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Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

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. | Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

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Socialtechnological Man/h

Socialtechnological Man/h

Recent international attention has focused on desertification and its concomitants especially the diminution of flora and fauna in arid and semiarid lands and the resulting reduction in the economic value of those lands. Natural factors such as drought and wind erosion as well as various technological practices have been blamed for the present situation in many countries. Most observers agree that human beings have been both perpetrators and victims of desertification. Anthropologists have long been interested in documenting hew different societies have affected and been affected by their environments. The papers in this volume present ease studies of societies ranging from ancient Peru to contemporary Israel along with several topically oriented works. All are designed to illustrate how various societies-whether by water management or by the exploitation of plants and animals-have attempted to achieve ecological balance. Social organization and ideology as well as technology are discussed as important variables affecting the ways in which populations adapt to or cope with desertification. | Socialtechnological Man/h

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The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities where they were observed transplanted and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new field of inquiry thanks largely to the Medici Grand Dukes who patronised and sustained research and teaching whilst also taking a significant personal interest in plants and medicine. This is the first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of plants this book also shows how plants while maintaining their importance in therapy began to be considered and studied for themselves and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork for the science of botany. More broadly this study explores how the New World's flora impacted on existing botanical knowledge and how this led to the first attempts at taxonomy. | The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

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The Old Songs of Skye Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

The Old Songs of Skye Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal historical and cultural background. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community. Moving in a variety of circles Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye manse the cultural bustle of upper middle-class Edinburgh ‘entrepreneurs’ the romantic serious-mindedness of the first Cambridge women students the sensitive nature-loving community round Ruskin at Coniston and spent her later sociable years back in Scotland. This book with its historical introduction by Flora MacLeod and musical introduction by Frank Howes along with Ethel Bassin's own detailed introduction reflects her profound study of the song and folklore of her people and describes how she recorded a precious part of British traditional culture catching it alive and sharing it as truly as possible. | The Old Songs of Skye Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

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Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

In this pioneering study Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers cartographers ethnologists medical topographers administrators and missionaries published by the RGS local geographical societies or the colonial state acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R. L. Stevenson Olive Schreiner Flora Annie Steel Winwood Reade Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction published between 1870 and 1901 reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach. | Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire The Poetics of Imperial Space

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Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting cultural norms associated with gender roles sexuality​ and sexual expression. But what is the relationship between hands tactility and sexuality in Victorian literature? And how do we best interpret ​what those touches communicate between characters? This volume addresses these questions by asserting a connection between the prevalence of violent sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such as those by Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century evident in works by ​Jane Austen the Brontës George Eliot Elizabeth Gaskell Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde and Flora Annie Steel. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines literary analysis with close analyses of paintings musical compositions and nonfictional texts​ such as etiquette books and scientific treatises​ to make a case for the significance of tactility to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century perceptions of selfhood and sexuality. In doing so it draws attention to the communicative nature of skin-to-skin contact ​as represented in literature and traces a trajectory of meaning from the forceful grips that violate female characters in eighteenth-century novels to the consensual embraces common in Victorian ​and neo-Victorian literature. | Touch Sexuality and Hands in British Literature 1740–1901

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Perspectives on Impact Leading Voices On Making Systemic Change in the Twenty-First Century

Perspectives on Impact Leading Voices On Making Systemic Change in the Twenty-First Century

Perspectives on Impact brings together leaders from across sectors to reflect on our approaches to social change. Sharing diverse examples from their work these authors show how we must think more systemically and work more collaboratively to move the needle on the biggest social humanitarian and environmental challenges facing our world. Chapters by: Niko Canner Shanti Nayak and Cynthia Warner (Incandescent) Duncan Green (OxFam) Farah Ramzan Golant (Girl Effect kyu) Sara Holoubek (Luminary Labs) Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab) Leila Janah (Samasource LXMI Samaschool) Amirah Jiwa George Kronnisanyon Werner (Republic of Liberia) Chris Larkin (IDEO. org) Eric Maltzer (Medora Ventures Middlebury College) Jane Nelson (Harvard Kennedy School) Craig Nevill-Manning and Prem Ramaswami (Sidewalk Labs) Jacqueline Novogratz (Acumen) Deena Shakir (GV formerly Google Ventures) Jose Miguel Sokoloff (MullenLowe Group) Lara Stein (TEDx Women's March Global) Piyush Tantia (ideas42) Fay Twersky (William & Flora Hewlett Foundation) Sherrie Rollins Westin and Shari Rosenfeld (Sesame Workshop) Perspectives on Impact and its sister book Perspectives on Purpose bring together leading voices from across sectors to discuss how we must adapt our organizations for the twenty-first century world. Perspectives on Impact focuses on the recalibration of social impact approaches to tackle complex humanitarian social and environmental challenges; Perspectives on Purpose looks at the shifting role of the corporation in society through the lens of purpose. | Perspectives on Impact Leading Voices On Making Systemic Change in the Twenty-First Century

