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UNINA9910449812003321 |
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Autore |
Conteh-Morgan John |
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Titolo |
African Drama and Performance [[electronic resource]] |
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Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2004 |
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1-282-07134-3 |
0-253-11090-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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African expressive cultures African drama and performance |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Theater - Africa - History - 20th century |
Theater - History - 20th century - Africa |
Performing arts - History - 20th century - Africa |
African drama - History and criticism - 20th century |
Drama |
Music, Dance, Drama & Film |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. King Baabu and the Renaissance Vision; 2. Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa; 3. Theatre and Anthropology, Theatricality and Culture; 4. Pre-Texts and Intermedia: African Theatre and the Question of History; 5. Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire; 6. Antigone in the "Land of the Incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes de Santigone (Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone); 7. Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-SoAdaptation of Macbeth |
15. Modernity's Trickster: "Dipping" and "Throwing" in Congolese Popular Dance Music16. Theatres of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC in South Africa; 17. The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social Drama: A Reexamination in Light of Anlo-Ewe HaloĢ; 18. Theatricality and Social Mimodrama; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
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African Drama and Performance is a collection of innovative and wide-ranging essays that bring conceptually fresh perspectives, from both renowned and emerging voices, to the study of drama, |
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theatre, and performance in Africa. Topics range from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are analyzed as a kind of social performance, and aspects of African performance in the diaspora |
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UNINA9910484439303321 |
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Biometric Authentication : First International Workshop, BIOMET 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria, June 23-24, 2014. Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Virginio Cantoni, Dimo Dimov, Massimo Tistarelli |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
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[1st ed. 2014.] |
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1 online resource (X, 265 p. 124 illus.) |
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Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, , 3004-9954 ; ; 8897 |
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Biometric identification |
Pattern recognition systems |
Computer vision |
Application software |
Algorithms |
Biometrics |
Automated Pattern Recognition |
Computer Vision |
Computer and Information Systems Applications |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Gait and behaviour analysis -- Iris analysis -- Speech recognition -- 3D ear recognition -- Face and facial attributes analysis -- Handwriting and signature recognition -- Multimodal and soft biometrics. |
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International |
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Workshop on Biometric Authentication, BIOMET 2014, which was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in June 2014. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. Additionally, this volume also contains 5 invited papers. The papers cover a range of topics in the field gait and behaviour analysis; iris analysis; speech recognition; 3D ear recognition; face and facial attributes analysis; handwriting and signature recognition; and multimodal and soft biometrics. |
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