Tag: Ancestors

Free Download Lia Kent, "The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste"
English | ISBN: 9463724311 | 2020 | 326 pages | PDF | 4 MB
During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed. Since the nation’s independence, families and communities have invested considerable time, effort and resources in fulfilling their obligations to the dead. These obligations are imbued with urgency because the dead are ascribed agency and can play a benevolent or malevolent role in the lives of the living. These grassroots initiatives run, sometimes critically, in parallel with official programs that seek to transform particular dead bodies into public symbols of heroism, sacrifice and nationhood. The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste focuses on the dynamic interplay between the potent presence of the dead in everyday life and their symbolic usefulness to the state. It underlines how the dead shape relationships amongst families, communities and the nation-state, and open an important window into ― are in fact pivotal to ― processes of state and nation formation.

Free Download Connecting with Our Ancestors: Human Evolution Museum Experiences by Shelley L. Smith
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 542 Pages | ISBN : 3031694287 | 22.1 MB
This book combines documentation and analysis of the contents of exhibits in 12 museums (Part 1) with interviews with experts involved in the creation of exhibits (Part 2) to explore variation in human evolution exhibits.

Free Download Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors: One Approach to Reconstructing Early Hominin Ecology and Behavior by Glenn E. King
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 287 Pages | ISBN : 3031367685 | 27.6 MB
Baboon Perspectives on Early Human Ancestors brings together the most recent information on the behavior and ecology of Papio baboons and early hominins. Building on a long tradition and integrating recent developments, it discusses the ways that baboon behavior can enhance our understanding of our early ancestors. This approach augments interpretation of the archeological record and provides hypotheses for the gaps in the record and for the millions of years before the record began. Baboon behavior complements the widely used chimpanzee models, but also generates competing hypotheses. Among the many topics covered in the book are foraging and predator defense; multi-level societies and male-female relationships; social and ecological cognition; and communication and the roots of language.

Free Download William Roulston, "Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B004I6D7DO | EPUB | pages: 344 | 1.9 mb
One of the greatest frustrations for generations of genealogical researchers has been that reliable guidance on sources for perhaps the most critical period in the establishment of their family’s links with Ulster, the period up to 1800, has proved to be so elusive. Not any more. This book can claim to be the first comprehensive guide for family historians searching for ancestors in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ulster.

Free Download Xolela Mangcu, Ntongela Masilela, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, "Becoming Worthy Ancestors: Archive, public deliberation and identity in South Africa"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1868145328 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.3 mb
Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa? These are the issues that the Public Conversations lecture series – an initiative of the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at Wits University – proceeded from in 2006. Five years later, cross currents in contemporary South Africa have made the resumption of a public debate to clarify the meanings of identity and citizenship even more imperative, and an understanding of ‘archive’ even more urgent. The 2006 lectures were subsequently collected, resulting in this volume which takes its title from Weber’s point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson, that the future asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. The book, as did the lecture series, aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the topic is still of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of what it means to be a citizen of South Africa. Becoming Worthy Ancestors aims to make accessible the theoretically informed, sometimes highly academic work of its various contributors. With chapters from high profile international and local contributors, it will be of interest to South African and international audiences. Editing for publication has further enhanced the accessibility of each speaker’s thinking without forfeiting any of its complexity, and the addition of an introductory chapter by the editor contributes to the coherence of the volume. While the target audience is the broad public, the book is based on a core of academic thinking and research.

Free Download Teresa S. Moyer, "Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare "
English | ISBN: 0813080274 | 2023 | 238 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book presents a rich and contextualized study of the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners at the historic site of Mount Clare.

Free Download Rosemary Wenzerul, "Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians (Tracing your Ancestors)"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1473821274 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 1.8 mb
This fully revised second edition of Rosemary Wenzerul’s lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the entire process of research. She provides a brief social history of the Jewish presence in Britain and looks at practical issues of research – how to get started, how to organize the work, how to construct a family tree and how to use the information obtained to tell the story of a family. In addition she describes, in practical detail, the many sources that researchers can go to for information on their ancestors, their families and Jewish history.

Free Download Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina
by Patricia Causey Nichols
English | 2022 | ISBN-10: 1643363484 | 208 Pages | ePUB | 1 MB

Free Download Margaret Mead (Anthropology’s Ancestors, 1)
by Paul Shankman
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1800731418 | 196 Pages | True ePUB | 1.5 MB

Free Download Stephen Wade, "Tracing Your Police Ancestors (Tracing your Ancestors)"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1844158780 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 2.3 mb
Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of other sources. Case studies are used to show how an individual officer’s career may be traced and understood from this research. He also explains the range of secondary sources open to the family or local historian, many of which offer a broader account of the social and cultural history of the British police forces.