Water Graves - 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 Water Graves write by Valérie Loichot. This book was released on 2020-01-15. Water Graves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Water Graves considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and underwater sculptures. From sunken slave ships to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Valérie Loichot investigates the lack of official funeral rites in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, waters that constitute both early and contemporary sites of loss for the enslaved, the migrant, the refugee, and the destitute. Unritual, or the privation of ritual, Loichot argues, is a state more absolute than desecration. Desecration implies a previous sacred observance--a temple, a grave, a ceremony. Unritual, by contrast, denies the sacred from the beginning. In coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Miami, Haiti, Martinique, Cancun, and Trinidad and Tobago, the artists and writers featured in Water Graves—an eclectic cast that includes Beyoncé, Radcliffe Bailey, Edwidge Danticat, Édouard Glissant, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jason deCaires Taylor, Édouard Duval-Carrié, Natasha Trethewey, and Kara Walker, among others—are an archipelago connected by a history of the slave trade and environmental vulnerability. In addition to figuring death by drowning in the unritual—whether in the context of the aftermath of slavery or of ecological and human-made catastrophes—their aesthetic creations serve as memorials, dirges, tombstones, and even material supports for the regrowth of life underwater.
From a Watery Grave
From a Watery Grave - 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 From a Watery Grave write by James E. Bruseth. This book was released on 2005. From a Watery Grave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the discovery and excavation of the French ship La Belle, shipwrecked in 1686 in Matagorda Bay, Texas.
The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves
The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves - 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 Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves write by Margaret Cox. This book was released on 2008. The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the essential processes and techniques for the scientific investigation of atrocity crimes.
Biennial Report of the Department of Public Health of California
Biennial Report of the Department of Public Health of California - 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 Biennial Report of the Department of Public Health of California write by California. Department of Public Health. This book was released on 1871. Biennial Report of the Department of Public Health of California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Charm of Graves
Charm of Graves - 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 Charm of Graves write by Gideon M Kressel. This book was released on 2014-04-15. Charm of Graves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemoration practices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is the pivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers, sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate -- publicly and privately -- at the gravesite of chosen awliyah (deceased saints). This book brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades of field work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations and particularities of venerated tombs, the identity of the occupants and their individual abilities vis-a-vis the Almighty. Attitudes, beliefs and customs surrounding each gravesite, when combined on a longitudinal scale, reveal changes over time in beliefs and practices in grave worship and burial, mourning and condolence customs. Analysis of the data reveals that the dynamic of grave worship among the Negev Bedouin throws light on ancient traditions in a complex relationship with mainstream Islamic doctrine and the impact of modernity on Bedouin conduct and belief. The authors' observations and interviews with practitioners about their beliefs are compared and augmented with references that exist in the professional literature, including grave worship elsewhere in the Arab world. The Charm of Graves is essential reading for anthropologists, scholars of the sociology of religion, and students of Islam at university and popular levels. The topic has received only marginal attention in existing anthropological works and has been keenly awaited.
