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Free Download Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural Lifescape
by Alberta Natasia Adji
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303136953X | 122 Pages | True PDF | 1.9 MB

Free Download Alberta Natasia Adji, "Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural Lifescape "
English | ISBN: 303136953X | 2024 | 126 pages | EPUB | 488 KB
This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global icons in the last five years, and whose digital projects are a form of ‘nature life writing’ in the Anthropocene. Li Ziqi, Dianxi Xiaoge, Jonna Jinton, Annabel Margaret and Paola Merrill draw on their culture and use technological equipment and social media (especially YouTube) to build dynamic narratives about living in the countryside. Through their online platform they show unique, picturesque footage of their daily routines and rural environments, and present the ways in which they nurture connections between people in the community and animals and landscapes. The study shows how, paradoxically, their digital life writing projects attempt to resist the attention economy but at the same time use strategies to sustain it. Through the various lenses of ecobiography, cultural ecology, digital archiving, ecospirituality, phytography, and ethological poetics, this book also foregrounds the significance of plant life and landscapes – they are reminders of how human lives are inextricably entangled with traditional values and the natural world.

Free Download The pilgrim art : cultures of porcelain in world history By Finlay, Robert
2010 | 415 Pages | ISBN: 0520244680 | PDF | 9 MB
Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances-from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics, and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchange focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.

Free Download Sub-Saharan Political Cultures of Deceit in Language, Literature, and the Media, Volume I: Zimbabwe as a Case Study
by Esther Mavengano and Isaac Mhute
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031353226 | 376 Pages | True PDF | 4.71 MB

Free Download Sourdough Microbiota and Starter Cultures for Industry by Elaine Berger Ceresino, Grazina Juodeikiene, Susanne Miescher Schwenninger, João Miguel Ferreira da Rocha
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 492 Pages | ISBN : 303148603X | 34.5 MB
Traditional sourdough bread refers to spontaneous fermentation of cereals by lactic acid bacteria and yeasts, leading to natural selections of microorganisms. The metabolic activity of these microorganisms promotes the formation of organic acids, flavor development and leavening in food matrices, which most know as sourdough bread. This bread is still widely manufactured at farm level across Europe and worldwide, being highly appreciated by consumers for its distinct flavor, texture, healthy attributes and natural origin.

Free Download Piers Baker-Bates, "Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal "
English | ISBN: 9463725512 | 2021 | 390 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, often by well-known artists and skilled craftsmen. Yet cardinal portraits have primarily been analyzed within biographical studies of the represented individual, in relation to the artists who created them, or within the broader genre of portraiture. Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal addresses questions surrounding the production, collection, and status of the cardinal portrait, covering diverse geographies and varied media. Examining the development of cardinals’ imagery in terms of their multi-layered identities, this volume considers portraits of ‘princes of the Church’ as a specific cultural phenomenon reflecting cardinals’ unique social and political position.

Free Download Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change
by Wendy Bellion, Kristel Smentek
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350259039 | 294 Pages | True PDF | 58 MB

Free Download Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change (Material Culture of Art and Design) edited by Wendy Bellion, Kristel Smentek
English | February 23, 2023 | ISBN: 1350259039, 1350259071 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 13 MB
Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic, economic, and demographic transformations that exerted unique pressures on material cultures around the world. Locating material objects at the heart of such phenomena, Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century expands beyond Eurocentric perspectives to discover the mobile, transcultural nature of eighteenth-century art worlds. From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways.

Free Download Jacob J. Schacter, "Judaism’s Encounter with Other Cultures: Rejection or Integration?"
English | 2004 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 0765759578, 159264483X | PDF | 18,8 mb
The issue of Judaism’s relationship to secular learning and wisdom is one of the most basic concerns of Jewish intellectual history. The authors collected in this study discuss both sides of the issue and collectively offer an eloquent and convincing case for the perpetuation of Judaism’s dialogue with the ‘outside’ world.

Free Download The Chinese Zodiac in Cultures and Traditions (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT3QYY2X | 2024 | 1 hour and 51 minutes | M4B@256 kbps | 206 MB
Author: Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Great Courses
Narrator: Cindy I-Fen Cheng
Lunar New Year, or the first new moon of the lunar calendar, is celebrated by people around the world and across different cultures. Within Chinese culture, the ushering in of a new year is celebrated through one of 12 distinct zodiac animals, each of which is known for its power to map a person’s behavior, character, and fate. In The Chinese Zodiac in Cultures and Traditions, you’ll gain insights into how cultures make sense of the passing of time and our relationship to it. Your guide is Cindy I-Fen Cheng, the Robinson Edwards professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.