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Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages
This book concerns textile production at the fringes of north-western Europe - areas in western Norway and the North Atlantic in the expanding, dynamic and transformative period from the early Viking Age into the Middle Ages. Textiles constitute one of the basic needs in human life - to protect and keep the body warm but also to show social status and affiliations. Textiles had a wide spectrum of use areas and qualities, fine and coarse in various contexts, and in the Viking Age not least related to the production of sails - all essential for the development and character of the period. So, what were the tools and textiles like, who made them, who used them and who exposed them? By tracing t...
World Textiles
The history of textiles, more than that of any other artefact, is a history of human ingenuity. From the very earliest needles of 50,000 years ago to the smart textiles of today, textiles have been fundamental to human existence, and enjoyed, prized and valued by every culture. Silks from China, cottons from India, tapestries from Flanders, dyes from South America the appeal of different weaves, colours and patterns was long a motivation for trade, the exchange of ideas and sometimes even war. Mary Schoesers groundbreaking book, now revised and updated to incorporate new research, presents a chronological survey of textiles around the world from prehistory to the present. It explores how they are made, what they are made from, how they function in society and the ways in which they are valued and given meaning as well as reflecting on the environmental challenges they present today. World Textiles offers an invaluable introduction to this vast and fascinating subject for makers, designers, textile and fashion professionals, collectors and students alike.
Art as an Agent for Social Change
The chapters in Art as an Agent for Social Change, presented as snapshots, focus on exploring the power of drama, dance, visual arts, media, music, poetry and film as educative, artistic, imaginative, embodied and relational art forms that are agents of personal and societal change. A range of methods and ontological views are used by the authors in this unique contribution to scholarship, illustrating the comprehensive methodologies and theories that ground arts-based research in Canada, the US, Norway, India, Hong Kong and South Africa. Weaving together a series of chapters (snapshots) under the themes of community building, collaboration and teaching and pedagogy, this book offers examples of how Art as an Agent for Social Change is of particular relevance for many different and often overlapping groups including community artists, K-university instructors, teachers, students, and arts-based educational researchers interested in using the arts to explore social justice in educative ways. This book provokes us to think critically and creatively about what really matters!
Knjiga o moru
Zasoljena priča o prijateljstvu, avanturama i, pre svega, o moru. U velikim dubinama Lofotskog arhipelaga u Norveškoj živi zloglasna grenlandska ajkula. Teška više od tone, može da naraste do 8 metara dužine, poživi četiri veka, a njeno meso sadrži toksin koji, kada se konzumira, opija i stvara halucinacije. Knjiga o moru je istinita priča o dva prijatelja, piscu i ekscentričnom umetniku Hugu Osjurdu, i njihovoj jednogodišnjoj poteri za ovim stvorenjem. Na ovim putovanjima, dvojica muškaraca pokušavaju da razumeju okean, oslanjajući se na poeziju, nauku, istoriju, ekologiju, mitologiju i sopstvena, ponekad pijana, zapažanja. Grenlandska ajkula je mamac, ali poenta nije u lov...
Shark Drunk
** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of obsession, enchantment and adventure. A love song to the sea, in all its mystery, hardship, wonder and life-giving majesty. In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance. Armed with little more than their wits and a tiny rubber boat, Morten Strøksnes and his friend Hugo set out in pursuit of this enigmatic creature. Together, they tackle existential questions, experience the best and worst nature can throw at them, and explore the astonishing life teeming at the ocean’s depths.
Nordic Landscapes
"The first in-depth presentation of the Nordic landscapes to be published in nearly twenty years. “Norden” -- the region along the northern edge of Europe bordered by Russia and the Baltic nations to the east and by North America to the west -- is a particularly fruitful site for the examination of the ever-evolving meaning of landscape and region as place. Contributors to this work reveal how Norden’s regions and people have been defined by and against the dominant culture of Europe while at the same time their landscapes and cultures have shaped and inspired Europe’s ways of life. Together, the essays provide a much-needed picture of this culturally rich and geographically varied part of the world."--pub. desc.
Å vere ein annan
Fernando Pessoas forfattarskap er ein portugisisk nasjonalskatt, og sanneleg er det ei skattejakt vi er med på når vi skal dykke ned i eit livsverk som på slutten av Pessoas liv var ei stor kiste full av papir. Dei over 25 000 lause manuskriptsidene, gav ettertida gåter som enno ikkje er løyste. Pessoa la tekstane sine i munnen på fiktive forfattarar som han kalla heteronym – ei oppteljing viser 136 ulike fiktive forfattaridentitetar. Å vere ein annan er ei samling tekstar valt ut av omsetjar Øystein Vidnes som i mange år har arbeidd med Fernando Pessoas litterære verk. Tekstane er sett opp kronologisk og fører oss tett inn på dei mest kjende forfattarstemmene: gjetardiktaren A...
Søvn
Vi må alle sove. Søvn er en biologisk nødvendighet. Det er derfor lett å tenke seg at en opp gjennom historien har sovet på samme måte som vi gjør i dag. Ser vi tilbake på søvnens kulturhistorie, får vi et langt mer nyansert bilde av hvordan det biologiske søvnbehovet har vært tilpasset ulike tider og ulike sammenhenger. I boka får vi bli med helt tilbake til 1700-tallet, både til bygd og til by, og se hvor ulikt søvnen har artet seg. Hvordan vi opp gjennom tidene sov på veggfaste benker i de gamle årestuene, i slagbenker på kjøkkenet, i fjøshalmen og de heldige få i store himmelsenger – både naken og påkledd. Og som regel har en hatt selskap i sengehalmen, ikke bare...
四百歲的睡鯊與深藍色的節奏
就在我被帶入黑暗之際，我覺得一切都完了；我不可能與這樣的水壓對抗，氧氣的消耗量比預想的還要快。周遭陷入一片黑暗時，各種千奇百怪的生物開始對著我眨眼。 兩名男子，搭乘一隻小艇出海；海面下，一頭巨獸正窺視著他們。 巨獸的名字叫格陵蘭睡鯊，是生活在挪威羅浮敦島深水海域裡的巨鯊，平均年齡為兩百歲。讓睡鯊惡名昭彰的不僅是牠的龐大體積，還有其含毒的肉質，使人吃了後出現幻覺、腳步蹣跚，陷入瘋癲狀態。鮮少有人親眼目睹過神祕的睡鯊，作者和友人深深被睡鯊所「迷醉」，展開了捕鯊行動。冒...
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