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UNINA9910461203403321 |
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Autore |
Garrigan Shelley E |
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Titolo |
Collecting Mexico [[electronic resource] ] : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / / Shelley E. Garrigan |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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1-4529-4714-7 |
0-8166-8015-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Cultural property - Social aspects - Mexico |
Exhibitions - Mexico - History - 19th century |
Museums - Social aspects - Mexico |
National characteristics, Mexican |
Electronic books. |
Mexico Antiquities Social aspects |
Mexico Cultural policy History 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency. |
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Collecting Mexico centers on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Shelley E. Garrigan approaches questions of origin, citizenry, membership, and difference by reconstructing the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated. In doing so, she arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force. Spanning the Porfiriato period from |
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UNINA9910974724003321 |
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Boom & bust : bird stories for a dry country / / Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors) |
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Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., c2009 |
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9786613155221 |
9780643098671 |
0643098674 |
9781283155229 |
1283155222 |
9780643097094 |
0643097090 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (311 p.) |
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RobinLibby <1956-> |
JosephLeo |
HeinsohnRobert |
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Birds - Behavior - Australia |
Birds - Effect of drought on - Australia |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : boom and bust / Libby Robin and Mike Smith -- The boom and bust desert world : a bird's eye view / Libby Robin and Leo Joseph -- Barcoo bantam : 'It runs like hell!' / Graham Pizzey -- Rain and grass : lessons in how to be a zebra finch / Steve Morton -- Grey teal : survivors in a changing world / David Roshier -- Australian pelican : flexible responses to uncertainty / Julian Reid -- Night parrots : fugitives of the inland / Penny Olsen -- Genyornis : last of the dromornithids / Mike Smith -- Rainbirds : organising the country / Deborah Bird Rose -- Woodswallows : a longer term, evolutionary view of boom and bust / Leo Joseph -- White-winged choughs : the social consequences of boom and bust / Robert Heinsohn -- Emu : national symbols and ecological limits / Libby Robin. |
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Leading writers draw on ideas in both science and the humanities to tell the stories of birds and people in the world's driest inhabited continent. |
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UNINA9910967694003321 |
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Autore |
Hayslip Bert, Jr. |
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Cultural changes in attitudes toward death, dying, and bereavement / / Bert Hayslip, Jr., Cynthia A. Peveto |
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New York, : Springer, c2005 |
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1-281-96430-1 |
9786611964306 |
0-8261-2797-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Springer series on death and suicide |
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Death - Social aspects |
Death - Psychological aspects |
Mourning customs |
Bereavement |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index. |
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Contents; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 An Overview of the Death-Ethnicity Relationship: Kalish and Reynolds; 3 Factors Influencing Death Attitudes: Kalish and Reynolds; 4 The Impact of Cultural Change on Death Attitudes; 5 The Present Study; 6 Analysis of Findings: Intrastudy Variability; 7 Analysis of Findings: Interstudy Variability; 8 Hypotheses Regarding Interstudy and Intrastudy Variability; 9 Discussion; Appendix A: Summary of Results by Ethnicity, Age, and Gender for the Present Study; Appendix B: Chi Square Comparisons of Kalish and Reynolds' Study With the Present Study's Results on Selected Items; References; Index |
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By comparing the findings from Kalish's and Reynolds's landmark 1970's Death and Ethnicity Study to their own present study, Hayslip and Peveto examine the impact of cultural change on death attitudes. With a focus on African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic- |
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American subpopulations, with Caucasians treated as a comparison group, the authors come to several conclusions, including: the shift toward more interest in being informed of one's own terminal prognosis; a more personal approach to funerals and mourning observances; a greater focus on family and relationships |
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