1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780546803321

Titolo

The power of symbols : masks and masquerade in the Americas / / edited by N. Ross Crumrine & Marjorie Halpin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, c1983

ISBN

1-283-22663-4

9786613226631

0-7748-5769-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

CrumrineN. Ross

HalpinMarjorie M. <1937->

Disciplina

391/.43

Soggetti

Indian masks

Indians - Rites and ceremonies

Masks - America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This vol. represents the rewritten and amplified contributions of the participants in this symposium, "Masks and Masquerade in the Americas."--Introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliograpy: p. [227]-244.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: NORTH AMERICA; PART II: MIDDLE AMERICA; PART III: SOUTH AMERICA; PART IV: CONCLUSION AND SYNTHESIS; REFERENCES; Masks, Participants, and Audience; The Many Faces of Masks and Masking: Discussion; 1. Labrador Nalujuk: The Transformation of an Aboriginal Inuit Ritual Complex in a Post-Contact Setting; 2. Naskapi Trance: Counterbalance to the Mask; 3. Seneca Masks; 4. Cherokee Booger Mask Tradition; 5. Analogic Causality and the Power of Masks; 6. The Mask and Magic of the Yaqui Paskola Clowns

7. Mask Use and Meaning in Easter Ceremonialism: The Mayo Parisero; 8. Symbolic Representation in Mexican Combat Plays; 9. The Meaning of Masking in San Pedro Chenalho; 10. Tarascan Masks of Women as Agents of Social Control; 11. The Devil Mask: A Contemporary Variant of Andean Iconography in Oruro; 12. Masks in the Incaic Solstice and Equinoctial Rituals; 13. Being an Essence: Totemic Representation among the Eastern Bororo; 14. Masks and Masquerades in Venezuela;



15. The Mask and the Violation of Taboo; 16. Masks: A Re-examination, or ""Masks? You mean they affect the brain?""; 17. The Mask of Tradition

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of papers, presented at the 42nd International Congress of Americanists, considers the interplay between the mask, the mask bearer, and the audience. The studies concentrate on the idea of masking as a transformational ritual in which the human actor is transformed into a being of another order. The authors use examples from various cultures and in their analyses argue for particular sets of relationships as being crucial to the understanding of the mask.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809229703321

Titolo

Recent advances in orthogonal polynomials, special functions, and their applications : 11th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions, and Their Applications, August 29-September 2, 2011, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Spain / / J. Arvesú, G. Lopez Lagomasino, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

0-8218-9102-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, ; 578 , 0271-4132

Classificazione

30E0530E1030E1533-XX42C0542C1041A2041A2141A2541A30

Disciplina

515/.9

Soggetti

Functions of complex variables

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

Introduction -- Preface --  Life and work (so far) of Paco Marcellán --  Asymptotics of _{ }-norms of Hermite polynomials and Rényi entropy of Rydberg oscillator states -- The next-order term for optimal Riesz and logarithmic energy asymptotics on the sphere --  Spectral transformations of hermitian linear functionals --  Numerical study of higher order analogues of the Tracy-Widom distribution --  Comb functions --  Orthogonality relations for bivariate Bernstein-Szegő measures --  Quantum walks and CMV matrices --  Discrete beta



ensembles based on Gauss type quadratures --  Heine, Hilbert, Padé, Riemann, and Stieltjes: John Nuttall’s work 25 years later --  Orthogonal Polynomials and -curves --  Fast decreasing and orthogonal polynomials --