With step-by-step, photo-illustrated crafting instructions, Native American Flute: A Comprehensive Guide ~ History & Craft presents a thorough, documented history and guide to crafting the native flute, ancient to modern, in wood, bamboo, PVC, and more, updating and combining into one volume The Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft and Native American Flute Craft.
En la entrada del templo de Apolo en Delfos, se podía leer la máxima «Conócete a ti mismo», que respondía a una de las preguntas que inquietaba a los filósofos de la antigüedad: ¿Qué es lo más importante que puede aprender el ser humano?
*; Details the healing techniques and folk wisdom the author learned from her Italian grandparents and from healers in Southern Italy, including plant preparation methods, medicines, rituals, recipes, kitchen magic, and protective magic*; Provides a materia medica of plants important in this tradition, sharing each plant's history, mythology, and both practical and magical uses*; Reveals how working with traditional plant medicines can help us connect to and revitalize our own ancestral traditions for deep inner healingBuilding upon the in-depth folk wisdom she learned from her immigrant grandparents as well as from local healers in Southern Italy, second-generation Italian-American and experienced herbalist Lisa Fazio shares herbal traditions and practices from the Italian diaspora and reveals how working with traditional plant medicines can help us connect to ancestral traditions for deep inner healing.
The myths given in this book are part of a large body of material collected among the Cherokee, chiefly in successive field seasons from 1887 to 1890, inclusive, and comprising more or less extensive notes, together with original Cherokee manuscripts, relating to the history, archeology, geographic nomenclature, personal names, botany, medicine, arts, home life, religion, songs, ceremonies, and language of the tribe.
In 'Die schönsten chinesischen Märchen' präsentiert Richard Wilhelm eine Sammlung faszinierender Geschichten aus der chinesischen Folklore, die sowohl die Fantasie als auch die Weisheit der chinesischen Kultur widerspiegeln.
In 'Totem and Taboo,' Sigmund Freud delves into the realms of psychological anthropology, exploring the origins of civilization through the lens of psychoanalysis.
The sacred formulas here given are selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina in 1887 and 1888, and covering every subject pertaining to the daily life and thought of the Indian, including medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play, etc.
