Intangible Ahmedabad


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Have you ever heard of the Pol in which Sultan Ahmed Shah lived in Ahmedabad? Do you know that even a mud model of a goddess can protect the Pol from an evil eye? Rediscover the exciting journey of a young girl through the old city Pols of Ahmedabad and expect to be inspired by the rugged medieval monuments and bustling city life at every turn.




Business World


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Future is Urban


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Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific


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Until the 1990s, industrialization was the dominant development paradigm for the Asia-Pacific region. Since then, advanced services (finance, business or 'producer services', information and creative services) have become deeply embedded in the processes of economic growth and change in the region. This rapid tertiary expansion is fundamentally restructuring national and regional economies and urban form in line with the introduction of advanced production systems, national modernization programmes and the globalization strategies of governments. Services are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use change. This book explores various aspects of the relationship between service industries and economic development in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. It provides new sector-oriented and regional and national perspectives on services and development.




Cultural Landscapes of South Asia


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Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement Award The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian—in their capacity to self‐organize, enact and reinvent cultural memories, and in their ability to retain an intimate connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global policy frameworks.




India, Sri Lanka and the SAARC Region


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This book examines the historical and socio-cultural connections across the SAARC region, with a special focus on the relationship between India and Sri Lanka. It investigates hitherto unexplored narratives of history, popular culture and intangible heritage in the region to identify the cultural parallels and intersections that link them together. In doing so, the volume moves away from an organised and authorised heritage discourse and encourages possibilities of new understandings and re-interpretations of cross-cultural communication and its sub-texts. Based on original ethnographic work, the book discusses themes such as cultural ties between India and Sri Lanka, exchanges between Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka and Satyajit Ray in India, cultural connectivity reflected through mythology and folklore, the influence of Rabindranath Tagore on modern dance in Sri Lanka, the introduction of railways in Sri Lanka, narrative scrolls and masked dance forms across SAARC countries, Hindi cinema as the pioneer of cultural connectivity, and women’s writing across South Asia. Lucid and compelling, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, South Asian studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, popular culture, cross-cultural communication, gender studies, political sociology, cultural history, diplomacy, international relations and heritage studies. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the linkages between India and Sri Lanka.




Agricultural Marketing in Gujarat


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Intangible Heritage Embodied


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Archaeological research has long focused on studying tangible artifacts to build a picture of the cultures it examines. Equally important to understanding a culture, however, are the intangible elements that become part of its heritage. In 2003, UNESCO adopted a convention specifically to protect intangible heritage, including the following: oral traditions and expressions, including language; performing arts (such as traditional music, dance, and theater); social practices, rituals, and festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; and traditional craftsmanship. Since this convention was adopted, scholars and preservationists have struggled with how to best approach intangible heritage. This volume specifically focuses on embodied intangible heritage, or the human body as a vehicle for memory, movement, and sound. The contributors to this work examine ritual and artistic movement, theater, music, oral literature, as well as the role of the internet in cultural transmission. Globalization and particularly the internet, has a complex effect on the transmission of intangible heritage: while music, dance, and other expressions are now shared easily, the performances often lack context and may be shared with a group that does not fully understand what they are seeing or hearing. This volume draws on case studies from around the world to examine the problems and possibilities of implementing the new UNESCO convention. The findings in this volume will be vital to both professionals and academics in anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, architecture, and anyone else who deals with issues of cultural heritage and preservation.







