Word: animists
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...Sight SUDAN The Islamic northern government and southern Christian and animist rebels agreed to a peace deal at talks in Kenya to end to 21 years of civil war. The deal does not cover the conflict in the western region of Darfur...
...book ends on a strong note, with the island and the young lovers reunited by a shaman, representative of the animist belief system that dominated the islands of Indonesia long before the arrival of colonizing religions and which still commands a wide following. Since Joseph Conrad's early 20th century tales of the tropical seas, very few foreign, competent storytellers have taken Indonesia for their subject. With this interesting novel, Vatikiotis makes a valuable contribution to the literature of the archipelago...
...most successful Surrealist works is Landscape From a Dream (1936-38), where an angry bird, framed by the skeleton of a folding screen, peers at its reflection against a Dorset coastline. But the English landscape eventually triumphed over secondhand motifs. Nash had always been something of an animist, recording in his autobiography a lifelong sense of the spirit of place. After the outbreak of World War II, he set up an Arts Bureau for War Service, and in 1940 again became an official war artist, initially attached to the Air Ministry. His sketches of wrecked German planes became the painting...
...talks with the rebel Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army after spla forces captured the strategic town of Torit. The government started airlifting troops to its stronghold of Juba in the rebel-occupied south and recruiting in schools and universities. The spla is fighting for greater autonomy for the Christian and animist south from the Arab and Muslim north, which dominates the government in Khartoum...
...year civil war began in Nairobi, Kenya. The talks did not get off to a hopeful start. The rebel SPLA delegation rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire. It said hostilities with the government would cease only after a political settlement was reached. The SPLA, from Sudan's Christian and animist south, wants the country to become a secular state, an idea the government, dominated by the Muslim north, rejects. The SPLA refused to rule out building an independent state, while the government was set on preserving Sudan's unity. The discovery of vast oil reserves along the front line between...