Art of Mana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art of Mana write by Square Enix. This book was released on 2020-02-11. Art of Mana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrating the first twenty-five years of Mana adventures! Since the first game's release in 1991, Square Enix has been dazzling fans worldwide with the fantastical and action-packed world of Mana. More than twenty-five years later, the magic of Mana still lives on and now Dark Horse Books and Square Enix are proud to present The Art of Mana. The first official art book of Square Enix's hit Mana video game series, The Art of Mana collects more than twenty-five years' worth of memories with over 200 pages featuring more than 400 illustrations from the original creative team along with detailed explorations of every character, original sketches, world designs, and much more. Presented in English for the first time, this beautiful collection is not to be missed.
New Mana
New Mana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Mana write by Matt Tomlinson. This book was released on 2016-04-13. New Mana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous sovereignty movements, Christian missions and Bible translations, the commodification of cultural heritage, and the dynamics of diaspora. Their investigations move across diverse island groups—Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Hawai‘i, and French Polynesia—and into Australia, North America and even cyberspace. A key insight that the volume develops is that mana can be analysed most productively by paying close attention to its ethical and aesthetic dimensions. Since the late nineteenth century, mana has been an object of intense scholarly interest. Writers in many fields including anthropology, linguistics, history, religion, philosophy, and missiology have long debated how the term should best be understood. The authors in this volume review mana’s complex intellectual history but also describe the remarkable transformations going on in the present day as scholars, activists, church leaders, artists, and entrepreneurs take up mana in new ways.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Official Artworks
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Official Artworks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Official Artworks write by FromSoftware, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-20. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Official Artworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experience SEKIRO's unique take on the blood-soaked history of Japan's Sengoku Period with over 300 pages of storyboards, character designs, and concept art!
The Art of BRAVELY SECOND: END LAYER
The Art of BRAVELY SECOND: END LAYER - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of BRAVELY SECOND: END LAYER write by Square Enix. This book was released on 2019-11-19. The Art of BRAVELY SECOND: END LAYER available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 250 pages of concept art and developer commentary compiled in a fascinating and vibrant hardcover volume! Return to the enchanted world of Luxendarc with a collection of art that celebrates another critically revered entry in the BRAVELY series! Enjoy in-depth commentary from the creative team, and explore detailed concept art from the ethereal sequel to BRAVELY DEFAULT. Dark Horse Books is proud to collaborate with Square Enix to present The Art of BRAVELY SECOND: END LAYER, published in English for the first time! This localization of the original Japanese text features gorgeous concept art and extensive commentary from the team behind BRAVELY SECOND. The second of two-volumes, this collection intimately explores the concepts and creativity from the next chapter in the fan-favorite BRAVELY series!
The Mana of Mass Society
The Mana of Mass Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mana of Mass Society write by William Mazzarella. This book was released on 2017-10-24. The Mana of Mass Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power? Mazzarella reconsiders the concept of “mana,” which served in early anthropology as a troubled bridge between “primitive” ritual and the fascination of mass media. Thinking about mana, Mazzarella shows, means rethinking some of our most fundamental questions: What powers authority? What in us responds to it? Is the mana that animates an Aboriginal ritual the same as the mana that energizes a revolutionary crowd, a consumer public, or an art encounter? At the intersection of anthropology and critical theory, The Mana of Mass Society brings recent conversations around affect, sovereignty, and emergence into creative contact with classic debates on religion, charisma, ideology, and aesthetics.
