Pamela McClusky‚ The Fetish and the Imagination of Europe: Sacred Medicines of the Kongo Pamela McClusky’s chapter‚ The Fetish of the Imagination of Europe: Sacred Medicines of the Kongo from Art from Africa was a very enlightening review about African Art and its connection to the country’s beliefs and medical traditions. McClusky takes us into to her day in the life as a curator for African art. She explains how she runs into at least one phone call every other month about a "fetish" from
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Kongo Christian King King Alfonso is the new ruler of Kongolese society after his father has passed away in 1506; Alfonso claimed the throne and ruled until 1542. During his ruling he sent letters to their new ally’s king‚ King Jodo III of Portugal. It states that the Kongo needs aid from the Portuguese. The Kongo desires secular aid such as schools‚ and medicinal treatment. And because the Kongo is now a in an Africanized Christian state they need Wine and Flour to perform the holy sacrament
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Published in 1740‚ Pamela‚ or Virtue Rewarded is a novel written by Samuel Richardson. The story unfold in a series of letters which gives the reader greater access to the character’s thoughts. Therefore the novel is categorised as being an epistolary novel. In Pamela though‚ unlike the other epistolary novels penned by Richardson‚ the reader’s access to the story is through the thoughts and actions of only one character‚ the protagonist‚ Pamela. Pamela or Virtue Rewarded is about the innocent
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Accountancy in the 21st century (Pamela U. Galura) In early times‚ in the era when mankind first learned to engage in business and traded with one another and gave birth to accountancy. It is also the time when the entity called money is born. But even before the creation of money‚ accountancy is already very important in early businesses. Accountancy served as a guiding light to the success of an entrepreneur. Accountancy is always preset in man’s daily activities in its simplest form and
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The blood fetish The blood fetish is a short story‚ which is written by Morley Roberts in 1908. The gothic genre was quite popular around the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century‚ and they were known for including horrific and supernatural elements. Gothic novels often takes place in creepy environments‚ as old castles‚ dark forests and abandoned houses. It is clear to see how The blood fetish fits into this genre‚ as it deals with superstition‚ living severed hands‚ mystery and gloomy
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excessive amount of distress and may face social or personal dysfunction if the disorder is severe. However‚ not all individuals with a foot fetish need treatment. If an individual accepts the fact that they have this disorder‚ no treatment is necessary. What is a case
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Abortion ’fetish’ of professionals - babies pay the price. Life Network Australia - Sunday‚ June 26‚ 2011 It would seem that the ’cart is before the horse’ when it comes to abortion legislation and that some of our medical "experts" in Australia are just a little too passionate about late term abortion than the public are aware or likely to approve of. One in particular‚ Dr Lachlan De Crespigny‚ has quite the abortion portfolio! Featured in media reports about late term abortion‚ his claims
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standards of informed consent. BDSM ideas and imagery have existed on the fringes of Western culture throughout the twentieth century. Robert Bienvenu attributes the origins of modern BDSM to three sources‚ which he names as "European Fetish" (from 1928)‚ "American Fetish" (from 1934)‚ and "Gay Leather" (from 1950). Another source is the sexual games played in brothels‚ which go back into the nineteenth century if not earlier. Irving Klaw‚ during the 1950s and 1960s‚ produced some of the first commercial
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After hours of walking around the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ I came across a very interesting sculpture. Failing to find anything to catch my attention in previous parts of the museum‚ I finally came across the Kongo Power Figure. This sculpture was located in the African art section of the museum. This sculpture caught my attention because it has hundreds of nails driven into its body. It also has a giant hole in its stomach. The nails caught my attention because it made me wonder if this sculpture
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Pamela Puryear is a mathematics teacher at Lawrence County High School in Louisa‚ Kentucky. Born the youngest of three to a family of teachers‚ it was no surprise that she followed in her relatives’ footsteps to become a teacher herself. “My mom was a school teacher for 30-some years‚ aunts and uncles were school teachers‚ my grandfather was a superintendent and a principal and hence I became a teacher”. She went to community college for a couple years before transferring to Virginia Tech with the
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