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...i village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview shatters when they harbor a Yata woman raised to be livestock instead of a god. ...

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...ions: Covenant Elissa Malcohn Second Edition This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the a... ...Elissa Malcohn. All rights reserved. This e-book edition has been prepared by the author for a limited, free-distribution offer to the reading publ... ...alcohn ISBN-13: 978-0-9819764-0-2 Second edition (First edition published by Aisling Press, 2007) 1. Science Fiction. 2. Fantasy 3. Anthropologica... ...d written in 1985. I am very thankful for the guidance I received back then by members of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop (Jon Burrowes, Alex... ...only ones who carried stories directly from Yata survivors back into Masari culture. To be a hunter was to be a hero. A master hunter, renowned for ... ...stere as the Masari records were. TripStone knew the generations, knew the names. Ulik. Zai. Ila. Abri. Evit. Each name became the hub of a wheel ... ...ert at her booted feet. TripStone would wait, reading as her prey wrote the names of survivors, until the blood labyrinth of memorized connections g... ...r divinity is a conceit of the Covenant. Without the Covenant what does our culture, the culture of the Dirt People, have the potential to become? I... ...This, too, NightShout had destroyed. That rare record of Masari history and culture had survived the Covenant but fell to a single man driven by his...

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...an Folk-lore, with the exception of a few transpositions, as mentioned in the preceding volume, the order of the author has been observed in the main by grouping together, first, the more important legends and traditions of the race, of universal acceptance through- out the whole group, followed by the briefer folk-tales of more local character. A few of similar names occ...

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...His Birth and Early Life—Change to Oahu and Fame Attained There -- 2 -- Size of Kauahoa—Is Killed by Kawelo—Kawelo Vanquishes Aikanaka -- 56 -- Kalonaikahailaau—Kawelo Equips Himself to Fight Aikanaka—Arrival at Kauai -- 20 -- Division of Kauai Lands—Aikanaka Becomes a Tiller of Ground -- 60 -- Commencement of Battle Betw...

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...R RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Klein... ...s who like Szechwan and Thai.‖ --―My taste buds have been destroyed by jalapenos and habaneras so I‘ll go for your hottest recommendation. Wha... ...yond and seek more important goals, then we will find that happiness is a by-product of our life quest. Your famous historian Arnold Toynbee said th... ...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ... the early church fathers in the third century choose only those with the names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? We know that they were not written by t... ...n? We know that they were not written by the apostles of 182 the same names. The apostles were probably dead when these gospels were written. The... ...most impossible to call urination, defecation or toilets by their correct names. And the joy of orgasm is trashed by the use of so many negative epi...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The autho...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsi... ...a, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2... ...LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Part II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Part III. VILLAG... ...ficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate glob... ...e of former village communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. Internation... ...of plains villages do not visit the mountains, they don't even really have names for them, the mountains just kind of exist. Children are taught at sc... ...es we have been angry with each other, but we have never called each other names, nor slept apart, unless one of us has been away. How did you mee... ...we called the sorcerer. Through the sorcerer, father's soul reeled off the names of his siblings, his children and grandchildren who were present. The...

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...he woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had ...

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..., Life in the Woods HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1854 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Economy... ...on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At... ...h on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertin... ...atives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than... ...gs, I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to human culture, and we are still forced to cut our spiritual bread far thinner ... ...ada, from time to time in the right proportions, — they may have changed the names a little since I saw the papers, — and serve up a bull fight when ot... ...les of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further pr... ...nse by the pains which he takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the... ...e acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has pro duced, whose names are hardly known here. Or shall I hear the name of Plato and never ...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity.... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Volume 2 by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 29. THE OPENING OF THE EYES OF MRS CHICK MISS T ... ...a season, is to make her mortified bonnet go down with a dip— writes their names like this good lady!’ Mr Sownds the Beadle thinks it is a truly spank... ...e children all round— which Mr Toodle much admired -and booked their ages, names, and acquirements, on a piece of paper. This ceremony , and a little ... ...d not, however, in his musings, neglect his own improvement, or the mental culture of Rob the Grinder. That young man was generally required to read o... ...d by a perpetual bruising of his intellectual shins against all the proper names of all the tribes of Judah, and by the monotonous repetition of hard ...

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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to mak...

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...Of Pyrrhonism-Pyrrhonism and Pyrrho.—Pyrrhonism and the Academy. Strength and weakness of Pyrrhonism.. 81 -- The First Book Of The Pyrrhonic Sketches By Sextus Empiricus, Translated From The Greek. 101 --...

