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Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology
Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology
Autore Löbner Sebastian
Pubbl/distr/stampa Springer Nature, 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (475 pages)
Altri autori (Persone) GamerschlagThomas
KalenscherTobias
SchrenkMarkus
ZeevatHenk
Collana Language, Cognition, and Mind
Soggetto topico linguistics
Philosophy of mind
Experimental psychology
Soggetto non controllato Cognitive Linguistics
Philosophy of Mind
Experimental Psychology
Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics
Representation of Concepts
Lexical Semantics
Frame Semantics
Frame Representations
Conceptual Spaces
Categorization and Linguistics
Open Access
Linguistics
Cognitive studies
ISBN 3-030-50200-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Cognitive Structures in Natural Language Semantics -- 2 Cognitive Structures in Philosophy -- 3 Cognitive Structures in Psychology -- 4 Summaries -- 4.1 Part I Pushing the Boundaries of Formal Semantics -- 4.2 Part II Concept Theory -- 4.3 Part III Conceptualizing Eventualities -- 4.4 Part IV Prototypes and Probabilities -- 4.5 Part V Cognition and Psychology -- References -- Pushing the Boundaries of Formal Semantics -- A Compositional Pluralist Semantics for Extensional and Attitude Verbs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Accounts of Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 2.1 The Relation Between Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 2.2 Attempts at (Re-)Connecting Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 2.3 Desiderata for an Account of Truth-Conditional and Attitude Content -- 3 Integrated Semantics -- 3.1 Centered Informational Situations -- 3.2 The Integrated Content of Sentences -- 3.3 The Interpretation of Proper Names -- 4 The Compositional Interpretation of VPs -- 5 Extensional and Attitude Verbs in IS -- 5.1 The Interpretation of Extensional Verbs -- 5.2 The Interpretation of Attitude Verbs -- 5.3 Attitudinal Embeddings of Extensional Verbs -- 6 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Counting Possible Configurations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Problem with Configurations -- 3 An Individual Concept Analysis -- 4 Generalizing the Individual Concept Analysis -- 4.1 Is Everything an Individual Concept? -- 4.2 Coercion to Constituting Parts -- 4.3 Joining and Counting Individual Concepts -- 4.4 Collective and Cumulative Interpretations -- 5 The Property Analysis -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Structure and Ontology in Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nonlocal Readings of Adjectives -- 2.1 On `Occasional' -- 2.2 Returning to `Average' -- 2.3 Wrong.
2.4 `Whole' and `Entire' -- 2.5 Epistemic Adjectives -- 2.6 Same and Different -- 2.7 Modal Superlatives: `Possible' and Its Kin -- 2.8 Miscellaneous Obscurities and Novelties -- 3 Three Classes of Nonlocal Readings -- 4 Some Background -- 4.1 Incorporation -- 4.2 Structure Versus Ontology: The First Step -- 4.3 The Kind Analysis of `Occasional' -- 5 The Modular Strategy -- 5.1 Determiner-Like Adjectives -- 5.2 Determiners That Work -- 5.3 Determiners That Don't Work -- 5.4 A Word About `Occasional' -- 5.5 The Weak Quantifier Class -- 5.6 Summary -- 6 Taking Stock -- 6.1 Could Things Be so Simple? -- 6.2 Kinds and Concepts -- 7 Final Remarks -- References -- Concept Theory -- How Can Semantics Avoid the Troubles with the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction? -- 1 Semantics and the Architecture of Cognition -- 2 The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and Semantic Theories -- 2.1 Causatives -- 2.2 Indeterminacy (or "Coercion") -- 3 Alternative: Atomism and Inferences -- 3.1 Back to Causatives -- 3.2 Back to "Coercion" -- 3.3 Conclusion: Atomic Concepts and Inferences -- References -- Linguistic Relativity and Flexibility of Mental Representations: Color Terms in a Frame Based Analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Color Terms and Whorfianism: Some Coordinates -- 2.1 Universalism, ``deep'' and ``shallow'' Whorfianism -- Intertwined Issues -- 2.2 ``Shallow'' Effects of Color labelling -- 3 Frames and Representation of Colors -- 4 Color Words and Flexible Use of Representations' Features -- 5 A Brief Excursus into Another Conceptual Domain: Counting and Motor Representations -- 6 Back on Colors: Stroop Task And Language-Perception Interface -- 7 Conclusions and Open Questions -- References -- Implicatures and Naturalness -- 1 Theoretical Background -- 2 Input Data -- 3 Building an Implicature Space -- 4 Naturalness -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References.
