1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791972203321

Autore

Fewkes Jesse Walter <1850-1930.>

Titolo

The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands [[electronic resource] /] / Jesse Walter Fewkes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8173-8249-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Disciplina

972.95/0049839

Soggetti

Indians of the West Indies - Puerto Rico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in 1907 as one of two papers accompanying the 25th annual report of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Physical features of Porto Rico; Precolumbian population; Present descendants of the Porto Rican Indians; Race and kinship; Bodily characteristics; Mental and moral characteristics; Government; Political divisions; Houses; Thatched with grasses; Thatched with palm leaves; With palm leaves on walls, and straw-thatched roofs; With slabs of palm wood on walls; Secular customs; Naming children;  marriage customs; Hunting and fishing; Agriculture; Religion; Zemiism; Zemis of wood; Zemis of stone; Zemis of cotton cloth inclosing bones; Zemis painted on their bodies and faces

PriesthoodDivination; Medicine practices; Narcotics; Rites and ceremonies; Ceremony to bring crops; Survival of ceremony in modern dances; Burial ceremonies; Myths; Traditions of origin; A modern legend; The name Borinquen; Archeological sites; Dance plazas; Shell heaps; Caves; Archeological objects; Celts; Enigmatical stones; Pestles; Mortars; Beads and pendants; Stone balls; Three-pointed stones; Type with head on anterior and legs on posterior projection; Type with face between anterior and conoid projection; Type with conoid projection modified into a head; Smooth stones; Interpretation

Semicircular stonesStone heads; Disks with human faces; Stone amulets; Pictographs; River pictographs; Cave pictographs; Stone collars; Massive collars; Slender collars; Theories of the use of stone collars; Elbow stones; Knobbed heads; Pillar stones; Large stone idols;



Pottery; Shell and bone carvings; Wooden objects; Cassava graters; Dance object; Swallowing-sticks; Ceremonial baton; Idols; Stools; Canoes; Other objects; Gold objects; Basketry and textiles; Conclusions

Sommario/riassunto

A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico.  Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing ""more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies.""  Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Dr. Fewkes' unique skills o

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779563003321

Autore

Hoy Marjorie A

Titolo

Insect molecular genetics : an introduction to principles and applications / / Marjorie A. Hoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Academic Press, 2013

London : , : Academic Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-299-46562-5

0-240-82131-9

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 808 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

595.7/087328

Soggetti

Insects - Molecular genetics

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

pt. 1. Genes and genome organization in eukaryotes -- pt. 2. Molecular genetic techniques -- pt. 3. Applications in entomology.

Sommario/riassunto

Insect Molecular Genetics, Third Edition, summarizes and synthesizes two rather disparate disciplines-entomology and molecular genetics. This volume provides an introduction to the techniques and literature of molecular genetics; defines terminology; and reviews concepts, principles, and applications of these powerful tools. The world of insect molecular genetics, once dominated by Drosophila, has become much



more diverse, especially with the sequencing of multiple arthropod genomes (from spider mites to mosquitoes). This introduction includes discussion of honey bees, mosquit