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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793130503321

Autore

Irving Andrew

Titolo

The art of life and death : radical aesthetics and ethnographic practice / / Andrew Irving

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Hau Books, , 2017

ISBN

9781912808045

1912808048

1-912808-04-8

9780997367515

0997367512

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Collana

Malinowski monographs ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

128.5

Soggetti

Death

Terminally ill - Attitudes

Near-death experiences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Beginnings - The limits of the world -- Chapter two - Detours and puzzles in the land of the living -- Chapter three - To live that life -- chapter four - Rethinking anthropology from a pragmaticpoint of view -- Chapter five - A disintegration of the senses -- Chapter six - The eternal return -- Endings - You only live twice -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The art of life and death" explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people experience in the face of death. By bringing an "experience-near" ethnographic focus to the streams of inner dialogue, imagination, and aesthetic expression that are central to the



experience of illness and everyday life, this monograph offers a theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological contribution to the anthropology of time, finitude, and the human condition. With relevance well-beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology, this book ultimately highlights the challenge of capturing the inner experience of human suffering and hope that affect us all of the trauma of the threat of death and the surprise of continued lif.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437609603321

Titolo

Salt stress in plants : signalling, omics and adaptations / / Parvaiz Ahmad, M.M. Azooz, M.N.V. Prasad, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, c2013

ISBN

1-299-33686-8

1-4614-6108-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 509 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Altri autori (Persone)

AhmadParvaiz

AzoozM. M

PrasadM. N. V <1953-> (Majeti Narasimha Vara)

Disciplina

571.2

Soggetti

Soil salinization

Growth (Plants)

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

Chapter 1: Recent Advances of Metabolomics to Reveal Plant Response During Salt Stress -- Chapter 2: MicroRNAs and Their Role in Salt Stress Response in Plants -- Chapter 3: Unravelling Salt Stress in Plants Through Proteomics -- Chapter 4: Genetic Approaches to Improve Salinity Tolerance in Plants -- Chapter 5: LEA Proteins in Salt Stress Tolerance -- Chapter 6: Enhancing Plant Productivity Under Salt Stress – Relevance of Poly-omics -- Chapter 7: Salt Stress and MAPK Signaling in Plants -- Chapter 8: ABA: Role in Plant Signaling Under Salt Stress -- Chapter 9: Calcium Signaling and Its Significance in Alleviating Salt Stress in Plants -- Chapter 10: Improving Salt Tolerance in Rice:



Looking Beyond the Conventional -- Chapter 11: Approaches to Improving Salt Tolerance in Maize -- Chapter 12: The Role of Phytochromes in Stress Tolerance -- Chapter 13: Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in Amelioration of Salinity -- Chapter 14: Breeding Salinity Tolerance in Citrus Using Rootstocks -- Chapter 15: Effects of Salt Stress on Photosynthesis Under Ambient and Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Concentration -- Chapter 16: Nitrogen-Use-Efficiency (NUE) in Plants Under NaCl Stress -- Chapter 17: The Responses of Salt-Affected Plants to Cadmium -- Chapter 18: Plant Tissue Culture: A Useful Measure for the Screening of Salt Tolerance in Plants.

Sommario/riassunto

Among abiotic stresses, soil salinity and sodality are major problems limiting plant growth and productivity. These problems are of great concern for countries whose economies rely on agriculture. Currently more than 100 countries are adversely affected by salinity and sodality and in many of these regions salinization is caused due to irrigation. . The production of crop is low in saline soil due to salt toxicity which interferes with nutrient uptake. The responses to salt stress comprise of wide range of changes at the molecular, biochemical and physiological levels. Plants withstand these stresses by modulating certain biochemical pathways. Tolerance mechanism of plants towards salinity is still a debated question. Biotechnological approaches have improved a lot in understanding the mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants. Omic approach is one of the recent tools that help us in understanding the physiology and biochemistry of the cells under salinity stress. Signalling is also an important way to understand the salinity tolerance. This volume has been compiled with the help a galaxy of researchers all over the world encompassing plant biologists and soil scientists.   This book will be useful for those who are interested in stress biology of plants and would provide information about the role of omics and signalling in plants under salinity.