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UNINA9910787248703321 |
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Giblett Rodney James |
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Canadian wetlands : places and people / / by Rod Giblett |
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Bristol, United Kingdom : , : Intellect, , 2014 |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Cultural studies of natures, landscapes and environments |
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Wetlands - Canada |
Wetland ecology - Canada |
Culture |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1: Canadian wetlands culture: Past and present; Notes; Chapter 2: Wetlands in anglophone pioneer settler literature and nature writing of the Canadian canon; Notes; Chapter 3: 'In the Acadian land' of Evangeline: The marshlands of Grand Pré, the wetlands of the Bay of Fundy and Longfellow's literary legacy; Acadian Grand Pré; Longfellow's Evangeline; Present pressures and future prospects; Chapter 4: 'The marsh lies rich and wanton': The Tantramar Marshes, Charles G. D. Roberts and Douglas Lochhead |
Charles G. D. RobertsDouglas Lochhead; Present pressures and future prospects; Notes; Chapter 5: 'Noisome marsh' and 'incurable marshes': Wainfleet Bog, Point Pelee Marshes and the falls on the Niagara Peninsula; Note; Chapter 6: 'A swampy flat': Vancouver and the wetlands of the Fraser River delta; Chapter 7: A city 'set in malarial lakeside swamps': Toronto and Ashbridge's Bay Marsh; Marshy and military beginnings; Sublime city in a swampy wilderness and in a melancholy marsh; Disease and health; Waterbird habitat and uncanny place; Marshlands as liminal space; Mourning and reclamation |
Mapping the marsh and the metropolisChapter 8: 'Land and water disputed empire': Holland Marsh, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau; Note; Chapter 9: 'Quaking morass': The marshes of Manitoba, Frederick Philip Grove and Aldo Leopold; Chapter 10: 'Smelling the Old Marsh, I knew I was home': Harry Thurston's marshes of Nova Scotia and the |
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future of Canadian wetlands culture; References; Index; BackCover |
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In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon againstthe grain, critiquing popular representations of wetlands and proposingalternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporaryCanadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, andby entering into dialogue with American writers. |
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UNINA9910795314803321 |
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Laack Isabel |
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Aztec Religion and Art of Writing : : Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality / / Isabel Laack |
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Leiden, ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019 |
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1 online resource (455 pages) |
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Numen Book Series ; ; v. 161 |
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Nahuatl language - Writing |
Nahuas - Religion |
Aztec cosmology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Introduction 1 -- 1 Methodology 16 -- 2 Living in Cultural Diversity 59 -- 3 Living in Relation: Being Human in Tenochtitlan 80 -- 4 A World in Motion: Nahua Ontology 109 -- 5 Understanding a World in Motion: Nahua Epistemology 149 -- 6 Interacting with a World in Motion: Nahua Pragmatism and Aesthetics 167 -- 7 Expressing Reality in Language: Nahua Linguistic Theory 203 -- 8 Materializing Reality in Writing: Nahua Pictography 246 -- 9 Understanding Pictography: Interpreting Nahua Semiotics 286 -- 10 Interpretative Results: Nahua Religion, Scripture, and Sense of Reality 342 -- Conclusion 356 -- Figures 365 -- Figure Credits 381 -- Back Matter -- References -- Index. |
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In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the |
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aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of “sacred scripture” traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. 'This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system.' - Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University |
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