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    Conversation with Murasaki

    Tom Lowenstein

    In contrast to the long, trans-cultural narratives of ‘Ancestors and Species’, Tom Lowenstein’s new poetry is pared down in this volume to the briefest of utterances. A long expensive journey…

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    Ancestors and Species: New and Selected Ethnographic Poetry

    Tom Lowenstein

    Tom Lowenstein’s work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume…

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    The Bridge at Uji

    Tom Lowenstein

    Uji is now a suburb to the south of Kyoto and its bridge was first constructed in the 10th century. I sat by the bridge watching the water flow in…

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    The Civilization of Ancient India and Southeast Asia

    Tom Lowenstein

    Buddhism has produced a cultural legacy more glorious than most great faiths. Initially spreading throughout Asia, over the centuries it triumphed not by the might of military conquest but by…

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    Lovers and Others

    Tom Lowenstein

    In this richly illustrated volume full of photographs from Lowenstein’s personal archives documenting his long-standing friendships and reflecting the volume’s heady mixture of accounting, art and wine.

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    Ancient Land: Sacred Whale

    Tom Lowenstein

    On a tiny peninsula, the Inuit of Tikigaq worshipped the whales they killed, evolving an elaborate system of myths and rituals to accompany the hunt. The author began to explore…

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    From Culbone Wood - In Xanadu

    Tom Lowenstein

    In the voice of an 18th-century poet who the previous afternoon had written ‘Kubla Khan’, this long prose meditation takes the reader through an English pastoral landscape to the Central…

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    The Structure of Days Out: With storytellers, hunters and their descendants in a Native Alaskan Community, 1973-1981

    Tom Lowenstein

    In the 1970s Tom Lowenstein spent a lot of time in an Alaskan Inuit village, studying the history, customs and life of the inhabitants. This book records the events and…

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    Haiku: Poemas y Meditaciones Sobre Naturaleza y la Belleza

    Tom Lowenstein

    A beautifully illustrated compendium of places, people, cultures, festivals, and beliefs, this is an homage to an often admired poetic form: the haiku. Embodying the spirit of ancient Japan, this…

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    Native American Myths and Beliefs

    Tom Lowenstein,Piers Vitebsky (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge)

    Your readers will explore the rich worldview of the Native Americans through myths and legends. Tales originating from various tribes functioned in a number of important ways. They explained the…

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