New World objects of knowledge : a cabinet of curiosities / / edited by Mark Thurner and Juan Pimentel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 709.73 |
Soggetto topico | History of the Americas |
Soggetto non controllato |
New World
Inca North America Central America Darwin nature artefacts |
ISBN | 1-908857-83-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Mark Thurner and Juan Pimentel -- Part 1. Artificialia -- Codex Mendoza / Daniela Bleichmar -- Macuilxóchitl / Juan Pimentel -- Potosí / Kris Lane -- Piece of eight / Alejandra Irigoin and Bridget Millmore -- Pieza de Indias / Pablo F. Gómez -- Rubber / Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Emilie Carreón -- Silver basin / Mariana Françozo -- Feathered shield / Linda Báez Rubí -- Black / Adrian Masters -- Spanish deck / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- Mary's armadillo / Peter Mason -- Mexican portrait / Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos -- Clay vessels / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- Singing violin / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- Mestizo memory palaces / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- Creole cabinet / Juan Pimentel and Mark Thurner -- Modern quipu / Sabine Hyland and William P. Hyland -- Inca mummy / Christopher Heaney -- Xilonen / Miruna Achim -- Machu Picchu / Amy Cox Hall -- Part 2. Naturalia -- Amazon / Roberto Chauca -- Bird of paradise / José Ramón Marcaida -- Emeralds / Kris Lane -- Pearls / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- Cochineal / Miruna Achim -- Opossum / José Ramón Marcaida -- Guinea pig / Helen Cowie -- Bezoar / José Pardo-Tomás -- Cacao / Peter Mason -- Strawberry / Elisa Sevilla and Ana Sevilla -- Volcano / Sophie Brockmann -- Andes / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Mark Thurner -- Anteater / Helen Cowie -- Megatherium / Juan Pimentel -- Tapir / Irina Podgorny -- Cinchona / Matthew James Crawford -- Potato / Rebecca Earle -- Guano / Gregory T. Cushman -- Darwin's tortoise / Elizabeth Hennessy -- Darwin's hummingbird / Iris Montero Sobrevilla. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494571903321 |
London, 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin [[electronic resource] /] / John Edward Staller, editor |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY, : Springer, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.2452098 |
Altri autori (Persone) | StallerJohn E |
Soggetto topico |
Indian mythology - Latin America
Landscape archaeology - Latin America Indians - Antiquities Indians - Religion Indians - Social life and customs Sacred space - Latin America Creation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-24232-2
9786611242329 0-387-76910-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | An introduction to pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin / John E. Staller -- Ballcourt rites, paradise, and the origins of power in classic Veracruz / Rex Koontz -- Landscape and a visual narrative of creation and origin at the Olmec ceremonial center of La Venta / Carolyn E. Tate -- Maya caves across time and space : reading-related landscapes in K'iche' Maya text, ritual and history / Duncan Earle -- Places of emergence : sacred mountains and cofradía ceremonies / Allen J. Christenson -- Over distant waters : places of origin and creation in colonial K'iche'an sources / Frauke Sachse -- Fox walker on the Parapeti River, Bolivia : the origins of how we Guarani live in Íví / Elio Ortiz ... [et al.] -- Where the land and the ocean meet : the Engoroy phase ceremonial site at Salango, Ecuador, 600-100 BC / Richard Lunniss -- The astronomical significance of ritual movements in the calendar of Cuzco / R. Tom Zuidema -- Dimensions of place : the significance of centers to the development of Andean civilization : an exploration of the ushnu concept / John E. Staller -- High altitude ushnu platforms in the Department of Ayacucho Peru, structure, ancestors and animating essence / Frank M. Meddens ... [et al.] -- Representation, memory, and power : pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin / Brian Stross. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451352103321 |
New York, NY, : Springer, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin [[electronic resource] /] / John Edward Staller, editor |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY, : Springer, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.2452098 |
Altri autori (Persone) | StallerJohn E |
Soggetto topico |
Indian mythology - Latin America
Landscape archaeology - Latin America Indians - Antiquities Indians - Religion Indians - Social life and customs Sacred space - Latin America Creation |
ISBN |
1-281-24232-2
9786611242329 0-387-76910-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | An introduction to pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin / John E. Staller -- Ballcourt rites, paradise, and the origins of power in classic Veracruz / Rex Koontz -- Landscape and a visual narrative of creation and origin at the Olmec ceremonial center of La Venta / Carolyn E. Tate -- Maya caves across time and space : reading-related landscapes in K'iche' Maya text, ritual and history / Duncan Earle -- Places of emergence : sacred mountains and cofradía ceremonies / Allen J. Christenson -- Over distant waters : places of origin and creation in colonial K'iche'an sources / Frauke Sachse -- Fox walker on the Parapeti River, Bolivia : the origins of how we Guarani live in Íví / Elio Ortiz ... [et al.] -- Where the land and the ocean meet : the Engoroy phase ceremonial site at Salango, Ecuador, 600-100 BC / Richard Lunniss -- The astronomical significance of ritual movements in the calendar of Cuzco / R. Tom Zuidema -- Dimensions of place : the significance of centers to the development of Andean civilization : an exploration of the ushnu concept / John E. Staller -- High altitude ushnu platforms in the Department of Ayacucho Peru, structure, ancestors and animating essence / Frank M. Meddens ... [et al.] -- Representation, memory, and power : pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin / Brian Stross. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784849003321 |
