1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463381103321

Titolo

Burst of breath [[electronic resource] ] : indigenous ritual wind instruments in lowland South America / / edited by Jonathan D. Hill & Jean-Pierre Chaumeil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-57226-5

9786613884718

0-8032-3826-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HillJonathan David <1954->

ChaumeilJean-Pierre

Disciplina

788/.1908998

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Music - History and criticism

Wind instruments - South America

Indians of South America - Rites and ceremonies

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

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Overture; First Movement: Natural Sounds, Wind Instruments, and Social Communication; 1. Speaking Tubes: The Sonorous Language of Yagua Flutes; 2. Leonardo, the Flute: On the Sexual Life of Sacred Flutes among the Xinguano Indians; 3. Soundscaping the World: The Cultural Poetics of Power and Meaning in Wakuénai Flute Music; 4. Hearing without Seeing: Sacred Flutes as the Medium for an Avowed Secret in Curripaco Masculine Ritual; 5. Flutes in the Warime: Musical Voices in the Piaroa World

6. Desire in Music: Soul-Speaking and the Power of SecrecySecond Movement: Musical Transpositions of Social Relations; 7. Archetypal Agents of Affinity: "Sacred" Musical Instruments in the Guianas?; 8. From Flutes to Boom Boxes: Musical Symbolism and Change among the Waiwai of Southern Guyana; 9. From Musical Poetics to Deep Language: The Ritual of the Wauja Sacred Flutes; 10. The Ritual of Iamurikuma and the Kawoká Flutes; 11. Spirits, Ritual Staging, and the Transformative



Power of Music in the Upper Xingu Region

12. An "Inca" Instrument at a "Nawa" Feast: Marubo Flutes and Alterity in Amazonian Context13. Arawakan Flute Cults of Lowland South America: The Domestication of Predation and the Production of Agentivity; Coda: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; 14. Sacred Musical Instruments in Museums: Are They Sacred?; 15. Mystery Instruments; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first in-depth, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of indigenous Amazonian musical cultures, Burst of Breath showcases new research on the dynamic range of ritual power and social significance of various wind instruments-including flutes, trumpets, clarinets, and whistles-played in sacred rituals and ceremonies in Lowland South America. The editors provide a detailed overview of the historical significance, scientific classification, shamanic and cosmological associations, and changing social meanings of ritual wind instruments within Amazonian cultures. Th

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463284103321

Titolo

The conditions of hospitality [[electronic resource] ] : ethics, politics, and aesthetics on the threshold of the possible / / edited by Thomas Claviez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5149-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

ClaviezThomas

Disciplina

177/.1

Soggetti

Hospitality

Entertaining

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of a conference held in Sept. 2008 in Stavanger, Norway.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The Ethics of Hospitality""; ""Hospitality Under Compassion and Violence""; ""Transcending Transcendence, or:



Transcendifferances""; ""Toward a Mutual Hospitality""; ""The Politics of Hospitality""; ""To Open""; ""Frictions of Hospitality and the Promise of Cosmopolitanism""; ""Proximity and Paradox""; ""Conditions for Hospitality or Defense of Identity?""; ""Appendix""; ""The Aesthetics of Hospitality""; ""Conviviality and Pilgrimage""; ""Hospitality and the Zombification of the Other""; ""The Art and Poetics of Translation as Hospitality""; ""Notes""

""Works Cited""""Contributors""; ""Perspectives in Continental Philosophy""

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003338830403321

Autore

Moirand, Sophie

Titolo

Une grammaire des textes et des dialogues / Sophie Moirand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Hachette, 1990

ISBN

2-01-016265-X

Descrizione fisica

159 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

F. Autoformation

Disciplina

808.044

Locazione

DECLI

Collocazione

418 MOI /1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia