Автор: Edwin Bernbaum Название: Sacred Mountains of the World ISBN: 1108834744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108834742 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13939.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on Edwin Bernbaum`s extensive research and personal experience as a scholar and climber, this book takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the symbolism of mountains in the mythologies, religions, history, literature, and art of cultures around the world, along with implications for environmental conservation.
Автор: Hargett, James M. Название: Jade mountains and cinnabar pools ISBN: 0295744464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295744469 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220-581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644). He traces the dynamic process through which the genre, most of which was written by scholars and officials, developed, and shows that key features include a journey toward an identifiable place; essay or diary format; description of places, phenomena, and conditions, accompanied by authorial observations, comments, and even personal feelings; inclusion of sensory details; and narration of movement through space and time.
Travel literature's inclusion of a variety of writing styles and purposes has made it hard to delineate. Hargett finds, however, that classic pieces of Chinese travel literature reveal much about the author, his values, and his view of the world, which in turn tells us about the author's society, making travel literature a rich source of historical information.
Автор: Martin Lamansky Название: Par Fore the Mountains: How a Ski Town Became a Golf Oasis ISBN: 1667823507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667823508 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3644.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers of a series of investigations into the cultural and behavioural patterns of east European immigrant Jews known to promote health and prevent disease. Drawing on data pointing to health as an economic commodity, leading to economic strength and social development, the author suggests that the high value accorded to health played a role in the relative economic prosperity of American Jews.
Описание: "Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein`s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget."-Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Описание: Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of 'love' reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.
Автор: Kingsolver Ann, Balasundaram Sasikumar Название: Global Mountain Regions: Conversations Toward the Future ISBN: 0253036860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253036865 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on one hand while simultaneously seen as culturally rich and spiritually sacred spaces on the other. These contradictions become even more fraught as environmental changes and political strains place added pressure on these mountain communities. Shifting national borders and changes to watersheds, forests, and natural resources play an increasingly important role as nations respond to the needs of a global economy. The works in this volume consider multiple nations, languages, generations, and religions in their exploration of upland communities' responses to the unique challenges and opportunities they share. From paintings to digital mapping, environmental studies to poetry, land reclamation efforts to song lyrics, the collection provides a truly interdisciplinary and global study. The editors and authors offer a cross-cultural exploration of the many strategies that mountain communities are employing to face the concerns of the future.
Автор: Wilson Ozell Название: Overcoming the Mountains: Second Edition ISBN: 1645504565 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645504566 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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God always opens doors, okay? I pray that if you are reading this book, that you will come to trust in God and don't be in a hurry, because God will never fail us. One thing I've learned through all of my accomplishments is that, if we trust God with all our hearts, even when things don't look so good for us, we can't give up. Knowing and trusting that if God have brought you this far, he will take you the rest of the way. We just can't give up, because God has already made the way. He just wants us to trust him on this journey, and give him the glory. I thank God for all he has done for me and my family. God has bought us through many mountains that I never thought we would get through. What you have read is a true, heart wrenching story about a young lady overcoming every obstacle that came her way, by the Grace of God. -Ozell Wilson
Описание: Instead of an escape from or rejection of modernity, it finds that upland trampers and climbers contested what it meant to be modern, used those modern identities to make political claims on rural space and rural people, and sought to define what a more modern future society should be like.
Описание: The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history.
Trumpets in the Mountains is a compelling ethnography about Cuban culture, artistic performance, and the shift in national identity after 1990, when the loss of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba into a severe economic crisis. The state's response involved opening the economy to foreign capital and tourism, and promoting previously deprecated cultural practices as quintessentially Cuban. Such contradictions of Cuba's revolutionary ideals elicited an official preoccupation with how twenty-first-century cubanía, or Cubanness, was to be understood by its citizens and creatively interpreted by its artists. The rural campesino was re-envisioned as a key symbol of the future; the embodiment of socialist humility, cultural pureness, and educated refinement; potentially the Hombre Novísimo (even newer man) to replace the Hombre Nuevo (new man) of Cuban communist philosophy.
Campesinos inhabit some of the island's most isolated areas, including the mountainous regions in central and eastern Cuba where Laurie A. Frederik conducted research among rural communities and professional theater groups. Analyzing the ongoing dialogue of cultural officials, urban and rural artists, and campesinos, Frederik provides an on-the-ground account of how visions of the nation are developed, manipulated, dramatized, and maintained in public consciousness. She shows that cubanía is defined, and redefined, in the interactive movement between intellectual, political, and everyday worlds.
Автор: Lloyd Robert M., Mitchell Richard S. Название: A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nevada ISBN: 0520340299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520340299 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
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