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The Powers of Genre

Interpreting Haya Oral Literature

By: Peter Seitel

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The Powers of Genre

Interpreting Haya Oral Literature

By: Peter Seitel

The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. Making a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greece, existed in Sub-Saharan Africa, this work will intrigue anyone who works in oral literature and narrative.

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Oxford University Press

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0198027702

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9780198027706

Historical Archaeology in Africa

Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

By: Peter Ridgway Schmidt

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Historical Archaeology in Africa

Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

By: Peter Ridgway Schmidt

Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Allowing Africa to speak for itself without colonial interpreters, Historical Archaeology in Africa will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists, but to all concerned with Africa's past and present.

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332

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Rowman Altamira

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0759109656

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9780759109650

Community-based Heritage in Africa

Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives

By: Peter R. Schmidt

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Community-based Heritage in Africa

Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives

By: Peter R. Schmidt

This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects. Schmidt explores how and why local research initiatives, which are often motivated by rapid culture change caused by globalization, arose among the Haya people of western Tanzania. In particular, the trauma of HIV/AIDS resulted in the loss of elders who had performed oral traditions and rituals at sacred places, the two most recognized forms of heritage among the Haya as well as distinct alternatives to the authorized heritage discourse favored around the globe. Examining three local initiatives, Schmidt draws on his experience as an anthropologist invited to collaborate and co-produce with the Haya to provide a poignant rendering of the successes, conflicts, and failures that punctuated their participatory community research efforts. This frank appraisal privileges local voices and focuses attention on the unique and important contributions that such projects can make to the preservation of regional history. Through this blend of personalized narrative and analytical examination, the book provides fresh insights into African archaeology and heritage studies.

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281

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Routledge

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1351980912

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9781351980913

Talk and Taxonomy

A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors

By: Peter Eglin

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Talk and Taxonomy

A methodological comparison of ethnosemantics and ethnomethodology with reference to terms for Canadian doctors

By: Peter Eglin

The thesis of this essay is that social or cultural competence consists more of an interpretive or methodological ability to use language in the service of interaction than of a substantive knowledge of collections of cultural categories and of the semantic relations between the terms naming those categories.

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137

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027281068

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9789027281067

Energy Reality

What They Don’T Want You to Know

By: Peter Cabana

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Energy Reality

What They Don’T Want You to Know

By: Peter Cabana

In 1963, he began work as a civil engineer working on the California State Water Project, and he went on to develop large energy projects throughout the worldcapping his career working with Bechtel on the Big Dig in Boston. Energy Reality reveals how energy, politics, and power are intertwined. Highlights include power struggles between United States of America and Russia/the Soviet Union to be the worlds largest producer of petroleum, which began after the Rothschilds took a shortcut through the Suez Canal, secretly opening the Asian market to kerosene; John Watson Foster, his son-in-law, Robert Lansing, and Uncle Berts two nephews, John Foster and Allen Dulles, who made certain that Sullivan & Cromwell clients retained control of Middle East oil; and Germany and Japan and how they were excluded from sharing oil wealth from the Middle East. The author also examines five postwar oil crises, including the taking of American hostages in Iran by the Khomeini regime in 1979, and how Vladimir Putin is seeking to turn Russia into a powerful petro state.

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507

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Archway Publishing

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1480856088

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9781480856080

Late Renaissance Music at the Habsburg Court

Polyphonic Settings of the Mass Ordinary at the Court of Rudolf II, 1576-1612

By: Carmelo Peter Comberiati

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Late Renaissance Music at the Habsburg Court

Polyphonic Settings of the Mass Ordinary at the Court of Rudolf II, 1576-1612

By: Carmelo Peter Comberiati

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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2881241921

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9782881241925

The Medici Conspiracy

The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museum

By: Peter Watson,Cecilia Todeschini

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The Medici Conspiracy

The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museum

By: Peter Watson,Cecilia Todeschini

The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli -- tomb raiders -- who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous expos's of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.

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450

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PublicAffairs

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1586485407

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9781586485405

Poverty in the Book of Proverbs

An African Transformational Hermeneutic of Proverbs on Poverty

By: Lechion Peter Kimilike

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Poverty in the Book of Proverbs

An African Transformational Hermeneutic of Proverbs on Poverty

By: Lechion Peter Kimilike

Western interpretations of poverty proverbs in the Old Testament Book of Proverbs have tended to see a status quo acceptance in the ancient texts, thus neglecting existential challenges of the poverty issue. In contrast, Lechion Peter Kimilike argues that African proverbial material on poverty may - when used comparatively to interpret the corresponding Old Testament poverty proverbs - create a more dynamic analysis. The author's new and thought-provoking interpretation suggests «an African transformational hermeneutic» that balances between the questions and methodology of the «global [i.e., western] guild» and the concerns of the African interpretative context.

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398

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Peter Lang

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1433103273

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9781433103278

Giants

The Global Power Elite

By: Peter Phillips

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Giants

The Global Power Elite

By: Peter Phillips

A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future. Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett. As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management—now represent the financial core of the world's transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management—the facilitators—of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies—and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission—and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.

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Seven Stories Press

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160980872X

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9781609808723

Get a Grip on Your Dream

12 Ways to Squeeze More Success Out of Your Goals

By: Peter Jeff

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Get a Grip on Your Dream

12 Ways to Squeeze More Success Out of Your Goals

By: Peter Jeff

Here's a four-step plan to help you get a solid grip on your dream -- for your personal and business life. You'll be given four pitons (mountain climbing spikes), which will enable you to climb more courageously and effectively. Go higher than you ever thought you could. These four essential pitons will enable you to scale the most challenging "mountains" imaginable. You'll also be empowered to climb more confidently, and -- with greater speed. In addition to more sure-footed climbing, you'll be equipped to reach out and set the stage of your life -- more completely than ever before. Be like a grip on a movie set. Gain more control over how your future looks. Move the lights, cameras and scenery for the best illumination and illustration of the scenes in your life. Use the pitons to rise to new levels of success -- for a happier, more prosperous and fulfilling life. Book jacket.

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0938716638

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The Powers of Genre

Interpreting Haya Oral Literature

By: Peter Seitel

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The Powers of Genre

Interpreting Haya Oral Literature

By: Peter Seitel

The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with LiveLy examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and heroic verse. He then focuses on a single epic ballad to demonstrate, among other things, why stanzas need not rhyme, and how significance needs time in oral poetry and narrative. Making a controversial claim that an heroic age, similar to that of Ancient Greek, I existed in Sub-Saharan Africa, this work will intrigue anyone who works in oral literature and narrative.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019511700X

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The Powers of Genre

The Powers of Genre

Historical Archaeology in Africa

Historical Archaeology in Africa

Community-based Heritage in Africa

Community-based Heritage in Africa

Talk and Taxonomy

Talk and Taxonomy

Energy Reality

Energy Reality

Late Renaissance Music at the Habsburg Court

Late Renaissance Music at the Habsburg Court

The Medici Conspiracy

The Medici Conspiracy

Poverty in the Book of Proverbs

Poverty in the Book of Proverbs

Giants

Giants

Get a Grip on Your Dream

Get a Grip on Your Dream

The Powers of Genre

The Powers of Genre

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