Embroidered With Gold Strung With Pearls
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Embroidered With Gold Strung With Pearls
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Author : Aida Vidan
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2003
Embroidered With Gold Strung With Pearls written by Aida Vidan 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 2003 with Ballads, Bosnian categories.
Forty Bosnian traditional ballads are now available to the English reader in this bilingual edition offering a selection of never before translated or published materials from Harvard University's Parry Collection. These songs were performed by Bosnian women and gathered in the Gacko region of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1930s.
Pearls And Pearling Life
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Author : Edwin W. Streeter
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2021-03-22
Pearls And Pearling Life written by Edwin W. Streeter and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Nature categories.
Pearls are glistening, solid object created within the tissue of a living mollusc or other shelled animals. Pearls of the highest quality are categorised as gemstones and considered to be objects of beauty in many cultures. This vintage book explores the world of pearls and pearl farming, giving an outline of its history from ancient times to the developments of modern pearling life. Contents include: “Pearl-culture and Pearl-faming”, “Historical”, “Ancient Ideas of the Origin and Virtues of Pearls”, “Pearl-bearers”, “Mother-of-Pearl Shell”, “The Origin and Formation of Pearls”, “The North-West Australian Fishery”, “The Torres Straights Fishery”, “Pearling Life at the Present Day”, “Cevlon Pearl Fisheries”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.
Goldwork Embroidery Chinese Style
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Author : Daiyu Chen
language : en
Publisher: Shanghai Press
Release Date : 2022-01-10
Goldwork Embroidery Chinese Style written by Daiyu Chen and has been published by Shanghai Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-10 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Goldwork embroidery is a traditional Chinese embroidery technique that was originally used in the court or palaces and was exclusive to nobility in ancient times. Similar embroidery techniques were used in Central Asia and Europe in ancient times as well. Today, this sort of technique, characterized by its diversity of thread textures, variety of techniques, unique three-dimensional shape, and ability to blend other embroidery styles, is familiar to and admired by embroidery enthusiasts all over the world.Through her practice in embroidery over the past two decades, Chen Daiyu has simultaneously studied both Chinese and European embroidery. Her work is unique in that it combines the beauty of both forms, making it uniquely original. In this book, she draws inspiration from elements of traditional Chinese painting, combining traditional Chinese silk embroidery with European goldwork embroidery to create stunning, elegant works with a unique Chinese aesthetic appeal. This volume combines images and text, taking the reader systematically through the world of goldwork embroidery with a step-by-step guide. Through this book, you will:•Move from the basics to a comprehensive understanding of Chinese goldwork and the history, tools, materials, and basic techniques of goldwork embroidery.•Move from an elementary to an advanced level by completing goldwork embroideries of sixteen elements, including flowers, birds, insects, and fruit, each rich in Chinese cultural connotations.•Combine various elements into four complete Chinese embroidery paintings to form exquisite, practical decorations to beautify your life.•Appreciate the collision and fusion of the soft luster of Chinese silk embroidery and the retro beauty of European goldwork embroidery and gain new creative inspiration.•Get started with the aid of carefully prepared draft templets, even if you have no foundation at all.
Waiting For Elijah
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Author : Safet HadžiMuhamedović
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-04-25
Waiting For Elijah written by Safet HadžiMuhamedović and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-25 with Social Science categories.
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation—waiting to wait—becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity.
Woman S Songs In Ancient Greece
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Author : Anne Lingard Klinck
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2008
Woman S Songs In Ancient Greece written by Anne Lingard Klinck and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
The author shows that understanding of femininity in ancient Greece can be expanded by going beyond poetry composed by women poets like Sappho to explore girls' and women's choral songs from the archaic period, songs for female choruses and characters in tragedy, and lyrical representations of women's rituals and cults. The book discusses poetry as performance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition and scope of "woman's song" as a mode, partheneia (maidens' songs) and the girls' chorus, lyric in the drama, echoes and imitations of archaic woman's song in Hellenistic poetry, and inferences about the differences between male and female authors. It demonstrates that woman's song is ultimately best understood as the product of a male-dominated culture but that feminine stereotypes, while refined by male poets, are interrogated and shifted by female poets. The book traces the evolution of female-voice lyric from 600 to 100 BCE and includes Alcman, Sappho, Corinna, Pindar, other lyric poets, lyric in the drama, and the Hellenistic poets Nossis, Theocritus, and Bion.
