1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798206703321

Titolo

Vodou in the Haitian experience : a Black Atlantic perspective / / edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-0832-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

299.6/75097294

Soggetti

Vodou

Africa Religion

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

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Vodou, Anthropology, Art, Performance, and the Black Diaspora; 1 Roots / Routes / Rasin; 2 Circling the Cosmogram; 3 Speaking the Past; 4 Decoding Dress; Part II. Vodou and African Traditional Religions; 5 The African Origin of Haitian Vodou; 6 The Vodun Has Killed Them; 7 The Vibratory Art of Haiti; 8 Ethnographic Interpretations of Traditional African Religious Practices and Haitian Vodou Ceremonial Rites in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse and Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen; 9 Oversouls and Egregores in Vodou

10 Arabian Religion, Islam, and Haitian VodouBibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This collection studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822853003321

Autore

Schiesser W. E.

Titolo

Spline collocation methods for partial differential equations : with applications in R / / William E. Schiesser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-30104-1

1-119-30105-X

1-119-30106-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (551 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

515/.353

Soggetti

Differential equations, Partial - Mathematical models

Spline theory

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.

Nota di contenuto

One-dimensional PDEs -- Multidimensional PDEs -- Navier-Stokes, Burgers equations -- Korteweg-deVries equation -- Maxwell equations -- Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations -- Fokker-Planck equation -- Fisher-Kolmogorov equation -- Klein-Gordon equation -- Boussinesq equation -- Cahn-Hilliard equation -- Camassa-Holm equation -- Burgers-Huxley equation -- Gierer-Meinhardt equations -- Keller-Segel equations -- Fitzhugh-Nagumo equations -- Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation -- Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation -- Einstein-Maxwell equations.