The Occult Life of Things
Title | The Occult Life of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Fernando Santos-Granero |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816530424 |
Combining linguistic, ethnological, and historical perspectives, the contributors to this volume draw on a wealth of information gathered from ten Amerindian peoples belonging to seven different linguistic families to identify the basic tenets of what might be called a native Amazonian theory of materiality and personhood.
The Secret Life of Things
Title | The Secret Life of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Blackwell |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | 378 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838756669 |
This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology.
The Occult
Title | The Occult PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Wilson |
Publisher | Diversion Books |
Total Pages | 855 |
Release | 2015-05-17 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1626818703 |
The acclaimed author of The Outsider explores occult ideas, practices and figures from Kabbalah to Aleister Crowley in this “fascinating history of magic" (The Washington Post). Colin Wilson is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on occultism. His classic historical study on the subject is an essential guide to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries made by occultists through the centuries—from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa to Giacomo Casanova, Helena Blavatsky, Grigori Rasputin, and many others. More than a chronicle of people and events, however, Wilson has produced a synthesis of the available material, presenting the occult in the light of reason—and reason in the light of the mystical and paranormal. The result is a wide-ranging survey of the subject that provides a comprehensive history of magic, an insightful exploration of our latent powers, and a revelatory journey of enlightenment. "This most interesting, informative and thought-provoking book on the subject I have read." —Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Sunday Telegraph
The Price Guide to the Occult
Title | The Price Guide to the Occult PDF eBook |
Author | Leslye Walton |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-03-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763693901 |
From the author of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting maelstrom of magic and murder in the lush, moody Pacific Northwest. When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors. Guilt and fear instead led the island’s original eight settlers to burn “the witch” out of her home. So Rona cursed them. Fast-forward one hundred–some years: All Nor Blackburn wants is to live an unremarkable teenage life. She has reason to hope: First, her supernatural powers, if they can be called that, are unexceptional. Second, her love life is nonexistent, which means she might escape the other perverse side effect of the matriarch’s backfiring curse, too. But then a mysterious book comes out, promising to cast any spell for the right price. Nor senses a storm coming and is pretty sure she’ll be smack in the eye of it. In her second novel, Leslye Walton spins a dark, mesmerizing tale of a girl stumbling along the path toward self-acceptance and first love, even as the Price Guide’s malevolent author — Nor’s own mother — looms and threatens to strangle any hope for happiness.
The Occult Life of Jesus of Nazareth
Title | The Occult Life of Jesus of Nazareth PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Smyth |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 1899 |
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The Occult Life of Jesus of Nazareth
Title | The Occult Life of Jesus of Nazareth PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Smyth |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1899 |
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The Underneath of Things
Title | The Underneath of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Mariane C. Ferme |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2001-09-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780520925717 |
In this erudite and gracefully written ethnography, Mariane Ferme explores the links between a violent historical and political legacy, and the production of secrecy in everyday material culture. The focus is on Mende-speaking southeastern Sierra Leone and the surrounding region. Since 1990, this area has been ravaged by a civil war that produced population displacements and regional instability. The Underneath of Things documents the rural impact of the progressive collapse of the Sierra Leonean state in the past several decades, and seeks to understand how an even earlier history is reinscribed in the present.