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Borrowed Names
Author | : Jeannine Atkins |
Publsiher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010-03-16 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781429959407 |
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As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes in science. Inspired by her mother, Irène too became a scientist and Nobel prize winner. Borrowed Names is the story of these extraordinary mothers and daughters. Borrowed Names is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Borrowed Words
Author | : Philip Durkin |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199574995 |
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This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effects of contact with languages ranging from Latin and French to Yiddish, Chinese, and Maori, from Saxon times to the present. It will appeal to everyone interested in the history of English.
Names Fashioned by Gender
Author | : Thenjiwe Meyiwa,Madoda Cekiso |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2023-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781003812838 |
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Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact that all human beings have names. Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics—a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, form, history and use of proper names. The study of naming potentially provides significant evidence about the role of gender in the assimilation and/or enculturation processes as personal names evoke insight into the construction of gender and personhood in African societies. The book takes intellectual course from the idea that how names are viewed and used is heavily context-dependent and gendered. It demonstrates that personal names are narratives derived from different contexts within various cultures and circumstances subsequently imposing different identities on name bearers. Through persuasive essays, this book elucidates that naming is an activity that needs to be conducted cautiously because names tend to determine the destiny and character of an individual. Print editions not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mediation and Immediacy
Author | : Jenny Ponzo,Robert A. Yelle,Massimo Leone |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-12-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110690347 |
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Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to the divine, or to some transcendent dimension of experience, such promises depend for their realization as well on the possibility of mediation, which is necessarily conducted through channels of communication and exchange, such as prayers or sacrifices. An understanding of such modes of semiosis is therefore necessary even and especially when mediation is denied by a tradition in the name of the 'ineffability" of the deity or of mystical experience. This volume models and promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue and cross-cultural perspective on these issues by asking prominent semioticians, historians of religion and of art, linguists, sociologists of religion, and philosophers of law to reflect from a semiotic perspective on the topic of mediation and immediacy in religious traditions.
Borrowed Power
Author | : Bruce H. Ziff,Pratima V. Rao |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0813523729 |
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An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols.
An Inkwell of Pen Names
Author | : Stephen Smith |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2006-11-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781462841974 |
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An Inkwell of Pen Names tells the stories of 100 authors’ pen names in a hundred short chapters. Many other authors who used pen names are discussed incidentally. Features of the compendium include pen names beginning with every letter of the alphabet, authors from twenty-five countries, the recipients of the Nobel Prize for literature who used pseudonyms, and a balanced selection of men and women authors.
Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples
Author | : Otto Schrader,Frank Byron Jevons |
Publsiher | : London, Griffin |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Aryans |
ISBN | : UCR:31210003960224 |
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Surnames as a Science
Author | : Robert Ferguson |
Publsiher | : London, Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HWSIZS |
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