The Headman was a Woman
Author | : Kirk M. Endicott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kirk M. Endicott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cecil Henry Bompas |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2023-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Cecil Henry Bompas' 'Folklore of the Santal Parganas' is a seminal work that delves into the rich tapestry of Santal folklore, offering readers a unique insight into the customs, beliefs, and traditions of the Santal people. Bompas showcases his meticulous research by presenting a collection of myths, legends, and anecdotes that provide a glimpse into the cultural heritage of this indigenous community. Through his narrative style, Bompas weaves together a vivid portrayal of the Santal Parganas, inviting readers to explore the mystical world of these forest-dwelling people. This book serves as a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of folklore studies, offering a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of Santal folklore in its literary context. Bompas' careful attention to detail and his passion for preserving the oral traditions of the Santals shines through in every page, making 'Folklore of the Santal Parganas' a captivating read for anyone interested in the rich cultural heritage of India.
Author | : Riane Eisler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0190935723 |
Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how we can build societies that support our great human capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It brings together findings--largely overlooked--from the natural and social sciences debunking the popular idea that we are hard-wired for selfishness, war, rape, and greed. Its groundbreaking new approach reveals connections between disturbing trends like climate change denial and regressions to strongman rule. Moving past right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, and other familiar categories that do not include our formative parent-child and gender relations, it looks at where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale. On one end is the domination system that ranks man over man, man over woman, race over race, and man over nature. On the other end is the more peaceful, egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable partnership system. Nurturing Our Humanity explores how behaviors, values, and socio-economic institutions develop differently in these two environments, documents how this impacts nothing less than how our brains develop, examines cultures from this new perspective (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership), and proposes actions supporting the contemporary movement in this more life-sustaining and enhancing direction. It shows how through today's ever more fearful, frenzied, and greed-driven technologies of destruction and exploitation, the domination system may lead us to an evolutionary dead end. A more equitable and sustainable way of life is biologically possible and culturally attainable: we can change our course.
Author | : Brian Morris |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-12-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000181332 |
The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable study focuses on Malawi people and their rich and varied relationship with animals -- from hunting through to their use as medicine. More broadly, through a rigorous and detailed study the author provides insights which show how the people's relationship to their world manifests itself not strictly in social relations, but just as tellingly in their relatioships with animals -- that, in fact, animals constitute a vital role in social relations. While significantly advancing classic African ethnographic studies, this book also incorporates current debates in a wide range of disciplines -- from anthropology through to gender studies and ecology.
Author | : Jaydipsinh Dodiya |
Publisher | : Sarup & Sons |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Indic fiction (English) |
ISBN | : 9788176250726 |
Contributed essays.
Author | : Namhila, Ellen Ndeshi |
Publisher | : University of Namibia Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9991642196 |
In 1963 Mukwahepo left her home in Namibia and followed her fiance across the border into Angola. They survived hunger and war and eventually made their way to Tanzania. There, Mukwahepo became the first woman to undergo military training with SWAPO. For nine years she was the only woman in SWAPO's Kongwa camp. She was then thrust into a more traditional women's role - taking care of children in the SWAPO camps in Zambia and Angola. At Independence, Mukwahepo returned to Namibia with five children. One by one their parents came to reclaim them, until she was left alone. Already in her fifties, and with little education, Mukwahepo could not get employment. She survived on handouts until the Government introduced a pension and other benefits for veterans. Through a series of interviews, Ellen Ndeshi Namhila recorded and translated Mukwahepo's remarkable story. This book preserves the oral history of not only the 'dominant male voice' among the colonised people of Namibia, but brings to light the hidden voice, the untold and forgotten story of an ordinary woman and the outstanding role she played during the struggle.
Author | : Elsa Joubert |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1868426696 |
Voted one of the hundred most important books published in Africa during the last century. Winner of the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Literary Award and the Louis Luyt Prize.Sharing the language and religion or the Afrikaners bent on her people's subjugation, Poppie Nongena - a Xhosa woman born in an Upington township - has no choice but to negotiate the riptide of structural violence that is apartheid South Africa. Rootless, her ailing husband emasculated by legislation and her children bearing witness to her degradation, Poppie is forced on a spiritual and cultural journey from Lambert's Bay to a Cape Town township to Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape. Her heartache is the pain of a nation - an emblem of how the human spirit may strain under the weight of tyranny, yet adapts and prevails.Written to break the barrier of ignorance in late-1970s South Africa, The Long, Journey of Poppie Nongena - unsentimental but sensitive - documents a harrowing life lived in a time that a country would rather forget. A literary and commercial success when it was released in Afrikaans in 1979, Elsa Joubert's searing indictment of inhumanity remains universally relevant almost 40 years later in a world in which political dispensations continue to rise and fall. It has won a clutch of literary prizes, including the CNA and Hofmeyr, and has been translated into 13 languages and sold around the world. In 2002 it was selected by a panel of 16 international academi and writers as one of the 100 best African novels of the 20th century.
Author | : Jean E. Jackson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1983-09-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521278225 |
The Bará, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses Bar· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.
Author | : Irving Goldman |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252007705 |
Author | : Shannon Lowry |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780811711029 |
The art of photography was still young when Edward Sheriff Curtis joined the Harriman Expedition in 1899. He left home a studio photographer; he returned a zealot with a mission: to document the world of the Natives throughout North America before white settlers destroyed it utterly. This book features the best of Edward Sheriff Curtis's turn-of-the-century Alaska images alongside translations of Native legends and reflections of modern-day Natives.