On The Bones Of The Serpent

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On The Bones Of The Serpent

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Author : Debbora Battaglia
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990-03

On The Bones Of The Serpent written by Debbora Battaglia and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-03 with Family & Relationships categories.

Sabarl island—created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent—is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of themselves as true "islanders": persons separated from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl struggle for continuity—of the physical and social person and of social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a matrilineal society—is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim culture area and an important contribution to studies of personhood in Melanesia. The creative focus of Sabarl cultural life is a series of mortuary feasts and rituals known as segaiya. In assembling and disassembling commemorative food and objects in segaiya exchanges, Sabarl also assemble and disassemble the critical social relations such objects stand for. These commemorative acts create a collective memory yet also a collective experience of forgetting social bonds that are of no future use to the living. Sabarl anticipate this disaggregation in patterns of everyday life, which reveal the importance of categorical distinctions mapped in beliefs about the physical and metaphysical person. Using remembrance and forgetting as an analytic lens, Battaglia is able to ask questions critical to understanding Melanesian social process. One of the "new ethnographies" addressing the limits of ethnographic representation and the fragmented nature of knowledge from an indigenous perspective, her finely wrought study explores the dynamics of cultural practices in which decontruction is integral to construction, allowing a new perspective on the ephermeral nature of sociality in Melanesia and new insight into the efficacy of cultural images more generally.

The Great Sea Serpent

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Author : Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (Jzn)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

The Great Sea Serpent written by Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (Jzn) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.

Bones Of The Dragon

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Author : Margaret Weis
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-01-06

Bones Of The Dragon written by Margaret Weis and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with Fiction categories.

Filled with heroes and heroines and spanning locales of exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, the Dragonships of Vindras series fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into the bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time. In Bones of the Dragon, Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war. But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise. Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creation… and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons. It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddess's champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption. Welcome to the World of Dragonships!

The Serpent Grail

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Author : Philip Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2012-01-01

The Serpent Grail written by Philip Gardiner and has been published by Watkins Media Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

This is the extraordinary story of the discovery of the ultimate secrets of some of the world's most enigmatic mysteries - including the Holy Grail, the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone.

Essay On The Physiognomy Of Serpents

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Author : Hermann Schlegel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843

Essay On The Physiognomy Of Serpents written by Hermann Schlegel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with Serpents categories.

One of the best works of its kind at the time it was written.

The Great Sea Serpent

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Author : A.C. Oudemans (Jzn.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

The Great Sea Serpent written by A.C. Oudemans (Jzn.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with categories.

Riding The Serpent S Back

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Author : Keith Brooke
language : en
Publisher: infinity plus
Release Date :

Riding The Serpent S Back written by Keith Brooke and has been published by infinity plus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.

"Keith Brooke's prose achieves a rare honesty and clarity, his characters always real people, his situations intriguing and often moving." World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer With his health failing, the great mage Donn has chosen to pass on his Talents to a new generation: an old era is drawing to a close, a new era about to begin. But with change comes instability. War looms and a rogue church leader threatens to set loose the wild powers of the First City. Donn's children must oppose this man but, also, they must contend with Donn himself: the old mage has not finished with his children yet. On the run from the religious repression of the mainland, Leeth Hamera joins a group of outcasts on the Serpent's Back, a continually changing island continent in the middle of a lava sea. Leeth has never lived up to the expectations of his wealthy merchant family and his only magical skill is the lowly Talent of bonding with animals. But, as he learns, the greatest Talents can sometimes be the slowest to emerge. The leader of the outcasts is Chi, son of Donn and the greatest healer of his generation. Chi is in exile for breaking the Embodied Church's edict against intervening in the natural order: many years ago Chi used his skills to revive his son from the dead. That son, Lachlan Pas, is now a church leader tortured by the guilty knowledge of what his father had to do to return him to life. When he learns Chi is still alive, he orders his execution, determined that his secret should never be exposed. Until now, Chi has been content to live in exile but now he knows that his son's insane and cruel rule must be stopped. Chi summons his half-siblings from throughout the inhabited lands of the Rift valley. The need for action is confirmed when one of them reveals that Lachlan and his mage, Oriole, are rebuilding the ancient city of Samhab - an act which will release the powers of the earth with unforeseeable consequences. Welcome to the magical island city of Zigané, endlessly adrift in the southern lava sea; the searing soda plains home of the Morani warriors; the impenetrable Zochi jungle, full of illusion and hidden hazard; the charmed fortress-like City of the Divine Wall; and Samhab, the fantastic First City of the True, built at the geographical centre of the Rift, where the magical powers of the earth rise up to be set free by the earth-charmers and mages. The novel's cast of shape-changers, earth-charmers, healers and illusionists must battle to save civilization from the evil rule of Lachlan Pas and his followers. For whoever controls the power of Samhab controls the future of the world. "A progressive and skilful writer." Peter F Hamilton, author of the Night's Dawn trilogy "In the recognized front ranks of SF writers." Locus

The Works Of William Paley

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Author : William Paley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860

The Works Of William Paley written by William Paley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Ethics categories.

The Works Of William Paley Containing His Life Moral And Political Philosophy Etc With A Portrait

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Author : William Paley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1831

The Works Of William Paley Containing His Life Moral And Political Philosophy Etc With A Portrait written by William Paley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1831 with categories.

The Lancet

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1834

The Lancet written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1834 with Medicine categories.