New York, NY, : Springer, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin [[electronic resource] /] / John Edward Staller, editor |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY, : Springer, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.2452098 |
Altri autori (Persone) | StallerJohn E |
Soggetto topico |
Indian mythology - Latin America
Landscape archaeology - Latin America Indians - Antiquities Indians - Religion Indians - Social life and customs Sacred space - Latin America Creation |
ISBN |
1-281-24232-2
9786611242329 0-387-76910-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | An introduction to pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin / John E. Staller -- Ballcourt rites, paradise, and the origins of power in classic Veracruz / Rex Koontz -- Landscape and a visual narrative of creation and origin at the Olmec ceremonial center of La Venta / Carolyn E. Tate -- Maya caves across time and space : reading-related landscapes in K'iche' Maya text, ritual and history / Duncan Earle -- Places of emergence : sacred mountains and cofradía ceremonies / Allen J. Christenson -- Over distant waters : places of origin and creation in colonial K'iche'an sources / Frauke Sachse -- Fox walker on the Parapeti River, Bolivia : the origins of how we Guarani live in Íví / Elio Ortiz ... [et al.] -- Where the land and the ocean meet : the Engoroy phase ceremonial site at Salango, Ecuador, 600-100 BC / Richard Lunniss -- The astronomical significance of ritual movements in the calendar of Cuzco / R. Tom Zuidema -- Dimensions of place : the significance of centers to the development of Andean civilization : an exploration of the ushnu concept / John E. Staller -- High altitude ushnu platforms in the Department of Ayacucho Peru, structure, ancestors and animating essence / Frank M. Meddens ... [et al.] -- Representation, memory, and power : pre-Columbian landscapes of creation and origin / Brian Stross. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820549103321 |
New York, NY, : Springer, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reframing Latin America [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / Erik Ching, Christina Buckley, and Angélica Lozano-Alonso |
Autore | Ching Erik Kristofer |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 980 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BuckleyChristina <1969->
Lozano-AlonsoAngélica <1973-> |
Soggetto topico |
Spanish American literature - History and criticism
Postmodernism Culture |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-292-79478-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? -- Part I: Introduction(s) -- Post What?! (Not) An Abbreviated Introduction -- Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S -- Narrating about Narrative -- Part II: Theory -- An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 -- A Gringo in Mañana-land / Harry Foster -- Be Here (or There) Now: Ethnicity -- Identity and Difference / Stuart Hall -- Identity Construct #1: Race -- I'm Not a Racist But... / Lawrence Blum -- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America / Peter Wade -- Identity Construct #2: Class -- The Idea of the Middle Class / David Parker -- Identity Construct #3: Gender -- Doing Gender / Candace West and Don Zimmerman -- Masculinities / R. W. Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? -- It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas / Elena Garro -- Film Foray: Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) -- Why Tita Didn't Marry the Doctor, or Mexican History in Like Water for Chocolate / Barbara Tenenbaum -- Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas/ Harmony Wu -- Film Foray: Mi familia (My Family) -- Are We There Yet? Testimonial Literature -- Celsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman / Thomas Tirado -- Some Closing Comments. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452115303321 |
Ching Erik Kristofer | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reframing Latin America [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / Erik Ching, Christina Buckley, and Angélica Lozano-Alonso |
Autore | Ching Erik Kristofer |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 980 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BuckleyChristina <1969->
Lozano-AlonsoAngélica <1973-> |
Soggetto topico |
Spanish American literature - History and criticism
Postmodernism Culture |
ISBN | 0-292-79478-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? -- Part I: Introduction(s) -- Post What?! (Not) An Abbreviated Introduction -- Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S -- Narrating about Narrative -- Part II: Theory -- An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 -- A Gringo in Mañana-land / Harry Foster -- Be Here (or There) Now: Ethnicity -- Identity and Difference / Stuart Hall -- Identity Construct #1: Race -- I'm Not a Racist But... / Lawrence Blum -- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America / Peter Wade -- Identity Construct #2: Class -- The Idea of the Middle Class / David Parker -- Identity Construct #3: Gender -- Doing Gender / Candace West and Don Zimmerman -- Masculinities / R. W. Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? -- It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas / Elena Garro -- Film Foray: Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) -- Why Tita Didn't Marry the Doctor, or Mexican History in Like Water for Chocolate / Barbara Tenenbaum -- Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas/ Harmony Wu -- Film Foray: Mi familia (My Family) -- Are We There Yet? Testimonial Literature -- Celsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman / Thomas Tirado -- Some Closing Comments. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778109103321 |
