Author: James Anthony Pritchett
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926247
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Category : History
Languages : en
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Friends For Life Friends For Death

by James Anthony Pritchett, Friends For Life Friends For Death Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Friends For Life Friends For Death books, "Transporting the reader to a place few have heard of, to examine the lives of people few will ever meet, Friends for Life, Friends for Death is an accessible account of day-to-day life and social construction in contemporary rural Africa."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: James Anthony Pritchett
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299171544
Size: 33.67 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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The Lunda Ndembu

by James Anthony Pritchett, The Lunda Ndembu Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Lunda Ndembu books, Bridging history and anthropology, this richly documented account of the Lunda-Ndembu people of northwestern Zambia has at its center the paradox of continuity and change. To legitimate and justify innovations to their cultural identity and practice, the Lunda-Ndembu propose that such innovations have conceptual similarities to long-standing traditions. While framing the discussion around classic anthropological oppositions--the individual versus the group, old versus young, females versus males, rich versus poor, us versus them, people versus the natural environment, the physical world vs. the metaphysical world--James A. Pritchett also offers a work of historical imagination. It is at the shifting boundaries of these relationships, he argues, that change is actually confronted on a daily basis, spoken about, and negotiated into conformity with widespread and enduring traditions. Juxtaposing Victor Turner's ethnographic data on the Ndembu from the 1950s with his own fieldwork in the 1980s and 1990s, Pritchett demonstrates that, by restudying areas already well known, it is possible to generate richly nuanced answers about social change that more accurately reflect local sensibilities.

Author: Ellen Emerson White
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380825783
Size: 18.49 MB
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Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Friends For Life

by Ellen Emerson White, Friends For Life Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Friends For Life books, When her best friend is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose, seventeen-year-old Susan suspects murder and determines to find out the truth.

Author: D. F. Scovil
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475924046
Size: 71.16 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Trinity S Children

by D. F. Scovil, Trinity S Children Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Trinity S Children books, As Gregory Howland embarks on a journey from Edmonton, Canada, to Trinity, an isolated mining community where he hopes to start over with his wife and three children in tow, he has no idea that their appearance will awaken a diabolical power trapped in the mine beneath the town that is focused on achieving only one goal—the destruction of the world. The Howlands settle into an old mansion in Trinity, and Gregory begins a teaching job. Soon, however, they discover through their nightmares and other visions that their town was the scene of a series of brutal murders during the winter of 1937, followed by an earthquake that obliterated its inhabitants. As the mere presence of the Howlands seem to revive dark forces within their home, the three children realize that they are all that stand in the way of an evil presence ready to unleash its fury. Now all they have to do is to decide whether to take a stand against the monster or lead its forces in an unforgettable virtual battle. In this riveting tale of horror, an innocent family is caught in the grips of a town with a nasty secret—a secret that will determine who will live and who will die.

Author: Martine Guichard
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782382879
Size: 37.35 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Friendship Descent And Alliance In Africa

by Martine Guichard, Friendship Descent And Alliance In Africa Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Friendship Descent And Alliance In Africa books, Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.

Author: Kalusa, Walima T.
Publisher: The Lembani Trust
ISBN: 9982680013
Size: 11.15 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Death Belief And Politics In Central African History

by Kalusa, Walima T., Death Belief And Politics In Central African History Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Death Belief And Politics In Central African History books, In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial practices, the histories of suicide and of maternal mortality, and the political life of the corpse.

Author: De Gruyter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783598694523
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Ibr

by De Gruyter, Ibr Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Ibr books, The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, offers book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,000 mainly European scholarly journals. This unique bibliography contains over 1.2 millions book reviews. 60,000 entries are added every year with details on the work reviewed and the review.

Author: Judith L. Lief
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 9780834822573
Size: 67.25 MB
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Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Making Friends With Death

by Judith L. Lief, Making Friends With Death Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Making Friends With Death books, In Making Friends with Death, Buddhist teacher Judith Lief, who's drawn her inspiration from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, shows us that through the powerful combination of contemplation of death and mindfulness practice, we can change how we relate to death, enhance our appreciation of everyday life, and use our developing acceptance of our own vulnerability as a basis for opening to others. She also offers a series of guidelines to help us reconnect with dying persons, whether they are friends or family, clients or patients. Lief highlights the value of relating to the immediacy of death as an ongoing aspect of everyday life by offering readers a variety of practical methods that they can apply to their lives and work. These methods include: Simple mindfulness exercises for deepening awareness of moment-by-moment change Practices for cultivating loving-kindness Helpful slogans and guidelines for caregivers to use Making Friends with Death will enlighten anyone interested in coming to terms with their own mortality. More specifically, the contemplative approach presented here offers health professionals, students of death and dying, and people who are helping a dying friend or relative useful guidance and inspiration. It will show them how to ground their actions in awareness and compassion, so that the steps they take in dealing with pain and suffering will be more effective.

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Category : Society of Friends
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Friends Intelligencer

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Author: GARY D. CUMBERLAND, M.D.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503592812
Size: 60.60 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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My Life With Death

by GARY D. CUMBERLAND, M.D., My Life With Death Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download My Life With Death books, Can the medical examiner really glean all the information from a dead body that’s portrayed on forensic television shows? In this book, Dr. Cumberland gives the reader a look into the life of a real working medical examiner and the types of death cases that routinely come through his morgue. The author uses actual cases from the hundreds of autopsies he has performed in Mobile, AL, and Pensacola, FL, to explain basic principles and procedures used in death investigation in a way that is both entertaining and educational. Cumberland’s gift for storytelling and his ability to explain complex issues in everyday language make this book not only readable but enjoyable for both teenagers and adults.