Search Results - "chronicler"

The forgotten founders rethinking the history of the Old West / by Udall, Stewart L.

Table of Contents: “…Native peoples : the first forgotten founders -- European settlers : human faces, far-flung places -- Explorers and fur trappers -- The religion factor in western settlement -- The manifest destiny morass -- California gold fever -- Bootstrap capitalism in the Old West -- The Wild West and the wrenching of the American chronicle -- The Wild West and the settlers : contrasting visions.…”
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The forgotten founders rethinking the history of the Old West / by Udall, Stewart L.

Table of Contents: “…Native peoples : the first forgotten founders -- European settlers : human faces, far-flung places -- Explorers and fur trappers -- The religion factor in western settlement -- The manifest destiny morass -- California gold fever -- Bootstrap capitalism in the Old West -- The Wild West and the wrenching of the American chronicle -- The Wild West and the settlers : contrasting visions.…”
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The annual register : world events 2006 /

Table of Contents: “…Overviews of the year -- Western and Southern Europe -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Americas and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- Equatorial Africa -- Central and Southern Africa -- South Asia and Indian Ocean -- South-east and East Asia -- Australasia and the Pacific -- International organisations -- The international economy -- The sciences -- The law -- Religion -- The arts -- Sport -- Documents and reference -- Obituary -- Chronicle of principal events in 2006.…”
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The social meanings of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible : a study of four writings / by Janzen, David, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rhetorics of ritual -- Ritual and ritualized morality -- Theology, worldview, and ideology -- The study of sacrifice in biblical studies -- Sacrifice in the priestly writing -- Sacrifice and the king in the Deuteronomistic history -- Perfect slaughter : sacrifice as warning and promise in the Deuteronomistic history -- Sacrifice as cultic expression of the law : social and geographic separation in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Rest, peace, and quiet : sacrifice in Chronicles -- Conclusion: Sacrifice, God, and the people.…”
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The annual register : world events 2006 /

Table of Contents: “…Overviews of the year -- Western and Southern Europe -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Americas and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- Equatorial Africa -- Central and Southern Africa -- South Asia and Indian Ocean -- South-east and East Asia -- Australasia and the Pacific -- International organisations -- The international economy -- The sciences -- The law -- Religion -- The arts -- Sport -- Documents and reference -- Obituary -- Chronicle of principal events in 2006.…”
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The social meanings of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible : a study of four writings / by Janzen, David, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rhetorics of ritual -- Ritual and ritualized morality -- Theology, worldview, and ideology -- The study of sacrifice in biblical studies -- Sacrifice in the priestly writing -- Sacrifice and the king in the Deuteronomistic history -- Perfect slaughter : sacrifice as warning and promise in the Deuteronomistic history -- Sacrifice as cultic expression of the law : social and geographic separation in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Rest, peace, and quiet : sacrifice in Chronicles -- Conclusion: Sacrifice, God, and the people.…”
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The annual register : world events 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the year -- Western and Southern Europe -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Americas and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- Equatorial Africa -- Central and Southern Africa -- South Asia and Indian Ocean -- South-east and East Asia -- Australasia and the Pacific -- International organisations -- The international economy in 2007 -- The sciences -- The law -- Religion -- The arts -- Sport -- Documents and reference -- Obituary -- Chronicle of principal events in 2007.…”
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The annual register : world events 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the year -- Western and Southern Europe -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Americas and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- Equatorial Africa -- Central and Southern Africa -- South Asia and Indian Ocean -- South-east and East Asia -- Australasia and the Pacific -- International organisations -- The international economy in 2007 -- The sciences -- The law -- Religion -- The arts -- Sport -- Documents and reference -- Obituary -- Chronicle of principal events in 2007.…”
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The barber of Damascus nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / by Sajdi, Dana

Table of Contents: “…The disorders of a new order : the Levant in the long 18th-century -- A barber at the gate : a social and intellectual biography -- "Cheap" monumentality : the nouveau literates and their texts -- Authority and history : the genealogy of the Levantine 18th-century contemporary chronicle -- A room of his own : the "history" of the barber of Damascus -- Cutting the barber's tale : the afterlives of a history -- Conclusion : from nouveau literacy to print journalism.…”
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Religion on the rocks : Hohokam rock art, ritual practice, and social transformation / by Wright, Aaron M. (Aaron Michael)

Table of Contents: “…The South Mountains Archaeological Landscape -- 5. Chronicling Hohokam Rock Art -- 6. Ritualization of Hohokam Rock Art -- 7. …”
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The barber of Damascus nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Levant / by Sajdi, Dana

