The fundamental skills of the ancient, popular sport of archery! This compact guidebook explains the basics of archery, one of the world's oldest sports. Dr. Barrett's descriptive style of writing carefully takes readers through techniques for stringing the bow, inserting the arrow, aiming, and releasing the arrow. Over 40 photographs and illustrations enhance the reading. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of these fundamentals that describes common problems and supplies likely causes and corrections for them.
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Third Printing. Very good copy in the colour-printed boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index. Contents; Introduction. India in perspective. Personal character ; Geographic background ; Races of India ; Language. Formation of Indian culture. Prehistorical cultures. The Stone Age ; Peasant villages and proto-cities ; The Indus civilization ; The rebirth of cities ; Neolithic cultures -- The orthodox pattern. The Vedic paradigm ; The ritual paradigm of the Brahmanas ; The monistic reduction of the Upanisads -- The heterodox challenge. Jainism ; Buddhism ; Carvaka -- The Hindu synthesis. The six systems of philosophy ; The social order ; Hinduism. Contemporary social organization. Tribes and peasants. Tribes ; Peasants -- Family and kinship. The joint family ; Extended kin groups ; Affinals and consanguineals ; Secondary patterns ; Divorce ; Change -- The caste system. Purity and pollution ; The logic of hierarchy ; Varna and jati ; The "interactional" theory ; The a-priori ground of hierarchy ; The exploitative argument ; Power and hierarchy ; The jajmani system ; Commensality and connubiality ; Asymmetry and change. Subjects; Ethnology India. Civilization. Ethnology. Anthropology India. India. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 489912
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