Perception, Types and Frames -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Types and Cognition -- 3 Record Types and Frames -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Conceptualizing Eventualities -- An XMG Account of Multiplicity of Meaning in Derivation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Analysis -- 3 XMG Implementation -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Operationalizing the Role of Context in Language Variation: The Role of Perspective Alignment in the Spanish Imperfective Domain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On the Spanish Present-Progressive and Simple-Present Markers -- 3 The Meaning of the Progressive and the Imperfective: A Communicative Perspective -- 4 The Markers of the Spanish Progressive Are not in Free Variation: Implications -- 5 Analysis: The Psychological Roots of Shared Perceptual Access -- 6 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- A Frame-Based Analysis of Verbal Particles in Hungarian -- 1 The Verbal Particle in Hungarian -- 2 Scalar Analysis and Frame-Semantic Representation -- 3 Semantic Analysis of Verbal Particles -- 4 Semantic Composition and the Syntax-Semantics Interface -- 5 Summary -- References -- On the Fictive Reading of German Steigen 'Climb, Rise': A Frame Account -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous Accounts of Fictive Motion -- 3 The Four Major Readings of Steigen 'Climb, Rise, Step' -- 4 Frame Analysis of Dynamic Steigen: Manner and Directional Reading -- 4.1 Frames for Objects -- 4.2 Steigenmm -- 4.3 Steigendir -- 5 Steigenfict: Admissible Modifiers and Subject Referents -- 6 Frame Analysis of Steigenfict -- 7 Steigenins -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Cascades. Goldman's Level-Generation, Multilevel Categorization of Action, and Multilevel Verb Semantics -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Intuitive Notion of "Level-Generation" -- 1.2 The Structure of the Chapter -- 2 Level-Generation: Doing Multiple Things in One.
2.1 Preliminary: Act-Tokens, Act-Types, and Act-TTs -- 2.2 Goldman's Theory of Act-Levels -- 2.3 Critics of Goldman's Theory -- 2.4 Goldman's Theory of Human Action Applied to Cognitive Representation -- 2.5 Level-Generation and Augmentation Generation -- 2.6 C- Constitution -- 3 Cascades and Verb Classes -- 3.1 Basic Versus Non-basic Act-Types -- 3.2 Verbs of Basic and Non-basic Action -- 3.3 Criterion Predicates -- 3.4 Means of Explicit Level-Generation -- 3.5 Implicit Level-Generation -- 4 Cascades and Frames -- 4.1 Barsalou Frames -- 4.2 Cascades in Frame Theory -- 5 The Writing Cascade -- 5.1 Austin's Speech Act Cascade -- 5.2 The Cascade Structure of Writing by Hand -- 5.3 Types of Products and Levels of Manner Modification -- 5.4 Agencies at Cascade Levels -- 5.5 Objects at Cascade Levels -- 5.6 A Multitrack Notion of C-Constitution -- 6 Reference and Composition -- 6.1 Meaning and Reference of the Verb Write -- 6.2 Cascades and Composition -- 7 Conclusion: Cascades in Cognition, Semantics, and Life -- References -- Prototypes and Probabilities -- Modification and Default Inheritance -- 1 Prototype Compositionality and Modification -- 2 An Extended Modification Model -- 3 Experimental Data -- 3.1 Constraint Influences in the Data of Connolly et al. (ch14Connollyetal2007) -- 3.2 Experiments -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- A Frame-Theoretic Model of Bayesian Category Learning -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Weighted Bayesian Models of Categorisation -- 3 Frames -- 3.1 Challenges and Future Developments -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Extremes are Typical. A Game Theoretical Derivation -- 1 Typicality: Prototypes Versus Stereotypes -- 2 Typicality and Structured Meaning Spaces -- 3 Extremes and Iterated Best Response -- 4 Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Grading Similarity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Similarity Demonstratives.
