1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460025003321

Autore

Behrend Heike

Titolo

Trance mediums and new media : spirit possession in the age of technical reproduction / / edited by Heike Behrend, Anja Dreschke, and Martin Zillinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-8232-5382-1

0-8232-5384-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

133.9/1

Soggetti

Channeling (Spiritualism)

Mass media and anthropology

Technology

Globalization

Electronic books.

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

""Front ""; ""Contents ""; ""Introduction: Trance Mediums and New Media""; ""On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media""; ""Trance Mediums and New Media: The Heritage of a European Term""; ""Absence and the Mediation of the Audiovisual Unconscious""; ""New Media and Traveling Spirits: Pentecostals in the Vietnamese Diaspora and the Disaster of the""; ""Numinous Dress / Iconic Costume: Korean Shamans Dressed for the Gods and for the Camera""; ""Rites of Reception: Mass-Mediated Trance and Public Order in Morocco""

""Media and Manifestation: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plenitude in Central India""""Media Transformations: Music, Goddess Embodiment, and Politics in Western Orissa / India""; ""Transmitting Divine Grace: On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali""; ""Spaces of Refusal: Photophobic Spirits and the Technical Medium of Photography""; ""��Look with Your Own Eyes!��: Visualizations of Spirit Mediums and Their Viewing Techniques in Tanzanian Video Films""; ""Possession Play: On Cinema, Reenactment, and Trance in the Cologne Tribes""

""Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics""



Sommario/riassunto

Ongoing debates about the "return of religion" have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of new media of communication. This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema, video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media? Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts?.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451461003321

Autore

Petersen Julie K.

Titolo

Handbook of surveillance technologies / / J.K. Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-25151-3

1-4665-5413-4

1-280-12276-5

9786613526625

1-4398-7316-X

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1009 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PetersenJulie K

Disciplina

621.389/28

Soggetti

Electronic surveillance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. ed. of: Understanding surveillance technologies / J.K. Petersen. 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Introduction -- section 2. Acoustic surveillance -- section 3. Electromagnetic surveillance -- section 4. Chemical & biological surveillance -- section 5. Miscellaneous surveillance -- section 6.



Index.

Sommario/riassunto

PREFACE This book sets the groundwork for understanding surveillance technologies by describing contemporary devices and current legislation in their historical context. The stepping stones that led to where we are today will make it easier to understand the basic 'ingredients' of today's more sophisticated devices, and will help create a mental map for understanding more specialized texts on radar, sonar, video cameras, satellite imaging, and genetic profiling. This book is suitable as a general reference and also as a foundation text for post-secondary institutions offering surveillance studies courses. Understanding Surveillance Technologies was published as the first comprehensive, introductory overview of the field of surveillance devices. The current Handbook of Surveillance Technologies comprises 18 chapters with more than 700 photos and illustrations. It is suitable for college surveillance studies in sociology and political science, professional recruiting programs, and as a reference for beginning professionals in the fields of law enforcement, forensics, and military surveillance. It is also an indispensable reference for journalists, lawmakers, and community planners. It has been designed with a flexible, modular format so the chapters can be read in almost any order and chapters that share common topics are cross-referenced to alert the reader. We are all being surveilled. It is no longer possible to avoid cameras, DNA tests, identity chips, border crossing cameras, highway monitors, ATMs, radio-chipped goods and ID cards, and other devices that record our movements, finances, and even our health--



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00177819

Autore

LENZI, Maria Ludovica

Titolo

Donne e madonne : l'educazione femminile nel primo Rinascimento italiano / Maria Ludovica Lenzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : Loescher, 1982

Descrizione fisica

216 p. ; 20 cm.

Disciplina

945

305.4209024

Soggetti

Donna - Educazione - Sec. 15

Italia - Educazione femminile - Studi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia