Author : Cynthia Chou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1135787239
First major contemporary publication on the Orang Suku Laut (Indonesian sea nomads) Based on first hand fieldwork Contributes to anthropological debates on exchange theories and systems, tribality and hierarchy Challenges the prevailing conception of Islamic affiliation being the core of Malay identity Contribution to the study of Malay cultures in Southeast Asia
Author : Tanya J. King
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789201438
Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
Author : Jacques Ivanoff
Publisher : White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Mergui Archipelago (Burma)
ISBN :
Author : Nigel Pavitt
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Turkana (African people)
ISBN :
This is a photographic expose of the Turkana people in the far north-west corner of Kenya. They are an independent tribe, one of the last truly nomadic peoples in Africa. The rainfall in the Lake Turkana region rarely exceeds six inches per annum, and daytime temperatures soar to more than 100 degrees fahrenheit in the shade.
Author : Suzanne van der Veeken
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789082745405
Catch a sailboat ride across the ocean and make a difference for a healthier ocean. Ocean Nomad inspires and informs about a nature-minded way of adventure travel: as crew on someone else's sailing boat. The active travel guide is a combination of stories, photos and actionable information for anyone interested in sailing and ocean conservation.
Author : Walter Grainge White
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Author : W J Peaseley
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1921696168
‘Peasley's description of the events … is informative, compassionate, exciting and at times deeply moving.' —Don Grant, Australian Book Review ‘The intriguing story of [the rescue of an elderly couple believed to be the last Australian nomads] and how they survived alone for the previous 30 years or so in the unrelenting western Gibson Desert region of WA, is fascinating reading.' — Chris Walters, The West Australian ‘This is a most remarkable book about the recovery during the 1977 drought of an ailing Aboriginal nomadic couple, living in desert regions of Western Australia.' — The National Times Warri and Yatungka were believed to be the last of the Mandildjara tribe of desert nomads to live permanently in the traditional way. Their deaths in the late 1970s marked the end of a tribal lifestyle that stretched back more than 30,000 years. The Last of the Nomads tells of an extraordinary journey in search of Warri and Yatungka.
Author : Ayelet Gilboa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004430113
Three millennia of cross-Mediterranean bonds are revealed by 18 expert summaries in this book, shedding light on environmental factors; the formation of harbors; gateways; commodities; cultural impact; and the way to interpret the agents such as Canaanites, "Sea Peoples," Phoenicians and pirates.
Author : Sergiu Musteață
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 9781942401520
Based on analysis of archaeological, narrative and numismatic sources, this book provides an in-depth historical overview of the Carpathian-Danubian region during the eighth and the ninth centuries.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819574600
First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns — environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.
