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March 2004Der Weg der Masken
by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eva Moldenhauer
In Der Weg der Masken wendet der Ethnologe Claude Lévi-Strauss seine strukturalistische Betrachtungsweise von Mythen erstmals auf sichtbare, künstlerische Objekte an – nämlich auf die Masken der Indianer an der Küste des Pazifischen Ozeans in Britisch-Kolumbien und Alaska. Entstanden ist eine faszinierende kleine Studie, in der Claude Lévi-Strauss zeigt, wie diese Masken zu betrachten sind: nicht als isolierte Gegenstände, sondern eingebettet in Transformationsbeziehungen hinsichtlich ihres Gründungsmythos, ihrer Funktion und ihrer materiellen Beschaffenheit.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 1905Alaska Days with John Muir
by Samuel Hall Young
Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians. In "Alaska Days With John Muir" he describes this 1879 meeting: "A hearty grip of the hand and we seemed to coalesce in a friendship which, to me at least, has been one of the very best things in a life full of blessings." This book, first published in 1915, describes two journeys of discovery taken in company with Muir in 1879 and 1880. Despite the pleas of his missionary colleagues that he not risk life and limb with "that wild Muir," Young accompanied Muir in the exploration of Glacier Bay. Upon Muir's return to Alaska in 1880, they traveled together and mapped the inside route to Sitka. Young describes Muir's ability to "slide" up glaciers, the broad Scotch he used when he was enjoying himself, and his natural affinity for Indian wisdom and theistic religion. From the gripping account of their near-disastrous ascent of Glenora Peak to Young's perspective on Muir's famous dog story "Stickeen," Alaska Days is an engaging record of a friendship grounded in the shared wonders of Alaska's wild landscapes.
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September 2003Vom Baikal nach Alaska
Eine Reise in Bildern
by Bednarz, Klaus / Vorwort von Pleitgen, Fritz
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January 2007Die Reise nach Alaska
by Bora Ćosić, Katharina Wolf-Griesshaber
Im Frühjahr 2005 bricht der serbische Schriftsteller Bora ?osi? zu einer Reise durch das frühere Jugoslawien auf. Er hat das Land Anfang der neunziger Jahre verlassen und findet nun ein Gebiet neuer Widersprüche vor. Müllberge türmen sich in Kroatien, Dörfer sind noch vom Krieg gezeichnet. In Sarajevo überblenden sich die Gegenwart und das Wissen um die Jahre der Belagerung, in Belgrad erfährt er sich als dazugehörender Außenseiter. ?osi? verbindet sinnliche Anschauung mit politischer Kritik, scharfsinnige Reflexion mit Erinnerungen an die avantgardistische jugoslawische Kulturszene. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, wie es zur Katastrophe kommen konnte.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017Frontiers of the Caribbean
by Philip Nanton, Gurminder Bhambra
This book argues that the Caribbean frontier, usually assumed to have been eclipsed after colonial conquest, remains a powerful but unrecognised element of Caribbean island culture. Combining analytical and creative genres of writing, it explores historical and contemporary patterns of frontier change through a case study of the little-known Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Modern frontier traits are located in the wandering woodcutter, the squatter on government land and the mountainside ganja grower. But the frontier is also identified as part of global production that has shaped island tourism, the financial sector and patterns of migration.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017Colonial frontiers
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Kim Latham
Colonial frontiers explores the formation, structure and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, historians, archaeologists and post-colonial theorists, the authors in this fascinating collection explore the importance of cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and America. Taking key historical moments to illuminate the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between the settler societies and the indigenous groups, this book raises many important questions about how the empire worked 'on the ground'. Importantly, the collection attempts to theorise the indigenous experience. As we move towards globalisation, borders and boundaries have begun to fall away. This book reminds us that not long ago the frontiers and boundaries were the key sites for cross-cultural interaction. This collection, which includes chapters by John K. Noyes, Nigel Penn, Kay Schaffer and Ian McNiven, is broad in scope and presents an exciting new approach to the issues surrounding group interaction in colonial settings. Students and academics, from backgrounds such as imperial history, anthropology and post-colonial studies, will find this collection extremely valuable.
