Author: Theresa Fuller
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ISBN: 9781925748093
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
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If you like your fables with a dash of bloodshed, then The Girl Sudan Painted Like a Gold Ring is the anthology you have been waiting for. Author Theresa Fuller has collected a fascinating group of tales based on the oral storytelling history of the Sea Dyaks of Borneo. The twist? The Dyaks were headhunters! A TINY MOUSE DEER BATTLES A SPIRIT GIANT A GIRL MUST SAVE HER VILLAGE FROM AN ARMY OF HEAD-HUNTERS HOW A HEDGEHOG HELPS A BULLIED BOY BECOME A GOD In this book you will find stories designed to entertain and teach, all from the point of view of a culture based in honor, courtesy, and war.
Author: Edwin Herbert Gomes
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Category : Borneo
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Malaysian Branch, Singapore
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Category : Federated Malay States
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Author: Ger Daniëls
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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A survey of ethnic jewelry from the end of the 19th century to the present. Fine illustrations (241 color) were hand-drawn by the author using as models museum pieces, photos, and jewelry that is still worn as part of traditional costume. Virtually all types of jewelry are represented: brooches, pendants, and ear and nose rings, ornate headdresses and breastplates, belts and bags, as well as shell and beadwork. Of special interest is the similarity of designs, motifs, and symbols among peoples of different regions who before this century had no known contact. A lovely book. 9.5x13". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Suad Joseph
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004128190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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Family, Body, Sexuality and Health is Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. In almost 200 well written entries it covers the broad field of family, body, sexuality and health and Islamic cultures.
Author: Theresa Fuller
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ISBN: 9781925748048
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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She thought she could change the world... When Lady Elizabeth Ada Lovelace, a beautiful, arrogant suffragette, purchased the 19th-century Algorithmic Engine to become the world's first programmer, she planned to break the shackles of inequality for Victorian women. Until her world became that of the machine...Instead she learns the true meaning of equality when she ends up trapped, brought down to the level of the machine. Inside the double-crossing computer, Elizabeth must match wits with a stubbornly idealistic ghost and a chillingly handsome doppelganger in the computer's endless series of mind games. But as the machine learns to become a sentient being, time is ticking away. Elizabeth finds herself falling in love with the ghost trapped in the machine. Together they are pitted in a race against the machine to escape before the Algorithmic Engine shuts down ¿ killing them all. Now all their worlds hang in the balance.
Author: Wendy Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847378420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Leila understands from early on that she is not part of normal Sudanese society. Her parents are unable to care for her, so she is banished to a strict orphanage, along with children born outside marriage. At school, Leila and her best friend Amal are called 'daughters of sin'. Her pretty sister, Zulima, is married off to a much older man, while the nannies say an abandoned girl is lucky to get an offer of marriage at all. At the age of ten, both Leila and Amal endure female circumcision. Suffering appalling prejudice, and thought to bring the 'evil eye', Leila remains outgoing and brave and manages to get an education. She goes on to marry, have four children, and divorce, yet even grown up she continues to know the stigma of being abandoned. Undaunted, Leila founds her own charity to help those shunned as outcasts and she continues to work tirelessly to dispel prejudice. This beautifully written, graceful memoir perfectly evokes the heat and colour of the North African desert and tells of the true friendships that are born out of adversity.
