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Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion

Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion

Ian Keen

Keen draws on recent post-structuralist social theory to discuss this heterogeneity of culture and ritual.
Strings of Connectedness: Essays in honour of Ian Keen

Strings of Connectedness: Essays in honour of Ian Keen

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In this volume of essays in his honour, a group of Keen’s former students and current colleagues celebrate the diversity of his scholarly interests and his inspiring influence as a mentor and a friend, with contributions ranging across ...
Report on the Fifth International Conference on Hunting and ...

Report on the Fifth International Conference on Hunting and ...

Ian Keen

Themes arising from sessions at Conference; overall assessment.
Scattered seeds: the descendents of Rabbi Israel, one of the ...

Scattered seeds: the descendents of Rabbi Israel, one of the ...

George I. Sackheim

I MARTIN ZACK IAN 11.709 I WILLIAM ZACK IAN 11.710 I I I I I LEWIS ZACK IAN 11.711 I I I I I BONNIE CHERYL STEVE VICTOR TANTA ZACK IAN ZACK IAN ZACK IAN ZACK IAN KLEIN wife of wife of wife of SEYMOUR RICHARD 12.1031  ...
A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present

A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present

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... especially from the first half of the eighteenth century, as Ian Waites has recently emphasizedQ Upper class taste was not some uniform, monolithic thing, and some patrons and purchasers, especially of topographic engravings, were keen to ...
Ubiquitous Ubiety of Dubious Uniformity

Ubiquitous Ubiety of Dubious Uniformity

Ian Keen

Critique of Tony Swains A Place For Strangers; Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being; argues against the construction of a traditional uniformity in Aboriginal world view and exclusively contact induced change in religious ...
Aborigines and Islanders in Australian Society

Aborigines and Islanders in Australian Society

Ian Keen

Brief histories of settler capitalism; precontact Aboriginal society; economic relations after contact; government policies; cultural continuity and diversity; socio-cultural and economic disadvantage.
Aboriginal Economy & Society: Australia at the Threshold of ...

Aboriginal Economy & Society: Australia at the Threshold of ...

Ian Keen

In the 1970s Athol Chase, in the company of some of the older Lockhart River residents, mapped the former locations of wet- and dry-season camping places. An estimated population of 800 people, divided among 32 patri-groups, suggests  ...
Metaphor and the Metalanguage: Groups in Northeast Arnhem Land

Metaphor and the Metalanguage: Groups in Northeast Arnhem Land

Ian Keen

Analysis of the use of metaphor in anthropological and Yolngu descriptions of group structure; criticism of lineage theory; tropes used in the construction of Yolngu ba; purru identity; identity, ancestor figures and country.
Britain and Japan Vol II: Biographical Portraits

Britain and Japan Vol II: Biographical Portraits

Ian Nish

... Missionary Society, The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, RomaineBamford, Lia Beretta, Christopher Gotto, Mrs Mirohiro Hosokawa, Atsuko Kashiwagi, Rosemary Keen, Jerry Matsumura, Christopher Penn and Momoko Williams.
Empathy and its Limits

Empathy and its Limits

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(2006) 'Empathic Neural Responses are Modulated by the Perceived Fairness of Others', Nature, 439, pp. 466–9. 14. S. Keen (2007) Empathy and the Novel ( Oxford and New York: Oxford UP); S. Keen (2010) 'Narrative Empathy' in F. Aldama ...
Images of Reproduction in the Yolngu Madayin Ceremony

Images of Reproduction in the Yolngu Madayin Ceremony

Ian Keen

Yolngu and Gidjingali conception beliefs; structure of the Madayin ceremony and myth of Djangkawu sisters; symbolism in songs and dances of the Madayin ceremony as performed by the Cloudy Water clans Dhuwa moiety.
Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds

Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds

Sam Keen

Sam Keen, the New York Times best-selling author of Fire in the Belly, has spent a lifetime reflecting on nature. In Sightings, a collection of essays, bird watching forms the basis for observations spiritual and soulful, witty and wise.
A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the ...

A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the ...

