1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004446150403321

Autore

Franchi de' Cavalieri, Pio

Titolo

Costantiniana / Pio Franchi de' Cavalieri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Città del Vaticano : Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1953

Descrizione fisica

209 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Studi e testi ; 171

Disciplina

930.92

204.2

Locazione

FGBC

FLFBC

Collocazione

COLLEZIONE 95 (171)

204.2 FRA 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778441803321

Autore

Dain Bruce R. <1967->

Titolo

A hideous monster of the mind [[electronic resource] ] : American race theory in the early republic / / Bruce Dain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-674-03014-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/009

Soggetti

Race - History

Race - Philosophy

Racism - United States - History

Racism in anthropology - United States - History

Race discrimination - United States - History

Eugenics - United States - History

African Americans - Public opinion

Public opinion - United States

United States Race relations

United States Moral conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 The Face of Nature -- 2 Culture and the Persistence of Race -- 3 The Horrors of St. Domingue -- 4 The Mutability of Human Affairs -- 5 Conceiving Universal Equality -- 6 Black Immediatism -- 7 The New Ethnology -- 8 Effacing the Individual -- Notes -- Index



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140610003321

Titolo

Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / / edited by Trevor J. Blank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2009

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

9781457174742

145717474X

9780874217513

0874217512

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 260 pages )

Altri autori (Persone)

BlankTrevor J

Disciplina

398.02854678

Soggetti

Digital communications

Folklore - Computer network resources

Folklore and the Internet

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet; Chapter 1 Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore; Chapter 2 Guardians of the Living: Characterization of Missing Women on the Internet; Chapter 3 The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice; Chapter 4 The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor; Chapter 5 Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy; Chapter 6 Crusading on the Vernacular Web: The Folk Beliefs and Practices of Online Spiritual Warfare; Chapter 7 Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead; Chapter 8 Public Folklore in Cyberspace; Appendix Webography of Public Folklore Resources; References; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction



online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard,