Subversive Seduction: Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel, Travis Landry
Автор: Timothy R. Landry Название: Vodun: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power ISBN: 0812250745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812250749 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6891.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion—the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodún deity known as Lokò. However, other, less familiar places, such as the palace of the so-called supreme chief of Vodún in Bénin, are also rising in popularity as tourists become increasingly adventurous and as more Vodún priests and temples make themselves available to foreigners in the hopes of earning extra money. Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin—some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion. He argues that the ways in which the Vodún priests and tourists negotiate the transfer of confidential, sacred knowledge create its value. The more secrecy that surrounds Vodún ritual practice and material culture, the more authentic, coveted, and, consequently, expensive that knowledge becomes. Landry writes as anthropologist and initiate, having participated in hundreds of Vodún ceremonies, rituals, and festivals. Examining the role of money, the incarnation of deities, the limits of adaptation for the transnational community, and the belief in spirits, sorcery, and witchcraft, Vodún ponders the ethical implications of producing and consuming culture by local and international agents. Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion.
Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man--and in the decades since--about the subjugation of women. If female choice is a key component of evolutionary success, what impact does the constraint of women's choices have on society? The elaborate courtship plots of 19th century Spanish novels, with their fixation on suitors and selectors, rivalry, and seduction, were attempts to grapple with the question of female agency in a patriarchal society. By reading Darwin through the lens of the Spanish realist novel and vice versa, Travis Landry brings new insights to our understanding of both: while Darwin's theories have often been seen as biologically deterministic, Landry asserts that Darwin's theory of sexual selection was characterized by an open ended dynamic whose oxymoronic emphasis on "passive" female choice carries the potential for revolutionary change in the status of women.
Автор: Landry Joss Название: Ava Moss ISBN: 0996044108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996044103 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Fielding Kim Название: Redesigning Landry Bishop ISBN: 1641081171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641081177 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German exchange in the Sattelzeit. It offers new perspectives on the movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange.
Автор: Landry Lisa Ann Название: Content Marketing: How to Get Started ISBN: 0996190848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996190848 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4302.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: So you've got a few social sites set-up for your business. You thought it was a great idea to use the sites to regularly post your sales and promotions. Well how is that working for you? Is it getting old? Does anyone care? I mean is anyone taking advantage of your sales? Or are they more interested in blocking you or reporting you as a spammer? Are you consistently frustrated because your efforts social media marketing don't seem to work? Do you often struggle with identifying content ideas that will engage your ideal client beyond your sales and promotions? Is it sometimes challenging to find the time to create and post regularly to your social sites? Don't you wish you could just have a simple strategy for content marketing? Pick up Content Marketing: How to Get Started. And you will learn: - Why content marketing works better than being salesy, pushy, slimy, and sleazy - To give great content that gets engagement by practicing the Law of Reciprocity - You have gallons of content already, how to identify it and how to apply the Little Pink Spoons method - Create a keyword and hashtag optimized content marketing strategy that will carry you through the year - The unique features, culture, language and tone of some of the social sites so you know the best type of content to post - How to leverage you social media marketing efforts with you e-mail marketing Start marketing your products and service using social media and e-mail marketing by using this simple guide Content Marketing: How to Get Started
Автор: Landry K. E. Название: Hungry Water ISBN: 1732803404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732803404 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2837.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Preserve, Protect, Kill.
In a crumbling sector where food is scarce and water is poison, the citizens rely on their government, The State, to keep them safe. Each year, The State taps citizens for public service, to serve as guards, watching over all the sectors.
She gave a year of her life to The State. Now, she wants it back.
Seventeen-year-old Bree Carter has just returned home from a year training with The State. Between attending mandatory therapy sessions and avoiding guards The State keeps sending to try to kill her, she has little time to resume her life.
If Bree's going to take on The State, she needs to use the training The State provided to survive. There's just one problem: she can't remember any of it. Bree must unlock the secrets in her own mind to save not only herself, but the entire sector.
Hungry Water is the first book in a young adult dystopian thriller series. If you like fast-paced action, deception and intrigue, and revolutions led by kickass women, then you'll love this series by K.E. Landry.
Описание: Psychique multitalentueux, rudit, ex-pr tre, ex-policier et finalement investigateur de ph nom ne paranormaux. Un b b m le fut abandonn dans l'escalier d'une cr che par une nuit de verglas. La bonne soeur d'origine Acadienne l'ayant recueilli fut charg e de trouver un nom cet enfant qui devra affronter seul la vie. Ainsi est n Joseph Fran ois Balthazar Landry. Mais ce b b n'avait rien d'ordinaire et rien ne laissait pr sager les aventures p rilleuses qui l'attendaient. La premi re mal diction de Balthazar tait de poss der de puissants talents psychiques qui en firent un paria dans toutes ses entreprises. Devenu pr tre, il se trouva vite travers d'une glise dont les dogmes ne pouvait expliquer et encore moins admettre l'existence de ses talents. Policier, son efficacit et son ascension fulgurante au grade de lieutenant d tective lui attira tellement d'ennemis que sa vie m me tait perp tuellement mise en danger, aussi bien par ses propres coll gues que par les chefs du crime organis pour lesquels il repr sentait une menace constante. Lorsque Balthazar allia finalement toutes ces exp riences acquises avec son talent inn pour se r inventer investigateur de ph nom nes paranormaux, presque tout changea pour lui. Son fid le ami est un anachronisme vivant. Gaspard Ferron est lui-m me un ancien policier, mais appartient cette vieille cole o les policiers devaient jadis poss der de vastes r serves de courage moral aussi bien que physique; une poque maintenant r volue. la retraite, Gaspard est encore et toujours plus goon que n'importe quel goon que l'on pourrait trouver dans les bas fonds. Id ale contrepartie de Balthazar, il est un colosse tr s terre terre qui a le coeur aussi large que ses poings, est bourr de contacts, et peut r clamer ou extorquer des faveurs une foule de gens pour procurer son "Boss" presque n'importe quoi. Expert chauffeur, tireur (avec ses lunettes), et briseur de cr nes; il tient lieu pour Balthazar de support d'artillerie, si jamais il en avait besoin. Balthazar et Gaspar plongent ensemble m thodiquement, de fa on presque routini re, dans des aventures o la r alit et les mondes parall les se confondent pour les entra ner au bord de la folie ou leur perte. La deuxi me mal diction de Balthazar est que son talent fait aussi de lui un insomniaque chronique, un homme qui peut sembler perp tuellement l thargique, et donc une proie facile. Plusieurs sont ceux qui ont eu l'occasion de regretter d'avoir commise cette erreur de jugement... Mais quelle femme voudrait partager sa vie avec un gentilhomme poli, rudit, solitaire et insomniaque, qui de surcroit vit dans deux mondes la fois? La bonne soeur Acadienne avait peut- tre fait preuve de clairvoyance en donnant cet orphelin le nom de Balthazar Landry, triste h ros de la l gende Acadienne...
Автор: Landry, Chip Название: Historic magnolia cemetery ISBN: 1467103780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781467103787 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3447.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: New settlements require proper resting places for their dead. Around 1763, British troops officially gained control of Baton Rouge and established a small fort on the Mississippi River there. However, since 1719, soldiers and white explorers had been buri
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