Many Tongues, One People

Many Tongues, One People
Title Many Tongues, One People PDF eBook
Author Arjun Guneratne
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 259
Release 2018-08-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1501725300

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The Tharu of lowland Nepal are a group of culturally and linguistically diverse people who, only a few generations ago, would not have acknowledged each other as belonging to the same ethnic group. Today the Tharu are actively redefining themselves as a single ethnic group in Nepal's multiethnic polity. In Many Tongues, One People, Arjun Guneratne argues that shared cultural symbols—including religion, language, and common myths of descent—are not a necessary condition for the existence of a shared sense of peoplehood. The many diverse and distinct socio-cultural groups sharing the name "Tharu" have been brought together, Guneratne asserts, by a common relationship to the state and a shared experience of dispossession and exploitation that transcends their cultural differences. Tharu identity, the author shows, has developed in opposition to the activities of a modernizing, centralizing state and through interaction with other ethnic groups that have immigrated to the Tarai region where the Tharu live.This book"s claims have wide implications for the study of ethnic identity and are applicable far beyond Nepal. The emergence of the category of Native American, for example, may be considered an analogous case because that ethnic identity, like the Tharu, subsumes people of different cultural origin, and has been defined both through the state and against it.

Mystery Babylon The Greater London?

Mystery Babylon The Greater London?
Title Mystery Babylon The Greater London? PDF eBook
Author Barry Gumm
Publisher Createspace
Pages 428
Release 2016-01-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 1518603025

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Is Great-er London Mystery Babylon The Great? God does not leave things to chance. The book of Revelation is so much more literal than most think. For example I remember when I was 9 years old seeing the Royal Cup,. It was enormous to me back then. On this golden cup is everything that is described in the Book of Revelation for the Harlot. The Royal Cup is in the London Museum. Why would God bother whether a Golden cup dressed with Pearls, Scarlet and Purple be made anyway? In the end it all made perfect sense in realising who or what the Great City is being Mystery Babylon the Great.

Babel No More

Babel No More
Title Babel No More PDF eBook
Author Michael Erard
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 309
Release 2012-01-10
Genre History
ISBN 1451628277

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A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review). In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day polyglot who knows dozens of languages and shows Erard the tricks of the trade to give him a dark glimpse into the life of obsessive language acquisition. With his ambitious examination of what language is, where it lives in the brain, and the cultural implications of polyglots’ pursuits, Erard explores the upper limits of our ability to learn and use languages and illuminates the intellectual potential in everyone. How do some people escape the curse of Babel—and what might the gods have demanded of them in return?

Islamic Revival in Nepal

Islamic Revival in Nepal
Title Islamic Revival in Nepal PDF eBook
Author Megan Adamson Sijapati
Publisher Routledge
Pages 232
Release 2012-03-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 1136701338

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This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni revival as well as in Nepal's own local politics of representation. The book traces how these two worlds are lived and brought together in the context of Nepal's transition to secularism, and explores Muslim struggles for self-definition and belonging against a backdrop of historical marginalization and an unprecedented episode of anti-Muslim violence in 2004. Through the voices and experiences of Muslims themselves, the book examines Nepal’s most influential Islamic organizations for what they reveal about contemporary movements of revival among religious minorities on the margins--both geographic and social--of the so-called Islamic world. It reveals that Islamic revival is both a complex response to the challenges faced by modern minority communities in this historically Hindu kingdom and a movement to cultivate new modes of thought and piety among Nepal’s Muslims.

Tongues of Flame

Tongues of Flame
Title Tongues of Flame PDF eBook
Author Mary Ward Brown
Publisher University of Alabama Press
Pages 185
Release 1993-08-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0817307222

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Stories of the Deep South from a woman's point of view, depicting the changing relationships between black and white people, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.

DISAPPEARING PEOPLES?

DISAPPEARING PEOPLES?
Title DISAPPEARING PEOPLES? PDF eBook
Author Barbara Brower
Publisher Left Coast Press
Pages 277
Release 2007
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1598741217

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This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy.

A History of Literature in the Caribbean

A History of Literature in the Caribbean
Title A History of Literature in the Caribbean PDF eBook
Author A. James Arnold
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 682
Release 2001-07-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9027298335

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For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar’s Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.