Author: Üstün Bilgen-Reinart
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550026585
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
st n Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country in this unique blend of memoir and travel literature.
Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates
Author: Üstün Bilgen-Reinart
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550026585
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
st n Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country in this unique blend of memoir and travel literature.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550026585
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
st n Bilgen-Reinart explores the people, politics, and passions of her native country in this unique blend of memoir and travel literature.
The Dundurn Group
Author: The Dundurn Group
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781550026603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781550026603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Dundurn Group
Author: Bernd Horn
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781550027228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781550027228
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange
Author: Tracy K. Betsinger
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683401409
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire” burials in medieval Poland, and a mass grave of decapitated soldiers in ancient China. Moving away from the simplistic assumption that these burials represent people who were considered deviant in society, contributors demonstrate the importance of an integrated biocultural approach in determining why an individual was buried in an unusual way. Drawing on historical, sociocultural, archaeological, and biological data, this volume critically evaluates the binary of “typical” versus “atypical” burials. It expands our understanding of the continuum of variation within mortuary practices, helping researchers better interpret burial evidence to learn about the people and cultures of the past. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683401409
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire” burials in medieval Poland, and a mass grave of decapitated soldiers in ancient China. Moving away from the simplistic assumption that these burials represent people who were considered deviant in society, contributors demonstrate the importance of an integrated biocultural approach in determining why an individual was buried in an unusual way. Drawing on historical, sociocultural, archaeological, and biological data, this volume critically evaluates the binary of “typical” versus “atypical” burials. It expands our understanding of the continuum of variation within mortuary practices, helping researchers better interpret burial evidence to learn about the people and cultures of the past. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
Pilgrim in the Palace of Words
Author: Glenn Dixon
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459718038
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
As one philosopher said, languages are the Houses of Being. After doing graduate work in linguistics, Glenn Dixon wanted to visit these houses or palaces himself. Join him on his adventure toward a real understanding of human communication.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459718038
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
As one philosopher said, languages are the Houses of Being. After doing graduate work in linguistics, Glenn Dixon wanted to visit these houses or palaces himself. Join him on his adventure toward a real understanding of human communication.
Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey
Author: Onur İnal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429770723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey. Despite the recent proliferation of studies on the political economy of environmental change and urban transformation, until now there has not been a sufficiently complete treatment of Turkey's troubled environments, which live on the edge both geographically (between Europe and Middle East) and politically (between democracy and totalitarianism). The contributors to Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey use the toolbox of environmental humanities to explore the main political, cultural and historical factors relating to the country’s socio-environmental problems. This leads not only to a better grounding of some of the historical and contemporary debates on the environment in Turkey, but also a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of framings around more-than-human interactions in the country in a time of authoritarian populism. This book will be of interest not only to students of Turkey from a variety of social science and humanities disciplines but also contribute to the larger debates on environmental change and developmentalism in the context of a global populist turn. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429770723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey. Despite the recent proliferation of studies on the political economy of environmental change and urban transformation, until now there has not been a sufficiently complete treatment of Turkey's troubled environments, which live on the edge both geographically (between Europe and Middle East) and politically (between democracy and totalitarianism). The contributors to Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey use the toolbox of environmental humanities to explore the main political, cultural and historical factors relating to the country’s socio-environmental problems. This leads not only to a better grounding of some of the historical and contemporary debates on the environment in Turkey, but also a deeper understanding of the multiplicity of framings around more-than-human interactions in the country in a time of authoritarian populism. This book will be of interest not only to students of Turkey from a variety of social science and humanities disciplines but also contribute to the larger debates on environmental change and developmentalism in the context of a global populist turn. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Saris on Scooters
Author: Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554887224
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos uses her talent for investigative reporting to take us into the poorest villages in India. The women who live there are making astute use of microcredit to break the cycle of poverty. After witnessing these women's successes, it becomes evident that such villages have strengths equal to those of modern cities in India.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554887224
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos uses her talent for investigative reporting to take us into the poorest villages in India. The women who live there are making astute use of microcredit to break the cycle of poverty. After witnessing these women's successes, it becomes evident that such villages have strengths equal to those of modern cities in India.
Forging Ties, Forging Passports
Author: Devi Mays
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503613224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas—and especially to Mexico—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation as they migrated and settled into new homes. Mays considers the shifting notions of belonging, nationality, and citizenship through the stories of individual women, men, and families who navigated these transitions in their everyday lives, as well as through the paperwork they carried. In the aftermath of World War I and the Mexican Revolution, migrants traversed new layers of bureaucracy and authority amid shifting political regimes as they crossed and were crossed by borders. Ottoman Sephardi migrants in Mexico resisted unequivocal classification as either Ottoman expatriates or Mexicans through their links to the Sephardi diaspora in formerly Ottoman lands, France, Cuba, and the United States. By making use of commercial and familial networks, these Sephardi migrants maintained a geographic and social mobility that challenged the physical borders of the state and the conceptual boundaries of the nation.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503613224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas—and especially to Mexico—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation as they migrated and settled into new homes. Mays considers the shifting notions of belonging, nationality, and citizenship through the stories of individual women, men, and families who navigated these transitions in their everyday lives, as well as through the paperwork they carried. In the aftermath of World War I and the Mexican Revolution, migrants traversed new layers of bureaucracy and authority amid shifting political regimes as they crossed and were crossed by borders. Ottoman Sephardi migrants in Mexico resisted unequivocal classification as either Ottoman expatriates or Mexicans through their links to the Sephardi diaspora in formerly Ottoman lands, France, Cuba, and the United States. By making use of commercial and familial networks, these Sephardi migrants maintained a geographic and social mobility that challenged the physical borders of the state and the conceptual boundaries of the nation.
How to Identify Old Chinese Porcelain
Author: Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Canadian Book Review Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description