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Notions of the person and of the foundations of bodily and moral experience lie at the heart of this second ethnographic volume devoted to the Uduk-speaking people of Sudan. The first part discusses enduring elements of personal knowledge in the context of a hunters' worldview. The second part gives an account of how alien religious discourse has confronted the Uduk in the course of the region's political history. The third section tells the story of the contemporaneous rise of a new diviners' movement, in part an antithetical response drawing upon the older cultural strata. The key act of the diviners is oracular consultation of the burning ebony wood: through the ebony, personal healing is sought and the foreign gods are kept at bay. The author abandons a number of older anthropological paradigms and their relativist assumptions. In drawing upon general moral philosophy, historical writing, and literary criticism, she offers a modern, humane analysis with important implications for the cross-cultural study of religion. In a new introduction Wendy James explains how the Sudan-Ethiopian borderlands were overrun by war in 1987, and how all the villages described in the original edition were destroyed. Having revisited the Uduk for various UN agencies she is able to provide an indication of the way in which they have since been embroiled in the war, and how the survivors have increasingly embraced Christianity in the course of their exile. She refers to her own reports and publications written since 1988 and to the TV documentary on the Uduk and other refugees which she made with Granada in 1993. Details of other recently published work on the region and to relevant new emphases in anthropology which focus on displacement, violence, and memory have also been added.

Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably. Her new overview advocates a clear line of argument: that the concept of social form is a primary key to anthropology and the human sciences as a whole. Weaving memorable ethnographic examples into her text, James brings together carefully selected historical sources as well as references to current ideas in neighbouring disciplines such as archaeology, paleoanthropology, genetics, art and material culture, ethnomusicology, urban and development studies, politics, economics, psychology, and religious studies. She shows the relevance of anthropology to pressing world issues such as migration, humanitarian politics, the new reproductive technologies, and religious fundamentalism. Wendy James's engaging style will appeal to specialist and non-specialist alike. The Foreword is written by Michael J. Lambek, Professor of Anthropology, University

This book completes a trilogy by the anthropologist Wendy James. It is a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war. Some have responded by defending their nation, others by joining the armed resistance of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and yet others eventually finding security as international refugees in Ethiopia, and even further afield in countries such as the USA. Sudan's peace agreement of 2005 leaves much uncertainty for the future of the whole country, as conflict still rages in Darfur. The Uduk case shows how people who once lived together now try to maintain links across borders and even continents through modern communications, and where possible recreate their 'traditional' forms of story-telling, music, and song.

This book completes a trilogy by the anthropologist Wendy James. It is a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war. Some have responded by defending their nation, others by joining the armed resistance of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and yet others eventually finding security as international refugees in Ethiopia, and even further afield in countries such as the USA. Sudan's peace agreement of 2005 leaves much uncertainty for the future of the whole country, as conflict still rages in Darfur. The Uduk case shows how people who once lived together now try to maintain links across borders and even continents through modern communications, and where possible recreate their 'traditional' forms of story-telling, music, and song.

A shocking crime draws accused and accuser into a complex web of secrets and lies in a twisting novel of suspense by the bestselling author of The Golden Child.When eighteen-year-old Ellie Canning is discovered wandering the countryside, dazed and traumatized, she tells a harrowing story of abduction, captivity, and escape. An overnight symbol of survival and empowerment, Ellie enthralls an outraged nation.Then authorities zero in on an unlikely suspect: high school teacher Suzannah Wells, identified by Ellie as the woman who kept her drugged and bound in a basement. The evidence against Suzannah is damning--vilified by the media, Suzannah's only defense is that not a single word Ellie says is true. Suzannah has no reason to lie. But then again, neither does Ellie.The nightmare spins out of control as disturbing details about Suzannah's past emerge, and the court of public opinion wants blood. Even those closest to Suzannah begin to doubt her. But how innocent is she? How innocent is Ellie? And which one has more to hide?Revised edition: This edition of The Accusation includes editorial revisions.

A homecoming snares a young woman in a dangerous tangle of lies, secrets, and bad blood in this gripping novel by the bestselling author of An Accusation.Running from a bad relationship, journalist Jo Sharpe heads home to Arthurville, the drought-stricken town she turned her back on years earlier. While some things have changed—her relationship with her ailing, crotchety father, her new job at the community newspaper—Jo finds that her return has rekindled the grief and uncertainty she experienced during her childhood following the inexplicable disappearance of her mother and baby sister.Returning to Arthurville has its unexpected pleasures, though, as Jo happily reconnects with old friends and makes a few new ones. But she can’t let go of her search for answers to that long-ago mystery. And as she keeps investigating, the splash she’s making begins to ripple outward—far beyond the disappearance of her mother and sister.Jo is determined to dig as deep as it takes to get answers. But it’s not long before she realises that someone among the familiar faces doesn’t want her picking through the debris of the past. And they’ll go to any lengths to silence the little bird before she sings the truth.