Robert Greenfield

G. Jutland, Tommy Weber in Karmapa Karmapa: The Black Hat Lama of Tibet ( Douglas) Keats, John Keen, Charles Keen, Mary (Curzon). See Curzon, Mary Keswick, Maggie Keys, Bobby “Kinder Days” (song) Kipling, Rudyard Klossowski,  ...
Paranormal Brighton And Hove

Paranormal Brighton And Hove

Janet Cameron

Four orangeUFOs were spottedsailingfrom thesouthwest over Shoreham by Ian Thornton of Second Avenue, Hove.Ian's strange sighting was reported by Andy Dickenson of The Argus on 14 March 2007. Ian Thornton described how all the ...
The Western Front

The Western Front

Ian McGibbon

Ian McGibbon. Photography Credits Black-and-white photographs as credited throughout; colour photographs as listed below. Jeff Atkinson: p. 66 Ian McGibbon: pp. 23, 24, 25, 35, 40, 45, 49, 51, 52, 57,66, 67, 71, 73, 75, 89, 91, 92, 96, 97, 98, ...
A Method to Identify and Evaluate the Legal and ...

A Method to Identify and Evaluate the Legal and ...

Ian Hannam

The Outcome of a Study in Southeast Asia and the People's Republic of China Ian Hannam ... Ian Hannam. 2003. A Diagnostic Model Framework for Water Use in Rice-based Irrigation Systems. Wilfried Hundertmark and Ali Touré ...
From Battle of Britain Airman to PoW Escapee: The Story of ...

From Battle of Britain Airman to PoW Escapee: The Story of ...

Angela Walker

The Story of Ian Walker RAF Angela Walker. Ian Walker talking with HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. Ian Walker admiring the Battle of Britain Monument , London 2005. Ian Walker signing autographs after the unveiling of the Battle.
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections

Ian Hamilton Finlay

I consider this book, long overdue, to be a milestone in publishing. —Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment and Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by other means in the 21st Century "Ian Hamilton Finlay was an entirely original, and ...
Independent Thinking

Independent Thinking

Ian Gilbert

Written by Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert, this book is an invaluable collection of reflections, ideas and insights on the nature of learning, thinking, creativity and, drawing on Ian s experience in three continents, the role ...
Ian Hamilton in Conversation with Dan Jacobson

Ian Hamilton in Conversation with Dan Jacobson

Ian Hamilton

Ian Hamilton (1938-2001) was truly a British man of letters in the finest sense of the term. As a young man he co-founded the influential magazine, The Review, and started a short while later the magazine Tomorrow.
The Mighty Quinns: Ian

The Mighty Quinns: Ian

Kate Hoffmann

Police chief Ian Quinn is used to dealing with the unexpected.
The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham:

The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham:

Alteveer, Ian

Alteveer, Ian, Wagstaff, Sheena. Dan Graham's Mirror-Play Ian Alteveer A visit with artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) may often. 10 Dan Graham's Mirror-Play Ian Alteveer.
Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism

Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism

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Reaktion 16 lines from Ian Hamilton Finlay, "Poster Poem," in Yves Abrioux, Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer (Edinburgh: Reaktion Books, 1985), 75. 7 lines from Ian Hamilton Finlay, "fir/far," in Yves Abrioux, Ian Hamilton F inlay: A Visual ...
The Rough Guide to Costa Rica

The Rough Guide to Costa Rica

Jean McNeil

... Barton Eyelash viper ©J.Sparshatt/AXIOM Costa Rican bus drivers love to decorate their vehicles ©Ian Gumming/ AXIOM Evening street scene, Liberia © Ian Cumming/AXIOM Market in central San Jose ©Ian Cumming/AXIOM Arco Iris Hotel, ...
Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ypres: The First Battle 1914

Ian Beckett

The First Battle 1914 Ian Beckett. trying to dig in ... Bythis time, however, thebattlewas effectively over.39 Notes and References 1 IanF.W.Beckett (1985),' The Nation in Arms, 1914–18' in Ian F.W. Beckett and Keith Simpson(eds.),A Nation in ...

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