1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790914003321

Titolo

Diné perspectives : revitalizing and reclaiming Navajo thought / / edited by Lloyd L. Lee ; foreword by Gregory Cajete

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9892-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies

Disciplina

979.1004/9726

Soggetti

Navajo philosophy

Navajo Indians - Ethnic identity

Navajo Indians - Historiography

Decolonization - Philosophy

Postcolonialism - Philosophy

SOCIAL SCIENCE - General

Navajo

Philosophie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Gregory Cajete -- Preface / Lloyd L. Lee -- Introduction -- American Indian scholars / Shawn L. Secatero -- Beneath our sacred minds, hands, and hearts : one dissertation journey / Shawn L. Secatero -- Understanding hózhǫ́ to achieve critical consciousness : a contemporary Diné interpretation of the philosophical principles of hózhǫ́ / Vincent Werito -- Morning offerings, like salt / Esther Belin -- 7pm thought, memory @ Dziłnaodiłthle-Eastern view / Venaya Yazzie -- Diné culture, decolinization, and the politics of hózhǫ́ / Larry W. Emerson -- The value of oral history on the path to Diné/Navajo sovereignty / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Narrating ordinary power : hózhǫ́ǫ́jí, violence, and critical Diné studies / Melanie K. Yazzie -- The boy who threw the world away / Venaya Yazzie -- Historic and demographic changes that impact the future of the Diné and the development of community-based policy / Yolynda Begay -- The origin of legibility : rethinking colonialism and resistance among the Navajo



People, 1868-1937 / Andrew Curley -- Dinétah / Venaya Yazzie -- Sustaining a Diné way of life / Kim Baca -- "If I could speak Navajo, I'd definitely speak it 24/7" : Diné youth language consciousness, activism, and reclamation of Diné identity / Tiffany S. Lee -- The Navajo Nation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Lloyd L. Lee -- Atmosphere / Venaya Yazzie -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

"The contributors to this pathbreaking book, both scholars and community members, are Navajo (Dine) people who are coming to personal terms with the complex matrix of Dine culture. Their contributions exemplify how Indigenous peoples are creatively applying tools of decolonization and critical research to re-create Indigenous thought and culture for contemporary times"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784535203321

Autore

Levinson Jerrold

Titolo

Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / / Jerrold Levinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-170998-0

0-19-152563-4

1-4356-2123-9

1-281-14889-X

9786611148898

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 423 pages)

Disciplina

701/.17

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Art - Philosophy

Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music --



Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? -- Erotic art and pornographic pictures -- Two notions of interpretation -- Who's afraid of a paraphrase? -- Hypothetical intentionalism : statement, objections, and replies -- Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, anddifferences of sensibility -- What are aesthetic properties? -- Schopenhauer's aesthetics -- Hume's Standard of taste : the real problem -- The concept of humor -- Intrinsic value and the notion of a life.

Sommario/riassunto

'Contemplating Art' is a compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The 24 essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996414049903316

Titolo

Egyptian academic journal of biological sciences Toxicology & pest control

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Cairo, Egypt] : , : [Dept. of Entomology, Ain Shams University]

ISSN

2090-0864

Soggetti

Pests - Control

Toxicology

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822075203321

Autore

Yoshihara Toshi

Titolo

Red star over the Pacific : China's rise and the challenge to U.S. maritime strategy / / Toshi Yoshihara, James R. Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Md. : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2018]

ISBN

1-68247-357-0

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages)

Classificazione

HIS027150

Disciplina

359.030951

Soggetti

Sea-power - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mahan's Lingering Ghost -- Economic Geography of Chinese Sea Power -- Strategic Geography of Chinese Sea Power -- China's Strategic Will to the Sea -- Fleet Building with Chinese Characteristics -- Fleet Tactics with Chinese Characteristics -- Chinese Sea Power in the Missile Age -- U.S. Maritime Strategy in Asia -- China Dreams On.

Sommario/riassunto

This is an assessment of how the rise of Chinese seapower will affect U.S. maritimes strategy in Asia.