Island of the Spirits
Author : John Stanmeyer
Publisher : Afterhours Records
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bali Island (Indonesia)
ISBN : 9786029750713
Author : John Stanmeyer
Publisher : Afterhours Records
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bali Island (Indonesia)
ISBN : 9786029750713
Author : Shanna Farrell
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1642831433
"In A Good Drink, Farrell goes in search of the bars, distillers, and farmers who are driving a transformation to sustainable spirits. She meets mezcaleros in Guadalajara who are working to preserve traditional ways of producing mezcal, for the health of the local land, the wallets of the local farmers, and the culture of the community. She visits distillers in South Carolina who are bringing a rare variety of corn back from near extinction to make one of the most sought-after bourbons in the world. She meets a London bar owner who has eliminated individual bottles and ice, acculturating drinkers to a new definition of luxury."--Amazon.
Author : Filomeno V. Aguilar
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824820824
This text illuminates the oral traditions of the Philippines and the convergence of capitalism and the indigenous spirit world. The author examines the social relations, cultural meanings and political struggles surrounding the rise of sugar haciendas on Negros during the late Spanish colonial period, and their subsequent transformation under the aegis of the American colonial state. Drawing on oral history, interviews and a wide array of sources culled from archives in Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Philippines, the author reconstructs the emergence of a sugar-planter class and its strategic maneuvers to attain hegemony. The book portrays local actors taking an active role in shaping the external forces that impinge on their lives. It examines hacienda life from the indigenous perspective of magic and spirit beliefs, reinterpreting several critical phases of Philippine history in the process. By analyzing mythic tales as bearers of historical consciousness, the author explores the complex interactions between local culture, global interventions, and capitalist market forces.
Author : Keith Robinson
Publisher : Unearthly Tales
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780984390632
Continuing adventure of shape shifting children, a tale of paranoia, betrayal, and impending doom.
Author : George Tan
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category :
ISBN : 9789837508071
Author : Mary Lindsey
Publisher : Philomel Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399161864
"Paul has been training his whole life to be a Protector. Together he and his assigned Speaker will help lingering souls move from our world to the next. But no amount of training has prepared him for Vivienne--a Speaker with hot pink hair, piercings, and a blatant disregard for rules"--
Author : Baron Specter
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 9781602707740
While searching for Blackbeard's treasure on Star Island, New Hampshire, Joey and Tank encounter the pirate ghosts that protect it.
Author : Gillian Bradshaw
Publisher : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312870752
The Roman Empire sends a barbarian warrior to faraway Britain in this historical novel of love and survival in the ancient world. A Sarmatian warrior-prince, Ariantes is uprooted from his home and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact with the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Ariantes and his troop are sent to watch over Hadrian’s Wall. Unsurprisingly, the Sarmatians hate Britain—an Island of Ghosts, filled with pale faces, stone walls, and an uneasy past. Struggling to command his own people to defend a land they despise, Ariantes is accepted by all, but trusted by none. The Romans fear his barbarian background, and his own men fear his gradual Roman assimilation. When Ariantes uncovers a conspiracy sure to damage both his Roman benefactors and his beloved countrymen, as well as put him and the woman he loves in grave danger, he must make a difficult decision—one that will change his own life forever.
Author : Kate Ramsey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226703819
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits and the Law examines that vexed history, asking why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned many popular ritual practices. To find out, Kate Ramsey begins with the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Fearful of an independent black nation inspiring similar revolts, the United States, France, and the rest of Europe ostracized Haiti. Successive Haitian governments, seeking to counter the image of Haiti as primitive as well as contain popular organization and leadership, outlawed “spells” and, later, “superstitious practices.” While not often strictly enforced, these laws were at times the basis for attacks on Vodou by the Haitian state, the Catholic Church, and occupying U.S. forces. Beyond such offensives, Ramsey argues that in prohibiting practices considered essential for maintaining relations with the spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the political marginalization, social stigmatization, and economic exploitation of the Haitian majority. At the same time, she examines the ways communities across Haiti evaded, subverted, redirected, and shaped enforcement of the laws. Analyzing the long genealogy of anti-Vodou rhetoric, Ramsey thoroughly dissects claims that the religion has impeded Haiti’s development.
Author : Baron Specter
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1617874426
With all the ghostly adventures Joey DeAngelo has had since moving to Boston, he felt it was time to take his new friend Tank to one of the most haunted places on Earth--Star Island. Star Island is one of the islands in the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Most of these nine tiny isles are rich with ghostly legends, but Joey is really after Blackbeard's buried treasure! With some help from a strange local girl, Joey and Tank enter one of the many caves of Star Island and find something hidden in them. Will the boys come away from the caves with riches or more ghost stories to tell?