1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462541303321

Titolo

Borderlands [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic approaches to security, power, and identity / / edited by Hastings Donnan and Thomas M. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : University Press of America, c2010

ISBN

1-283-59970-8

9786613912152

0-7618-5124-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DonnanHastings

WilsonThomas M

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Border security - Environmental aspects

Border security - Social aspects

Borderlands

Ethnology - Research

Intercultural communication

Electronic books.

Mexican-American Border Region Case studies

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

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter 1: Ethnography, security and the 'frontier effect' in borderlands; Chapter 2: US-Mexico border cultures and the challenge of asymmetrical interpenetration; Chapter 3: Security and ethnography on the Triple Frontier of the Southern Cone; Chapter 4: Researching the border's economic underworld: The 'fayuca hormiga' in the US-Mexico borderlands; Chapter 5: Symbols of security and contest along the Irish border; Chapter 6: Borderland tactics: Cross-border marriage in the highlands of Borneo

Chapter 7: Fieldwork on the border: Ethnographic engagements in south-eastern EuropeChapter 8: Gating ecology in a gated globe: Environmental aspects of 'securing our borders'; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how different kinds of security and insecurity manifest and interconnect at state borders, encompassing the personal and the political, the social and the economic, in ways that reinforce or undermine the identities of those whose lives these borders frame.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795801903321

Autore

Doane James

Titolo

Machine analysis with computer applications for mechanical engineers / / James Doane, Frontier-Kemper Constructors, Indiana, USA

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley, , 2016

2016

ISBN

1118833910

9781118833919

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (555 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

511.3/5

Soggetti

Machine theory - Data processing

Mechanical engineering - Mathematics

Machinery - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.