1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785751403321

Autore

Hill Jonathan David <1954->

Titolo

Made-from-bone [[electronic resource] ] : trickster myths, music, and history from the Amazon / / Jonathan D. Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-58309-7

9786613895547

0-252-09151-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Disciplina

398.20899839

Soggetti

Curripaco Indians

Curripaco mythology

Tricksters - Venezuela

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""front cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface: Introducing Made-from-Bone, the Trickster-Creator""; ""1. The Arawakan Wakuenai of Venezuela""; ""Part 1: Words from the Primordial Times""; ""Overview""; ""2. Narratives from the Primordial Times""; ""The Cricket-Brothers;  or, The Origin of Made-from-Bone""; ""The Origin of Death""; ""Owl-Monkey;  or, Made-from-Bone Tires to End Poisoning""; ""Made-from-Bone and Anaconda-Person""; ""The Origin of the Bat-People""; ""The Origin of Cooking with Hot Peppers""

""The Origin of the Vulture-People""""Great Sickness;  or, The Origin of Malaria""; ""Made-from-Bone Creates Evil Omens""; ""3. Ethnohistorical Interlude: Historical Themes in the Myth of Made-from-Bone and Anaconda-Person""; ""Part 2: The World Begins""; ""Overview""; ""4. Narratives from ""The World Begins""""; ""Grandfather Sleep;  or, The Origin of Night""; ""The Origin of Fire""; ""The Origin of Working In Manioc Gardens""; ""The Origin of Ceremonial Music""; ""The Origin of Bocachico-Fish Dances""; ""Pipirri;  or, The Origin of Peach-Palm Fruits""

""5. Ethnomusicological Interlude: The Catfish Trumpet Festival of



1981, or How to Ask for a Drink in Curripaco""""Part 3: The World Opens Up""; ""Overview""; ""6. Naratives from ""The World Opens Up""""; ""Kuwai, the Powerful Sound the Opened Up the World""; ""The Struggle between Made-from-Bone and First-Woman""; ""The Origin of Hallucinogenic Snuff and Shamanic Healing""; ""The Origin of Honey for Curing""; ""The Origin of Witchcraft and Its Treatment""; ""The Origin of Enchanted Spirits and the City of Gold""; ""7. Ethnological Coda: Shamanizing the State in Venezuela""

""Appendix A: A Note on Translation Methods""""Appendix B: AILLA Numbers for Narratives, Music, Dances, and Illustrations""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""References Cited""; ""Index""; ""back cover""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254181403321

Titolo

Queueing Theory and Network Applications / / edited by Tien van Do, Yutaka Takahashi, Wuyi Yue, Viet-Ha Nguyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-22267-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, , 2194-5365 ; ; 383

Disciplina

620

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Application software

Operations research

Computational Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Operations Research and Decision Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Queueing Models I -- Part II. Queueing Applications -- Part III. Queueing Models II -- Part IV. Network Models.

Sommario/riassunto

The 16 papers of this proceedings have been selected from the



submissions to the 10th  International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA2015) held on 17-20 August, 2015 in Ha Noi and Ha Long, Vietnam. All contributions discuss theoretical and practical issues connected with queueing theory and its applications in networks and other related fields. The book brings together researchers, scientists and practitioners from the world and offers an open forum to share the latest important research accomplishments and challenging problems in the area of queueing theory and network applications.