1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996297347003316

Titolo

Country review Liberia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houston, TX, : Commercial Data International

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Ecology

Economic history

Periodicals.

Liberia Periodicals

Liberia Economic conditions 1980- Periodicals

Liberia Environmental conditions Periodicals

Liberia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956330503321

Autore

Nugent Stephen (Stephen L.)

Titolo

Scoping the Amazon : image, icon, ethnography / / Stephen Nugent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press, c2007

ISBN

1-315-42039-2

1-315-42040-6

1-315-42041-4

1-59874-775-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

981/.1

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - Public opinion

Europeans - Attitudes

Indigenous peoples in popular culture - Amazon River Region

Indigenous peoples in motion pictures

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - Amazon River Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Anthropology with pictures -- The head hunter cliche -- Visualizing social memory : race, class and ethnicity in Amazonia -- The tropic of Amazon : missing peoples and lingering metaphors -- The professional literature : 'what I saw in the tropics' -- Method and data : framing Indians -- Amazonia on screen : building a lost world -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of cul



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953841703321

Autore

Beer Lawrence W

Titolo

Human rights constitutionalism in Japan and Asia : the writings of Lawrence W. Beer / / Lawrence W. Beer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Folkestone, Kent, U.K., : Global Oriental, 2009

ISBN

1-283-26579-6

9786613265791

90-04-21303-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

The writings of ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

342.5085

Soggetti

Constitutional law - Asia

Constitutional law - Japan

Human rights - Asia

Human rights - Japan

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

pt. 1. Asia -- pt. 2. Japan -- pt. 3. The future.

Sommario/riassunto

Less noticed in the West than wars, terrorism and economic trends has been the historic development since World War II of constitutional government and law in Asia. Lawrence W. Beer has been a close observer of Asian linkages among law, politics, culture, and national security issues for over fifty years. His perspectives have been refined during long residence in Asia, especially Japan, by substantial friendly interactions with Asian legal scholars, judges and attorneys involved in the world of human rights constitutional law. This volume, which will be widely welcomed by students and researchers, brings together a selection of Beer’s many works previously published in diverse venue, but no longer easily accessible. The collection opens with a review of constitutionalism in Asia and the United States and concludes with a recent examination of Japan’s rejection of war: ‘Japan’s Constitutional Discourse and Performance’. By way of Afterword, the author offers an in-depth review of ‘Globalization of Human Rights in the 21st Century’.