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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...

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...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ... This work may be freely quoted, copied, duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name ... ... Villages and houses ... ... Message of death 133 Final passage of human life 133 * The deceased in kinship culture 134 * The deceased in village culture 135 * Focus of l... ...94 Supernatural guardians of the environment 94 * Phii and souls of the kinship group 96 * Supernatural forces in nature 98 Between two worlds... ... village milieus; at that time, a large immediate and extended family and kinship group was a social power and security for the future. On the plai... ... Honolulu. Cohen, Paul T. 1984. Are the Spirit Cults of Northern Thailand Descent Groups? Mankind 14, 293–299. Cohen, Paul T. – Gehan Wijeyewardene ... ...n. Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok. Haas, Mary R. 1951. The Declining Descent Rule for Rank in Thailand: A Correction. American Anthropologist 53... ...Development. Bangkok. Rhum, Michael R. 1994. The Ancestral Lords. Gender, Descent and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village. Special report 29. Norther...

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...Everything that exists is an outcome of interaction between two forces--giving and receiving. When they work in harmony, life flows peacefully in its course. When they collide, we must deal with calamities and crises of great magnitude, says Prof. Michael Laitman. These forces are at work in every aspec...

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...he current world crisis. a Professor of o ntology, a Ph.d . in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and an m.Sc. in medical bio-cybernetics, laitman combines al... ... fnancial, but psychological! People 1. have stopped trusting each other, and where there is no trust there is no trade—only isolation and paralysis... ... is a result of a 2. natural process that has been evolving for millennia and is culminating today. t o resolve the crisis, we must frst 3. understan... ...nly cleared for a moment. Right in front of us, where we had thought the descent toward the valley would be, appeared the snowy white summit of Mt.... ...aguing the residents of Babel. He proposed that the only reason that the kinship between people was dissipating was that Chapter 4: The Secret of... ... relief that it was as if we had already found the trail. Admittedly, the descent from the ridge was not easy. It took my knees months to recover fr... ...onstantly to be sure that the other was all right. A few minutes into the descent, we found our- selves surrounded by a thick forest that swallowed ...

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... went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been only in the past two or three centuries that religious questioning has occupied the minds and hearts of a large share of the population. Religious questioningis now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new religiouscreeds and organizations. It s...

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...ELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Austra... ... Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the p... ...uthor, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using ... ...N INDIAN BELIEF 235 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My thanks to Jan Elliott, of Cherokee descent, for her many illuminating discussions with me of Native American b... ...ncreasing individuation through Westernization is allowed for, so that the kinship rules for marriage are less rigid. Although Totemic members still o... ...shed. Even under such extraordinary conditions of different lan- guage and kinship groups gathered in a place unknown to most—in fact a place traditio... ... with religious meaning. The Out-Station Movement allows for several small kinship groups to live a tradition- oriented lifestyle away from, but with ...

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...A vivid and descriptive novel in search of a feature-length, animated film, Fire and Fur might more properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Choices.? It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major ch...

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...Fire and Fur The Last Sorcerer Dragon By Roger C. Schlobin FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: THE LAST SORCER... ... LAST SORCERER DRAGON by Roger C. Schlobin Readers’ Praise for Fire and Fur: “…best dragons I’ve ever seen…cinematic descriptions…finally som... ...ons I’ve ever seen…cinematic descriptions…finally some real love, emotion and humor in a fantasy novel…painfully beautiful…passionate, sensual…loved... ...t want to bother too much with magic. More and more, he had to make this descent to revitalize himself. The increased frequency of these trips puz... ...ort -- This tiny creature, a friend? -- but then he stopped. I do feel a kinship, a belonging, with this wise fur ball. Mei-chou continued, "You're... ...lar triumphs and monstrous failures. It was the age-old seduction of the descent into the maelstrom, the lure of death and rebirth. The thunder mu...

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...Obsession with genetic engineering segregated humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as P...

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...anical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owne... ... the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are us... ...her are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or loca... ...n the surface. A man struggled with loaded arms, another came to his aid; kinship instead of skirmish. Overwhelmed by it all, the man sank to his kn... ... to Isaac's, a few seats on. The man in his early forties and of Pakistan descent, felt most guilty for his blunder. "I am so very sorry Alex. I was ...

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Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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...Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...end V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX.... ...Global Differential Pricing X. The Disruptive Engine - Innovation XI. Governments and Growth XII. The Distributive Justice of the Market XIII. T... ...usy. The eminent Nobel prize winning British economist and philosopher of Austrian descent, Friedrich Hayek, suggested in "The Constitution of Libe... ... institutions, and its pronounced agenda. Other types of trust are the outcomes of kinship, ethnic origin, personal standing and goodwill, corporat...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ............................................... 14 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- T... ............................................................... 73 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM .............................................................. ...cience confirms the empirical findings of our multi-million year descent to who we are today. ―As the human genome was studied ... ...ation a person belongs is by the laws of all nations closely dependent on descent. It is almost a universal rule that the citizenship of the parents... ...ed as the correct canon, since nationality is in its essence dependent on descent.' (80) ―And the ruling continued, ‗As the society canno... ...Does the Bible verse give humans a political right rather than a spiritual kinship? Western 409 religious theorists however have opted to give t...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphy...