Noxon gets a new style In this prequel to Immi the Alien, Noxon Neven live streams her visit to one of Kivik's well known beauty salons. In this fun, tech-inspired, video formatted book, Nox has a decision to make before her big move to the planet Esse. Will she choose an Afro, a Mohawk, a Mullet, a Bowl-cut or something else? Explore hairstyles throughout the ages and find out what hairstyle she chooses before her big move.

Magazines were THE influencers of the 20th Century: in the UK, Continental Europe, North America and Australasia. There were many different types designed for people of all ages and interests. Countless numbers of women and men were involved in their creation. This is the memoir of one small cog in a very big wheel and her experience on some of those publications and the people she worked with, from the Swinging Sixties to the Millennium.

Australian-born journalist Wendy James returns to her homeland and looks at it anew. She travels to all seven states, discovering unique wildlife and natural wonders, and the extraordinary art and heritage of the country's Aboriginal population. But she does not shirk the problems that the 'lucky country' faces.

The dawn of the 20th century brings three remarkable women into each other's orbit. Maggie Heffernan is a spirited country girl whose betrayal sends her spiralling into desperation and tragedy. Vida Goldstein is a suffragist about to make political history. And Elizabeth Hamilton, heartbroken after the death of her fianc and hoping for a new life in a new country, brings them together with her grace and empathy as she searches for justice and mercy.Out of the Silence weaves historical fact with poetic invention in a captivating story of hope and ambition, regret and consolation, and the quest to right personal and political wrongs.

Jodie Garrow's life isn't perfect, but she's come a long way-a beautiful house in the middle of town, two children, a successful husband readying a run for mayor. She could almost forget that one mistake, years ago, that could have cost her everything: an unwise affair, an unwanted pregnancy, an adoption arrangement that wasn't entirely by the book. But a chance reunion leads to disaster: a police investigation, a media storm, a search for a missing child, allegations of murder-and a reckoning with everyone in Jodie's life. Suddenly it seems she could lose everything she's worked so hard to build. Can she prove her innocence? What is the truth, and does it even matter?The Mistake is an acclaimed thriller of buried secrets, the lies we tell each other and ourselves-and what we become when we smell blood in the water.

Summer, Sydney, 1978. Jane is in awe of her older cousin: Angie's only fourteen, but she's already making waves in their tight beachside community with the promise of who she's about to be.But Angie is murdered, devastating Jane and shattering her family. They retreat into a broken silence, unable to come to terms with the horror of a life cut so short. Thirty years later, Jane has a family of her own-but she still feels the pull of that old tragedy. When a reporter with an agenda turns up asking questions, Jane can finally give voice to her emotions-but the picture that emerges is even darker and more troubling than she had recognised. As the truth comes into terrible focus, Jane is forced to question everything she once believed-and fight to hold onto whatever is left.

Zelda Steele is destined for great things. The talented daughter of two celebrity artists, raised by wealthy art patrons in Sydney's sixties art scene, artistic success is hers for the taking. But Zelda dies young, leaving only the possibility of the artist she could have become-as well as two young children and the rumour of secret diaries. Years later, Zelda's daughter Ruth returns to her hometown to search for those diaries. What she finds there takes her deep into the mysteries of her parents' and grandparents' lives, and shifts the foundations of her own. Weaving together the lives of three very different women across three eras, The Steele Diaries is a rich triptych of the tensions between ambition and responsibility, art and family, the past and present and future.

Susan and Ed Middleton are perfectly happy in their model middle-class family on Sydney's northern beaches. But everything changes when Susan's mother wills half her estate to Karen, Susan's sister-a sister who disappeared twenty years earlier and has never been seen again. The woman who turns up, claiming to her sister, isn't the Karen she remembers-but that was a lifetime ago. Are there glimpses of the girl she knew, or is it just her imagination? Karen's disappearance and presumed death all but destroyed her parents' lives-but will her return threaten the new life and family that Susan has worked so hard for?Where Have You Been? is a mystery and a thriller, a story of hope, of betrayal-and the fragility of all we take for granted.

Twenty-one short stories from award-winning writer Wendy James, ranging from the vignette to the compact epic, the suburban kitchen to the outback and the world, an instant to a lifetime and beyond. A stay-at-home father is consumed by his frustrations. In Salzburg, a fortepiano maker struggles to preserve his family. Generations of women recall the family matriarch-was she really a witch? And in a kaleidoscopic tour de force, a young mother finds herself on the run with a desperate criminal. These are stories about memory and perspective, patterns and deviations, longing and escape: a glittering collection from a master of the form.