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Sport & leisure industriesAugust 2006Cruise Ship Tourism
by Edited by Ross Dowling
This book explores the theory, issues, impacts and management considerations surrounding the growing industry of cruise tourism. It begins by giving an overview of the cruise industry, followed by chapters focusing on the increasing demand for cruising. It presents case-studies of specific countries, including the Antarctic, Caribbean and Alaska before reviewing the economic, social and environmental impacts of cruise tourism. It concludes by exploring predictions for the future of the industry.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024
Law across imperial borders
British consuls and colonial connections on China’s western frontiers, 1880-1943
by Emily Whewell
Law across imperial borders offers new perspectives on the complex legal connections between Britain's presence in Western China in the western frontier regions of Yunnan and Xinjiang, and the British colonies of Burma and India. Bringing together a transnational methodology with a social-legal focus, it demonstrates how inter-Asian mobility across frontiers shaped British authority in contested frontier regions of China. It examines the role of a range of actors who helped create, constitute and contest legal practice on the frontier-including consuls, indigenous elites and cultural mediators. The book will be of interest to historians of China, the British Empire in Asia and legal history.
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March 2012Im Schatten des Vaters
Roman
by David Vann, Miriam Mandelkow
Eine abgelegene Insel im südlichen Alaska, nichts als undurchdringliche Wälder und schroffe Berge. Hier hat Jim eine Holzhütte gekauft, um darin ein Jahr allein mit seinem dreizehnjährigen Sohn Roy zu leben. Aber Jim ist erschreckend unvorbereitet auf das Leben in der Wildnis: auf Bären, peitschenden Regen und Schnee und vor allem auf die Einsamkeit. Nachts muß Roy das verzweifelte Schluchzen seines Vaters mitanhören. Er will nichts als fort von der Insel, aber er fürchtet sich vor dem, was passiert, wenn er geht. Und so bleibt er, bis das Schicksal des Vaters und sein eigenes mit einem erschütternden Ereignis besiegelt ist.
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Powèm entèdi ak lòt powèm (Forbidden poems and other poems)
by Guy Régis Jr
Forbidden poems and other poems are a book designed with a series of words that say without lure all cause people fear to speak daylight. It gathers all the sweet words that make life thrive at night. Every poem in this book is a ochan so life can be plagued even when at night bare the sun at the tip of the dawn. It's a song the poet's hopes bring, a veve he draws for love spread without measure like the hay pid of Christmas.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2019Frontier Identity: Odesa in 20th century
by Yaroslav Polishchuk
Flipping through the pages of the cultural history of Odesa in the 20th century, the author of the book analyses the frontier identity that developed in this peculiar city. In the first part of the book, the general processes that determined the cultural face of Odesa are analysed, in the second, portraits of prominent artists are presented - Volodymyr Zhabotynskyi, Petro Leshchenko, Mykhailo Zhuk, Boris Necherda, Boris Khersonskyi. Each of them in their own way embodied the image of the beach and sea city in its changing identity and constant charm. And if the above personalities are forgotten today, then we have a good opportunity to get to know and appreciate them more deeply, at the same time rethinking the phenomenon of Odesa in the 20th century.
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April 2012Die Unermesslichkeit
by David Vann, Miriam Mandelkow
Gary und Irene wollen sich ein letztes Mal zusammenraufen, ihre verkorkste Ehe retten, nicht jeder für sich zugrunde gehen. Gary hatte einst einen Traum: Sie lebten in einer einfachen Holzhütte auf Caribou Island, einer kleinen Insel vor Alaska, sie waren glücklich, die Schrecken der Vergangenheit hatten sie hinter sich gelassen. Während eines Unwetters machen sie sich auf den Weg. Schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft packt Irene die Angst. Sie sind schlecht vorbereitet, um sie herum ragt die Wildnis, gewaltig, unbarmherzig und von undurchdringlicher Schönheit. Als der Winter kommt, treibt die Einsamkeit der Insel das Paar immer weiter auseinander, Beklemmung stürzt um in Wut. Auch ihre Tochter Rhoda, die mit ihrem eigenen Leben, ihrer eigenen Beziehung alle Hände voll zu tun hat, vermag die beiden nicht zu beruhigen. Hingebungsvoll, aber hilflos muss sie vom Festland aus zusehen, wie ihre Eltern sich langsam, aber sicher zerfleischen. 'Die Unermesslichkeit' erzählt eine dunkle, wahrhaftige Geschichte von den Kämpfen zwischen Mann und Frau – ein packendes Meisterwerk über die letzte Gewissheit, dass wir uns selbst nicht entrinnen können.
