[PDF] Island Heritage eBook

Author : Nathalie Peutz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1503607151

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Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, reptiles, and plants found nowhere else on earth, but also to a rich cultural history and the endangered Soqotri language. Within the span of a decade, this Indian Ocean archipelago went from being among the most marginalized regions of Yemen to promoted for its outstanding global value. Islands of Heritage shares Soqotrans' stories to offer the first exploration of environmental conservation, heritage production, and development in an Arab state. Examining the multiple notions of heritage in play for twenty-first-century Soqotra, Nathalie Peutz narrates how everyday Soqotrans came to assemble, defend, and mobilize their cultural and linguistic heritage. These efforts, which diverged from outsiders' focus on the island's natural heritage, ultimately added to Soqotrans' calls for political and cultural change during the Yemeni Revolution. Islands of Heritage shows that far from being merely a conservative endeavor, the protection of heritage can have profoundly transformative, even revolutionary effects. Grassroots claims to heritage can be a potent form of political engagement with the most imminent concerns of the present: human rights, globalization, democracy, and sustainability.

Author : Joyce Hunter
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Deer Isle (Me.)
ISBN : 9780941238083

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A compendium of republished articles originally written for the Island Ad-Vantages newspaper in Stonington, Maine, consisting of interviews with residents on their life lived on this relatively remote island off the coast of Maine. Includes childhood memories, old-fashioned fun, hard work, fishing quarrying, schooling, wartime service and more. The collection gives an enduring glimpse of the Island in an earlier time.

Author : Jolie Liston
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1921862483

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"This volume emerges from a ground-breaking conference held in the Republic of Palau on cultural heritage in the Pacific. It includes bold investigations of the role of cultural heritage in identity-making, and the ways in which community engagement informs heritage management practices. This is the first broad and detailed investigation of the unique and irreplaceable cultural heritage of the Pacific from a heritage management perspective. It identifies new trends in research and assesses relationships between archaeologists, heritage managers and local communities. The methods which emerge from these relationships will be critical to the effective management of heritage sites in the 21st century. A wonderful book which emerges from an extraordinary conference. Essential reading for cultural heritage managers, archaeologists and others with an interest in caring for the unique cultural heritage of the Pacific Islands".

Author : Edward J. McGrath
Publisher :
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Children's writings, American
ISBN : 9780834830271

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This book about Hawaii is written in the words and pictures of the children of Hawaii.

Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1625583745

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Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.

Author : Shan Mui
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Courage
ISBN : 9780834830134

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With the help of an old man's advice and seven magic orders, the brave Chung Shun wins his bride back from the demon monster.

Author : James W MacNutt
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0887807453

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This book explores the rich domestic architectural heritage of Prince Edward Island with chapters on the interiors of 50 of the most interesting historic homes on the Island. The houses selected for the book include examples of every important architectural style, and range from the late 18th century to the late 20th. Included are such well-known houses as Beaconsfield and Fanningbank, the official residence of the lieutenant governor in Charlottetown. Other houses featured are drawn from every corner of the province. Each house is featured in a chapter with descriptive text and beautiful colour photographs taken for this book.