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UNINA9910463319803321 |
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Autore |
Tomášková Silvia |
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Titolo |
Wayward Shamans : The Prehistory of an Idea / / Silvia Tomášková |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Shamans - Siberia - Russia (Federation) |
Shamanism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Electronic books. |
Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs |
Siberia (Russia) Civilization |
Siberia (Russia) Colonization |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Discoveries Of An Imaginary Place -- 2. Strange Landscapes, Familiar Magic -- 3. People In A Land Before Time -- 4. The Invention Of Siberian Ethnology -- 5. Sex, Gender, And Encounters With Spirits -- 6. Changed Men And Changed Women -- 7. French Connections And The Spirits Of Prehistory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- References -- Index |
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Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male |
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sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history. |
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UNINA9910788519003321 |
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Autore |
Schumacher Liliana |
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Titolo |
Adopting Full Dollarization in Postconflict Economies : : Would the Gains Compensate for the Losses in Liberia? / / Liliana Schumacher, Jiro Honda |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006 |
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1-4623-1348-5 |
1-4527-7840-X |
1-282-58992-X |
9786613822574 |
1-4519-0877-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (25 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Dollar, American |
Monetary policy - Liberia |
Banks and Banking |
Foreign Exchange |
Money and Monetary Policy |
Public Finance |
Monetary Systems |
Standards |
Regimes |
Government and the Monetary System |
Payment Systems |
Debt |
Debt Management |
Sovereign Debt |
Banks |
Depository Institutions |
Micro Finance Institutions |
Mortgages |
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Monetary economics |
Currency |
Foreign exchange |
Public finance & taxation |
Banking |
Currencies |
Exchange rate arrangements |
Dollarization |
Government asset and liability management |
Money |
Monetary policy |
Finance, Public |
Banks and banking |
Liberia Economic conditions |
Liberia Economic policy |
Liberia |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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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""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. PROS OF DOLLARIZATION: ANALYTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE""; ""III. CONS OF DOLLARIZATION""; ""IV. CHOICES OF CURRENCY REGIMES IN POSTCONFLICT COUNTRIES""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS: IS LIBERIA A CANDIDATE FOR FULL, DE JURE DOLLARIZATION?""; ""References"" |
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This paper discusses whether adopting the U.S. dollar as the sole legal tender could help Liberia, a postconflict economy, to boost growth and strengthen fiscal discipline. In view of the performance of exchange rate regimes in many countries and Liberia's own experience with dollarization, we conclude that Liberia should not adopt full dollarization for the following reasons: (i) the alleged benefits voiced by the proponents of dollarization, in terms of enhanced fiscal discipline and faster economic growth, are not supported by the empirical evidence; (ii) dollarization would increase the Liberian economy's vulnerability to external shocks and Liberia's social fragility; (iii) banks in fully dollarized economies face additional capitalization requirements that Liberian banks cannot meet at present; and (iv) dollarization would be costly in terms of real resources because of the loss of seigniorage. |
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