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UNINA9910458645503321 |
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Mills Eric L. <1936-> |
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The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science / / Eric L. Mills |
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Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
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1-4426-6360-X |
1-4426-9774-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (447 p.) |
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Oceanography - History |
Oceanographers |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet -- 1 The Way of the Sea: Knowledge of Oceanic Circulation before the Nineteenth Century -- 2 Groping through the Darkness: The Problem of Deep Ocean Circulation -- 3 Boundaries Built with Numbers: Making the Ocean Mathematical -- 4 Evangelizing in the Wilderness: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to Canada -- 5 'Physische Meereskunde': From Geography to Physical Oceanography in Berlin, 1900B1935 -- 6 'Découverte de l'océan': Monaco and the Failure of French Oceanography -- 7 Slipping away from Norway: Dynamic Oceanography Comes to the United States -- 8 Facing the Atlantic and the Pacific: Dynamic Oceanography Re-emerges in Canada, 1930-1950 -- 9 Studying The Oceans and the Oceans -- Appendix: Textbooks of Physical Oceanography -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Oceans have had a mysterious allure for centuries, inspiring fears, myths, and poetic imaginations. By the early twentieth century, however, scientists began to see oceans as physical phenomena that could be understood through mathematical geophysics. The Fluid |
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Envelope of Our Planet explores the scientific developments from the early middle ages to the twentieth century that illuminated the once murky depths of oceanography.Tracing the transition from descriptive to mathematical analyses of the oceans, Eric Mills examines sailors' and explorers' observations of the oceans, the influence of Scandinavian techniques on German-speaking geographers, and the eventual development of shared quantitative practices and ideas. A detailed and beautifully written account of the history of oceanography, The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet is also an engaging account of the emergence of a scientific discipline. |
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UNINA9910787251703321 |
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Autore |
Behrend Heike |
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Trance mediums and new media : spirit possession in the age of technical reproduction / / edited by Heike Behrend, Anja Dreschke, and Martin Zillinger |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015 |
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0-8232-5382-1 |
0-8232-5384-8 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Channeling (Spiritualism) |
Mass media and anthropology |
Technology |
Globalization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""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: |
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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"" |
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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?. |
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