Author: Janice K. Brummond
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Sacred Waters of the Mongols
Author: Janice K. Brummond
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Meanings and Values of Water in Russian Culture
Author: Jane Costlow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317099222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water as a cultural phenomenon within the Russian/Soviet context. Water in this context is both a cognitive and cultural construct and a geographical and physical phenomenon, representing particular rivers (the Volga, the Chusovaia in the Urals, the Neva) and bodies of water (from Baikal to sacred springs and the flowing water of nineteenth-century estates), but also powerful systems of meaning from traditional cultures and those forged in the radical restructuring undertaken in the 1930s. Individual chapters explore the polyvalence and contestation of meanings, dimensions, and values given to water in various times and spaces in Russian history. The reservoir of symbolic association is tapped by poets and film-makers but also by policy-makers, the popular press, and advertisers seeking to incite reaction or drive sales. The volume's emphasis on the cultural dimensions of water will link material that is often widely disparate in time and space; it will also serve as the methodological framework for the analysis undertaken both within chapters and in the editors' introduction.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317099222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water as a cultural phenomenon within the Russian/Soviet context. Water in this context is both a cognitive and cultural construct and a geographical and physical phenomenon, representing particular rivers (the Volga, the Chusovaia in the Urals, the Neva) and bodies of water (from Baikal to sacred springs and the flowing water of nineteenth-century estates), but also powerful systems of meaning from traditional cultures and those forged in the radical restructuring undertaken in the 1930s. Individual chapters explore the polyvalence and contestation of meanings, dimensions, and values given to water in various times and spaces in Russian history. The reservoir of symbolic association is tapped by poets and film-makers but also by policy-makers, the popular press, and advertisers seeking to incite reaction or drive sales. The volume's emphasis on the cultural dimensions of water will link material that is often widely disparate in time and space; it will also serve as the methodological framework for the analysis undertaken both within chapters and in the editors' introduction.
The New American Cyclopaedia
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Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Languages : en
Pages : 790
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History of the Mongols: The Mongols of Persia
Author: Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
The New American Cyclopaedia
Author: George Ripley
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The New American Cyclopædia
Author: George Ripley
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The American Cyclopaedia
Author: George Ripley
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
History of the Mongols, from the 9th to the 19th Century
Author: Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The Mongols in Russia
Author: Jeremiah Curtin
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Category : Golden Horde
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Golden Horde
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Sacred Waters
Author: Celeste Ray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781003010142
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life's most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones, trees and healing flora, sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research, this volume examines cultural perceptions of water's sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human-environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, classics, folklore, geography, geology, history, literature and religious studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781003010142
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life's most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones, trees and healing flora, sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research, this volume examines cultural perceptions of water's sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human-environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, classics, folklore, geography, geology, history, literature and religious studies.