Words And Silences

Author : Laur Vallikivi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253068770
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words and Silences written by Laur Vallikivi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This work is a masterpiece already as it stands now! It presents an unusually rich ethnography of a part of a community in Europe's farthest Arctic Northeast, with a focus on an extremely difficult topic to do fieldwork on: the conversion of a so-far hardly known group of reindeer nomads to radical evangelical Baptism / Pentecostalism." - Florian Stammler, author of Reindeer Nomads Meet the Market: Culture, Property and Globalisation at the "End of the Land" "Although not working from within the subdiscipline of linguistic anthropology, Vallikivi foregrounds speaking and communication in his analysis of the transformation from "pagan" to Christian. He finds a complex interweaving of speaking and refraining from speaking is key to Nenets personhood, and demonstrates how we have to understand cultural ways of speaking in order to understand Nenets Baptists and Pentecostals. [...] I have been reviewing book manuscripts for two decades for over a dozen presses, and this is by far the most polished and impressive manuscript I have read." - Alexander D. King, author of Living with Koryak Traditions: Playing with Culture in Siberia Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialism these nomads managed to avoid the Soviet state and its institutions of collectivization but soon after the atheist regime collapsed, while some staunchly resisted, many of them became fervent fundamentalist Christians. By exploring differing concepts of how traditional and convert Nenets use and define words, and of the meanings they ascribe to the withholding of speech, Vallikivi shows how a local form of global Christianity has emerged through intricate negotiations of self, sociality, and cosmology. Moving beyond studies of modernization and globalization that have all-too-predictable outcomes for indigenous peoples, Words and Silences invites us to view not only religious devotees, but words themselves, as agents of a complex and ongoing transformation"--

Author : Peggy Brock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000248372
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words and Silences written by Peggy Brock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In struggles over access to land, Aboriginal women's concerns have often remained unacknowledged. Their words - and silences - have been frequently misheard, misunderstood, misrepresented, misused. The controversy about 'secret women's business' in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge conflict has brought this issue to the attention of the general public. How can Aboriginal women assert their claims while protecting, by remaining silent, their culturally sensitive knowledge? How can they prevent their words and silences being misrepresented? Words and Silences explores the barriers confronting Aboriginal women trying to defend their land rights. The contributors to this volume provide insights into the intricacies of Aboriginal social and cultural knowledge, and introduce the reader to different understandings of how the gendered nature of Aboriginal land ownership adds complexity to the cross-cultural encounter. In lively and engaging prose they document the ongoing struggles of Aboriginal women across Australia, who are fighting to ensure they receive due recognition of their rights in land.

Author : Olivia Dresher
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781098940393
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Silence of Words written by Olivia Dresher and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Silence of Words, Olivia Dresher's poetic aphorisms and other brevities, taken from her first few years at Twitter beginning in 2009, express her devotion to short forms that she also explored in her book In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing. Ten years later, in 2019, she has a significant following at Twitter and has written over 58,000 tweets, of which 874 appear in this book. As one of her followers noted, "You write as you breathe, shaping everything with some sort of second nature." Published by Impassio Press, www.impassio.com

Author : Richard McLauchlan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783169222
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saturday's Silence written by Richard McLauchlan and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited itself to such matters as his obsession with the ‘absent God’, his appalled fascination with the mixed cruelty and wonder of a divinely created world, his interest in the world-view of the ‘new physics’, and his increasingly heterodox stance on spiritual matters. What has been largely neglected is his central indebtedness to key features of the ‘classic’ Christian tradition. This book concentrates on one powerful and compelling example of this, reading Thomas’s great body of religious work in the light of the three days that form the centre of the Gospel narrative; the days which tell of the death, entombment and resurrection of Christ.

Author : Michal Ephratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471676
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence as Language written by Michal Ephratt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

Author : Wolfgang Gortschacher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118843207
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 written by Wolfgang Gortschacher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.

Author : Elisabeth Marie Loevlie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199266364
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett written by Elisabeth Marie Loevlie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To explore literary silence is to explore the relationships between texts and the silence of the ineffable. This study describes silent dynamics through readings of Pascal's 'Pensees', Rousseau's 'Reveries', and Beckett's trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies' and 'The Unnameable'.

Author : Nicholas S. Hopkins
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162008
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political and Social Protest in Egypt written by Nicholas S. Hopkins and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and Social Protest in Egypt

Author : Andrew V. Ettin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813915098
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking Silences written by Andrew V. Ettin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of a public voice has implications for both the dominant and the dominated culture.

Author : Tillie Olsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silences written by Tillie Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: