Social Science, Anthropology
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Dialogue
The Influence of Intra-personal Discourse on Interpersonal Communication in Fostering Relationships in a Digital Age by Emmanuel Olusola
I am glad to see a new work from Fr. Emmanuel Olusola on the importance of dialogue. In a world with advanced technologies for communication, coupled with increasing polarization, it is a task of both the Church and of society to create dynamics for ...
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Wakan Tanka
On Human Origins, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life by John Bennett
Where did we come from? Why are we here? Is there a god? In our modern world, many people yearn for answers to these most fundamental of life's questions, having become disillusioned with trite explanations and troubled by narratives that deny their ...
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Orunmila is the King Yesterday, Today and Forever
256 Odu's Of Wisdom by Orunmila's Servant
Orunmila is the King Yesterday Today and Forever 256 Odu's of wisdom, is the grand Ifá manual, it is the 256 letters of Ifá with everything Orunmila originally intended an Ifá book to have. This book is not just a synthesis of explanations but the ...
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Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape
by Winston Tinglin and Donna Joyette
Community Engagement in a Changing Social Landscape reaches deep into the authors’ extensive experience as both observers and practitioners of community engagement. It is further enriched by insights drawn from the diverse experiences of ...
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Orunmila’s Words Don’t Touch the Floor: IFA Odu Synthesis
by Orunmila's Servant
As an English-language manual for IFA priests that provides important translations for the Odus, Orunmila’s Words Don’t Touch the Floor: IFA Odu Synthesis stands as a rarity in the IFA religion. Religious workers have few English resources, and the ...
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Love Unfolded
A Deconstruction of Relationship, Marriage and Sex in the Past and Present Time by Abdur Rahim
Where there is love there is life. But what love is? To understand love at the deepest level, we need to know what love is and how it is explained? This book attempts to share inspiring insights, anecdotal experiences and perhaps incomplete yet ...
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Bride Price
Lobola Narrative And Interpretation by Jonas Darko-Yeboah, Ph.D. and Tafadzwa Nyandoro
When Kofi and Pam, a young couple living in urban Calgary, got engaged, they decided to honour their African traditions, travelling to Ruwa, Zimbabwe to perform the Lobola (Bride Price) Ceremony prior to the Western-style wedding ceremony they would ...
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Athapaskan Matriliny and Trade in Canada and Alaska
by Wayne W Allen
Why did native hunters in the wilds of northern B.C, the Yukon and Alaska trace their ancestry through the mother’s side of the family? The author has given a definitive answer to this question which has long puzzled scholars and others.
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Return to Odessa
by Harold N. Wiens
A Mennonite baby named Raisa Friedrichsen is born as her mother dies in Blumenau, Ukraine: one of the last villages established in the historic Molotschna Colony. Her father, only sixteen years old, leaves Raisa to be raised by her grandparents, ...
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Homesteading and Stump Farming on the West Coast 1880-1930
Powell River, Lund, Stillwater & Mysterious Horseshoe Valley by Barbara Ann Lambert
Imagine obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of land for FREE! Then comes the real payment: the sweat and toil of living in a remote wilderness and clearing a landscape where the stumps left behind are so large and so numerous the best bet is to ...
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