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ISBN: 9780894871634
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1306

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Countries of the world A-F.

Author: Scott Publishing Co
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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 1134

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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 2066

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Author: Scott
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ISBN: 9780894871115
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Author: Jim Kloetzel
Publisher: Scott Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780894875427
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Includes new stamp listings through the February 2018 Linn's stamp news monthly catalogue update."

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Category : Postage-stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Bill Halstead
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ISBN: 9781877707018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Susann Baller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317965868
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa has turned into a perfect example of the visual dimensions of football. Stadiums have been built and marketed as tourist attractions, mass media and internet platforms are advertising South African cities and venues, logos and emblems are displayed and celebrated, exhibitions are organised in museums world-wide. This book explores the social, cultural and political role of football in Africa by focusing on the issue of its visibility and invisibility. The contributions consider the history and present of football in different parts of Africa. They examine historical and recent pictures and images of football and football players, as well as places and spaces of their production and perception. They analyse the visual dimensions expressed in sports infrastructure, football media-scapes, and in expressive and material arts. This book thus contributes to the growing interest in football in Africa by exploring a new field of research into sports. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

Author: H. Byron Earhart
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611171113
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive overview of the evolving imagery of Mount Fuji from ancient times to the present day. Included in the book is a link to his twenty-eight minute streaming video documentary of Fuji pilgrimage and practice, Fuji: Sacred Mountain of Japan. Beginning with early reflections on the beauty and power associated with the mountain in medieval Japanese literature, Earhart examines how these qualities fostered spiritual practices such as Shugendo, which established rituals and a temple complex at the mountain as a portal to an ascetic otherworld. As a focus of worship, the mountain became a source of spiritual insight, rebirth, and prophecy through the practitioners Kakugyo and Jikigyo, whose teachings led to social movements such as Fujido (the way of Fuji) and to a variety of pilgrimage confraternities making images and replicas of the mountain for use in local rituals. Earhart shows how the seventeenth-century commodification of Mount Fuji inspired powerful interpretive renderings of the "peerless" mountain of Japan, such as those of the nineteenth-century print masters Hiroshige and Hokusai, which were largely responsible for creating the international reputation of Mount Fuji. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, images of Fuji served as an expression of a unique and superior Japanese culture. With its distinctive shape firmly embedded in Japanese culture but its ethical, ritual, and spiritual associations made malleable over time, Mount Fuji came to symbolize ultranationalistic ambitions in the 1930s and early 1940s, peacetime democracy as early as 1946, and a host of artistic, naturalistic, and commercial causes, even the exotic and erotic, in the decades since.