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UNINA9910494597103321 |
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Titolo |
African crossroads : intersections between history and anthropology in Cameroon / / edited by Ian Fowler and David Zeitlyn |
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Providence, Rhode Island ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 1996 |
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©1996 |
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1-57181-926-6 |
1-57181-859-6 |
1-78238-878-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Cameroon studies ; ; Volume 2 |
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Ethnology - Cameroon |
Electronic books. |
Cameroon History |
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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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AFRICAN CROSSROADS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE. The Person, Ethnicity and the Problem of 'Identity' in West Africa; CHAPTER TWO. Political Relationships on the Eastern Marches of Adamawa in the Late Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER THREE. Mythic Transformation and Historical Continuity; CHAPTER FOUR. Imperialisms at the Century's End; CHAPTER FIVE. Nso' Military Organisation and Warfare in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; CHAPTER SIX. Rebellion, Defection and the Position of Male Cadets; CHAPTER SEVEN. Catholicism & Nso' Traditional Beliefs |
CHAPTER EIGHT. Pursue to AttainCHAPTER NINE. Political Dress; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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UNINA9910520106803321 |
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Autore |
Dijkstra Trude |
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Titolo |
Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700 : the Chinese imprint / / Trude Dijkstra |
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Leiden : , : BRILL, , 2021 |
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1 online resource (xviii, 314 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Publishers and publishing |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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UNINA9910780435403321 |
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Autore |
Morgan Lynn Marie |
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Icons of life : a cultural history of human embryos / / Lynn M. Morgan |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2009 |
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1-282-35992-4 |
9786612359927 |
0-520-94472-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations |
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Embryology, Human - Social aspects |
Tissue culture - Social aspects |
Human reproductive technology - Social aspects |
Medical anthropology |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-297) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. A Skeleton in the Closet and Fetuses in the Basement -- 2. Embryo Visions -- 3. Building a Collection -- 4. Inside the Embryo Production Factory -- 5. Traffic in "Embryo Babies" -- 6. Embryo Tales -- 7. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life -- 8. From Dead Embryos to Icons of Life -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all the way to China-most people had no idea what human embryos looked like. But by the 1950's, modern citizens saw in embryos an image of "ourselves unborn," and embryology had developed a biologically based story about how we came to be. Morgan explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's medical career. By resurrecting a nearly forgotten scientific project, Morgan sheds light on the roots of a modern origin story and raises the still controversial issue of how we decide what embryos mean. |
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