Myth Ritual And Visible Expressions Of Ob T L And Ol Kun In Il Ife

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Envisioning Eternal Empire

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Author : Yuri Pines
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01

Envisioning Eternal Empire written by Yuri Pines and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Political Science categories.

This ambitious book looks into the reasons for the exceptional durability of the Chinese empire, which lasted for more than two millennia (221 B.C.E.-1911 C.E.). Yuri Pines identifies the roots of the empire's longevity in the activities of thinkers of the Warring States period (453-221 B.C.E.), who, in their search for solutions to an ongoing political crisis, developed ideals, values, and perceptions that would become essential for the future imperial polity. In marked distinction to similar empires worldwide, the Chinese empire was envisioned and to a certain extent "preplanned" long before it came into being. As a result, it was not only a military and administrative construct, but also an intellectual one. Pines makes the argument that it was precisely its ideological appeal that allowed the survival and regeneration of the empire after repeated periods of turmoil. Envisioning Eternal Empire presents a panoptic survey of philosophical and social conflicts in Warring States political culture. By examining the extant corpus of preimperial literature, including transmitted texts and manuscripts uncovered at archaeological sites, Pines locates the common ideas of competing thinkers that underlie their ideological controversies. This bold approach allows him to transcend the once fashionable perspective of competing "schools of thought" and show that beneath the immense pluralism of Warring States thought one may identify common ideological choices that eventually shaped traditional Chinese political culture

Supernatural And Natural Selection

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Author : Lyle B. Steadman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17

Supernatural And Natural Selection written by Lyle B. Steadman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Social Science categories.

Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religion because they develop an approach that removes guesswork about beliefs in the supernatural, focusing instead on the behaviors of individuals. The result is a pioneering look at how and why natural selection has favored religious behaviors throughout history.

Identity Across Borders A Study In The Ikea World

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Author : Miriam Salzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Identity Across Borders A Study In The Ikea World written by Miriam Salzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.

The Sa Dan Toraja A Study Of Their Social Life And Religion

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Author : H. Nooy-Palm
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-06

The Sa Dan Toraja A Study Of Their Social Life And Religion written by H. Nooy-Palm and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-06 with Social Science categories.

Until about 1870 the Sa’dan-toraja of Sulawesi had little contact with the outside world. Several factors, of which the introduction of the coffee-growing and the coffee trade was chronologically one of the first, have changed their life as a megalithic people enmeshed in mythology and ritual drastically. The conversion of nearly half the population to Christianity after 1945 brought a particularly profound change in Sa’dan-Toraja society. Old customs, in particular as regards funerary rites, have a tenacious life, however. In autochthonous Toraja culture rituals are the main focus of attention. They are divided into ceremonies of the East and those of the West. The former, associated with sunrise and life, comprise feasts of the living; yellow and white are the colours belonging to these joyous festivals. The West is associated with sunset, death and darkness; the main colour connected with it is black. So death rituals are referred to a “night ceremonies”. In time these death feasts grew more and more complicated, finally overshadowing the festivals of the East.

The Song Yuan Ming Transition In Chinese History

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Author : Christine J Loomis
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2003

The Song Yuan Ming Transition In Chinese History written by Christine J Loomis 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 China categories.

"The ten essays in this volume aim to restore continuity to that historical narrative by filling in the gap between mid-imperial and late imperial China."--BOOK JACKET.

Becoming Artists

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Author : Carina Rech
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

Becoming Artists written by Carina Rech 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.

Wooden Eyes

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Author : Carlo Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-01-01

Wooden Eyes written by Carlo Ginzburg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Aesthetic distance categories.

"I am a Jew who was born and who grew up in a Catholic country; I never had a religious education; my Jewish identity is in large measure the result of persecution." This brief autobiographical statement is a key to understanding Carlo Ginzberg's interest in the topic of his latest book: distance. In nine linked essays, he addresses the question "what id the exact distance that permits us to see things as they are?" To understand our world, suggests Ginzburg, it is necessary to find a balance between being so close to the object that our vision is warped by familiarity or so far from it that the distance becomes distorting. Opening with a reflection on the sense of feeling astray, of familiarization and defamiliarization, the author goes on to consider the concepts of perspective, representation, imagery, and myth. Arising from the theme of proximity is the recurring issue of the opposition between Jews and Christians - a topic Ginzberg explores with an array of examples, from Latin translations to Greek and Hebrew scriptures to Pope John Paul II's recent apology to the Jews for anti-Semitism.Moving with equal acuity from Aristotle to Voltaire, touching on philosophy, history, philology and ethics, and including examples from present-day popular culture, Wooden Eyes offers a new perspective on the universally relevant theme of distance. [from book jacket].

Blurring The Lines

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Author : Maria Edström
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

Blurring The Lines written by Maria Edström and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Antlogier categories.

The Penrose Annual

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

The Penrose Annual written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Decorative arts categories.

The Compact Edition Of The Oxford English Dictionary

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Author : Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971

The Compact Edition Of The Oxford English Dictionary written by Sir James Augustus Henry Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with English language categories.

Micrographic reproduction of the 13 volume Oxford English dictionary published in 1933.