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Reverend Harry Ignatius Marshall (1878-1952) was an American missionary, ethnologist and author. He graduated from Dartmouth College, Ohio State University and Newton Theological Institute. He was a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the American Oriental Society. His works include: Introductory Lectures on Logic (with Thra Po Ngai) (1921), The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology (1922), Notation Primer (1922), Hygiene and Sanitation (1923), Daniel Appleton White Smith (with Emma W. Marshall) (1925), The Sermon on the Mount (1931), Saw John Seeks the Solution of His Preaching Problems (1932), On the Threshold of the Century: An Historical Sketch of the Karen Mission 1828-1928 and the Burma Annual for 1928 (with Emma W. Marshall) (1929), Devadoss and His Preaching Problems (1932), The Karens of Burma (1945) and Flashes Along the Burma Road (1946).
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 20 : Nos. 1 - 125 (Issued April, 1923 - May, 1924)
The human rights journalist and author of Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story shines a light on the Karen refugees fleeing Burma’s genocide. There’s a civil war (the world’s longest running, in fact) raging between the Burmese government and ethnic rebels. But since Burma is a country nearly shut out from the rest of the world, the only footage of the carnage comes via groups of young, tough, booze-loving refugees who run into war zones to collect it. And with these refugees is where we find Mac McClelland embedded in her staggering debut, For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question. McClelland weaves a narrative that is part investigative journalism, part popular history, and part memoir ...
Surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet.
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