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Record Nr.

UNINA9910294542503321

Autore

Panoff Françoise

Titolo

Maenge gardens : A study of Maenge relationship to domesticates / / Françoise Panoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Marseille, : pacific-credo Publications, 2018

ISBN

2-9563981-8-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ([XV]206 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FreedmanFrançoise Barbira

Mitev-GreyDr Nathalie

StrathernProfessor Dame Marilyn

Barbira-FreedmanFrançoise

Soggetti

Sociology & Anthropology

Maenge people

plants

domesticates

gardening

rite

ethnobotany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Domesticates play a central part both in the everyday and ritual life of the Maenge people of New Britain. Maenge relationship to this category of plants is here analysed through their horticultural techniques, their systems of classification and appellation, their utilisations and finally through myths and rites. Gardening techniques as well as the systems of classification and appellation emphasise the importance of the notion of cultivar in Maenge eyes. While the taxonomy of domesticates is relatively shallow, keys are built by taking into account minute differences between cultivars, as is shown with reference to taro and cordyline. As men may receive names of taro cultivars or give their own names to cultivated trees, the boundaries between nature and culture are suppressed: domesticates appear as part of humans’ culture, a



point made even clearer by the attribution of a soul to cultigens since this soul endows them with powers similar to those of men: ability of feeling, agency. The distinction between hot and cold categories is fundamental for an understanding of Maenge medicine and gardening rites. The category of the rotten is also essential for a population of gardeners who fully recognise the part played by rotten matter in rebuilding the topsoil during the fallow period. Gardens, in the Maenge setting, thus appear not only as food reserves but as laboratories where experiments are ceaselessly going on as well as sanctuaries. Gardening provides not only social prestige but intellectual and aesthetic pleasures.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777414603321

Autore

Liddick Don

Titolo

The global underworld [[electronic resource] ] : transnational crime and the United States / / Donald R. Liddick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40829-1

9786612408298

0-313-05198-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

International and comparative criminology

Disciplina

364.1/06/0973

Soggetti

Transnational crime

Organized crime

Organized crime - United States

Transnational crime - United States - Prevention

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. [147]-154) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Principal Transnational Crime Groups Affecting the United States and Canada; Chapter 3 Smuggling, Transnational Theft, and ""Eco-Crime""; Chapter 4 Money Laundering and Other Financial Crimes; Chapter 5 Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Chapter 6 Responding to



Transnational Organized Crime; Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Transnational crime is an increasing national security threat to the United States and to individual citizens around the world. Criminal groups both in the United Staes and abroad operate crime cartels that span national boundaries, but in ways that affect all Americans, and wreak havoc on law enforcement organizations as well as businesses and other entities, such as the stock market. More often than not, transnational crime takes the form of organized crime, and in its many forms is responsible for over-priced goods, unsafe products, environmental hazards, corruption of public officials, the

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796592803321

Titolo

Women poets of the English Civil War / / edited by Sarah C. E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2504-8

1-5261-2503-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 362 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Disciplina

821.40809287

Soggetti

War poetry, English - 17th century

War poetry, English - Women authors

Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

Literature: history & criticism

History

Poetry

Great Britain

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  (pages 21-28) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline. Introduction -- Further reading. Anne Bradstreet : From The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650) -- From Several Poems (1678) . Hester Pulter. Katherine Philips : From the "Tutin" manuscript -- From the "Tutin" manuscript, reverse -- From Poems (1664) -- From Poems (1667). Margaret Cavendish : From Philosophical Fancies (1653) -- From Poems and Fancies (1664). Lucy Hutchinson : From De rerum natura -- From British Library, additional MS 17018 -- From Elegies -- From Order and Disorder -- From Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Textual introduction -- Textual notes -- Index of first lines

Sommario/riassunto

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets' work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women's poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women's poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden