The Story Of Lynx

Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226474724
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Lynx written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the cane, also to scratch herself. In vain Wild Cat kept trying to talk her out of it. One day the young lady found herself pregnant; she gave birth to a boy. Coyote, another inhabitant of the village, became indignant. He talked all of the population into going to live elsewhere and abandoning the old Wild Cat, his wife, and their child to their fate . . . " So begins the Nez Percé myth that lies at the heart of The Story of Lynx, Claude Lévi-Strauss's most accessible examination of the rich mythology of American Indians. In this wide-ranging work, the master of structural anthropology considers the many variations in a story that occurs in both North and South America, but especially among the Salish-speaking peoples of the Northwest Coast. He also shows how centuries of contact with Europeans have altered the tales. Lévi-Strauss focuses on the opposition between Wild Cat and Coyote to explore the meaning and uses of gemellarity, or twinness, in Native American culture. The concept of dual organization that these tales exemplify is one of non-equivalence: everything has an opposite or other, with which it coexists in unstable tension. In contrast, Lévi-Strauss argues, European notions of twinness—as in the myth of Castor and Pollux—stress the essential sameness of the twins. This fundamental cultural difference lay behind the fatal clash of European and Native American peoples. The Story of Lynx addresses and clarifies all the major issues that have occupied Lévi-Strauss for decades, and is the only one of his books in which he explicitly connects history and structuralism. The result is a work that will appeal to those interested in American Indian mythology.

Author : Ross Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472957334
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Missing Lynx written by Ross Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago – home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain's largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we? In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished. Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen progress in the revival of 'mammoth steppe' grassland. As widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction, this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned to the land on which they once lived and died.

Author : Kim Baldwin
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1602824258
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Missing Lynx written by Kim Baldwin and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do you run when there's nowhere to hide? When a sadistic serial killer known as the Headhunter resurfaces, a government blunder forces the Elite Operatives Organization into action. Operation Mask falls to Lynx. She has the determination, skills, and most importantly, the right profile, but her youth and lack of experience in the field could put more than the mission in jeopardy. Her search takes her deep into the jungles of Asia, where she must battle not only the ruthless purveyors of the international skin trade, but also her growing feelings for a mysterious mercenary with her own agenda for the Headhunter.

Author : Fiona Quinn
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508998952
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weakest Lynx written by Fiona Quinn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20-year-old Lexi Sobado is a woman with a psychic gift caught in the middle of a sinister web of crime and corruption. The victim of a stalker, Lexi finds herself romantically entangled with the special agent charged with protecting her. Thing is, Lexi herself has worked for the intelligence community in the past. What she hides, what she reveals and what she keeps trying to uncover become the juggling act our heroine deals with as she tries to save her own life and stop the killer.

Author : Timothy Zahn
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504016416
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Lynx written by Timothy Zahn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former agent Frank Compton races across the galaxy to prevent an evil group mind from acquiring powerful alien artifacts in the action-packed second installment of the Quadrail series from Hugo Award–winning author Timothy Zahn Frank Compton saved the universe once—and for that he must die. Having temporarily stalled the Modhri, a sinister alien group intelligence, in its evil schemes for universal domination, the former Western Alliance Intelligence operative just wants to relax in first class with his stunning, half-human partner, Bayta, aboard the worlds-linking intra-galactic transportation system, the Quadrail. But when their peace is disturbed by an annoying human passenger spinning wild tales of alien art objects, and the pest is discovered dead soon after, Compton and Bayta realize there can be no rest. The galaxy remains in grave danger. Now on a mission to find ancient sculptures, relics of a long-extinct alien civilization, Compton must elude a relentless special agent who believes him to be a murderer. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, for everything ties into the Modhri’s secret war against all the planets along the Quadrail lines—and the enemy’s unique ability to enslave the minds of every creature it comes into contact with means an assassin could be anywhere . . . or anyone.

Author : Fiona Quinn
Publisher : Fiona Quinn
ISBN 13 : 9781946661418
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hyper Lynx written by Fiona Quinn and published by Fiona Quinn. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Giakoumi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980770407
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Anni the Bear and Amy the Lynx written by Matthew Giakoumi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Lutts
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1566399181
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Animal Story written by Ralph Lutts and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the wild animal story emerged in Canadian literature as a distinct genre, in which animals pursue their own interests—survival for themselves, their offspring, and perhaps a mate, or the pure pleasure of their wildness. Bringing together some of the most celebrated wild animal stories, Ralph H. Lutts places them firmly in the context of heated controversies about animal intelligence and purposeful behavior. Widely regarded as entertaining and educational, the early stories—by Charles G. D. Roberts, Ernest Thompson Seton, John Muir, Jack London and others—had an avid readership among adults and children. But some naturalists and at least one hunter—Theodore Roosevelt—discredited these writers as "nature fakers," accusing them of falsely portraying animal behavior. The stories and commentaries collected here span the twentieth century. As present day animal behaviorists, psychologists, and the public attempt to sort out the meaning of what animals do and our obligations to them, Ralph Lutts maps some of the prominent features of our cultural landscape. Tales include: • The Springfield Fox by Ernest Thompson Seton • The Sounding of the Call by Jack London • Stickeen by John Muir • Journey to the Sea by Rachel Carson Other selections include esssays by Theoore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, Margaret Atwood, and Ralph H. Lutts. postamble();

Author : Jonathan London
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let the Lynx Come in written by Jonathan London and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While his father sleeps in their cabin in the wilderness, a young boy climbs on the back of a lynx and explores the Northern Lights and the moon.

Author : Ernest Thompson Seton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deer, Antelope, Buffalo, Sheep, and Peccary : Wapiti ; Woodland Caribou ; Barren-ground Caribou ; Mountain Caribou ; Dawson Caribou ; Moose ; Whitetailed Deer ; Arizona Whitetail ; Northern Fantail ; Mule-deer ; Coast Deer ; Antelope ; Mountain Goat ; Bighorn Sheep ; White Sheep ; Muskox ; Buffalo ; Wood Buffalo ; Peccary written by Ernest Thompson Seton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: