Author: Joanna Catherine Scott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743437357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Joanna Scott's "smart, sensitive book about independence, identity and survival"--"The New York Times Book Review, " tells the haunting tale of three fatherless Korean children--and the mother who gave them away.
The Lucky Gourd Shop
Author: Joanna Catherine Scott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743437357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Joanna Scott's "smart, sensitive book about independence, identity and survival"--"The New York Times Book Review, " tells the haunting tale of three fatherless Korean children--and the mother who gave them away.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743437357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Joanna Scott's "smart, sensitive book about independence, identity and survival"--"The New York Times Book Review, " tells the haunting tale of three fatherless Korean children--and the mother who gave them away.
Gourd Girls
Author: Priscilla Wilson
Publisher: Gourdcraft Originals, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780965119672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Memoir about a lesbian couple's coming out in a rural community
Publisher: Gourdcraft Originals, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780965119672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Memoir about a lesbian couple's coming out in a rural community
Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures
Author: Ginger Summit
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402732201
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"If you're an artist looking to explore a versatile medium or are interested in making dolls, look to nature's bounty. Learn a variety of classic techniques as you create projects. Comes with a gallery of inspiring work by talented artists."--adapted from back cover.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402732201
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"If you're an artist looking to explore a versatile medium or are interested in making dolls, look to nature's bounty. Learn a variety of classic techniques as you create projects. Comes with a gallery of inspiring work by talented artists."--adapted from back cover.
The Same Sweet Girls
Author: Cassandra King
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401342973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight-knit group of lifelong friends. None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore, and none of them have actually ever been that sweet. But this spirited group of Southern women, who have been holding biannual reunions ever since they were together in college, are nothing short of compelling. There's Julia Stovall, the First Lady of Alabama, who, despite her public veneer, is a down-to-earth gal who only wants to know who her husband is sneaking out with late at night. There's Lanier Sanders, whose husband won custody of their children after he found out about her fling with a colleague. Then there's Astor Deveaux, a former Broadway showgirl who simply can't keep her flirtations in check. And Corinne Cooper, whose incredible story comes to light as the novel unfolds.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401342973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight-knit group of lifelong friends. None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore, and none of them have actually ever been that sweet. But this spirited group of Southern women, who have been holding biannual reunions ever since they were together in college, are nothing short of compelling. There's Julia Stovall, the First Lady of Alabama, who, despite her public veneer, is a down-to-earth gal who only wants to know who her husband is sneaking out with late at night. There's Lanier Sanders, whose husband won custody of their children after he found out about her fling with a colleague. Then there's Astor Deveaux, a former Broadway showgirl who simply can't keep her flirtations in check. And Corinne Cooper, whose incredible story comes to light as the novel unfolds.
The African Saga
Author: Blaise Cendrars
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Essential Gourd
Author: Marla Berns
Publisher: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Dugum Dani
Author: Karl G. Heider
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351483366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare, such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs, and lack of them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects of Dani culture, to explore the interrelationships of the material objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the paucity of color, number, and other attribute terms, the near absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence, and other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little interest in intellectual elaboration or sex, and that despite their warfare, they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the general problems of human aggression.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351483366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare, such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs, and lack of them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects of Dani culture, to explore the interrelationships of the material objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the paucity of color, number, and other attribute terms, the near absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence, and other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little interest in intellectual elaboration or sex, and that despite their warfare, they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the general problems of human aggression.
Handbook of South American Indians
Author: Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Molecules and Women
Author: Paola Giorgio
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475949944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A collection of fifteen vignettes, Molecules and Women takes a journey through the lives of women connected invisibly across time and space. The narratives carry and embody the voices and actions of women, some spoken, some witnessed, some experienced firsthand. They illuminate pivotal moments, some disguised as ordinary events, others where loss and grief are so overwhelming, or surprise and joy so transformative that the well from which wisdom springs forth is revealed. In the title story, "Molecules and Women," Philomena Jackson North, a little girl who goes by the name Willow, surprises her mother, Leona, with her deep thoughts about the world around her. In "The Night the Wave Broke," Carla, on the eve of giving birth in a remote mountain village in Spain, seriously questions her husband's sanity and her and her unborn child's safety. As women come together, the interstices become portals into the deeper chambers of the heart, and questions confronted daily are invited, embraced, and lived. Molecules and Women explores a spiral path of lessons learned, lost, and remembered, into the unfolding landscape of dwelling and discovery.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475949944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A collection of fifteen vignettes, Molecules and Women takes a journey through the lives of women connected invisibly across time and space. The narratives carry and embody the voices and actions of women, some spoken, some witnessed, some experienced firsthand. They illuminate pivotal moments, some disguised as ordinary events, others where loss and grief are so overwhelming, or surprise and joy so transformative that the well from which wisdom springs forth is revealed. In the title story, "Molecules and Women," Philomena Jackson North, a little girl who goes by the name Willow, surprises her mother, Leona, with her deep thoughts about the world around her. In "The Night the Wave Broke," Carla, on the eve of giving birth in a remote mountain village in Spain, seriously questions her husband's sanity and her and her unborn child's safety. As women come together, the interstices become portals into the deeper chambers of the heart, and questions confronted daily are invited, embraced, and lived. Molecules and Women explores a spiral path of lessons learned, lost, and remembered, into the unfolding landscape of dwelling and discovery.
Barbecued Husbands
Author: Betty Mindlin
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859846810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
These are the stories of indigenous tribes of the Brazilian rainforests that are on the verge of extinction. Mindlin recorded these tales that read like a novel, and are infused with a magic realism.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859846810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
These are the stories of indigenous tribes of the Brazilian rainforests that are on the verge of extinction. Mindlin recorded these tales that read like a novel, and are infused with a magic realism.