Author: Charles Korankye
Publisher: Adinkra Alphabet LLC
ISBN: 194747801X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A book about Adinkra Alphabet, Adinkra Symbols, Adinkra Tree of Life (ATOL), Adinkra Flower of Life(AFOL), Adinkra Fruit of Life (AFrOL) and Adinkra Seed of Life (ASOL). Learn about Adinkra supersymmetry and Akan Traditional Calendar (Akwasidae and Awukudae).
Nyame Dua: Adinkra Tree of Life
Ghana
Author: Philip Briggs
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841622057
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The definitive guide to Ghana, by expert author Philip Briggs. Travellers will discover inspiration, reassurance and down-to-earth practicalities all in one volume.
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN: 9781841622057
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The definitive guide to Ghana, by expert author Philip Briggs. Travellers will discover inspiration, reassurance and down-to-earth practicalities all in one volume.
Symbols
Author: Carl G. Liungman
Publisher: Ionfox AB
ISBN: 9197270504
Category : Semiotics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
Publisher: Ionfox AB
ISBN: 9197270504
Category : Semiotics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
Notes from a Diviner in the Postmodern World
Author: Theresa C. Dintino
Publisher: Theresa C. Dintino
ISBN: 194447613X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
What does it mean to bring indigenous wisdom to the postmodern world? How do divination and ritual fit into modern society? How does one integrate ancient spiritual teachings into a western mindset while remaining true to the original meaning? Notes from a Diviner in the Postmodern World: A Handbook for Spirit Workers is a guidebook for both diviners and spirit workers of any tradition. In this book Dintino describes what she calls the landscape of the otherworld, revealed to her through spirits—ancestors, archangels, elemental and light beings—in her divinations. Whatever your spiritual tradition, there’s always a shared landscape of the otherworld. Understanding the landscape will help you navigate your own spiritual terrain. Learning how to be an effective diviner and spirit worker also means that you must interact fully with the wisdom of the place where you live, which includes learning from all living things including mountains and water. This powerful handbook teaches you how to heal your world by exploring inter-dimensional realms and ultimately becoming a spiritual steward of the Earth. “When I became a diviner, I did not expect to encounter a landscape in the otherworld that I would become familiar with and navigate more easily as I continued to divine. I am still exploring this landscape, but wanted to share some of the things I have learned in order to help those interested in the dimensional realms understand better what they are seeing. What I have included in this book is not meant to be rigid; it is a conversation and a guide.”
Publisher: Theresa C. Dintino
ISBN: 194447613X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
What does it mean to bring indigenous wisdom to the postmodern world? How do divination and ritual fit into modern society? How does one integrate ancient spiritual teachings into a western mindset while remaining true to the original meaning? Notes from a Diviner in the Postmodern World: A Handbook for Spirit Workers is a guidebook for both diviners and spirit workers of any tradition. In this book Dintino describes what she calls the landscape of the otherworld, revealed to her through spirits—ancestors, archangels, elemental and light beings—in her divinations. Whatever your spiritual tradition, there’s always a shared landscape of the otherworld. Understanding the landscape will help you navigate your own spiritual terrain. Learning how to be an effective diviner and spirit worker also means that you must interact fully with the wisdom of the place where you live, which includes learning from all living things including mountains and water. This powerful handbook teaches you how to heal your world by exploring inter-dimensional realms and ultimately becoming a spiritual steward of the Earth. “When I became a diviner, I did not expect to encounter a landscape in the otherworld that I would become familiar with and navigate more easily as I continued to divine. I am still exploring this landscape, but wanted to share some of the things I have learned in order to help those interested in the dimensional realms understand better what they are seeing. What I have included in this book is not meant to be rigid; it is a conversation and a guide.”
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem
Author: Roseanne A. Brown
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368066771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Rosie writes her characters with such lyrical power, wit, and empathy that you can't help falling in love with Serwa Boating, her family, and her friends."--Rick Riordan, New York Times best-selling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series After a lifetime of fighting creatures of black magic, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng has just learned a devastating secret: she herself is half vampire! Now not only is she dealing with vampire puberty, she's on the run from the organization of Slayers she trained her whole life to join. Serwa's only ally is her aunt Boahinmaa, an obayifo who urges Serwa to embrace her vampire side. Boahinmaa and her underlings are on the hunt for the Midnight Drum, from which they hope to free Serwa's grandmother. When they learn that the Abomofuo have hidden the Midnight Drum deep within the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., what do they do? Stage a heist to steal it, of course! For their plan to succeed, Serwa will have to get close to her rival, a Slayer named Declan Amankwah, without revealing her true nature. Declan gets under her skin like no one else...and might just force Serwa to confront some truths she's tried hard to deny. With both sympathy and laugh-out-loud humor, Rosanne A. Brown captures all the discomfort of a girl stuck between two worlds in this second book in the unputdownable Serwa Boating saga.
