entrance into militant organizations. This provocative book challenges the idea that extremism in modern Muslim societies is the natural by-product of a clash of civilizations, of a universal Islamist ideology, or of fundamentalist conversion.
Colonizing Kashmir
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Author : Hafsa Kanjwal
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-25
Colonizing Kashmir written by Hafsa Kanjwal and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-25 with History categories.
The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir—its only Muslim-majority state—is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most militarized zone, has been occupied by India for over seventy-five years. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal interrogates how Kashmir was made "integral" to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing upon a wide array of bureaucratic documents, propaganda materials, memoirs, literary sources, and oral interviews in English, Urdu, and Kashmiri, Kanjwal examines the intentions, tensions, and unintended consequences of Bakshi's state-building policies in the context of India's colonial occupation. She reveals how the Kashmir government tailored its policies to integrate Kashmir's Muslims while also showing how these policies were marked by inter-religious tension, corruption, and political repression. Challenging the binaries of colonial and postcolonial, Kanjwal historicizes India's occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decolonization. In doing so, she urges us to question triumphalist narratives of India's state-formation, as well as the sovereignty claims of the modern nation-state.
Freedom In Captivity
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Author : Radhika Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Freedom In Captivity written by Radhika Gupta and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Political Science categories.
Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.
The Pen Your Mighty Self Defense Friend
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Author : joseph truncale
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-03-19
The Pen Your Mighty Self Defense Friend written by joseph truncale and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Education categories.
This book will show you how a simple writing tool can easily be turned into an effective self-defense weapon with just a little knowledge, practice, determination and imagination. This is to my knowledge, the first manual ever written that deals primarily with the use of the pen as a self-protection tool. Some of the areas this book will cover include choosing the best pen for self-defense, carrying methods, how to grip the pen for most effectiveness, the right to self-defense and the law, vulnerable areas of the body and specific techniques and tactics to use the pen for self-defense. When you finish this text, you will be more aware and confident in your ability to defend yourself using a simple pen or pencil. The key to defending yourself must always begin with the realization that your own body has numerous areas that can be used as a self-defense tool.
Conquistadors
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Author : John Pemberton
language : en
Publisher: Canary Press eBooks
Release Date : 2011
Conquistadors written by John Pemberton and has been published by Canary Press eBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
In the sixteenth century the King of Spain issued his soldiers with a three-pronged mission: to find gold, spread the word of Christianity and claim new territories for Spain. The Conquistadors, as they became known, set off into the world to do just that, and nothing was to stand in their way. Some say that the discovery of the New World is the greatest event in history. Others, that it amounted to the bloodiest massacre of all time. Conquistadors follows the Spanish explorers as they unleash their terrifying religious wrath upon the Inca and Aztec empires and explains how the conquest of the New World transformed the Old World forever. Contents The World of the Conquistadors The People of the New World, Warfare: Steel versus Stone,The Conquests of Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro's Expeditions to Peru, Pizarro and the Incas, El Dorado: The Golden Man, The Real Life Don Quixote, Going Native, The Unconquerable Maya, New World Meets Old
On The Lips Of Others
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Author : Patrick Thomas Hajovsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-06-01
On The Lips Of Others written by Patrick Thomas Hajovsky 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 2015-06-01 with Art categories.
Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital city of Tenochtitlan, where his deeds were recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments and his command was expressed in highly refined ritual performances. What did Moteuczoma's "fame" mean in the Aztec world? How was it created and maintained? In this innovative study, Patrick Hajovsky investigates the king's inscribed and spoken name, showing how it distinguished his aura from those of his constituencies, especially other Aztec nobles, warriors, and merchants, who also vied for their own grandeur and fame. While Tenochtitlan reached its greatest size and complexity under Moteuczoma, the "Great Speaker" innovated upon fame by tying his very name to the Aztec royal office. As Moteuczoma's fame transcends Aztec visual and oral culture, Hajovsky brings together a vast body of evidence, including Nahuatl language and poetry, indigenous pictorial manuscripts and written narratives, and archaeological and sculptural artifacts. The kaleidoscopic assortment of sources casts Moteuczoma as a divine king who, while inheriting the fame of past rulers, saw his own reputation become entwined with imperial politics, ideological narratives, and eternal gods. Hajovsky also reflects on posthumous narratives about Moteuczoma, which created a very different sense of his fame as a conquered subject. These contrasting aspects of fame offer important new insights into the politics of personhood and portraiture across Aztec and colonial-period sources.
Victim Of Love
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Author : Barbara Woster
language : en
Publisher: Barbara Woster
Release Date : 2018-02-22
Victim Of Love written by Barbara Woster and has been published by Barbara Woster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Fiction categories.
In an era when cultures clash, two men wage war; trapping one woman in between -- the victim of love.
Warrior Pose
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Author : Brad Willis
language : en
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Warrior Pose written by Brad Willis and has been published by BenBella Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
From covering the front lines of the Gulf War to investigating Colombian drug lords to living with freedom fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan, war correspondent Brad Willis was accustomed to risk. But when mortal danger came, it was from an unexpected direction. At the pinnacle of his career, a broken back and failed surgery left Willis permanently disabled and condemned to life in a body brace. Then came a diagnosis of terminal, stage IV throat cancer. At his 50th birthday party, friends gathered around Willis, who was crippled, almost mute, depressed, strung out on narcotic medications, and dying. Halfway through the celebration Willis realized the party's true purpose—his friends were there to say goodbye. Everyone knew Willis was on his way out...everyone except his 2-year-old son, who urged, “Get up, Daddy!" His son's words ringing in his ears, Willis chose to abandon Western medicine and embrace the most esoteric practices of Yoga to heal his body, mind, and soul—ridding himself of cancer and fully restoring his back. As a symbol of his journey, he took the spiritual name Bhava Ram, which stands for “Living from the Heart." Warrior Pose is an adventure chronicling some of the most momentous events of our time through a journalist's eyes, an unforgettable story about the power of love between father and son, and a transformational journey of self-healing, inner peace, and wholeness.
The Wounded Body
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Author : Fabrizio Bondi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-03-10
The Wounded Body written by Fabrizio Bondi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ‘cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, which leaves a mark on someone’s body and soul (and prompts one to investigate its causes and potential solutions), and the motif of the scar, which draws attention to the fact that time has passed and urges those who look at it to engage in an introspective and analytical process. By studying and describing the transmission of this metaphoric paradigm through the literary tradition, the contributors show how the image of the bodily wound—from Petrarch’s representation of the Self to the overt crisis that affects the heroes and the poetic worlds created by Ariosto and Tasso, Spenser and Shakespeare—could respond to the emergence of Modernity as a new cultural feature.
African Art And The Colonial Encounter
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Author : Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007-10-24
African Art And The Colonial Encounter written by Sidney Littlefield Kasfir and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-24 with History categories.
Focusing on the theme of warriorhood, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir weaves a complex history of how colonial influence forever changed artistic practice, objects, and their meaning. Looking at two widely diverse cultures, the Idoma in Nigeria and the Samburu in Kenya, Kasfir makes a bold statement about the links between colonialism, the Europeans' image of Africans, Africans' changing self representation, and the impact of global trade on cultural artifacts and the making of art. This intriguing history of the interaction between peoples, aesthetics, morals, artistic objects and practices, and the global trade in African art challenges current ideas about artistic production and representation.