Ancient people of the Andes / / Michael A. Malpass

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465281703321
• Autore: Malpass Michael A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5017-0392-7; 1-5017-0393-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
• Disciplina: 980/.01
• Soggetti: Indigenous peoples - Andes Region; Indians of South America - Andes Region; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. LEARNING ABOUT THE PAST -- 2. GEOGRAPHY OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH ANDES -- 3. THE TIME BEFORE TEMPLES -- 4. SETTLING DOWN AND SETTLING IN -- 5. SOCIETAL GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION -- 6. OF MASKS AND MONOLITHS -- 7. ART AND POWER -- 8. CLASH OF THE TITANS? -- 9. AUCA RUNA, THE EPOCH OF WARFARE -- 10. EXPANSION AND EMPIRE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- INDEX -- Plates
• Sommario/riassunto: In Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing system, making archaeology the only way we know about most of the prehispanic societies of the Andes. The earliest Spaniards on the continent provided first-person accounts of the latest of those societies, and, as descendants of the Inkas became literate, they too became a source of ; information. Both ethnohistory and archaeology have limitations in what they can tell us, but when we are able to use them together they are complementary ways to access knowledge of these fascinating cultures.Malpass focuses on large anthropological themes: why people settled down into agricultural communities, the origins of social inequalities, and the evolution of sociopolitical complexity. Ample illustrations, including eight color plates, visually document sites, societies, and cultural features. Introductory chapters cover archaeological concepts, dating issues, and the region's climate. The subsequent chapters, divided by time period, allow the reader to track changes in specific cultures over time.

The new South faces the world [[electronic resource] ] : foreign affairs and the Southern sense of self, 1877-1950 / / Tennant S. McWilliams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453973103321
• Autore: McWilliams Tennant S. <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-8173-8208-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.73009/034
• Soggetti: Internationalists - Southern States - History; Electronic books.; United States Foreign relations 1865-; Southern States Intellectual life 1865-; Southern States Relations Foreign countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1988.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mission and the Burden; 1 James H. Blount, Paramount Defender of Hawaii; 2 The Mobile Register and Cuba Libre; 3 Daniel Augustus Tompkins and China; 4 The Anglo-Saxon Bond of John W. Davis; 5 The Southern Council on International Relations; 6 The Expanding South; Essay on Sources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life

A pleasant comedy, called A mayden-head well lost [[electronic resource] ] : As it hath beene publickly acted at the Cocke-pit in Drury-lane, with much applause: by her Maiesties Seruants. Written by Thomas Heyvvood

• Record Nr.: UNISA996388493103316
• Autore: Heywood Thomas <approximately 1574-1641.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed by Nicholas Okes for Iohn Iackson and Francis Church, and are to be sold at the Kings Armes in Cheape-side, 1634
• Descrizione fisica: [70] p. : ill
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Signatures: A-I⁴ (-A1).; The last leaf is blank.; Running title reads: A mayden-head well lost.; Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0014

Basic principles of induction logging : electromagnetic methods in borehole geophysics / / Alexander A. Kaufman, Gregory Itskovich

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910583472903321
• Autore: Kaufman Alexander A. <1931-2023, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-12-802584-0; 0-12-802583-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (522 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 622.154
• Soggetti: Induction logging
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Finding Balanchine's lost ballets : exploring the early choreography of a master / / Elizabeth Kattner ; foreword by Patricia Barker

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795643003321
• Autore: Kattner Elizabeth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , 2021
• ISBN: 0-8130-5883-X; 0-8130-6664-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 173 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Florida scholarship online
• Disciplina: 792.84
• Soggetti: Ballets - Stories, plots, etc
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2020.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Envisioning Funeral March -- The Scholar's Conundrum: Should We Reconstruct? -- The Dancer's Discovery: Finding the Steps -- The Puzzle's Picture: Assembling What We Know -- The Missing Pieces: Rechoreographing What We Don't Know -- One Final Note: What We Have Learned -- Appendix I. Summary of George Balanchine's Russian Choreography (1920-1924)
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets' allows the reader to learn about one of the twentieth century's greatest artists in a way that has not before been possible. Balanchine's Russian ballets did not survive in the repertory, but this book demonstrates how some of these lost works need not be relegated to the pages of history but can and should be reconstructed, giving us a vision of our past as artists, scholars, and audiences. The book details the work of setting Balanchine's first group ballet, Funeral March, on the dancers of the Grand Rapids Ballet. It follows this project from archival studies to studio research with the dancers to a final performance.