The Weight Of The Past

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The 12 September 1980 coup represented a ""milestone"" in Turkey, the consequences of which have shadowed the lives of the peoples of Turkey for more than thirty years. The coup was instrumental in the profound economic, political and social transformation of the country, while, on the other hand, it aimed at destroying any public opposition deemed likely to jeopardise the course of this transformation. The remembrance of the period as laden with experiences of profound transformation, alongsid ...

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Göze Orhon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release : 2015-06-18
File : 225 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781443879880


The Weight Of The Past

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In The Weight of the Past , Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables daily life. Focusing on ritual performances of spirit mediumship in a multifaceted religious landscape, Lambek's analysis reveals the multiple ways that Sakalava 'bear' history. In Mahajanga, Madagascar, to bear history is at once a weighty obligation, a creative re-birthing, a scrupulous cultivation, and an exuberant performance of the past. To bear history is to serve and to suffer it, but also to be informed, enlightened, and sanctified. Royal ancestors emerge in spirit mediums to comment on the present from multiple voices and generate a refracted, ironic historical consciousness. This book describes the division of labour, creative production (poiesis), and ethical practice (phronesis) entailed in imagining, embodying, and serving the past. It is at once a vivid ethnography of Sakalava life and a significant intervention in anthropological debates on culture and history, structure and practice, advocating a theoretical approach informed by Aristotelian categories of understanding. Ethnographically rich and engagingly written, this book will be essential reading for courses in the anthropology of religion, ritual, or historical consciousness.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : M. Lambek
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-04-30
File : 333 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349730803


The Ultimate Guide To Weight Training For Golf Past 40

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"The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Golf Past 40" is the most comprehensive and up-to-date golf-specific training guide for adults over 40 in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes who are looking to stay in shape and sharpen their game. This book features year round golf-specific weight training programs designed specifically to meet the needs of golfers over 40 and is guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other golf book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book enables golfers past 40 of all skill levels to add extra yardage to their drives and irons without having to buy the latest technology in golf!By following this program you can develop the flexibility and strength required to eliminate fatigue and increase distance with every club in your bag. With stronger and more flexible muscles, you will not only hit the ball farther but you will have better control over all of your shots throughout the round. Most importantly, you will reduce your chances of injury and be able to play 18 holes without any problems! Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

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Genre : Music
Author : Rob Price
Publisher : Price World Publishing
Release : 2005-10
File : 177 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781936910908


Mexico

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The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to Porfirio and the Revolution in 1910. The Revolutionary era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives of seven presidents -- Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles and Cardenas. Since 1940, the dominant power of the presidency has continued through years of boom and bust and crisis. A major question for the modern state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power can be decentralized, to end the cycles of history as biographies of power.

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Genre : History
Author : Enrique Krauze
Publisher : Harper Collins
Release : 2013-04-09
File : 885 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780062285263


Official Gazette Of The United States Patent Office

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Genre : Patents
Author : United States. Patent Office
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Release : 1908
File : 3826 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000064089768


Portraits Of Celebrated Racehorses Of The Past And Present Centuries

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Genre : Provenance: Ribblesdale, Lord
Author : Thomas Henry Taunton
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Release : 1888
File : 616 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HN5T7Q


Notes On Ships Of The Past

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Genre : Merchant ships
Author : Robert Bennet Forbes
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Release : 1885
File : 176 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044020515128


Figures Of The Past From The Leaves Of Old Journals

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Genre : Massachusetts
Author : Josiah Quincy
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Release : 1882
File : 422 Pages
ISBN-13 : YALE:39002008434301


The Past And Present Of The Parish Church Of Folkestone Together With An Account Of The Reliquary Of St Eanswythe Discovered In 1885

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Author : Matthew Woodward
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Release : 1897
File : 216 Pages
ISBN-13 : PRNC:32101062110752


Miracles Past And Present

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Genre : Miracles
Author : William Mountford
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Release : 1870
File : 530 Pages
ISBN-13 : YALE:39002088678777