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Author : Jacques Ivanoff
Publisher : White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Mergui Archipelago (Burma)
ISBN :
Author : K. Alexander Adelaar
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0700712860
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Author : Wen-Chin Chang
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199335044
This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches. The constituted stories highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities.
Author : N. J. Enfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108758401
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and core systems and subsystems of the languages of this fascinating region. Drawing on his depth of expertise in mainland Southeast Asia, Enfield includes more than a thousand data examples from over a hundred languages from Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, bringing together a wealth of data and analysis that has not previously been available in one place. Chapters cover the many ways in which these languages both resemble each other, and differ from each other, and the diversity of the area's languages is highlighted, with a special emphasis on minority languages, which outnumber the national languages by nearly a hundred to one. The result is an authoritative treatment of a fascinating and important linguistic area.
Author : Timothy J. Burbery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000407772
Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky—such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look. It turns out that these and similar tales, which originated in pre-literate societies, contain surprisingly accurate, pre-scientific intuitions about startling or catastrophic earth-based phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and the unearthing of bizarre animal bones. Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events provides an accessible, engaging overview of this hybrid discipline. The introductory chapter surveys geomythology’s remarkable history and its core concepts, while the second and third chapters analyze the geomythical resonances of universal earth tales about dragons and giants. Chapter 4 narrows the focus to regional stories and discusses the ways these and other myths have influenced legends about griffins, Cyclopes, and other iconic creatures. The final chapter considers future avenues of research in geomythology, including geohazard management, geomythology databases, geomythical "cold cases," and ways the discipline might eventually set, rather than merely support, research agendas in science. Thus, the book constitutes a valuable asset for scientists and lay readers alike, particularly in a time of growing interest in monsters, massive climate change, and natural disasters.
Author : H.G.C. Schulte Nordholt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004434887
Southeast Asia' calls to mind a wide range of images: tropical forests and mountains, islands and seas, and a multitude of languages, cultures and religions. The area has never formed a unified political realm nor has it ever developed a cultural or civilisational unity. Many academics have defined 'Southeast Asia' over the years as what is left after subtracting Australia, the South Pacific islands and China and India. Others have pointed at diversity—the variety and fluidity of the cultures, wide ranging forms of economic activity, and openness to external influences—as the defining feature of the region. But with area studies out of fashion, is 'Southeast Asia' even relevant any longer? This volume considers 'Southeast Asia' drawn from a number of regional and disciplinary perspectives. The authors look at the region from the standpoint of Thailand and the Philippines, Singapore and Hong Kong, Japan and the Asian mainland, the South China Sea and the seacoasts of the region. They also discuss the significance of borders, monetary networks, transnational flows of people, goods and information, and knowledge in shaping Southeast Asia both for its residents, for the scholars who study it and for the wider world.
Author : Nicole Revel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443852805
Twenty-three years of joint endeavors and extensive field collecting of the narratives referred to in the present volume have resulted in the availability of a multimedia archive of Philippine epics, ballads and rituals both at the Pardo de Tavera collection of the Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University, and online. The linguists, anthropologists, and ethno-musicologists who have contributed to this book have long been conscious of the close links between ‘Intangible Heritage’ and ‘Tangible Heritage’. In the Philippines, sung narratives have been recorded in situ (through both audio and audio-video media), transcribed, translated, digitized, and analyzed by scholars and knowledgeable persons from fifteen cultural communities in the islands of Luzon, Panay, Palawan, Mindanao, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. Meanwhile, other scholars have dedicated their lifelong research to the Mergui Archipelago, central Sulawesi, southwest Maluku, and East Timor. Emerging from international collaboration, the scholarship provided here seeks not only to safeguard and comprehend the uniqueness and evolving beauty of ancient sung narratives that are currently performed in the islands of Southeast Asia, but also to defend their vitality in today’s changing world. This collection of twelve essays is the most recent achievement of ongoing studies of performances by singers of tales and ritualists in contemporary socio-cultural contexts by means of pioneering initiatives in the Digital Humanities, multiple analytical approaches and expert use of our growing technical capacity to safeguard and explore Intangible Heritage.
Author : Donald C. Francis
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1664284818
The book of life has many wise instructions for our lives, but “How can it be practically applied to me in these modern times?” you may ask. Transcendent Wisdom answers this question. The book is a 365 day devotional that will be your guide and friend on days of joy and sadness, laughter and crying, confusion and direction. Find practical applications for your everyday life through the words of Solomon and the insights of DC. Francis. No matter your background, culture, age or status, you will find stories, insights and fresh perspectives that will transform your days and redirect your life’s destiny.
Author : John U. Wolff
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501735985
This work, divided into two volumes, is the study of the history of words in the Austronesian (An) languages—their origin in Proto-Austronesian (PAn) or at later stages and how they developed into the forms that are attested in the current An languages. A study of their history entails the reconstruction of the sound system (phonology) of PAn and an exposition of the sound laws (rules) whereby the original sounds changed into those attested in the current An languages. The primary aim of this work is to examine exhaustively the forms that can be reconstructed for PAn and also for the earliest stage after the An languages began to spread southward from Taiwan. For the later stages—that is, forms that can be traced no further back than to the proto-languages of late subgroups, we do not attempt to be exhaustive but confine ourselves to only some of the forms that are traceable to those times, treating those that figure prominently in the literature on historical An linguistics or those that have special characteristics important for understanding in general how forms arose and the processes that led to change. In short, the aim of this study is not just to reconstruct protomorphemes and order the reflexes according to the entries they fit under, but rather to account for the history of each fom1 that is attested and explain what happened historically to yield the attestations.
Author : M. C. Ricklefs
Publisher : Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9794618837
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