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...uld arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display ... ... object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a sacred, admirab... ...and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state ther... ...ty professor's lecture on biology, so the sunlight of this day's slight 2:00 descent vaporized the people he had been witnessing no differently than i... ...he sheets; watching Nathaniel, an icy stranger to her, turn on lights in his descent into the pit of his bedroom; sensing an effete adumbration of her... ...partners are separated and have withdrawn--one into old age to begin her own descent to the earth and me visiting you on top of a tree because of a Si... ... thickets of Elm trees, huge Evergreens, and weathered tombstones she felt a kinship with these deceased secessionists grouped according to states ﾁN ...

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Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ... one possesses a certain right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature... ...heir role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in support of the above contention. Yet, g... ...of an act punishable under the criminal law." A crime is what the law - state law, kinship law, religious law, or any other widely accepted law - s... ... institutions, and its pronounced agenda. Other types of trust are the outcomes of kinship, ethnic origin, personal standing and goodwill, corporat...

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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docum... ...n of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docum... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...y two-thirds of her own stature. She excelled them by the boldness of her pro- file. Her great bald summit, clear of trees and pasture, a cairn of qua... ...striking a lively coolness through the sunshine. And what with the in- numerable variety of greens, the masses of foliage toss- ing in the breeze, the... ...ough fallen branches and dead trees. It went straight down that steep can- yon, till it brought you out abruptly over the roofs of the hotel. There wa...

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...Preface: A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or i...

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Excerpt: The Volsunga Saga translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888).

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...............................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................................

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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusso... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Volsunga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...on of Sagas and other Historical Documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles. Ed., G. W. Dasent, D.C.L, an... ...ys borne a high name for learning and litera- ture; on both sides of their descent people inherited special poetic power. Some of older Eddaic fragmen... ...ty army, and therewith falls on his kinsmen, deeming that if he made their kinship of small account, yet none the less they had first wrought evil aga...

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Excerpt: What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...find an instance to put with this one. The oldest family of unchal lenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and traces its line back seventeen hun... ...ly unsimilar construction and constitution, and being of no more blood and kinship with men than are the se rene eternal lights of the firmament with... ...o neglect and gradual ruin and progressive degradation; a Mark T wain 153 descent which reaches bottom at last, when the street be comes a roost for... ...n’t. Here is an odd (but entirely proper) use of a word, and a most sudden descent from a lofty philosophical alti tude to a very practical and homel...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deli...

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...e. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act ...

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...nged a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons have helped me with details. There seems no reason why the tale ...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document ... ...he Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document ... ...Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatur... ...ns, or the Appin Stewarts, enabled me to learn, and helped me to understand, about the Tevas of Tahiti. The native was 12 In The South Seas no longer... ...n manners. I do not think that any race could ever have prospered or multiplied with such as now obtain; I am sure they would have been never at the p... ... early opportunity to explain his situation. True, he was only an appointed chief when I beheld him; but somewhere else, perhaps upon some other isle,... ...see a building so antique still bright with novelty. The architect, a French lay brother, still alive and well, and meditating fresh foundations, must... ...till played the part of the smil- ing father; and he was careful to observe, in all indifferent matters, the Marquesan etiquette. Thus, in the singula... ...hristianised of all these islands; where excellent Mr. Bingham lived and laboured and has left golden memories; whence all the education in the northe...

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...Excerpt: LIBER I. (ll. 1-28) Right is it that we praise the King of heaven, the Lord of hosts, and love Him with all our hearts. For He is great in power, the Source of all created things, the Lord Almighty. Never hath He known beginning, neither cometh an end of His eternal glory. Ever in majesty He reigneth over cele...

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... ?Genesis B?)..................9 EXODUS..............................................62 DANIEL..............................................74 CHRIST AND SATAN.......................90...

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...on of the following works: “Genesis A,” “Genesis B,” “Exo dus,” “Daniel,” and “Christ and Satan.” All are works found in the manuscript of Anglo Sax... ...ese works were originally written in Anglo Saxon, sometime between the 7th and 10th Centuries A.D. Although some times ascribed to the poet Caedmon (... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...spake fairly unto Lot: (ll. 1900 1919) “I am thy father’s brother in blood kinship, and thou my brother’s son. No strife shall rise, no feud grow up,... ...ers tell us in their wisdom, who best have known the lineage of men, their kinship and descent. Codex Junius 11 69 (ll. 362 376) Noah, the great prin... ...in their wisdom, who best have known the lineage of men, their kinship and descent. Codex Junius 11 69 (ll. 362 376) Noah, the great prince, sailed o... ...aham’s father, as the wise men tell us, was ninth from Noah in lineage and descent. This is the Abraham the God of angels named with a name, and gave ...

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...timate form given to that romance founded on the Elixir of Life, for which ?Septimius Felton? was the preliminary study. Having abandoned this study, and apparently forsaken the whole scheme in 1862, Hawthorne was moved to renew his meditation upon it in the following year; and as the plan of the romance had now seemingly developed to his satisfaction, he listened to the p...

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