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Amerindian Rebirth
Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day. Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeen...
Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change
Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses. The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some common patterns of how people make sense of climate change. Global Warming in Local Discourses constitu...
Vagrant Viking
Follow the Adventures of This Intrepid Arctic Explorer Famous Danish explorer Peter Freuchen (1886-1957) lived an epic life of adventures ranging from exploring the frozen Arctic to fighting the German war machine of World War II. In Vagrant Viking he chronicles his exploits from Copenhagen to Siberia to Hollywood. Together with fellow polar explorer Knud Rasmussen, Freuchen established the Greenland trading station of Thule, and spent many years living amongst the indigenous people of the region. During World War II Freuchen served in occupied Denmark's anti-Nazi underground and survived being imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Germans. His subsequent life of countless travels and adv...
Learn Finnish - Level 3: Beginner, Volume 1
Interactive. Effective. And FUN! Start speaking Finnish in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Learn Finnish - Level 3: Beginner, a completely new way to learn Finnish with ease! Learn Finnish - Level 3: Beginner will arm you with Finnish and cultural insight to utterly shock and amaze your Finnish friends and family, teachers, and colleagues. What you get in Learn Finnish - Level 3: Beginner - 280+ pages of Finnish learning material - 25 Finnish lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section - 25 Audio Lesson Tracks - 25 Audio Review Tracks - 25 Audio Dialog Tracks This book is the most powerful ...
Iñupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuninit/Iñupiaq to English Dictionary
"Inupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuni ""it/Inupiaq to English Dictionary, "with approximately 19,000 entries (word stems, suffixes, and endings) and thirty-one appendices, is a rich cultural and linguistic resource of the Inupiaq language, the ancestral language of approximately five thousand Inupiat who live in eight villages on the North Slope of Alaska. Inupiaq word stems, suffixes, and endings can combine to form thousands of combinations, and each entry has an English translation. Many entries contain a verbal illustration in Inupiaq also translated into English. Every entry contains a morpheme by morpheme analysis. Of the dictionary s thirty-one appendices, twenty-four contain lists of te...
Coorg Kannada (Jenu Kuruba Dialect)
On the dialect spoken by the Jenu Kurubas, a tribal people of Coorg District, Mysore.
