1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461203403321

Autore

Garrigan Shelley E

Titolo

Collecting Mexico [[electronic resource] ] : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / / Shelley E. Garrigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4714-7

0-8166-8015-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

972

Soggetti

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

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974724003321

Titolo

Boom & bust : bird stories for a dry country / / Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., c2009

ISBN

9786613155221

9780643098671

0643098674

9781283155229

1283155222

9780643097094

0643097090

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RobinLibby <1956->

JosephLeo

HeinsohnRobert

Disciplina

598.0994

Soggetti

Birds - Behavior - Australia

Birds - Effect of drought on - Australia

Nature - Effect of human beings on

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

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967694003321

Autore

Hayslip Bert, Jr.

Titolo

Cultural changes in attitudes toward death, dying, and bereavement / / Bert Hayslip, Jr., Cynthia A. Peveto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, c2005

ISBN

1-281-96430-1

9786611964306

0-8261-2797-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Collana

Springer series on death and suicide

Altri autori (Persone)

PevetoCynthia A

Disciplina

306.9

Soggetti

Death - Social aspects

Death - Psychological aspects

Mourning customs

Bereavement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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-



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