Keeping it Living

Keeping it Living
Author: Douglas Deur
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0774812672

Keeping It Living brings together some of the world'smost prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examinetraditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. Itexplores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camasplots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia,estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia,wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berryplots up and down the entire coast. With contributions from a host of experts, Native American scholarsand elders, Keeping It Living documents practices ofmanipulating plants and their environments in ways that enhancedculturally preferred plants and plant communities. It describes howindigenous peoples of this region used and cared for over 300 speciesof plants, from the lofty red cedar to diminutive plants of backwaterbogs.

Streams of Living Water

Streams of Living Water
Author: Richard J. Foster
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2001-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0060628227

The author of the bestselling celebration of discipline explores the great traditions of Christian spirituality and their role in spiritual renewal today. In this landmark work, Foster examines the "streams of living water" –– the six dimensions of faith and practice that define Christian tradition. He lifts up the enduring character of each tradition and shows how a variety of practices, from individual study and retreat to disciplines of service and community, are all essential elements of growth and maturity. Foster examines the unique contributions of each of these traditions and offers as examples the inspiring stories of faithful people whose lives defined each of these "streams."

Living Folklore

Living Folklore
Author: Martha Sims
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 087421517X

Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a strong foundation—from the field’s history and major terms to theories, interpretive approaches, and fieldwork. Many teachers of undergraduates find the available folklore textbooks too complex or unwieldy for an introductory level course. It is precisely this criticism that Living Folklore addresses; while comprehensive and rigorous, the book is specifically intended to meet the needs of those students who are just beginning their study of the discipline. Its real strength lies in how it combines carefully articulated foundational concepts with relevant examples and a student-oriented teaching philosophy.

How Traditions Live and Die

How Traditions Live and Die
Author: Olivier Morin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190210494

Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance through space and time than any individual person ever could. What makes such transmission chains possible? For two centuries, the dominant view (from psychology to anthropology) was that humans owe their cultural prosperity to their powers of imitation. In this view, modern cultures exist because the people who carry them are gifted at remembering, storing and reproducing information. How Traditions Live and Die proposes an alternative to this standard view. What makes traditions live is not a general-purpose imitation capacity. Cultural transmission is partial, selective, often unfaithful. Some traditions live on in spite of this, because they tap into widespread and basic cognitive preferences. These attractive traditions spread, not by being better retained or more accurately transferred, but because they are transmitted over and over. This theory is used to shed light on various puzzles of cultural change (from the distribution of bird songs to the staying power of children's rhymes) and to explain the special relation that links the human species to its cultures. Morin combines recent work in cognitive anthropology with new advances in quantitative cultural history, to map and predict the diffusion of traditions. This book is both an introduction and an accessible alternative to contemporary theories of cultural evolution.

The Book of New Family Traditions (Revised and Updated)

The Book of New Family Traditions (Revised and Updated)
Author: Meg Cox
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780762443185

Offers instructions or "recipes" for creating new family rituals or traditions, in categories such as "holidays," "family festivities and ceremonies," and "rites of passage."

Sources of Our Faith

Sources of Our Faith
Author: Kathleen Rolenz
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 155896679X

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions

Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions
Author: R. Layton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2005-08-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134866216

The first text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of anthropology and archaeology in the world today. Calls into question the traditional, sometimes difficult relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures and peoples they study and can easily disturb.

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality

Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality
Author: Roland Faber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498513360

The World Parliament of Religions adopted the view that there will not be peace in this world without including peace among religions. Yet, even with the unified force of the world’s religions and wisdom traditions, this cannot be accomplished without justice among people. In one way or another, “unity” among religions, as based on justice and the will to accept the other’s religions and even irreligiosity as means of justice, will not prevail without an internal and external, spiritual, theological, philosophical and practical investigation into the very reasons for religious strife and fanaticism as well as the resources that people, cultures, religions and wisdom traditions might provide to disentangle them from the injustices of their host regimes, and to seek the “balance” that leads to a measure of universal fairness among the multiplicity of religious and non-religious expressions of humanity. “Conviviality” expresses the depth and breadth of “living together,” which itself can be understood as a translation of a central term of Whitehead's philosophy and the process tradition—“concrescence” (growing together, becoming concrete)—as it is recently and increasingly used in different discourses to name the concrete community of difference of individuals, cultures, and religions in appreciation of the mutual inclusiveness of their lives. This book seeks to bring together experts from different religious (and non-religious) traditions and spiritual persuasions to suggest ways in which the living wisdom traditions might contribute to, and transform themselves into, a universal conviviality among the people, cultures and religions of this world for a common future. It wishes to test the resources that we can contribute to this concurrent and urgent matter, aware of Whitehead's call for a radical transformation of power and violence in thought and action as, perhaps, the ultimate theory of conflict resolution.

Living Traditions of the Bible

Living Traditions of the Bible
Author: James E Bowley
Publisher: Chalice Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780827221277

More than half the people in the world today share traditions taken from the book that Christians call the Bible. What the Bible means and how it has been used in Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam--historically and in the present--is the subject of this book. Contributors include: James E. Bowley, Demetrios Constantelos, Joseph Fitzmyer, S.J., Kathryn Johnson, Adam Kamesar, James S. McClanahan, Bruce M. Metzger, Michael A. Meyer, John C. Reeves, and David C. Steinmetz.

Living Traditions in Indian Art

Living Traditions in Indian Art
Author: Martín Gurvich
Publisher: Mapin
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781935677017

Featuring a diverse and richly illustrated testament to contemporary Indian devotional art, this catalogue presents an extensive and unique collection by traditional artists who have translated their creative impulses into beautiful pieces that express a personal expression of divinity. An extensive and growing collection is now housed at the Museum of Sacred Art in Belgium curated so that visitors could experience and learn the cultural roots of Vaishnava art and its connection to the broader world of Hindu philosophy. The catalogue unveils the living traditions of this genre as well as documents a concerted effort to preserve this special art form that continues to be subject to the fast paced modernisation of India. The collection focuses on works by Indian artists and includes devotional paintings by ISKCON artists. A few works from Nepal, Tibet, Thailand and Indonesia are also a part of it -- representatives of the spiritual and cultural connection that these places have had with India in the past. Supported with insightful contributions on the history of this art, the art itself and its artists, the catalogue's larger purpose is to both address and support the revival of interest in spiritual art among the academic community, art lovers and the general public.