| The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War Contributor(s): Merrill, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571313052 ISBN-13: 9781571313058 Publisher: Milkweed Editions OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 363.325 |
| LCCN: 2011021332 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.6" (1.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Taking several ageless questions--"Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?"--as his point of departure, award-winning author Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, Merrill observes the performance of a banned ritual in the Malaysian province of Kelatan; traces Saint-John Perse's epic voyage from Beijing to Ulan Bator in 1921, and relates it to the China of today; and embarks on a trip across the Levant in 2007 in the wake of the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Merrill asserts that it is in this trinity of human actions--ceremony, expedition, and war--that history is formed; and that the political, environmental, and social changes we're witnessing now presage the end of one order and the creation of another. |