Invaders as Ancestors

Invaders as Ancestors
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780802098764
ISBN-13 : 0802098762
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Invaders as Ancestors by : Peter Gose

Invaders as Ancestors examines how the unique practices involved in Andean ancestor-worship first facilitated Spanish colonization and eventually undid the colonial project.

Invaders as Ancestors

Invaders as Ancestors
Author :
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781442693012
ISBN-13 : 1442693010
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Invaders as Ancestors by : Peter Gose

Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders as Ancestors examines how this unique cultural practice first facilitated Spanish colonization and eventually undid the colonial project when the Spanish attacked ancestor worship as idolatry and Andeans adopted Spanish political and religious forms to challenge indigenous rulers. In this work, Peter Gose demonstrates the ways in which Andeans converted conquest confrontations into relations of kinship and obligation and then worshipped Christianized and racially "white" spirits after the Spaniards invaded, though the conquering Spaniards prevented actual kinship bonds with the Andeans by adhering to strict rules of racial separation. Invaders as Ancestors explores an alternative response to colonization beyond the predictable resistance narrative, presenting instead a creative form of transculturation under the agency of the Andeans. Invaders as Ancestors is a fascinating account of one of the most unusual transcultural encounters in the history of colonialism.

The Invaders

The Invaders
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780674736764
ISBN-13 : 0674736761
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Invaders by : Pat Shipman

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe—descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856, scientists have been vexed by the question, why did modern humans survive while their closest known relatives went extinct? “Shipman admits that scientists have yet to find genetic evidence that would prove her theory. Time will tell if she’s right. For now, read this book for an engagingly comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving understanding of our own origins.” —Toby Lester, Wall Street Journal “Are humans the ultimate invasive species? So contends anthropologist Pat Shipman—and Neanderthals, she opines, were among our first victims. The relationship between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is laid out cleanly, along with genetic and other evidence. Shipman posits provocatively that the deciding factor in the triumph of our ancestors was the domestication of wolves.” —Daniel Cressey, Nature

Druidry and the Ancestors

Druidry and the Ancestors
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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781780996769
ISBN-13 : 1780996764
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Druidry and the Ancestors by : Nimue Brown

Ancestors are part of our shared humanity, we all have them. Ancestry in the guise of race, has been used as a tool to divide. Even so, it might yet help us move in greater harmony. Are we playing out the motifs of our family history, or making our own lives? Are we held back by the past, or empowered by it? And why does any of this matter? Druidry and the Ancestors will take you on a journey into how you imagine yourself, and how you can take control of your identity and future. Druid, author, bard and dreamer. Nimue Brown is OBOD trained, a founding member of Bards of The Lost Forest and Druid Network member. , ,

Matterhorn

Matterhorn
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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages : 616
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ISBN-10 : 9780802197160
ISBN-13 : 0802197167
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Matterhorn by : Karl Marlantes

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.

The Transatlantic Las Casas

The Transatlantic Las Casas
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 545
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ISBN-10 : 9789004515918
ISBN-13 : 9004515917
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Transatlantic Las Casas by : Rady Roldán-Figueroa

Adding to the momentum of Lascasian Studies, this interdisciplinary effort of seventeen scholars offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies.

Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World

Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9781316368626
ISBN-13 : 1316368629
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World by : Colin Renfrew

Modern archaeology has amassed considerable evidence for the disposal of the dead through burials, cemeteries and other monuments. Drawing on this body of evidence, this book offers fresh insight into how early human societies conceived of death and the afterlife. The twenty-seven essays in this volume consider the rituals and responses to death in prehistoric societies across the world, from eastern Asia through Europe to the Americas, and from the very earliest times before developed religious beliefs offered scriptural answers to these questions. Compiled and written by leading prehistorians and archaeologists, this volume traces the emergence of death as a concept in early times, as well as a contributing factor to the formation of communities and social hierarchies, and sometimes the creation of divinities.

Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity

Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 0674160878
ISBN-13 : 9780674160873
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity by : Weiming Tu

Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace--in industrial East Asia.

The Fascinating History of My Direct Royal Ancestors and Their Descendants

The Fascinating History of My Direct Royal Ancestors and Their Descendants
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Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9781528928816
ISBN-13 : 1528928814
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fascinating History of My Direct Royal Ancestors and Their Descendants by : Charles Harding

The author traces his direct ancestors for 40 generations, commencing with Egbert Saxon, king of Wessex in generation 1. King Edward III is described in generation 18. He was the last monarch in the author’s Direct family tree. He and his wife, Philippa of Hanault, are the author’s 21 times great grandparents. The author narrates the history of his direct ancestors up to his grandparents in generation 39, from English royalty to Scottish nobility, ending with the Krio elite in the former British colony of Sierra Leone. This was as a result of the acting governor of Sierra Leone, the Scottish Kenneth Macaulay, the author’s 4 times great-grandfather, having a relationship with a liberated African, which led to the birth of the author’s 3 times great-grandmother Charlotte Macaulay, who was of mixed race. The book is an entertaining, fascinating and accessible piece of family history with a wide-ranging scope and engaging manner of dialogue, which will be of interest, not only to historians and genealogists, but also to non-fiction readers in general.