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1368066771
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Rosie writes her characters with such lyrical power, wit, and empathy that you can't help falling in love with Serwa Boating, her family, and her friends."--Rick Riordan, New York Times best-selling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series After a lifetime of fighting creatures of black magic, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng has just learned a devastating secret: she herself is half vampire! Now not only is she dealing with vampire puberty, she's on the run from the organization of Slayers she trained her whole life to join. Serwa's only ally is her aunt Boahinmaa, an obayifo who urges Serwa to embrace her vampire side. Boahinmaa and her underlings are on the hunt for the Midnight Drum, from which they hope to free Serwa's grandmother. When they learn that the Abomofuo have hidden the Midnight Drum deep within the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., what do they do? Stage a heist to steal it, of course! For their plan to succeed, Serwa will have to get close to her rival, a Slayer named Declan Amankwah, without revealing her true nature. Declan gets under her skin like no one else...and might just force Serwa to confront some truths she's tried hard to deny. With both sympathy and laugh-out-loud humor, Rosanne A. Brown captures all the discomfort of a girl stuck between two worlds in this second book in the unputdownable Serwa Boating saga.
The Cultural Value of Trees
Author: Jeffrey Wall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000592480
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation. Folk value refers to the value of the more-than-human living world to cultural cohesion and survival, as opposed to individual well-being. This field of value, comprising cosmological, aesthetic, eco-erotic, sentimental, mnemonic value and much more, serves as powerful motivation for the local performance of environmental care. The motivation to maintain and conserve ecology for the purpose of cultural survival will be the central focus of this book, as the conditions of the Anthropocene urgently require the identification, understanding and support of enduring, self-perpetuating biocultural associations. The geographical scope is broad with chapters discussing different tree species from the Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia, Eurasia and Australia and Africa. By focusing on the tree, one of the most reliably cross-culturally-valued and cross-culturally-recognized biological forms, and one which invariably defines expansive landscapes, this work illuminates how folk value binds the survival of more-than-human life forms with the survival of specific peoples in the era of biocultural loss, the Anthropocene. As such, this collection of cross-cultural cases of tree folk value represents a low hanging fruit for the larger project of exploring the power of cultural value of the more-than-human living world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, biodiversity, biocultural studies and environmental anthropology.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000592480
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation. Folk value refers to the value of the more-than-human living world to cultural cohesion and survival, as opposed to individual well-being. This field of value, comprising cosmological, aesthetic, eco-erotic, sentimental, mnemonic value and much more, serves as powerful motivation for the local performance of environmental care. The motivation to maintain and conserve ecology for the purpose of cultural survival will be the central focus of this book, as the conditions of the Anthropocene urgently require the identification, understanding and support of enduring, self-perpetuating biocultural associations. The geographical scope is broad with chapters discussing different tree species from the Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia, Eurasia and Australia and Africa. By focusing on the tree, one of the most reliably cross-culturally-valued and cross-culturally-recognized biological forms, and one which invariably defines expansive landscapes, this work illuminates how folk value binds the survival of more-than-human life forms with the survival of specific peoples in the era of biocultural loss, the Anthropocene. As such, this collection of cross-cultural cases of tree folk value represents a low hanging fruit for the larger project of exploring the power of cultural value of the more-than-human living world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, biodiversity, biocultural studies and environmental anthropology.
Muntu
Author: Joe de Graft
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966460820
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966460820
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Contesting Forestry in West Africa
Author: Reginald Cline-Cole
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351724568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000. This study looks at the contestation of forestry in West Africa, taking into account historical considerations, cultural negotiations and environmental issues.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351724568
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000. This study looks at the contestation of forestry in West Africa, taking into account historical considerations, cultural negotiations and environmental issues.
Pride and Joy
Author: Janice Robinson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743406001
Category : African American infants
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
With illustrated guidelines and step-by-step advice, readers will learn how to incorporate African traditions into a range of birth preparations and celebrations. It also includes African recipes and lists of Afrocentric names. 40 photos & illustrations.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743406001
Category : African American infants
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
With illustrated guidelines and step-by-step advice, readers will learn how to incorporate African traditions into a range of birth preparations and celebrations. It also includes African recipes and lists of Afrocentric names. 40 photos & illustrations.
Adinkra Alphabet, Fourth Edition
Author: Charles Korankye
Publisher: Adinkra Alphabet LLC
ISBN: 1947478060
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Learn the deeper meanings of Adinkra symbols and learn to read and write with Adinkra Alphabet
Publisher: Adinkra Alphabet LLC
ISBN: 1947478060
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Learn the deeper meanings of Adinkra symbols and learn to read and write with Adinkra Alphabet