Days Spent on a Doge`s Farm. [Illustrated.], Symonds Margaret Vaughn

Автор: Symonds Michael Sean
Название: [ Water ]
ISBN: 1320132545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781320132541
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Описание: Water is the perfect metaphor for awareness: with lavish abundance the body of our Earth is covered with various states of waters expression - vital for sustaining life on this planet. Ever-present and effortlessly accessible, awareness too is the common thread of continuity in all; it's the impulse in which our everyday life thrives and has its Being. Water constantly orchestrates itself uniquely to environmental circumstance and situation, adapting itself infinitely with effortless ease and profound initiative. Awareness - like water, offers itself relentlessly in the midst of all circumstance; awareness freely, openly and unconditionally, allows us to become aware of awareness, to be immersed completely and perfectly in its gift. Awareness is the One gift that already has been given - without the need of knowledge, understanding or skill. "Water" is michael sean symonds most recent and foremost title and is highlighted with selective, awe-inspiring photography and insightful commentaries on the wisdom of inherent awareness. With each word, sentence, and paragraph, a seed is planted; each insight, gently re-orientates perception into the impulse - here/now, so that we might glimpse the ever-present miracle of awareness itself and all that it has to offer us in the effortless art of Being.

Автор: Patricia V. Symonds
Название: Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village
ISBN: 0295996307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295996301
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“Calling in the Soul” (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death and considers the gender relationships evident in these practices. The Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand) have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries. Their social framework is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of that structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death. Calling in the Soul will be of interest to sociocultural anthropologists, medical anthropologists, Southeast Asianists, and gender specialists.

Replaces ISBN 9780295800424