Speak, Bird, Speak Again - 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 Speak, Bird, Speak Again write by Ibrahim Muhawi. This book was released on 1989-02-13. Speak, Bird, Speak Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respective expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these tales an integral method of study that unites a sensitivity to language with a deep appreciation for culture. As native Palestinians, the authors are well-suited to their task. Over the course of several years they collected tales in the regions of the Galilee, Gaza, and the West Bank, determining which were the most widely known and appreciated and selecting the ones that best represented the Palestinian Arab folk narrative tradition. Great care has been taken with the translations to maintain the original flavor, humor, and cultural nuances of tales that are at once earthy and whimsical. The authors have also provided footnotes, an international typology, a comprehensive motif index, and a thorough analytic guide to parallel tales in the larger Arab tradition in folk narrative. Speak, Bird, Speak Again is an essential guide to Palestinian culture and a must for those who want to deepen their understanding of a troubled, enduring people.
Speak, Bird, Speak Again
Speak, Bird, Speak Again - 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 Speak, Bird, Speak Again write by Ibrahim Muhawi. This book was released on 1989. Speak, Bird, Speak Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of Palestinian Arab folktales which reflect the culture and highlights the role of women in the society.
Arab Folktales
Arab Folktales - 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 Arab Folktales write by Inea Bushnaq. This book was released on 1987. Arab Folktales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Moroccan Folktales
Moroccan Folktales - 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 Moroccan Folktales write by Jilali El Koudia. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Moroccan Folktales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savored, studied, or simply treasured. Varied genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to European counterparts, for example Aamar and his Sister (Hansel and Gretel) and Nunja and the White Dove (Cinderella). All capture the heart of Morroco and the soul of its people. In an enlightening introduction, El Koudia mourns the loss of the teller of tales in the marketplace, and he makes it clear that storytelling, born of memory and oral tradition, could vanish in the face of mass and electronic media.
The Bird Way
The Bird Way - 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 Bird Way write by Jennifer Ackerman. This book was released on 2021-05-04. The Bird Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
