1.

Record Nr.

UNICASPAV0139021

Autore

Fenton, Gordon A.

Titolo

Risk assessment in Geotechnical Engineering / Gordon A. Fenton, D. V. Griffiths

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

9780470178201

Descrizione fisica

461 p. : ill. ; 29 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Griffiths, D. V.

Disciplina

624.151

Soggetti

Meccanica dei suoli

Meccanica delle rocce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974458603321

Autore

Webb Hillary S. <1971->

Titolo

Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean world : complementary dualism in modern Peru / / Hillary S. Webb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2012

ISBN

9781283637213

1283637219

9780826350749

0826350747

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

985/.00498323

Soggetti

Quechua philosophy

Quechua cosmology

Quechua Indians - Rites and ceremonies

Shamanism - Peru

Dualism

Mind and body

Space and time

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Complement of Difference -- 1: The Knower and the Known -- 2: Mind and Body -- Spirit and Flesh -- 3: Of Time and Space -- 4: Between Self and Other -- 5: Chaupin -- 6: The Lanzón -- 7: On Good and Evil -- Life and Death -- 8: The Symbolic Versus the Actual -- 9: Male and Female -- 10: Perfection Versus Wholeness -- Epilogue to the Narrative -- Conclusions: The Global and the Local: Reflections on Yanantin -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World is an eloquently written autoethnography in which researcher Hillary S. Webb seeks to understand the indigenous Andean concept of yanantin or "complementary opposites.".