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...tor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE... ... THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sket... ...a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. LONDON GEORGE BEL... ...s in which it could have originated, as those who have studied the origin of names will readily grant, perhaps indeed, from the title of the above-na... ...nder discussion, as Asclepiades made that city one of the centres of medical culture. On the other hand, the fact that there is no trace of the Hypot... ...y followers of Pyrrho, the great founder of the movement. In discussing the names given to the Sceptics, Sextus gives precedence very decidedly to th... ...pain and passion impose, which is expressed in other forms, and under other names, in other schools of philosophy. The method, however, by which ata...

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...e Hawaiian scholarship is seen in uncompleted translations and notes found in the collection. The “Hani ka Lani” prophecy which was brought to light by Judge Andrews in the sixties arid published in part has recently been found to be entitled to three more cantos. This chant is now beílieved to be complete, and appears here for the first time in translated form. Besides...

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...rcery Priesthood—Divisions and Ordinances—Sacrifice Services of the Student—Divination— Praying to Death—Divination Relating to Houses—Divining Omens by the Clouds—Foreítelling the Weather—The Healing Priests— Canoe Dreams—Adverse Signs—the Rainbow and the Rain—The Excrements—Bananas— The Mud-Hen—Auguries in Relation to Kings —The Massage Priest—the Hoounauna Priest —The H...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place,...

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... The Maine Woods HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1864 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the 186... ...1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative o... ...perty he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, a... ...d, where we stopped for the night. This, like most of the localities bearing names on this road, was a place to name, which, in the midst of the unnam... ...ercise of practical talent merely are a sure and rapid means of intellectual culture and independence. The last edition of Greenleaf’s Map of Maine hu... ... or the Forks, the last of the Indian is lands. I am particular to give the names of the settlers and the distances, since every log hut in these woo... ...us rapids and thoroughfares, and carried over four portages. I will give the names and distances, for the benefit of future tourists. First, after leav... ...hs and humanized Nature for him. But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pine...

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...The island of hawaii dominated the culture of the northernmost of the polynesian groups, even before the high chief kamehameha conquered the other islands and formed a united kingdom in the first decade of the nineteenth century. This truly great warrior, dipl...

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...r Clan. 29 -- Her Benign Younger Sister. 30 -- Lono The Thunderer. 31 -- Ku The Erect. 32 -- Kane The Procreator. 33 -- Kanaloa, Lord Of Ocean. 34 -- Names That Confer Status. 35 -- Forms. 35 -- Sharks. 35 -- Caterpillar. 37 -- Bitter Gourd. 38 -- Psychic Aspect Of Community Relationship. 39 -- Iv. The Kinship System. 40 -- Table I. Kinship Terms, Hawaiian And Maori. 42 --...

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... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS By ... ...................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY REL... ...o--to accept or reject such very different values, to accept or reject the leadership of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our... ...iences, our variables are nearly infinite. But not as infinite as the possibilities expressed by the many religions of the world. ―Our cultur... ... a common purpose and dynamic leadership, they stop growing when the individual selfishness of greed pulls down the necessary bulwarks of the cultur... ...anguage for frivolity rather than for philosophy. But guys, let‘s get serious again. Our mental environment is undoubtedly important. What our cultur... ... capable of loving. ―We educate our children quickly and painlessly. For example, in our pre-school videos we often put the noun that names ...

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... content and design. It is divided into six sections, five of which are abundantly illustrated. The first contains detailed reference maps with place names for towns, mountains, bays, harbors, and other features; geographical descriptions of the state and the main islands; and an introduction to Hawaiian place names. This is followed by four sections on the physical, bioti...

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...i and Ni'ihau -- 3 -- O'ahu -- 7 -- Moloka'i and Lana'i -- 11 -- Maui -- 14 -- Hawai'i -- 17 -- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 23 -- Hawaiian Place Names -- 26 -- Mapping and Geodesy -- 29 -- Geology -- 37 -- Geothermal Resources -- 47 -- Climate -- 49 -- Hawai'i and Atmospheric Change -- 60 -- Paleoclimate and Geography -- 64 -- Natural Hazards -- 67 -- Earthquakes -- 6...

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... 39. Combat trainee Morris follows the national debate on the war 40. Morris warms to a fervent description of Air Force ideals 41. Morris, coached by Tom Pitt, overcomes a crisis of self-doubt 42. Steward charges into community work with an ideal of service 43. Steward tries to help Sammy Lane and ends up resented 44. Steward and Doug Thomasek visit a ghost town in T...