Table of Contents: “…The disorders of a new order : the Levant in the long 18th-century -- A barber at the gate : a social and intellectual biography -- "Cheap" monumentality : the nouveau literates and their texts -- Authority and history : the genealogy of the Levantine 18th-century contemporary chronicle -- A room of his own : the "history" of the barber of Damascus -- Cutting the barber's tale : the afterlives of a history -- Conclusion : from nouveau literacy to print journalism.…”
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Religion on the rocks : Hohokam rock art, ritual practice, and social transformation / by Wright, Aaron M. (Aaron Michael)

Table of Contents: “…The South Mountains Archaeological Landscape -- 5. Chronicling Hohokam Rock Art -- 6. Ritualization of Hohokam Rock Art -- 7. …”
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Decolonizing the sodomite queer tropes of sexuality in colonial Andean culture / by Horswell, Michael J. (Michael Jenkins), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transculturating tropes of sexuality, tinkuy, and third gender in the Andes -- Barbudos, afeminados, and sodomitas : performing masculinity in premodern Spain -- Decolonizing queer tropes of sexuality : chronicles and myths of conquest -- From supay huaca to queer mother : revaluing the Andean feminine and androgyne -- Church and state : inventing queer penitents and tyrannical others -- Subaltern hybridity? …”
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Decolonizing the sodomite queer tropes of sexuality in colonial Andean culture / by Horswell, Michael J. (Michael Jenkins), 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transculturating tropes of sexuality, tinkuy, and third gender in the Andes -- Barbudos, afeminados, and sodomitas : performing masculinity in premodern Spain -- Decolonizing queer tropes of sexuality : chronicles and myths of conquest -- From supay huaca to queer mother : revaluing the Andean feminine and androgyne -- Church and state : inventing queer penitents and tyrannical others -- Subaltern hybridity? …”
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Exile and suffering a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…a fresh look at Psalm 137 / Bob Becking -- The poetics of exile and suffering : memory and perceptions : a cognitive-linguistics study of Lamentations / Yehoshua Gitay -- The Exile as Sabbath rest : the Chronicler's interpretation of the Exile / Louis Jonker -- Lamenting the loss of lament, the language for our times / Frances Klopper -- Interpreting 'the Exile' in African Biblical scholarship : an ideo-theological dilemma in post-colonial South Africa / Gerald West.…”
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Exile and suffering a selection of papers read at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Old Testament Society of South Africa OTWSA/OTSSA, Pretoria, August 2007 /

Table of Contents: “…a fresh look at Psalm 137 / Bob Becking -- The poetics of exile and suffering : memory and perceptions : a cognitive-linguistics study of Lamentations / Yehoshua Gitay -- The Exile as Sabbath rest : the Chronicler's interpretation of the Exile / Louis Jonker -- Lamenting the loss of lament, the language for our times / Frances Klopper -- Interpreting 'the Exile' in African Biblical scholarship : an ideo-theological dilemma in post-colonial South Africa / Gerald West.…”
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Deep waters the textual continuum in American Indian literature / by Teuton, Christopher B.

Table of Contents: “…Scott Momaday's The way to Rainy Mountain: vision, textuality, and history -- Trickster leads the way: a reading of Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: the heirship chronicles -- Transforming "eventuality": the aesthetics of a tribal "word-collector" in Ray A. …”
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Beyond expulsion Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg / by Kaplan, Debra

Table of Contents: “…Beyond expulsion : a paradigm shift -- The superiority of the city of Strasbourg : the city and its reformation -- Without trees, the fire will be extinguished : reinventing Jewish life in the rural sphere -- Shared spaces : social interactions in the countryside -- Creating Jewish space in the Christian city : the Jews and Strasbourg's markets -- As is also apparent in the old chronicles and history books : magisterial laws, confession building, and Reformation era tolerance -- I listened to the account of a Jew : Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg -- Constructing Jewish memory : self-texts, the Reformation, and narratives of Jewish history -- Becoming French : Alsatian Jews in the wake of confession building.…”
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Deep waters the textual continuum in American Indian literature / by Teuton, Christopher B.

Table of Contents: “…Scott Momaday's The way to Rainy Mountain: vision, textuality, and history -- Trickster leads the way: a reading of Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: the heirship chronicles -- Transforming "eventuality": the aesthetics of a tribal "word-collector" in Ray A. …”
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Beyond expulsion Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg / by Kaplan, Debra

Table of Contents: “…Beyond expulsion : a paradigm shift -- The superiority of the city of Strasbourg : the city and its reformation -- Without trees, the fire will be extinguished : reinventing Jewish life in the rural sphere -- Shared spaces : social interactions in the countryside -- Creating Jewish space in the Christian city : the Jews and Strasbourg's markets -- As is also apparent in the old chronicles and history books : magisterial laws, confession building, and Reformation era tolerance -- I listened to the account of a Jew : Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg -- Constructing Jewish memory : self-texts, the Reformation, and narratives of Jewish history -- Becoming French : Alsatian Jews in the wake of confession building.…”
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