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Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play
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King Cotton and His Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925
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Retainer Girl
Even when the braces come off, there are still retainers to deal with. Lauren gets hers just before her 15th birthday and in Retainer Girl describes the adjustments she has to make on what is one more step along the way to growing up -- and getting and keeping her perfect smile. [Because Retainer Girl involves some exaggeration and fantasy about orthodontic treatment it may be unsuitable for younger or particularly impressionable readers who have not visited an actual orthodontist.].
Price: $13.95
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By Weapons Made Worthy: Lords, Retainers and Their Relationship in Beowulf (Amsterdam University Press - Amsterdam Archaeological Studies)
In this book Jos Bazelmans offers a new perspective on the relationship between lord and retainer in early medieval society. This perspective goes beyond established politico-economic interpretations and aims for an interpretation of this relationship in ritual-cosmological terms.Drawing on recent developments within French structuralist anthropology and the anthropology of gift exchange, Bazelmans develops a new model of early medieval socio-political structure (as represented in Old English Beowulf) which explicitly deals with exchange relations between the living and the supernatural, the commensurablity of subject and object in gift exchange, and the whole set of interdependent life-cycle rituals of lords and their warrior-followers. The value of gifts is considered to be determined not only by their function within a competitive game about prestige, status and power, but also by its equivalence with a constituent. The value of the gift is fundamental to the noble person and develops through a man's life-time. It is, ultimately, of a supernatural origin.The model enables us to understand certain acts at Beowulf's funeral pyre which at first sight appear to be no more than an ethnographic curiosity (Beowulf 3111b-3114a). The warrior's contributions to his pyre form the concluding part of a grand ritual undertaking in which society as a whole is involved and in which the constitution of the noble person, and the disarticulation of that person at his death, is realized. This ritual undertaking goes beyond the politico-economic concerns of the participants which are central to established power-based models of early medieval societal structure. The volume includes an extensive overview of the anthropology of gift exchange. .
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Couplings for aerospace/defense applications: V-Retainer design endures in high vibration and heat environments.(Cover Story): An article from: Designfax
This digital document is an article from Designfax, published by Nelson Publishing on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 981 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Couplings for aerospace/defense applications: V-Retainer design endures in high vibration and heat environments.(Cover Story) Author: John Fritskey Publication:Designfax (Magazine/Journal) Date: October 1, 2004 Publisher: Nelson Publishing Volume: 26 Issue: 10 Page: 19(4) Article Type: Cover Story Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Ladies, Landscapes and Loyal Retainers : Japanese Art from a Private Collection
This volume presents a remarkable collection of Japanese art, a collection rarely seen outside the home of its owner and her family. Much of the collection was formed in Kyoto during a two-year period of American occupation, 1948-50. It was time when the country was suffering from destruction and deprevation, and when an American woman, whose previous collecting experience was limited to first-edition books, found herself drawn to the beauty and elegance of Japanese art. With an instinctive eye for quality and with counsel from a Japanese dealer of impeccable taste and integrity, she selected major, often rare works, a majority of which are woodblock prints from the Edo Period, which flourished from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century..
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