The Cabal of Moloch and Saturn Cosmology


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This book is a short description of how Zionist zealots have planned and implemented messianic protocols since 3,000 BCE by writing a bible that stole creation myths from the Babylonian Enuma Elish and the Egyptian Book of the Dead and by stealing the sacred stones of the Egyptian Ark of the Great Pyramid under the leadership of Akhenaten (Moses) and fleeing to Palestine where they, once again, took over the land occupied by the Canaanites and called it Israel. Archeologic and genetic data support that both Jews and Palestinians came from ancient Canaanites, who extensively mixed with Egyptians, Mesopotamian, and Anatolian peoples in ancient times. Thus, Palestinian-Jewish rivalry is based solely on cultural and religious, but not in genetic differences. Does anyone really believe that the storm God El, then Baal, then combined with Yahweh wrote the bible and decided that Jews would be the chosen people. Since the Spring of 2020, when mandated Covid-19 vaccines began, excess deaths have increased dramatically across the globe to about 20%, while unknown causes of death have increased significantly. The numerous lockdowns (stay at home of the workforce), fear campaigns, COVID-19 policy mandates imposed on approximately 193 member states of the United Nations have also contributed to undermining and destabilizing the very fabric of civil society and its institutions including education, culture and the arts, social gatherings, sports, entertainment; all public sector activities including physical and social infrastructure, social services, law enforcement; all major private sector activities which characterize national, regional and local economies including small, medium and large corporate enterprises, family farms, industry, wholesale and retail trade, the urban services economy, transport companies, airlines, hotel chains; the structures of the global economy including international commodity trade, investment, import and export relations between countries, while the entire landscape of the global economy has been shattered. Each culture has a ‘Creation Myth’ that is contained in their own understanding of those cataclysm events that occurred between 10,500 BCE and 685 BCE. The West has primarily used the myth in the Judeo-Christian bible. However, you would think in the year 2020 people would understand that the bible is fiction and has significant reasons for concern, such as the following: the similarities of stories; obvious rehashing of numerous previous character; unavoidable contradictions; significant moral problems, including rape, murder and incest, and an abundance of nagging questions. Unless you are mindless, one can easily understand that a book like this can be used mainly for control, but in some hands it can be used to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Bible Is Really the Story of Creation of the Solar System. The Bible was initially stories that were written down and cobbled together and tales told verbally by their descendants over thousands of years that tried to explain the birth of the present Solar System, and what the survivors witnessed. It began in about 10,500 BCE and ended about 685 BCE. Millions of years ago, our Earth and was created by an expulsion of plasma from its brown dwarf star, now known as the Planet Saturn. Mars was also created from a plasma expulsion from the brown dwarf, when it came under electrical stress in the plasma Universe. Saturn, as a brown dwarf, with the Earth and Mars within its plasma glow mode, had an atmosphere of salt, hydrocarbons and water that misted down on both planets for millions or billions of years, providing its oceans and oil pockets. Brown dwarfs are known to be the best home for the development of life since the glow mode provides one warm temperature with no seasons and promotes growth under its ultraviolet and infrared atmosphere. It has recently been discovered that Saturn is the only planet with the same molecular type of water as Earth. Our Earth does not wobble around its pole, as is currently believed, every 25,920 years due to solar-lunar forces acting on the Earth. It was known long ago by the Ancients that the so called change in some stars ‘precessing’ against the sky was caused by the path of our sun and planets and other stars travelling and revolving around electric Birkeland Current filaments that circle around certain stars; the star Arcturus, the star Alcyone and the star Sirius. The revolution of our current Sun with Sirus occurs every 25,000 years, with the Arcturus filament stream every 550,000 years and with Alcyone, and the Pleiades star system, every 26-27 million years. This last cycle is important since it corresponds to the same 26-27 million year extinction cycle of our Earth. It is believed that Earth’s extinction level events occurred as the Saturnian System with Earth and Mars within its orbit crossed the position of our current Sun and its planets every 26-27 million years, resulting in the mass extinctions. The biology of Earth is such a complete accident, and so utterly unlikely that it will probably not have ever been duplicated anywhere, at anytime, among the billions of other star systems. But here on Earth, all of it, especially the rise of complex species since the Cambrian, 560 million years ago, can be attributed to a series of cataclysmic plasma strikes by Saturn, each of a very long duration: biologists claim 10,000 years for the extinction events. At about 10,500 BCE, the Earth, at that time a planet of the Sun, made an electric field contact with Saturn, causing 1500 years of darkness on Earth. The period of darkness is recognized by many of the world's creation myths and was recorded in the illustrated graphic books of Mesoamerica, references to which are made in the Colonial period documents. Climatologically, the period is identified today as the Younger Dryas, when for some 1500 years Earth got as cold as it had ever been. Over the next 7000 years the orbit of Earth, apparently equal to the orbit of Saturn at that time, but below Saturn, progressively moved laterally to have the Earth's orbital path eventually travel below the centre of Saturn. Thus, between 10,500 BCE and 3147 BCE, earth was part of a strange configuration of stacked planets, a condition which provided long summers and a mild climate in the northern hemisphere. Planets, dominated by the giant form of Saturn, stood above the north horizon and close to Earth but measured in millions of miles and were taken by humans to be the Gods who supported them and for whose benefit they labored at agriculture and conducted trade. In 4070 BCE, Saturn dropped its coma. This had been the ‘chaos before creation’, which had lasted some 7,000 years and had obscured Saturn and its companion satellites. Saturn went Nova, and switched to arc mode. In a mass expulsion Saturn produced its rings and a new satellite, Venus. Saturn lit up more brilliantly than the Sun. For humans of Earth, who had not clearly seen the real Sun for thousands of years because of the shadow of the Younger Dryas, followed by the obscurity of the enclosing plasmasphere of Saturn, this was the creation, the start of time, and the first showing of the land and its resident Gods, the satellites of Saturn. Saturn was universally called the Sun throughout the world at this time. In 3147 BCE, as Mars began the oscillate between Venus and Earth this configuration of standing planets became unstable and broke apart, with the three large planets moving away from the Sun, while Earth, Venus and Mars were released to their overlapping inner orbits. The breakup produced a stupendous flood waters, which had been held at the south polar region due to gravitational attraction of Saturn for some 7,000 years. The water held at the South Pole was due to the lifting up of the Earth’s crust in the Arctic, and the sinking toward the Earth’s interior in Antarctica. This was the end of the ‘Golden Age’. When the Solar System re-arrangent was complete it formed the basis of all religions, myths and mystery schools.