Land Of Water City Of The Dead
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Land Of Water City Of The Dead
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Author : Sarah E. Baires
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2017-06-27
Land Of Water City Of The Dead written by Sarah E. Baires and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-27 with Religion categories.
Explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs Cahokia, the largest city of the Mississippian mound cultures, lies outside present-day East St. Louis. Land of Water, City of the Dead reconceptualizes Cahokia’s emergence and expansion (ca. 1050–1200), focusing on understanding a newly imagined religion and complexity through a non-Western lens. Sarah E. Baires argues that this system of beliefs was a dynamic, lived component, based on a broader ontology, with roots in other mound societies. This religion was realized through novel mortuary practices and burial mounds as well as through the careful planning and development of this early city’s urban landscape. Baires analyzes the organization and alignment of the precinct of downtown Cahokia with a specific focus on the newly discovered and excavated Rattlesnake Causeway and the ridge-top mortuary mounds located along the site axes. Land of Water, City of the Dead also presents new data from the 1954 excavations of the ridge-top mortuary Wilson Mound and a complete analysis of the associated human remains. Through this skeletal analysis, Baires discusses the ways that Cahokians processed and buried their ancestors, identifying unique mortuary practices that include the intentional dismemberment of human bodies and burial with marine shell beads and other materials.
Land Of The Dead
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Author : Terry Hamburg
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-09-15
Land Of The Dead written by Terry Hamburg and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-15 with History categories.
The fabled nineteenth-century migration to the American West was filled with peril and despair. From sailing ship to covered wagon, ambitious young pioneers endured six months of unprecedented, largely unanticipated personal hardship – that is, if they survived the trip. Death was a constant companion and the promised land proved as lethal as it was fickle. The Land of the Dead explores how the demands of survival and adaptation during Westward Expansion changed the way we have buried and grieved for our dead in America. That custom was one of many transformations an outlier adolescent culture wrought upon the nation that spawned it. Nowhere did these changes play out more dynamically than in California, particularly in the quintessential American boom city - gold rush San Francisco, which banned burials at the turn of the twentieth century and then decreed the removal of 150,000 privately owned graves, the only major metropolis to execute a complete eviction of its dead. The epic cemetery battle began early, when San Francisco was still a remote, wannabe great city, and raged on for over half a century, replete with fiery polemics, political intrigue, nasty legal wrangling, and contested elections. Public cemeteries were dispatched quickly but – as time will reveal – hardly well. Private sanctuaries took longer to expunge, and many of its “residents” were overlooked in what has been called “the greatest mass removal of the dead in human history.” How could the unthinkable happen? And how did other early American cities reckon with the now-precious land once dedicated to their dead. In this well-researched and well-told history, Terry Hamburg explores how an “instant city” heritage bred that momentous decision. Providing a fresh overlay on traditional narratives and revealing a burgeoning nation’s trends and conflicts, Land of the Dead examines how we relate to our ‘living dead’ then and now.
Facts And Fictions Of Life
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Author : Helen Hamilton Gardener
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Facts And Fictions Of Life written by Helen Hamilton Gardener and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with American essays categories.
The Formation Of Hell
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Author : Alan E. Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-30
The Formation Of Hell written by Alan E. Bernstein 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 2020-06-30 with History categories.
What becomes of the wicked? Hell—exile from God, subjection to fire, worms, and darkness—for centuries the idea has shaped the dread of malefactors, the solace of victims, and the deterrence of believers. Although we may associate the notion of hell with Christian beliefs, its gradual emergence depended on conflicting notions that pervaded the Mediterranean world more than a millennium before the birth of Christ. Asking just why and how belief in hell arose, Alan E. Bernstein takes us back to those times and offers us a comparative view of the philosophy, poetry, folklore, myth, and theology of that formative age.Bernstein draws on sources from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Israel, as well as early Christian writings through Augustine, in order to reconstruct the story of the prophets, priests, poets, and charismatic leaders who fashioned concepts of hell from an array of perspectives on death and justice. The author traces hell's formation through close readings of works including the epics of Homer and Vergil, the satires of Lucian, the dialogues of Plato and Plutarch, the legends of Enoch, the confessions of the Psalms, the prophecies of Isaiah, Ezechiel, and Daniel, and the parables of Jesus. Reenacting lively debates about the nature of hell among the common people and the elites of diverse religious traditions, he provides new insight into the social implications and the psychological consequences of different visions of the afterlife.This superb account of a central image in Western culture will captivate readers interested in history, mythology, literature, psychology, philosophy, and religion.
