1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003729219707536

Autore

Margenau, Henry

Titolo

Il miracolo dell'esistenza / Henry Margenau ; prefazione all'edizione italiana di John Eccles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Armando, 1987

Descrizione fisica

156 p. ; 21 cm.

Collana

Filosofia e problemi d'oggi

Soggetti

Epistemologia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708668503321

Titolo

Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Reauthorization Act : report together with minority views (to accompany H.R. 1387) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Publishing Office], , [2017]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (38 pages)

Collana

Report / 115th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives ; ; 115-62

Soggetti

Educational vouchers - Law and legislation - Washington (D.C.)

Student aid - Law and legislation - Washington (D.C.)

Federal aid to education - Washington (D.C.)

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 27, 2016."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957106403321

Titolo

Animism in rainforest and tundra : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia / / edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-83695-959-1

1-283-65556-X

0-85745-469-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Classificazione

LC 42000

Altri autori (Persone)

BrightmanMarc

GrottiVanessa Elisa

UlturgashevaOlga

Disciplina

306.0957

Soggetti

Shamanism - Amazon River Region

Shamanism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Human-plant relationships - Amazon River Region

Human-plant relationships - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

Human-animal relationships - Amazon River Region

Human-animal relationships - Russia (Federation) - Siberia

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; Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia; Chapter 2 - Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate:; Chapter 3 - Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia; Chapter 4 - Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs; Chapter 5 - Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia; Chapter 6 - 'Spirit-charged' Animals in Siberia; Chapter 7 - Shamans, Animals and Enemies; Chapter 8 - Expressions and Experiences of Personhood:

Chapter 9 - Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern AmazoniaChapter 10 - Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond; Afterword; Notes on



Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of th