Ching Erik Kristofer | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Reframing Latin America [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / Erik Ching, Christina Buckley, and Angélica Lozano-Alonso |
Autore | Ching Erik Kristofer |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 980 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BuckleyChristina <1969->
Lozano-AlonsoAngélica <1973-> |
Soggetto topico |
Spanish American literature - History and criticism
Postmodernism Culture |
ISBN | 0-292-79478-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? -- Part I: Introduction(s) -- Post What?! (Not) An Abbreviated Introduction -- Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S -- Narrating about Narrative -- Part II: Theory -- An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 -- A Gringo in Mañana-land / Harry Foster -- Be Here (or There) Now: Ethnicity -- Identity and Difference / Stuart Hall -- Identity Construct #1: Race -- I'm Not a Racist But... / Lawrence Blum -- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America / Peter Wade -- Identity Construct #2: Class -- The Idea of the Middle Class / David Parker -- Identity Construct #3: Gender -- Doing Gender / Candace West and Don Zimmerman -- Masculinities / R. W. Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? -- It's the Fault of the Tlaxcaltecas / Elena Garro -- Film Foray: Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) -- Why Tita Didn't Marry the Doctor, or Mexican History in Like Water for Chocolate / Barbara Tenenbaum -- Consuming Tacos and Enchiladas/ Harmony Wu -- Film Foray: Mi familia (My Family) -- Are We There Yet? Testimonial Literature -- Celsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman / Thomas Tirado -- Some Closing Comments. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817888603321 |
Ching Erik Kristofer | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reordering of culture [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the hood / / Alvina Ruprecht, editor ; Cecilia Taiana, associate editor |
Autore | Ruprecht Alvina |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Ottawa, Ont.?], : Carleton University Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
Disciplina | 970 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RuprechtAlvina
TaianaCecilia |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries |
ISBN |
1-283-53149-6
9786613843944 0-7735-8427-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | I Renegotiating belief systems -- II Writers between worlds -- III Critical perspectives on contemporary writers -- IV Indigenous cultures : creative encounters -- V Popular culture in the hood -- VI Rethinking identities -- VII Historical perspectives -- VIII Toward an electronic hood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790442903321 |
Ruprecht Alvina | ||
[Ottawa, Ont.?], : Carleton University Press, 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reordering of culture [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the hood / / Alvina Ruprecht, editor ; Cecilia Taiana, associate editor |
Autore | Ruprecht Alvina |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Ottawa, Ont.?], : Carleton University Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
Disciplina | 970 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RuprechtAlvina
TaianaCecilia |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries |
ISBN |
1-283-53149-6
9786613843944 0-7735-8427-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | I Renegotiating belief systems -- II Writers between worlds -- III Critical perspectives on contemporary writers -- IV Indigenous cultures : creative encounters -- V Popular culture in the hood -- VI Rethinking identities -- VII Historical perspectives -- VIII Toward an electronic hood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808401103321 |
Ruprecht Alvina | ||
[Ottawa, Ont.?], : Carleton University Press, 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The reordering of culture [[electronic resource] ] : Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the hood / / Alvina Ruprecht, editor ; Cecilia Taiana, associate editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Ottawa, Ont.?], : Carleton University Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (601 p.) |
Disciplina | 970 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RuprechtAlvina
TaianaCecilia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-53149-6
9786613843944 0-7735-8427-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | I Renegotiating belief systems -- II Writers between worlds -- III Critical perspectives on contemporary writers -- IV Indigenous cultures : creative encounters -- V Popular culture in the hood -- VI Rethinking identities -- VII Historical perspectives -- VIII Toward an electronic hood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461527103321 |
[Ottawa, Ont.?], : Carleton University Press, 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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