City Of The Dead
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Author : Robert Florence
language : en
Publisher: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Release Date : 1996
City Of The Dead written by Robert Florence and has been published by University of Southwestern Louisiana this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
A tour of St. Louis Cemetery #1 complete with a map.
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land And Water The Journal Of A Tour Through The British Empire And America
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Author : Lady Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land And Water The Journal Of A Tour Through The British Empire And America written by Lady Ethel Gwendoline Vincent and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with categories.
As we drove over the rough streets of New York in the early hours of Sunday morning, it appeared as a city of the dead. There was no sign of life as our horses toiled along Broadway and up Fifth Avenue to the Buckingham Hotel, where we had secured rooms. This hotel, though comfortable, had the disadvantage of being too far up town for short sojourners, but it has the merit of being conducted on the European system—that is, the rooms and meals are charged for separately. The American plan is to make an inclusive charge of from four to five dollars a day, and it is often troublesome only being able to have meals in the dining-room between certain hours. Besides, it is pleasant to be able to visit the restaurants of New York, which are admirable, and equal, if not superior to those of Paris. Delmonico's, where we dined one evening, is particularly excellent. We were glad when eleven o'clock came and we could go to St. Thomas' Church, close by. It is one of the most frequented of the many beautiful churches of all denominations in New York, and of very fine interior proportions. Upon the dark oak carving is reflected in many hues the rich stained glass. The service was rendered according to the ritual of the English Church, which is followed by the Episcopal Church of America. They succeed in America in uniting a non-ceremonial service with a bright and hearty one. We listened to a very powerful sermon on St. Paul on the Hill of Mars, in which the eloquent preacher boldly declared that the political honesty of the Athenians 2000 years ago was superior to that of the United States of to-day. On our way back we went into the Roman Catholic Cathedral, which was just opposite to our windows at the "Buckingham," a very large marble building, but still unfinished. We found four reporters waiting at the hotel to "interview" my husband. He had eluded them on the landing-stage, but they would take no denial here, and we were much harassed by others in the course of the day. Our luggage arrived at noon. It is almost a necessity to employ the Express Company for the conveyance of "baggage" throughout America, as the hackney carriages and hotel omnibuses are not prepared to take it. The charges are very high, and it is often extremely inconvenient having to wait two, three, or even four hours for it, after arrival in a town. The geography of New York is exceedingly simple, and is followed in nearly every American city. "Avenues" traverse the length of the town, which are called first, second, or third avenues, and the "streets" which intersect them are also numbered consecutively, so that you have—Third Street, Fifth Avenue, and know that it is the third street from the commencement of Fifth Avenue.
The Dead Land Trilogy
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Author : Anthony Izzo
language : en
Publisher: White Knuckle Books
Release Date : 2015-06-12
The Dead Land Trilogy written by Anthony Izzo and has been published by White Knuckle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-12 with Fiction categories.
It started as a killer flu. Soon after becoming infected, victims died and came back. Sheriff Emma Ross will see the first hand effects of the Wildfire virus on her town. When the virus spreads, the military moves in and wages a desperate battle to contain the virus. Emma and a band of survivors will have to fight for their lives as the world crumbles against the assault of the undead. Contains all three books of the Dead Land Trilogy (Infected, Wildfire, and Outbreak) in one volume.
Dead Pool
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Author : James Lawrence Powell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008
Dead Pool written by James Lawrence Powell 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 2008 with Nature categories.
Writing for a wide audience, Powell shows us exactly why an urgent threat during the first half of the twenty-first century will come not from the rising of the seas but from the falling of the reservoirs."--BOOK JACKET.
The Arena
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Arena written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Literature categories.
The Making Of T S Eliot
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Author : Joseph Maddrey
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-05-13
The Making Of T S Eliot written by Joseph Maddrey and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This chronological survey of major influences on T.S. Eliot's worldview covers the poet's spiritual and intellectual evolution in stages, by trying to see the world as Eliot did. It examines his childhood influences as well as the literary influences that inspired him to write his earliest poetry; his life as an American expatriate living in London from 1915 to 1930, including his ill-fated marriage and his intellectual engagement with the literary traditions of his new country; and the ways in which his intellectual pursuits fostered a spiritual rebirth that simultaneously reflected his past and revealed his future, demonstrating how the early Romantic revolutionary became a staunch defender of tradition.