The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.

GODS AND GODDESS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW. TAKES A LOOK AT SOME OF THE THOUSANDS OF GODS AND GODDESS. THAT MEN AND WOMEN HAVE WORSHIPED OVER THE EONS. I AM NOT HERE TO JUDGE OR HELP YOU DECIDE WHAT GOD OR GODDESS IS RIGHT FOR YOU, BUT MERELY HERE TO HOPEFULLY BROADEN YOUR PERSPECTIVE OF GODS IN GENERAL. THIS BOOK IS NUMBER ONE IN THIS SERIES. WITH YOUR SUPPORT OTHER VOLUMES WILL FOLLOW. BASED ON MY RESEARCH THERE ARE THOUSANDS. IF NOT MILLIONS OF GODS. IN ANCIENT TIMES THERE WERE GODS ASSIGNED TO ALMOST EVERY PART OF MAN'S DAILY LIFE. A GOD FOR FOOD, A GOD FOR SHELTER, AND ALMOST ANY OTHER BASIC NEED OR DESIRE OF MAN. WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THESE LESSER KNOWN GODS. FROM THE GREAT KINGS OF EGYPT TO THE LONELY FISHERMAN. THERE IS A GOD TO GUIDE AND PROTECT THEM. OR AT LEAST THAT WAS THE COMMON BELIEF OF THE TIME PERIOD. SO IN PARTING, I HOPE THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF GODS AND GODDESS. NO MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN MAY YOUR GOD HELP YOU APPRECIATE AND UNDERSTAND YOUR FELLOW MAN OR WOMAN. THAT SHARE THIS WORLD WITH YOU. GOD IS THE GREATEST MYSTERY IN THE UNIVERSE AND WILL PROBABLY NEVER BE TRULY UNDERSTOOD BY MERE HUMANS LIKE OURSELVES. BUT IN THE MEAN TIME ENJOY SOME OF THE GODS AND GODDESS THAT WE HAVE EXPOSED YOU TO IN THIS BRIEF HISTORY. OF GODS AND GODDESS. UNTIL WE MEET IN THE NEXT ONE. ENJOY

The essential voyage companion: a text to stimulate the bored and the curious. This fascinating volume is packed with useful bits of information on the rarely known facts, enigmas, and curiosities of our world, serving the purpose of entertainment and enlightenment with captivating articles on the oddities of human behavior, eccentric historical figures, dead and dying languages, uncontacted peoples, sin-eaters, sky-burials, hidden metros, bizarre micronations, and puzzling manuscripts.

Mysterious Places takes you in a voyage to the unknown and mystery. It discusses facts that lie in plain daylight. Structures that are hard to believe were made by people that apparently did not have the knowledge or the tools to build them, buildings that scientists and archaeologists have no idea why, how or by whom they were built. Questions that arose the curiosity of mankind and cannot be answered by scientists, archaeologists or engineers.