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Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia 1622 / Volume II

Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia 1622 / Volume II

This book in two volumes contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais in Portuguese) 1564-1622 who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions first in India and then in Ethiopia long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. His history of Ethiopia was written in Portuguese in the last ten years of his life and survives in only two manuscripts. The translation by Christopher J. Tribe is based on the new critical edition of the Portuguese text by Isabel Boavida Hervé Pennec and Manuel João Ramos which was published in Lisbon in 2008. They are also the editors of this English version. The History of Ethiopia is an essential source for several areas of study - from the history of the Catholic missions in that country and the relations between the European religious orders to the history of art and religions; from the history of geographical exploration to the ideological contextualization of the Ethiopian kingdom; from material culture to Abyssinian political and territorial administration; and from an analysis of local circumstances to changes in human ecology in the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. It is a repository of empirical knowledge on the political geography religion customs flora and fauna of Ethiopia. It combines travel narrative with a historico-ethnographic monograph and is a chronicle of the activities of Jesuit missionaries in their Ethiopian mission. It also reworks a wide variety of documents including the first translations into a European language of a number of Ethiopian literary texts from royal chronicles to hagiographies. It complements other early accounts of Ethiopia by Ludovico de Varthema Francisco Alvares Castanhoso Bermudez Arnold von Harff Manoel de Almeida Bahrey Alessandro Zorzi Jerónimo Lobo and Václav Prutky all published by The Hakluyt Society. | Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia 1622 / Volume II

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Brazil and the Brazilians

Brazil and the Brazilians

First published in 2006. This work introduced Brazil to the English-speaking world when it was first published in 1857 and it is the best early account of the country written in English. Fletcher and Kidder were both missionaries in Brazil K1ader living there between 1837 and 1840 and Fletcher some twenty years later. Although they were not in Brazil at the same time they subsequently collaborated on this book supplementing their direct experiences of the country by interviewing leading citizens and by using material drawn from Documents of the Imperial and provincial archives of Brazil and from Brazilian state papers. The work therefore benefits from two different viewpoints and from a period of observation that covers some thirty years. At the time the book was written most English readers were better acquainted with China and India than with Brazil which in the popular mind as the authors put it was a land of 'mighty rivers and virgin forests palm trees and jaguars anaconaas and alligators diamond-mining revolutions and earthquakes'. Fletcher and Kidder were determined to show another side of Brazil - that of a stable constitutional monarchy and growing nation the descendants of the Portuguese holding_ I the same relative position in South America as the descendants o1 the English in North America. The portrait of Brazil and the Brazilians they present is unexpected and fascinating -an elaborate colonia1 society ruled over by an emperor with a privileged bourgeoisie and fine cities - outposts of European culture surrounded by encroaching jungle. The work is arranged in twenty-six chapters. Fletcher and Kidder begin by recounting the little-known early history of Brazil then go on to describe the culture and customs of the country in great detail covering everything from the government of Brazil the marriage of Christian and heathenism the Brazilian home Brazilian women the nobility and the Emperor's palace to Amazon steamers gold mines slavery and the Indian and African inhabitants whose descendants are among Brazil's present. ­ cosmopolitan population. Accounts of travel within the country will give the authors an opportunity to describe Brazil's distinctive flora and fauna and striking natural features a panoramic treatment complimented by charming line drawings. Tnis volume- was justifiably acclaimed on Publication and it remains essential and enjoyable reading for a11 those interested in Brazil's past present and future.

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