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Author : Jazon Fletcher
Publisher : Backwoods Press
Release Date : 2012-02-14
ISBN : 1478117087
Pages : 129 pages
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Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-05
ISBN : 0195347137
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (195 Download)
Download Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls in PDF by June McDaniel Full Book and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.
Author : Adele Nozedar
Publisher :
Release Date : 2016-05-10
ISBN : 1631061585
Pages : 291 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (631 Download)
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Author : Abraham Rees
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Release Date : 1819
ISBN :
Pages : 834 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (57 Download)
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Author : P. J. Parrish
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-02-26
ISBN : 1439189374
Pages : 415 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (439 Download)
Download Heart of Ice in PDF by P. J. Parrish Full Book and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a trip to Mackinac Island with his 10-year-old daughter, Lily, Florida P.I. Louis Kincaid, desperate to wear a badge again, must reopen the cold case of Julie Chapman, a teenager from one of the wealthiest summer families who vanished two decades ago. Original. 350,000 first printing.
Author : Frances Theodora Parsons
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Release Date : 1895
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Pages : 410 pages
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Download How to Know the Wild Flowers in PDF by Frances Theodora Parsons Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered the first field guide to American wild flowers when first published in 1893, this revised and enlarged edition contains 156 plates and provides botanical details and lore for nearly five hundred flowering plants personally observed by the author in parts of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., along with a few found outside this range and east of Chicago. The listings are grouped by color of flower.
Author : Abraham Rees
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Release Date : 1819
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Pages : 814 pages
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Author : Denise Y Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-01
ISBN : 1315427559
Pages : 293 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (315 Download)
Download Heads of State in PDF by Denise Y Arnold Full Book and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic flying heads, head imagery on pots and on stone, head-shaped vessels, and linguistic references to the head. In this synthesizing work, cultural anthropologist Denise Arnold and archaeologist Christine Hastorf examine the cult of heads in the Andes—past and present—to develop a theory of its place in indigenous cultural practice and its relationship to political systems. Using ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork, highland-lowland comparisons, archival documents, oral histories, and ritual texts, the authors draw from Marx, Mauss, Foucault, Assadourian, Viveiros del Castro and other theorists to show how heads shape and symbolize power, violence, fertility, identity, and economy in South American cultures.
Author : St. George Jackson Mivart
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Release Date : 1881
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Pages : 592 pages
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Release Date : 1888
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Pages : 984 pages
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Author : Philip Miller
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Release Date : 1807
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Pages : 932 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (324 Download)
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Release Date : 1894
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Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Release Date : 1894
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Pages : 968 pages
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Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Release Date : 1894
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Pages : 1342 pages
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Author : Helen D. Hume
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-09-22
ISBN : 1119600197
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (119 Download)
Download The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools in PDF by Helen D. Hume Full Book and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perennial bestseller—now in a new edition Authoritative and practical, this comprehensive guide offers everything a teacher needs to know for conducting an effective art instruction and appreciation program. The Third Edition of The Art Teacher's Survival Guide for Elementary and Middle Schools includes a complete update on public-relations guidelines, and reference material examples. The revised edition also features many new projects, an update on current projects and includes an explanation of the hot topic amongst art educators, Teaching Artistic Behavior (TAB/choice). Choice-based art education is reflected in the authors’ discussion of teaching in mixed-media, ceramics, photography, sculpture, and art history. More than 100 creative art projects, from drawing to digital media Offers teaching tools, tips, and multicultural curriculum resources Includes new material on logical ways to encourage individual and personal solutions to a problem Gives teachers more latitude as to how individuality is suggested in a lesson This is an invaluable compendium for art educators and classroom teachers alike.
Author : Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
ISBN : 9780520218888
Pages : 228 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (218 Download)
Download Frames of Reference in PDF by Whitney Museum of American Art Full Book and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent contributors from the fields of art, literature, and contemporary culture work together to provide a wide-ranging introduction to American art as well as to the Whitney Museum's unparalleled collection. 105 color plates. 130 b&w illustrations.
