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.

UNINA9910464961503321

Autore

Venkateswara Rao T.

Titolo

HRD audit : evaluating the human resource function for business improvement / / T.V. Rao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, India : , : Sage Response, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

93-5150-110-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

658.3/1250954

Soggetti

Employees - Rating of - India

Executives - Rating of - India

Organizational effectiveness - Auditing

Human capital - India

Personnel management - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Aligned to HRD Score Card 2500."--Cover.

"(This) book is a great contribution from Prof. T. V. Rao to enhance the value proposition of HR."--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgements; Letter to CEO/CHRO; Section One: Introduction; 1 - Good HR Practices Can Make a Difference; 2 - Elements of Good HRD: Need for Realignment; 3 - HRD Audit: Basic Concepts and Components; Section Two: HRD and HR Audit; 4 - HRD Strategies; 5 - HRD Culture and Values; 6 - HRD Structures; 7 - HRD Systems; 8 - HRD Competencies; Section Three: HRD Audit Methodology and Issues; 9 - HRD Audit Methodology:Interviews; 10 - HRD Audit Methodology: Observation

11 - HRD Audit Instruments: Questionnaires12 - Measuring Business Impact and Establishing the HRD Score Card; 13 - Writing the HRD Audit Report; 14 - Designing and Using HRD Audit for Business Improvement; Section Four: HRD Audit: The Indian Experience; 15 - Case Studies; 16 - Effectiveness of HRD Audit as an OD Intervention; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Human capital is an essential component of the market value as well as brand value of every organization. HRD Audit presents the first-ever comprehensive approach to evaluating and re-designing human resource development (HRD) function and interventions, and maximizing their contribution to business goals and human capital formation. A unique feature of the book is the HRD Score Card approach that organizations can use to assess and benchmark their level of HRD and its alignment with business goals.The second edition is thoroughly updated and revised to cater to the needs of current practition



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707967503321

Autore

Addy Harold E., Jr., <1960->

Titolo

Ice accretions and full-scale iced aerodynamic performance data for a two-dimensional NACA 23012 airfoil / / Harold E. Addy, Jr. [and six others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, , April 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 437 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

NASA/TP ; ; 2016-218348

Soggetti

Aerodynamics

Airfoils

Ice formation

Low Reynolds number

Subsonic wind tunnels

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"April 2016."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 437).