1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788005303321

Titolo

Living with the dead in the Andes / / edited by Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons ; jacket designed by Nicole Hayward ; contributors, Catherine J. Allen [and eleven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, [Arizona] : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8165-3174-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

985/.01

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Funeral customs and rites - Peru

Human remains (Archaeology) - Peru

Peru Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Jacket image: Courtesy of The Royal Library- Copenhagen, GKS 2232 4 Guaman Poma, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615), p. 258, Drawing No. 100; La fiesta de los defuntos (celebration of the dead).

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons -- The sacred character of ruins on the Peruvian north coast / Jean-François Millaire -- Many heads are better than one : mortuary practice and ceramic art in Moche society / Mary Weismantel -- Living with the dead : conception and treatment of the dead on the Peruvian coast / Izumi Shimada, Haagen Klaus, Rafael Segura, and Go Matsumoto -- Ritual violence and human offerings at the temple of the sacred stone, Túcume, Peru / J. Marla Toyne -- The dead and the longue duree in Peru's north highlands / George F. Lau -- Ancestors and social memory : a South American example of dead body politics / Jane Buikstra and Kenneth C. Nystrom -- Requiem aeternum? : archaeothanatology of mortuary ritual in colonial Mórrope, north coast of Peru / Haagen Klaus and Manuel E. Tam -- The sadness of jars : separation and rectification in Andean understandings of death / Catherine J. Allen -- Turbulent tombs / Frank Salomon.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910852984303321

Autore

McIntyre Alice <1956->

Titolo

Inner City Kids : Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community / / Alice McIntyre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

9780814723890

0814723896

9780585480572

0585480575

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Qualitative Studies in Psychology

Disciplina

305.235/0973/091732

Soggetti

Children and violence - United States

Social work with youth - United States

Inner cities - United States

Urban youth - United States - Attitudes

Electronic books.

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 (p. [221]-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Participatory action research -- Exploring community -- Constructing meaning about violence -- Community photography : visual stories by inner-city youth -- Becoming somebody -- Exploring racism, whiteness, and careers with urban youth -- From dialogue to action -- Making the road as we go.

Sommario/riassunto

Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they also live with the everydayness of school, friends, sex, television, music, and other elements of teenage lives. Inner City Kids explores how a group of African American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, and Haitian adolescents make meaning of and respond to living in an inner-city community. The book focuse