Dialogues With The Dead

Author : Piers Vitebsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521384476
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues with the Dead written by Piers Vitebsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of religion, healing and psychology in tribal India, examining the bereavement rituals of the Sora people.

Author : Reginald Hill
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060528096
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues of the Dead written by Reginald Hill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality -- had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact in a pair of macabre "Dialogues" submitted to a Yorkshire short story competition. Yet the local police department is slow to act -- until the arrival of a third Dialogue ... and another corpse. A darkness is settling over a terrorized community, brought on by a genius fiend who hides clues to his horrific acts in complex riddles and brilliant wordplay. Now two seasoned CID investigators, Peter Pascoe and "Fat Andy" Dalziel, are racing against a clock whose every tick signals more blood and outrage, caught in the twisted game of a diabolical killer who is turning their jurisdiction into a slaughterhouse.

Author : Riccarda Suitner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465030
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment written by Riccarda Suitner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment.

Author : Piers Vitebsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640787X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living without the Dead written by Piers Vitebsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt. Today, young Sora are rejecting the worldview of their ancestors and switching their allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist Christianity or Hinduism. Communion with ancestors is banned as sacred sites are demolished, female shamans are replaced by male priests, and debate with the dead gives way to prayer to gods. For some, this shift means liberation from jungle spirits through literacy, employment, and democratic politics; others despair for fear of being forgotten after death. How can a society abandon one understanding of reality so suddenly and see the world in a totally different way? Over forty years, anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has shared the lives of shamans, pastors, ancestors, gods, policemen, missionaries, and alphabet worshippers, seeking explanations from social theory, psychoanalysis, and theology. Living without the Dead lays bare today’s crisis of indigenous religions and shows how historical reform can bring new fulfillments—but also new torments and uncertainties. Vitebsky explores the loss of the Sora tradition as one for greater humanity: just as we have been losing our wildernesses, so we have been losing a diverse range of cultural and spiritual possibilities, tribe by tribe. From the award-winning author of The Reindeer People, this is a heartbreaking story of cultural change and the extinction of an irreplaceable world, even while new religious forms come into being to take its place.

Author : Fontenelle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021234827
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues Of The Dead written by Fontenelle and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of dialogues between famous figures from history who are now dead. It offers literary and philosophical insight in these discussions. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in literature, philosophy and history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Reginald Hill
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504059263
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An April Shroud written by Reginald Hill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective is drawn to a newly widowed woman in this “darkly funny” British murder mystery in the Gold Dagger Award–winning series (Kirkus Reviews). With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation of his own. But after getting caught in a torrential rain and running into a funeral procession, he winds up accompanying a crowd of upper-class mourners to a crumbling country house. Dalziel isn’t known for his elegant manners, but he has bigger problems than not fitting in: The owner of the home has died under unusual circumstances, and soon more bodies are turning up. And while Dalziel finds himself undeniably attracted to the widow, he knows that she, and everyone in the family, is a suspect. “Hill’s high standards of humor and civilized characterization are intact here, and justice and ambiguity are served in satisfactory fashion.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for Reginald Hill “Hill’s polished, sophisticated novels are intelligently written and permeated with his sly and delightful sense of humor . . . Enjoyable as much for their characters as for their complicated, suspenseful mystery plots.” —The Christian Science Monitor

Author : George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues of the Dead written by George Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues of the Dead written by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 1760 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Author : Holly Jackson
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0593379853
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Good as Dead written by Holly Jackson and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • The final book in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again... Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . . And don't miss Holly Jackson's next thriller, Five Surive!

Author : Georgina Drew
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535108
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Dialogues written by Georgina Drew and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "River Dialogues is an ethnographic engagement with social movements contesting hydroelectric development on River Ganges"--Provided by publisher.