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Crooked Plow (Portuguese: Torto Arado) is a novel by Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior. It tells the story of two Afro-Brazilian sisters, Bibiana and Belonísia, who experience a life-altering tragedy in childhood. The sisters live as tenant farmers with their family in Chapada Diamantina in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The novel won ...
Prevalent in northwest Scotland, the Scottish Gaelic language contains many terms for the various varieties, for example cas-dhìreach 'straight foot' for the straighter variety and on, but cas-chrom 'bent foot' is the most common variety and refers to the crooked spade. The cas-chrom went out of use in the Hebrides in the early years of the ...
Itamar Vieira Junior (born 1979) is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Salvador, Bahia.He has a PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from the Federal University of Bahia.His short story collection A oração do carrasco (The Executioner's Prayer) (2017) was a finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura.
References to the Jarê are found in the novel Crooked Plow, by Itamar Vieira Junior. Zeca Chapéu Grande, the narrators' father, works as a Jarê curador in his community and is sought out to cure ailments of the body and spirit with prayers and roots. [5]
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All of the clods of earth raised by the plow were supposed to fall to the inside, which was accomplished by keeping the plow crooked [6] and by men following the magistrate and plow. [4] This procedure simultaneously established an initial city wall (murus) from the clods and its protective ditch (fossa) from the furrow itself. [1]
A major advance for this type of farming was the turn plough, also known as the mould-board plough (UK), moldboard plow (U.S.), or frame-plough. [21] A coulter (or skeith) could be added to cut vertically into the ground just ahead of the share (in front of the frog), a wedge-shaped cutting edge at the bottom front of the mould board with the ...
Harry deLeyer (pronounced deh-LAY-er) was born in Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands in 1927. [1] His work experience was primarily on the family farm. DeLeyer learned to ride as a child; by 7 he was competing, eventually making it to the Dutch junior national team.