When A Human Gives Birth To A Raven

Author : Rafael Rachel Neis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520391195
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven written by Rafael Rachel Neis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book investigates rabbinic treatises relating to animals, humans, and other lifeforms. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late ancient Palestinian rabbis and other thinkers in the Roman empire, Rafael Rachel Neis shows how rabbis blurred the lines between the human and other beings. This they did even as they were intent on classifying creatures and delineating the contours of the human. Recognizing that life proliferates via multiple mechanisms beyond sexual copulation between two heterosexual 'male' and 'female' individuals of the same species, the rabbis produced intricate alternatives. This expansive view of generation included humans. Likewise, in parsing the variety of creatures, the rabbis attended to the overlaps and resemblances across seemingly distinct species, upsetting in turn unmitigated claims of human distinctiveness. Intervening in conversations in animal studies, queer theory, trans theory, and feminist science studies, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven provincializes sacrosanct ideals of reproduction in favor of a broader range of generation, kinship, and species offering powerful historical alternatives to the paradigms associated with so-called traditional ideas"--

Author : Rafael Rachel Neis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520391209
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven written by Rafael Rachel Neis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book investigates rabbinic treatises relating to animals, humans, and other life-forms. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late ancient Palestinian rabbis and other thinkers in the Roman Empire, Rafael Rachel Neis shows how rabbis blurred the lines between humans and other beings, even as they were intent on classifying creatures and tracing the contours of what it means to be human. Recognizing that life proliferates by mechanisms beyond sexual copulation between two heterosexual “male” and “female” individuals of the same species, the rabbis proposed intricate alternatives. In parsing a variety of creatures, they considered overlaps and resemblances across seemingly distinct species, upsetting in turn unmitigated claims of human distinctiveness. When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven enters conversations in animal studies, queer theory, trans theory, and feminist science studies to provincialize sacrosanct ideals of reproduction in favor of a broader range that spans generation, kinship, and species. The book thereby offers powerful historical alternatives to the paradigms associated with so-called traditional ideas.

Author : Rachel Neis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032512
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture written by Rachel Neis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the power of sight for ancient rabbis across the realms of divinity, sexuality, idolatry and rabbinic subjectivity.

Author : Lorena Laura Stookey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313039372
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thematic Guide to World Mythology written by Lorena Laura Stookey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All around the world, myths address questions that humans have always posed about their origins, their environments, their ultimate destinies, and the meanings of their lives. This book examines 30 common motifs that thread their way through mythological tales across history and around the globe. The themes are presented in alphabetical order, moving from The Afterlife and Animals in Myth to The Underworld, World Tree, and Ymir Motif. Each thematic section defines and discusses a single recognizable motif, compares a number of different mythological traditions, and traces the repeated occurrences of one of these patterns through several different categories of narratives. The discussion of The Afterlife, for example, examines the theme's earliest known occurrences in ancient Mesopotamia and compares them with those in Greek, Aztec, Norse, and other ancient cultures, as well as with contemporary views from Innuit and Polynesian cultures. A glossary provides concise definitions of recurring terms. A list of suggested readings on these topics will further aid students who desire to deepen their knowledge of world mythology.

Author : Pat Kramer
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781894974448
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Totem Poles written by Pat Kramer and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The First Peoples of the Pacific Coast recorded their history and preserved their legends and stories on spectacularly carved totem poles. This book guides readers to the many places in British Columbia, Washington and Alaska where totem poles can be found and helps viewers understand the "language" of the poles. Learn about their origin and history, the symbols and ceremonies linked to them, types of figures and how to identify them, and where to see authentic poles and pole collections." "Pat Kramer spent many years researching the material in this book and worked closely with First Peoples to create a fresh and revealing look at these incredible artifacts. Filled with fascinating facts, legends and photographs, Totem Poles is an excellent guide, reference and souvenir."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Timothy Best
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638144192
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Should Adam Have Taken the Liberty to Rescue All Generations? written by Timothy Best and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should Adam Have Taken the Liberty to Rescue All Generations? is basically about God’s wonderful creation of the heavens and earth and everything in them and Adam’s failure to obey God’s command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which brought about the great sins to all generations. Adam’s action also brought about the first of the Great Towel of Babel, the Great Flood and the Great Exodus, after the Great Sin. I also wished that Adam would have prayed to God to possibly be allowed to cut the tree of knowledge of good and evil down in an effort to prevent the great sin. God commanded that Adam shall not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but there is no mention concerning touching it. Eve, who was not present when God gave Adam the command, came along and added the word touch. And if the tree was cut down, Satan of old certainly would not have had an opportunity to tempt neither Adam nor Eve. So basically, I am praying and I wish the whole world would read my book and pray for God to bring back fellowship on Earth with him. What a time that would be and what a time it would have been to hang out with the likes of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and Jesus Christ during these modern-day times if it wasn’t for Adam’s great sin. That’s basically what my book is all about—having no sins, no oldness, and no death, only fellowship with God on Earth.

