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Author | : Alanna Mitchell |
Publisher | : Hunter House |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
"Dancing at the Dead Sea is a powerful narrative on the critically important topic of the world's environmental hotspots. This is not a pessimistic tirade, but instead a factual commentary that will convince many, written by a gifted writer with an independent mind. I recommend this book without reservation." Richard Leakey Alanna Mitchell, winner of the Global Reuters IUCN media award for excellence in environmental reporting, embarks on an incredible worldwide cultural and environmental odyssey, zeroing in on environmental hotspots and examines how we can live, even flourish, without destroying the planet. One hundred and fifty years after the publication of The Origin of Species, Mitchell retraces the development of evolutionary theory, grappling with Richard Leakey's contention that the extinction of the human species is well under way. How and why are we human beings shortening our time on Earth? Travelling to the last living Eden, Madagascar, Mitchell is witness to the destruction of all but 10 percent of the original forest, not due to industrial activity but woodcutting by a primitive society still dependent on fire as its main energy resource. She then moves on to the badlands of Alberta, where she draws on the theory of world-famous paleontologist Philip Currie and the extinction of dinosaurs to gain insight on humanitys own impending suicide. Travel to the Azraq Oasis in Jordan, the meeting place of Africa, Asia and Europe, the mythical Galapagos Islands, seemingly unspoiled, but not immune to degradation, the far north and the Arctic desert of Banks Island, one of the first places on Earth where climate change with global impact is visible. Like the work of Wade Davis or books such as Krakatoa by Simon Winchester and Four Wings and a Prayer by Sue Halpern, Dancing at the Dead Sea intertwines scientific theory with travel adventure and history, creating a dramatic, fresh narrative voice examining not the origin, but the ultimate fate of the human species. (April 2004)
Author | : Christopher T. Nelson |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008-12-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822390078 |
Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable devastation of the Pacific War, and a long American military occupation that still casts its shadow over the islands. The ethnographic research that Nelson conducted in Okinawa in the late 1990s—and his broader effort to understand Okinawans’ critical and creative struggles—was inspired by his first visit to the islands in 1985 as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. Nelson analyzes the practices of specific performers, showing how memories are recalled, bodies remade, and actions rethought as Okinawans work through fragments of the past in order to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life. Artists such as the popular Okinawan actor and storyteller Fujiki Hayato weave together genres including Japanese stand-up comedy, Okinawan celebratory rituals, and ethnographic studies of war memory, encouraging their audiences to imagine other ways to live in the modern world. Nelson looks at the efforts of performers and activists to wrest the Okinawan past from romantic representations of idyllic rural life in the Japanese media and reactionary appropriations of traditional values by conservative politicians. In his consideration of eisā, the traditional dance for the dead, Nelson finds a practice that reaches beyond the expected boundaries of mourning and commemoration, as the living and the dead come together to create a moment in which a new world might be built from the ruins of the old.
Author | : Sondra Horton Fraleigh |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1999-07-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0822990628 |
Butoh, also known as "dance of darkness," is a postmodern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body or "the body that has not been robbed," as butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata put it. Butoh has become increasingly popular in the United States and throughout the world, diversifying its aesthetic while at the same time asserting the power of its spiritual foundations. Dancing into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an audience member to that of assimilation as a student of Zen and butoh. Fraleigh witnesses her own artistic and personal transformation through essays, poems, interviews, and reflections spanning twelve years of study, much of it in Japan. Numerous performance photographs and original calligraphy by Fraleigh's Zen teacher, Shodo Akane, illuminate her words.
Author | : Dominique Savitri Bonarjee |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 100098625X |
This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach. The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices – Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, Yukio Waguri, Moe Yamamoto, Masaki Iwana, Ko Murobushi, Yukio Suzuki, Takao Kawaguchi, Yuko Kaseki, and the philosopher, Kuniichi Uno. These conversations happened during an extended research trip I made to Japan to understand the context and circumstances that engendered Butoh. Alongside these exchanges are my reflections on Butoh’s complex history. These are primarily informed by my pedagogical and performance encounters with the artists I met during this time, rather than a theoretical analysis. Through the words of these dancers, I investigate Butoh’s tendency to evade categorization. Butoh’s artistic legacy of bodily rebellion, plurality of authorship, and fluidity of form seems prescient and feels more relevant in contemporary times than ever before. This book is intended as a practitioner's guide for dancers, artists, students, and scholars with an interest in non-Western dance and dance history, postmodern performance, and Japanese arts and culture.
Author | : Heather Mendel |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1846946301 |
Through mysticism and mythology, this book offers an original perspective for those interested in a mythic and mystical approach to Judaism and to women of diverse spiritual and religious communities, who, awakening in consciousness, seek authenticity in the feminine experience.
Author | : Richard Girling |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1446436942 |
We can no longer cope with our waste. Every hour in the UK we throw away enough rubbish to fill the Albert hall - a statistic quoted so often that perhaps we've stopped imagining what it means. And every year the flow accelerates. This is the story of our rubbish - from the first human bowel movement to the littering of outer space. With a hankerchief to his nose, Girling picks through our fridge mountain, our crumbling sewers, trading waste, packaging waste, hazardous industrial waste... it is a mucky saga of carelessness, greed and opportunism, wasted opportunity and official bungling. But Rubbish! is also a plea for us to consider other kinds of waste: the trashing of our landscape, the unstoppable floods of junk that clog our mailboxes, litter the skies and foul the airwaves... Rubbish! may not be a conventional battle cry but this is unmistakably a call to arms - not just for the three 'R's - reduce, re-use, recycle - but for us to fight for new ideas, brave initiative rather than reliance on old systems that are crumbling before our eyes.
Author | : Heather Gilion |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : Bereavement |
ISBN | : 1607998718 |
Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.
Author | : Nigel Barley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Comparative civilization |
ISBN | : 9780349107769 |
Seeking to merge the information of theologians and anthropologists, this book looks at the variety of ways in which cultures around the world deal with death and give it meaning. In some cultures, most famously Ancient Egypt, families would virtually financially ruin themselves in order to deal with the death of just one person. Other cultures such as the nomadic peoples of southern Africa, simply pull down the roof of their dwelling onto the body and move on, while the wrapped bodies in Torajan (Indonesian) houses are used as shelves. The reader is guided through such diverse areas as myths about death, belief about ways to mourn, joking at funerals, post-mortem videos, cannibalism, headhunting and royal mortuary ritual.
Author | : Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Eretz Israel |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Prinnie McCourt |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-08-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1304255050 |
In 1967 Leah Commoss arrives in Turkey to teach on Karamursel Air Station (KAS), an American 'intelligence gathering' base where secret Russian radio transmissions are monitored. She soon realizes there's more intrigue on the base than in the air waves above it. Leah is drawn into a frenzied dance of vindictive rumor and innuendo, choreographed by a sinister Turkish woman she barely knows, and whose motives she cannot even imagine. After finding a dead man on base, and another floating in the Dead Sea, Leah is dubbed "a walking international incident" by policemen of several countries. Leah's teaching responsibilities and travel perks can only partially divert her concern over unwarranted harassment, imminent arrest, and the black market activities she's discovered rampant on KAS. Caught up in this uncontrollable whirl of events, Leah discovers there is no way to safely sit out "dancing with a dervish."