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UNINA9910463394103321 |
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Autore |
Ezell Scott |
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Titolo |
A far corner : life and art with the open circle tribe / / Scott Ezell |
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Netherlands ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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0-8032-6694-4 |
0-8032-6696-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (502 p.) |
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Biography |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps""; ""Preface: A Far Corner""; ""1. E-ki on the Beach""; ""2. The Sugar Factory""; ""3. Dinner with the Chief""; ""4. A House at the End of the Road""; ""5. Beneath the Skin""; ""6. Carving a Carving Knife""; ""7. Between the City and the Sea""; ""8. Purification""; ""9. Hinoki Studio""; ""10. Songs of the Amis""; ""11. Big and Small Things""; ""12. A Woodcarver""; ""13. Hunting with the Bunun""; ""14. Live Music""; ""15. Shelter from the Sun""; ""16. Coupled Orbits""; ""17. The Chief Is Dead"" |
""18. An Apartment in Town""""19. Homecomings""; ""20. A Long Swim""; ""21. Betel Nut Brothers""; ""22. E-ki on the Boulevard""; ""23. E-ki across the Ocean""; ""24. Departure""; ""Epilogue: Further Fields""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Appendix 1""; ""Appendix 2""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""About Scott Ezell"" |
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In 2002, after living ten years in Asia, American poet and musician Scott Ezell used his advance from a local record company to move to Dulan, on Taiwan's remote Pacific coast. He fell in with the Open Circle Tribe, a loose confederation of aboriginal woodcarvers, painters, and musicians who lived on the beach and cultivated a living connection with their indigenous heritage. Most members of the Open Circle Tribe |
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belong to the Amis tribe, which is descended from Austronesian peoples that migrated from China thousands of years ago. As a "nonstate" people navigating the fraught politics of conte |
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UNINA9910457171403321 |
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Autore |
Stettler R. F (Reinhard Friedrich), <1929-> |
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Cottonwood and the river of time [[electronic resource] ] : on trees, evolution, and society / / Reinhard F. Stettler |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Poplar - Adaptation |
Poplar - Evolution |
Poplar - Genetics |
Trees - Evolution |
Trees - Economic aspects |
Human-plant relationships |
Electronic books. |
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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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Nota di contenuto |
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1: The tree and the river -- The tree -- The river -- Regeneration -- Water and nutrient relations -- Perpetuate and proliferate! -- 2: Variation and variability -- Clones -- Why sex? -- Password? -- Natural hybridization -- 3: From species to population to genes -- Common gardens -- Transplanted trees -- Getting closer to the genes -- Migrant trees -- Adaptation and its limits -- 4: Trees and society -- Changing rivers--changing landscapes -- The dawn of agriculture -- The farmer's trees -- From farmers' trees to tree farms -- Poplar--a model tree -- Tree genomics and beyond -- Between old growth and plantations -- The essence of trees -- Outlook. |
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