Author : Boria Sax
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894872
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crow written by Boria Sax and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-04-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though not generally perceived as graceful, crows are remarkably so—a single curve undulates from the tip of the bird’s beak to the end of its tail. They take flight almost without effort, flapping their wings easily and ascending into the air like spirits. Crow by Boria Sax is a celebration of the crow and its relatives in myth, literature, and life. Sax takes readers into the history of crows, detailing how in a range of cultures, from the Chinese to the Hopi Indians, crows are bearers of prophecy. For example, thanks in part to the birds’ courtship rituals, Greeks invoked crows as symbols of conjugal love. From the raven sent out by Noah to the corvid deities of the Eskimo, from Taoist legends to Victorian novels and contemporary films, Sax’s book ranges across history and culture and will interest anyone who has ever been intrigued, puzzled, annoyed, or charmed by these wonderfully intelligent birds.

Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438497504
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utopian Imaginings written by Victoria W. Wolcott and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time." These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin's 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the idea of saving the world through utopian imaginings has a deep and profound history. At this moment of rupture—with the related crises of the pandemic, racial uprisings, and climate change converging—Utopian Imaginings revisits this history to show how utopian thought and practice offer alternative paths to the future. The third book in the Humanities to the Rescue series, the volume examines both lived and imagined utopian communities from an interdisciplinary perspective. While attentive to the troubled and troubling elements of different spaces and collectives, Utopian Imaginings remains premised in hope, culminating in a series of inspiring exemplars of the utopian potential of the college classroom today.

Author : Layla AbdelRahim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113510459X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation written by Layla AbdelRahim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation, domestication, breeding, and extermination, arguing instead that the stories and narratives of wilderness project chaos and infinite possibilities for experiencing the world through a diverse community of life. AbdelRahim engages these narratives in a dialogue with each other and traces their expression in the various disciplines and books written for both children and adults, analyzing the manifestation of fictional narratives in real life. This is both an inter- and multi-disciplinary endeavor that is reflected in the combination of research methods drawn from anthropology and literary studies as well as in the tracing of the narratives of order and chaos, or civilization and wilderness, in children's literature and our world. Chapters compare and contrast fictional children's books that offer different real-world socio-economic paradigms, such as A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh projecting a civilized monarcho-capitalist world, Nikolai Nosov's trilogy on The Adventures of Dunno and Friends presenting the challenges and feats of an anarcho-socialist society in evolution from primitivism towards technology, and Tove Jansson's Moominbooks depicting the harmony of anarchy, chaos, and wildness. AbdelRahim examines the construction, transmission, and acquisition of knowledge in children’s literature by visiting the very nature of literature, culture, and language and the civilized structures that domesticate the world. She brings radically new perspectives to the knowledge, culture, and construction of human beings, making an invaluable contribution to a wide range of disciplines and for those engaged in revolutionizing contemporary debates on the nature of knowledge, human identity, and the world.

Author : Richard K. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022676785X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Prayers to the Raven written by Richard K. Nelson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nelson spent a year among the Koyukon people of western Alaska, studying their intimate relationship with animals and the land. His chronicle of that visit represents a thorough and elegant account of the mystical connection between Native Americans and the natural world."—Outside "This admirable reflection on the natural history of the Koyukon River drainage in Alaska is founded on knowledge the author gained as a student of the Koyukon culture, indigenous to that region. He presents these Athapascan views of the land—principally of its animals and Koyukon relationships with those creatures—together with a measured account of his own experiences and doubts. . . . For someone in search of a native American expression of 'ecology' and natural history, I can think of no better place to begin than with this work."—Barry Lopez, Orion Nature Quarterly "Far from being a romantic attempt to pass on the spiritual lore of Native Americans for a quick fix by others, this is a very serious ethnographic study of some Alaskan Indians in the Northern Forest area. . . . He has painstakingly regarded their views of earth, sky, water, mammals and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. He does admire their love of nature and spirit. Those who see the world through his eyes using their eyes will likely come away with new respect for the boreal forest and those who live with it and in it, not against it."—The Christian Century "In Make Prayers to the Raven Nelson reveals to us the Koyukon beliefs and attitudes toward the fauna that surround them in their forested habitat close to the lower Yukon. . . . Nelson's presentation also gives rich insights into the Koyukon subsistence cycle through the year and into the hardships of life in this northern region. The book is written with both brain and heart. . . . This book represents a landmark: never before has the integration of American Indians with their environment been so well spelled out."—Ake Hultkrantz, Journal of Forest History