Author : Wayne Hamby
Publisher : Plain Sight Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462118304
Most people don't risk their lives every day when they show up for work. But Wayne Hamby did. This treasure hunter shares encounters with terrifying jungle animals, cannibals, and killers while mining diamonds in the Amazon and West Africa. Discover a host of near-death experiences and the miracles that kept this man alive.
Author : Ellen B. Basso
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292792067
An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society. Drawing on oral documents recorded directly from the native language, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes nine traditional Kalapalo stories to offer important insights into Kalapalo historical knowledge and the performance of historical narratives within their nonliterate society. This engaging book challenges the familiar view of biography as a strictly Western literary form. Of special interest are biographies of powerful warriors whose actions led to the emergence of a more recent social order based on restrained behaviors from an earlier time when people were said to be fierce and violent. From these stories, Basso explores how the Kalapalo remember and understand their past and what specific linguistic, psychological, and ideological materials they employ to construct their historical consciousness. Her book will be important reading in anthropology, folklore, linguistics, and South American studies.
Author : Carlos Fausto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107020069
Describes the culture of the Parakanã, a little-known indigenous people of Amazonia, focusing on conflict and ritual.
Author : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1442257989
A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to Amazonia, South Africa, Chicago and many other places. Many claims about shamans and shamanism are contentious and all are worthy of discussion. In the most widespread understandings, terms seem to refer particularly to people who alter states of consciousness or enter trances in order to seek knowledge and help from powerful other-than-human persons, perhaps “spirits”. But this says only a little about the artists, community leaders, spiritual healers or hucksters, travelers in alternative realities and so on to which the label “shaman” has been applied. This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary contains over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individuals, groups, practices and cultures that have been called “shamanic”. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Shamanism.
Author : Michael Douglas Carlin
Publisher : Michael Douglas Carlin
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category :
ISBN : 1427631239
Peace has eluded men and women for all time. This book provides a road map to begin the peace process. The approach is a nuts and bolts simple methodology to achieve peace and to save the planet. Humanity hangs in the balance. If everyone does his or her part we can turn the tide and usher in an era of peace never before known.
Author : Jack D. Forbes
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1583229825
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before. Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes: "Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures’ lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism." This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.
Author : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Shamanism
ISBN : 0810876000
Explores the common ground of shamanic traditions and evaluates the diversity of both traditional indigenous communities and individual Western seekers.
Author : Hadena James
Publisher : Hadena James
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Some family trees need trimming. When pairs of feet start turning up in Columbia, Missouri, it becomes apparent that a serial killer is prowling the streets. However, the feet are not giving away many secrets and without bodies, it is impossible to identify the victims. The investigation stalls and the killer is free to slaughter as many victims as he can find. When Aislinn Cain and the SCTU shows up, Aislinn realizes that this isn’t a new serial killer. He’s terrorized her hometown before. Her father worked the case the first time with only an exotic bite mark as a clue. Now, Aislinn will start the manhunt of her life as she becomes determined to catch the monster that eluded her father. As she sinks further into the hunt, she'll uncover a horrifying past that proves skeletons should stay locked in closets.
Author : Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136605142
Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years. The jaguar and the puma epitomize ideas of sacrifice, cannibalism, war, and status in a startling array of graphic and enduring images. Natural and supernatural felines inhabit a shape-shifting world of sorcery and spiritual power, revealing the shamanic nature of Amerindian world views. This pioneering collection offers a unique pan-American assessment of the feline icon through the diversity of cultural interpretations, but also striking parallels in its associations with hunters, warriors, kingship, fertility, and the sacred nature of political power. Evidence is drawn from the pre-Columbian Aztec and Maya of Mexico, Peruvian, and Panamanian civilizations, through recent pueblo and Iroquois cultures of North America, to current Amazonian and Andean societies. This well-illustrated volume is essential reading for all who are interested in the symbolic construction of animal icons, their variable meanings, and their place in a natural world conceived through the lens of culture. The cross-disciplinary approach embraces archaeology, anthropology, and art history.
Author : Robert W. Chambers
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The mother said nothing. From moment to moment she turned her head on the pillow and gazed down at her new daughter with a curious, questioning expression. She had never gazed at any of her other children so uneasily. Even after she fell asleep the slightly puzzled expression remained as a faint crease between her brows. Her husband, who had been wandering about from the bar to the office, from the office to the veranda, and occasionally entirely around the exterior of the road-house, came in on tiptoe and looked rather vacantly at them both. Then he went out again as though he was not sure where he might be going. He was a little man and mild, and he did not look as though he had been created for anything in particular, not even for the purpose of procreation. It was one of those early April days when birds make a great fuss over their vocal accomplishments, and the brown earth grows green overnight—when the hot spring sun draws vapors from the soil, and the characteristic Long Island odour of manure is far too prevalent to please anybody but a native.
