I Really Thought It Would Be Easier Than This: Essays

Stewart, Pamela

Self-Help

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Nature and the nature of things are at the heart of Pamela Stewart's poems - the nature of the human consciousness living within the larger natural world, and the human world's undercurrent of violence counterpointing with nature's inevitabilities. Connected by themes of pleasure and pain, belonging and boundaries, the poems form a multilayered portrait of humanity and nature.

Red Window (Contemporary Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

University of Georgia Press

Evangelistic Women A Study Of Women's Ministries [Paperback]

Evangelistic Women A Study Of Women's Ministries

Morris Publishing

Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and continues to be, their place in society? How do they change over time? Such questions exist against a backdrop of assumptions about development, modernization, and disenchantment of the world.
Written with the specific needs of students of religious studies in mind, Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion surveys the field of ritual studies, looking at it both historically within anthropology and in terms of its contemporary relevance to world events.

Politics & Social Sciences

Strathern, Andrew

Anthropology

Bloomsbury Academic

Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and continues to be, their place in society? How do they change over time? Such questions exist against a backdrop of assumptions about development, modernization, and disenchantment of the world.Written with the specific needs of students of religious studies in mind, Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion surveys the field of ritual studies, looking at it both historically within anthropology and in terms of its contemporary relevance to world events.

The Ghosts of Hamilton

In small town Hamilton, Texas, things are not as peaceful as they seem when a set of big city teenage twins meet up with a teenage ghost hunter who's grandmother is the president of the town spiritualist society

Contemporary

AuthorHouse

In small town Hamilton, Texas, things are not as peaceful as they seem when a set of big city teenage twins meet up with a teenage ghost hunter who's grandmother is the president of the town spiritualist society

South Pole Station, A.K.A the Butt Crack of the World, any teenager's worst nightmare, and home to free-spirit Ionia Sonberg.To shake up her bland, boring, stuck-on-blah life, Ionia defies her uber-controlling mother and adds a companion droid, Den, to the supply requisition. The droid's arrival takes Ionia's relationship with her mom from toxic to Seventh Level of Frozen Hell.Ionia and her droid escape the station by stowing way on a cargo plane bound for Mac Town, the biggest city on the continent. But just as she reaches her destination, a terrorist attack forces her to choose between freedom and family loyalty.Den's primary programming dictates that he please his mistress, but accompanying Ionia across the Antarctic tundra into imminent danger does not match the definition of pleasure in any of his manuals. Yet, his greatest desire is to keep her from harm, and he's willing to risk his very existence to ensure her safety. Whether she likes it or not.Together they must travel over Earth's harshest terrain to uncover a secret that may save or destroy them both.

Frozen Hearts (The Ionia Chronicles)

Teen & Young Adult

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This book is written collaboratively by experts on different regions of Oceania. It presents a unique tool for instructors and general readers who wish to become more familiar with the peoples of the Pacific and for scholars looking for an analytical conspectus on this part of the world. Oceania combines surveys of prehistory and history with careful discussions of cultural patterns and problems arising out of contemporary political and economic change. Many of the issues discussed relate to concerns in other global regions, including North America and Australia. General discussions on specific islands or sub-regions are followed by wide-ranging studies that bring together classic themes and recent issues as viewed in current scholarship. Readers will find the book easy to understand, and instructors will find the layout of the materials easy to set into course syllabi. Each section of the book probes issues that are significant for the study of the peoples of Oceania. These issues range from the contemporary interpretation and manifestation of traditional concepts such as "aloha"; ("pity," "love," "affection," "sympathy," or "empathy") to the development of ethnicity and political conflict between local and national levels within the state, to the long-term influence of forms of Christianity and their intertwining with indigenous religion and ritual. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the vitality and adaptability of Pacific Islanders in the context of rapid and continuing transformations in their life worlds. In this completely revised second edition of the book, all sections have been comprehensively updated with regard to recent scholarly literature on and political changes in the societies studied. In their expanded Introduction, Stewart and Strathern have included further discussions of studies on religious change, on aesthetic genres, and in particular on the relatively new arena of Disaster Anthropology that they have been developing for a number of years. They acknowledge also the affinity of the indigenous Austronesian speakers of Taiwan with the Pacific Islanders discussed in this book.

Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders

Poyer, Lin

Feinberg, Richard

Carucci, Laurence

Social Sciences

Carolina Academic Press

This popular book draws on a rich array of ethnographic cases from around the world to demonstrate the complexities of ideas and practices that surround the health of the human body, and how health is impacted by the beliefs and practices of the community. In addition to comprehensive updating and revision throughout the text, this second edition contains expanded materials on the epidemiology of malaria and tuberculosis and further reflections on both doctor-patient communication in contemporary settings and issues on the role of ritual in healing processes. Also, discussions of ethnopsychiatry and ''alternative'' medicine are expanded. Throughout history and throughout the world today, problems of health, sickness, and medical treatment have been intimately interwoven with social, cultural, and political life generally. Medical anthropology deals with these problems, recognizing the deep connections between cultural patterns, historical change, and life processes. Case studies in this book are drawn from around the world, including: Australia and the Pacific, China, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and the Americas generally. The authors make particular use of materials from their research in Papua New Guinea. This book is intended as a textbook usable for both anthropology courses and courses for medical students. The topics covered include a survey of earlier works in medical anthropology, regimens of bodily treatment, sex and reproduction, medical pluralism, doctor-patient communication, epidemiology, ethnopsychiatry illness and the emotions, and how new diseases have altered the ways in which individuals see themselves and how ''traditional'' practices alter to accommodate new diseases.

Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective (Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series)

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I Really Thought It Would Be Easier Than This: Essays

Red Window (Contemporary Poetry Series)

Evangelistic Women A Study Of Women's Ministries

Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

The Ghosts of Hamilton

The Ghosts of Hamilton

Frozen Hearts (The Ionia Chronicles)

Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders

Curing and Healing: Medical Anthropology in Global Perspective (Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series)