The Worlds Of Russian Village Women
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Author : Laura J. Olson
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2013-01-10
The Worlds Of Russian Village Women written by Laura J. Olson and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-10 with History categories.
Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the evolution of the Russian village. But how do they see themselves? What do their stories, songs, and customs reveal about their values, desires, and motivations? Based upon nearly three decades of fieldwork, from 1983 to 2010, The Worlds of Russian Rural Women follows three generations of Russian women and shows how they alternately preserve, discard, and rework the cultural traditions of their forebears to suit changing needs and self-conceptions. In a major contribution to the study of folklore, Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva document the ways that women’s tales of traditional practices associated with marriage, childbirth, and death reflect both upholding and transgression of social norms. Their romance songs, satirical ditties, and healing and harmful magic reveal the complexity of power relations in the Russian villages.
The Captive Woman S Lament In Greek Tragedy
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Author : Casey Dué
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Captive Woman S Lament In Greek Tragedy written by Casey Dué 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 2010-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been marginalized and silenced in Athenian society: women, foreigners, and the enslaved. The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy addresses the possible meanings ancient audiences might have attached to these songs. Casey Dué challenges long-held assumptions about the opposition between Greeks and barbarians in Greek thought by suggesting that, in viewing the plight of the captive women, Athenian audiences extended pity to those least like themselves. Dué asserts that tragic playwrights often used the lament to create an empathetic link that blurred the line between Greek and barbarian. After a brief overview of the role of lamentation in both modern and classical traditions, Dué focuses on the dramatic portrayal of women captured in the Trojan War, tracing their portrayal through time from the Homeric epics to Euripides' Athenian stage. The author shows how these laments evolved in their significance with the growth of the Athenian Empire. She concludes that while the Athenian polis may have created a merciless empire outside the theater, inside the theater they found themselves confronted by the essential similarities between themselves and those they sought to conquer.
Across The River
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Author : Rusmir Mahmutćehajić
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2011
Across The River written by Rusmir Mahmutćehajić and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this part, Rusmir Mahmutcehajic introduces readers to the traditional substance of Stone Sleeper, in the context of what he calls "perennial philosophy." From that perspective, prophecy, being the source of perennial wisdom, is set above poetry. In some poetry, however, prophetic wisdom and poetic pronouncement exist inseparably. Stone Sleeper is an example of that mutual coexistence. --
A Concise History Of Bosnia
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Author : Cathie Carmichael
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-02
A Concise History Of Bosnia written by Cathie Carmichael 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 2015-07-02 with History categories.
Focuses on the dynamic and creative aspects of Bosnia's past as well as the contested, tragic and controversial.
Agents Of Translation
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Author : John Milton
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009-02-12
Agents Of Translation written by John Milton and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Agents of Translation contains thirteen case studies by internationally recognized scholars in which translation has been used as a way of influencing the target culture and furthering literary, political and personal interests. The articles describe Francisco Miranda, the “precursor” of Venezuelan independence, who promoted translations of works on the French Revolution and American independence; 19th century Brazilian translations of articles taken from the Révue Britannique about England; Ahmed Midhat, a late 19th century Turkish journalist who widely translated from Western languages; Henry Vizetelly , who (unsuccessfully) attempted to introduce the works of Zola to a wider public in Victorian Britain; and Henry Bohn, who, also in Victorian Britain, (successfully) published a series of works from the classics, many of which were expurgated; Yukichi Fukuzawa, whose adaptation of a North American geography textbook in the Meiji period promoted the concept of the superiority of the Japanese over their Asian neighbours; Samuli Suomalainen and Juhani Konkka, whose translations helped establish Finnish as a literary language; Hasan Alî Yücel, the Turkish Minister of Education, who set up the Turkish Translation Bureau in 1939; the Senegalese intellectual, Cheikh Anta Diop, whose work showed that the Ancient Egyptians had African rather than Indo-European roots; the Centro Cultural de Évora theatre group, which introduced Brecht and other contemporary drama into Portugal after the 1974 Carnation Revolution; 20th century Argentine translators of poetry; Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, who have brought translation to the forefront of literary activity in Brazil; and, finally, translators of Bosnian poetry, many of whom work in exile.
