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Author | : Richard Boggs |
Publisher | : Stacey International Publishers |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Like a lesser Galapagos, these islands boast flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. Moreover, the Socotran people have their own language (which lacks a script) and distinctive culture, cuisine and architecture: neither Arabian nor African, yet strongly and distinctively Socotran. Richard Boggs spent many months in this remote and other-world
Author | : National Geographic |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1426206461 |
"Secret Journeys of a Lifetime" presents 500 off-the-beaten-path travel destinations around the world that are notable for their vistas, wildlife, and historical and cultural significance.
Author | : James B. Minahan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This book addresses the numerous national movements of ethnic groups around the world seeking independence, more self-rule, or autonomy—movements that have proliferated exponentially in the 21st century. In the last 15 years, globalization, religious radicalization, economic changes, endangered cultures and languages, cultural suppression, racial tensions, and many other factors have stimulated the emergence of autonomy and independence movements in every corner of the world—even in areas formerly considered immune to self-government demands such as South America. Researching the numerous ethnic groups seeking autonomy or independence worldwide previously required referencing many specialized publications. This book makes this difficult-to-find information available in a single volume, presented in a simple format accessible to everyone, from high school readers to scholars in advanced studies programs. The book provides an extensive update to Greenwood's Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups around the World that was published more than a decade earlier. Each ethnic group receives an alphabetically organized entry containing information such as alternate names, population figures, flag or flags, geography, history, culture, and languages. All the information readers need to understand the motivating factors behind each movement and the current situation of each ethnic group is presented in a compact summary. Fact boxes at the beginning of each entry enable students to quickly access key information, and consistent entry structure makes for easy cross-cultural comparisons.
Author | : Nathalie Peutz |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1503607151 |
Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, reptiles, and plants found nowhere else on earth, but also to a rich cultural history and the endangered Soqotri language. Within the span of a decade, this Indian Ocean archipelago went from being among the most marginalized regions of Yemen to promoted for its outstanding global value. Islands of Heritage shares Soqotrans' stories to offer the first exploration of environmental conservation, heritage production, and development in an Arab state. Examining the multiple notions of heritage in play for twenty-first-century Soqotra, Nathalie Peutz narrates how everyday Soqotrans came to assemble, defend, and mobilize their cultural and linguistic heritage. These efforts, which diverged from outsiders' focus on the island's natural heritage, ultimately added to Soqotrans' calls for political and cultural change during the Yemeni Revolution. Islands of Heritage shows that far from being merely a conservative endeavor, the protection of heritage can have profoundly transformative, even revolutionary effects. Grassroots claims to heritage can be a potent form of political engagement with the most imminent concerns of the present: human rights, globalization, democracy, and sustainability.
Author | : Ahmad K. Hegazy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0199660816 |
This advanced textbook is about Middle Eastern plants and plant ecology, presented within the wider context of the changing landscape, global climate change, and human history (particularly in relation to agriculture, conflict, and religion).
Author | : Nigel Redman |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2009-05-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0713665416 |
The first field guide to the birds of this varied and fascinating region and a companion to Birds of East Africa by two of the same authors.
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1997-03 |
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Author | : Ehler, Charles |
Publisher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2011-07-04 |
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ISBN | : 9231042068 |
Author | : Amareswar Galla |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2012-11-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107610753 |
This thematic collection of 26 case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage in the context of sustainable development.
Author | : Sumathi Ramaswamy |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2004-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520931858 |
During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria’s incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery—and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day.