Author: Jan Sovak
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486412962
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Impressive images of 8 unusual creatures: sloth, gibbon, clouded leopard, toucan, slender loris, and 3 others. Instructions for safe, easy application, and removal.
Rain Forest Animals Tattoos
Author: Jan Sovak
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486412962
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Impressive images of 8 unusual creatures: sloth, gibbon, clouded leopard, toucan, slender loris, and 3 others. Instructions for safe, easy application, and removal.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486412962
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Impressive images of 8 unusual creatures: sloth, gibbon, clouded leopard, toucan, slender loris, and 3 others. Instructions for safe, easy application, and removal.
Swampland Animals Tattoos
Author: Steven James Petruccio
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486405384
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
These brilliantly colored wetland wildlife tattoos include a wood duck, American alligator, purple heron, spotted turtle, golden-winged dragonfly, redfin shiner, mud snake, spotted salamander, two more. Instructions.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486405384
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
These brilliantly colored wetland wildlife tattoos include a wood duck, American alligator, purple heron, spotted turtle, golden-winged dragonfly, redfin shiner, mud snake, spotted salamander, two more. Instructions.
Tattoo
Author: J. P. Polidoro
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456882090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456882090
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Children of the Rainforest
Author: Camilla Morelli
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978825234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as powerful catalysts of social change.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978825234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Children of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as powerful catalysts of social change.
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
Author: Marc Brightman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454684
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their lived environments, such as the depletion of natural resources and migration to urban centers. They describe here fundamental relational modes that are being tested in the face of change, presenting groundbreaking research on personhood and agency in shamanic societies and contributing to our global understanding of social and cultural change and continuity.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857454684
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of their lived environments, such as the depletion of natural resources and migration to urban centers. They describe here fundamental relational modes that are being tested in the face of change, presenting groundbreaking research on personhood and agency in shamanic societies and contributing to our global understanding of social and cultural change and continuity.
Handbook of South American Indians: The tropical forest tribes
Author: Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World [2 volumes]
Author: Margo DeMello
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
Book Description
In recent decades, tattoos have gone from being a subculture curiosity in Western culture to mainstream and commonplace. This two-volume set provides broad coverage of tattooing and body art in the United States today as well as around the world and throughout human history. In the 1960s, tattooing was illegal in many parts of the United States. Today, tattooing is fully ingrained in mainstream culture and is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar industry. This exhaustive work contains approximately 400 entries on tattooing, providing historical information that enables readers to fully understand the methods employed, the meanings of, and the motivations behind tattooing—one of the most ancient ways humans mark themselves. The encyclopedia covers all important aspects of the topic of tattooing: the major types of tattooing, the cultural groups associated with tattooing, the regions of the world where tattooing has been performed, the origins of modern tattooing in prehistory, and the meaning of each society's use of tattoos. Major historical and contemporary figures associated with tattooing—including tattooists, tattooed people, and tattoo promoters—receive due attention for their contributions. The entries and sidebars also address the sociological movements involved with tattooing; the organizations; the media dedicated to tattooing, such as television shows, movies, magazines, websites, and books; and the popular conventions, carnivals, and fairs that have showcased tattooing.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
Book Description
In recent decades, tattoos have gone from being a subculture curiosity in Western culture to mainstream and commonplace. This two-volume set provides broad coverage of tattooing and body art in the United States today as well as around the world and throughout human history. In the 1960s, tattooing was illegal in many parts of the United States. Today, tattooing is fully ingrained in mainstream culture and is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar industry. This exhaustive work contains approximately 400 entries on tattooing, providing historical information that enables readers to fully understand the methods employed, the meanings of, and the motivations behind tattooing—one of the most ancient ways humans mark themselves. The encyclopedia covers all important aspects of the topic of tattooing: the major types of tattooing, the cultural groups associated with tattooing, the regions of the world where tattooing has been performed, the origins of modern tattooing in prehistory, and the meaning of each society's use of tattoos. Major historical and contemporary figures associated with tattooing—including tattooists, tattooed people, and tattoo promoters—receive due attention for their contributions. The entries and sidebars also address the sociological movements involved with tattooing; the organizations; the media dedicated to tattooing, such as television shows, movies, magazines, websites, and books; and the popular conventions, carnivals, and fairs that have showcased tattooing.
The Divine Spark - Rainforest Messenger
Author: Leo Heming
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411670884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A young Orangutan learns to speak. She tells of the destruction of her native rainforest and the leaders of the World listen.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411670884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A young Orangutan learns to speak. She tells of the destruction of her native rainforest and the leaders of the World listen.
Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: Tropical rainforests
Author: Ramon Folch i Guillén
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Biosphere features comprehensive coverage of the earth's greatest ecosystems, their characteristics and their operations. The Encyclopedia explains how these ecosystems have been transformed by human activity, while presenting the main species inhabiting each region. The text in each volume is clearly organized into four distinct sections covering the ecosystem's environmental factors, plants and animal ecology, human influences and biosphere reserves. Eleven fully-illustrated, 4-color volumes present in a contemporary, dynamic manner, the earth's principal ecosystems and the better known species of flora and fauna.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Biosphere features comprehensive coverage of the earth's greatest ecosystems, their characteristics and their operations. The Encyclopedia explains how these ecosystems have been transformed by human activity, while presenting the main species inhabiting each region. The text in each volume is clearly organized into four distinct sections covering the ecosystem's environmental factors, plants and animal ecology, human influences and biosphere reserves. Eleven fully-illustrated, 4-color volumes present in a contemporary, dynamic manner, the earth's principal ecosystems and the better known species of flora and fauna.
Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest
Author: Bernard Sellato
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824815660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Punan societies of Borneo, traditionally nomadic rainforest hunters and gatherers, have undergone a transformation over the past centuries. As downriver farming peoples expanded upstream and their cultures and technologies diffused, the Punan gradually abandoned their nomadic existence for a more sedentary life of trade-related activities and subsistence agriculture. But the culture that has emerged from these changes is still based on the enduring ideological premises of nomadism. This study, historical in perspective, examines the many factors-ecological, economic, commercial, political, social, cultural, and ideological-that have played a part in this continuing transformation. Foreword by Georges Condominas.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824815660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Punan societies of Borneo, traditionally nomadic rainforest hunters and gatherers, have undergone a transformation over the past centuries. As downriver farming peoples expanded upstream and their cultures and technologies diffused, the Punan gradually abandoned their nomadic existence for a more sedentary life of trade-related activities and subsistence agriculture. But the culture that has emerged from these changes is still based on the enduring ideological premises of nomadism. This study, historical in perspective, examines the many factors-ecological, economic, commercial, political, social, cultural, and ideological-that have played a part in this continuing transformation. Foreword by Georges Condominas.