Chasing Traces

Chasing Traces
Title Chasing Traces PDF eBook
Author Pierre Petit
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 320
Release 2024-05-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0824897749

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In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected the local expression of historical memory. Yet this does not prevent local societies from producing their stories in their own terms, even if often in conflict with both national and Western categories. Producing history, ethnohistory, historical anthropology, and historical geography in the Southeast Asian highlands raises significant questions relating to methodology, epistemology, and ethics, for which most researchers are often ill-prepared. How can scholars manage to competently access information about the past? How is one to capture history-in-the-making through events, speech acts, rituals, and performances? How is the memory of the past transmitted—or not—and with what logic? Based on the experiences and reflections of a dozen diverse scholars rooted in decades of work in these three communist states, Chasing Traces is the first book about historical ethnography and related issues in the Southeast Asian highlands. Taking a critically reflexive posture, the authors make a plea for the individual, the hidden, and the backstage, for what life is really like on the ground, as opposed to imagined homogeneity, legibility, and unambiguousness. Their investigations on the history of ethnic minority communities adds archival historiography to ethnographic fieldwork and examines the relationship between the two fields. The individual chapters each tell distinctive stories of the conjunction of fieldwork, archival research, official surveillance, community participation, cultural norms, partnership with local scholars, and the other factors that both facilitate and frustrate the research enterprise of writing about the past in these societies. A timely work, this volume also provides guidelines for alternative ways to document and reflect when physical access becomes limited due to factors such as pandemic, political instability, and violence, and offers creative ways for researchers to cope with these dramatic shifts.

Penamour

Penamour
Title Penamour PDF eBook
Author Aya Diwalasa, Angelovinia Hope, Sol de Litras
Publisher Ukiyoto Publishing
Pages 133
Release
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9362693534

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Penamour. Painful love. This anthology plunges you into love’s darkest corners: unrequited affections, shattered promises, betrayal’s sting. Brace yourself for emotional honesty, raw and unflinching. Penamour isn’t for the faint of heart, but for those who dare to explore love’s bittersweet depths.

Chasing Aphrodite

Chasing Aphrodite
Title Chasing Aphrodite PDF eBook
Author Jason Felch
Publisher HMH
Pages 397
Release 2011-05-24
Genre Art
ISBN 0547538022

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A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting

Traces of Eden

Traces of Eden
Title Traces of Eden PDF eBook
Author Nishantha Gunawardena
Publisher Traces of Eden
Pages 162
Release 2005
Genre Photography
ISBN 0976997207

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Experience the grandeur and splendor of the American wilderness as captured during the author's three-year journey across across the 50 states.

Living with Animals

Living with Animals
Title Living with Animals PDF eBook
Author Natalie Porter
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 279
Release 2018-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501724835

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Double Check

Double Check
Title Double Check PDF eBook
Author Malcolm Rose
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Pages 228
Release 2007
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780753414927

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Everton Kohter is a young man on death row, but Luke Harding has been tipped off that he is innocent. Luke wants to reopen the case, but the authorities want him to investigate suspected pairing committee fraud instead. Against the ticking clock, Luke and Malc chase all leads - including a freak electrical storm and a plane crash. Can they uncover the truth behind the forensic traces?

End of the Line

End of the Line
Title End of the Line PDF eBook
Author Ash Penn
Publisher Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Pages 279
Release 2013-07-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1781843678

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Bookworm David knows the difference between fantasy and reality...until he meets Alex. Orphan and loner David Greene has always found solace in the dark romance written by his great-grandmother. The book and a crumbling old house on the edge of town are all that remains of his ancestry and the family he never knew. But when David meets Alex, the new owner of the house, his world spins out of control. Alex is every bit of man and mystery David could have conjured in his wildest erotic dreams, and he is drawn into a strange romance where weirdness becomes the norm. He even begins to sense the spirit of Vincent, the novel's mysterious anti-hero, who issues a warning about the dangers of involving himself with Alex. As Alex begins to manoeuvre and manipulate David's empty life, the question soon becomes not who is Alex, but what is Alex? And once the truth is out David discovers that the fictional world of his great-grandmother's novel was never quite so fictional after all.