Sport as Symbol

Sport as Symbol
Author: Mari Womack
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786415797

Upon first consideration, sport and art seem to occupy separate, even opposing, realms--sport, associated with physical prowess, and art, with the highest reaches of the human mind. But because sport is such a powerful metaphor for so many human experiences, it has found its way into artistic traditions all over the world. Part One of this book provides a basic understanding of sport as symbol. Part Two gives attention to animals as adversaries and traces the origins of sporting art back to the hunt. Part Three considers humans competing against humans in combat sports, ball games, stick-and-ball games, and racquet sports, as well as in warfare. Part Four concentrates on contesting with oneself in races and sports of grace and beauty such as gymnastics, figure skating and ice dancing. The book concludes with a discussion of the athlete's relationships to society.

Hunter Pains

Hunter Pains
Author: Rebecca Grace Allen
Publisher: Rebecca Grace Allen Enterprises
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0999800485

Anyone can tame a brat...except the man who falls for her. Three months after Roxy Cavanaugh walked out of Hunter Finn’s life, she’s back, needing him again. Returning to New York City and the life Hunter left behind isn’t on the top of his agenda, but he’s never been able to say no to Roxy, and she’s just as sexy and demanding as she was before. He’s looking forward to putting her in her place again…as long as he doesn’t fall back in love with her first. A modern day, BDSM, Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare BDSM DivaActress AlphaHero D/s Age Play Training/brat

The Koryak

The Koryak
Author: Waldemar Jochelson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 886
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3942883872

Since the 18th century, researchers and scientists have traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Many of them were of German origin and had been commissioned by the Russian government to perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive descriptions and detailed reports are still considered some of the most valuable documents on the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that part of the world. These works inform us about living conditions and particular ways of natural resource use at various times, and provide us with valuable background information for current assessment. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They represented a shift of the already existing transnational research networks toward North America. Jochelson’s work The Koryak was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.

Beyond Wild and Tame

Beyond Wild and Tame
Author: Alex C. Oehler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789206790

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. Following herder-hunters of the Eastern Saian Mountains in southern Siberia, the author examines how Soiot and Tofa households embrace unpredictability, recognize sentience, and encourage autonomy in all their relations with animals, spirits, and land features. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.

Zoo

Zoo
Author: Eric Baratay
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2004
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781861892089

Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature so that its inner workings could be understood also looms large in the history of science, and thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and the zoo as we know it today has been so poorly documented. This gap is addressed by Zoo, a comprehensive history of the zoo in the Western world.

Taming of the Shoe

Taming of the Shoe
Author: Sarah Darer Littman
Publisher: Aladdin
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534431578

­Arminita Robicheaux—Cinderella’s daughter—discovers that the best way to happily ever after is doing what you can to make your own fairy tale come true in this enchanting follow-up to Charmed, I’m Sure that’s perfect for fans of The Descendants! Arminita Robicheaux is convinced her parents are out to ruin her life. Not only did they move Minty to New York City right before the school year started, but her mom’s late-night infomercials for a variety of cleaning products follow Minty wherever she goes. Oh, and did she mention that her mother happens to be Ella Robicheaux—a.k.a. Cinderella? And Minty’s eccentric aunties—who may or may not have made Ella clean and wait on them while growing up—decide to cast Minty’s entire class in their new commercial for their “Comfortably Ever After” shoe line, complete with raps that make Minty want to run far, far away. But Minty’s new friend has a perfect distraction; the boy-band mega-star Theo Downy who is staying in town for a series of concerts. If Minty can find a way to get her shoe designs in front of Theo, maybe she can get tickets to the sold-out show. Of course, things don’t go according to plan, and Minty ends up leaving a big clue behind… Like mother, like daughter!