3 Three Types of Similarity Expressions -- 4 Gradability of ähnlich/similar -- 4.1 What Does It Mean to Be More Similar? -- 4.2 Gradability and Granularity -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix: Granularity in Multi-dimensional Attribute Spaces -- Domains and Representations -- Indiscernibility -- Granularity and Gradability -- References -- Cognition and Psychology -- Escitalopram Restores Reversal Learning Impairments in Rats with Lesions of Orbital Frontal Cortex -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 How Is Behavioural Flexibility Measured and Cognitive Flexibility Inferred? -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Animals -- 2.2 Apparatus -- 2.3 Surgery -- 2.4 Experiment 1: The Effects of Escitalopram on Reversal Learning -- 2.5 Experiment 2: Fos Activity After 1 mg/kg Escitalopram -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Experiment 1 -- 3.2 Experiment 2 -- 4 Discussion -- 4.1 Reversal Learning -- 4.2 The Effects of OFC Lesions on Reversal Learning -- 4.3 The Effects of Escitalopram on Reversal Learning -- 4.4 Fos Activity -- References -- Rat Ultrasonic Vocalizations as Social Reinforcers-Implications for a Multilevel Model of the Cognitive Representation of Action and Rats' Social World -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Subjects -- 2.2 Experimental Setup -- 2.3 Acoustic Stimuli -- 2.4 Task Design -- 2.5 Data Analysis -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 A Cognitive Perspective: Acting at Multiple Levels -- 5.1 Goldman's Multilevel Theory of Human Action -- 5.2 Cascades and Learning -- 5.3 Applying Cascade Theory to Rat Behavior in the Experiments Reported -- 5.4 Psychological Commitments of the Cascade Approach -- 5.5 What Can the Cascade Approach Buy Us? -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Influence of Manner Adverbs on Action Verb Processing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experiment 1 -- 2.1 Methods -- 2.2 Results -- 3 Experiment 2 -- 3.1 Methods -- 3.2 Results -- 3.3 Discussion -- References.
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Löbner Sebastian  
Springer Nature, 2021
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Confronting suburban school resegregation in California / / Clayton A. Hurd
Confronting suburban school resegregation in California / / Clayton A. Hurd
Autore Hurd Clayton A.
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina 379.2/6
Collana Contemporary Ethnography
Soggetto topico Educational equalization
School integration
Mexican American students
Soggetto non controllato Anthropology
Folklore
Linguistics
Political Science
Public Policy
ISBN 0-8122-9010-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Timeline of Events -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. White/Latino School Resegregation, the Deprioritization of School Integration, and Prospects for a Future of Shared, High- Quality Education -- CHAPTER 2. Historicizing Educational Politics in Pleasanton Valley -- CHAPTER 3. Latino Empowerment and Institutional Amnesia at Allenstown High -- CHAPTER 4. The Road from Dissent to Secession -- CHAPTER 5. Race and School District Secession: Allenstown’s District Reorganization Campaign, 1995– 2004 -- CHAPTER 6. Cinco de Mayo, Normative Whiteness, and the Marginalization of Mexican- Descent Students at Allenstown High -- CHAPTER 7. Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Emergence of Progressive, Latino- Led Coalitions for School Reform -- Conclusion: Signifying Chavez -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Hurd Clayton A.  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014
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Confronting suburban school resegregation in California / / Clayton A. Hurd
Confronting suburban school resegregation in California / / Clayton A. Hurd
Autore Hurd Clayton A.
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina 379.2/6
Collana Contemporary Ethnography
Soggetto topico Educational equalization
School integration
Mexican American students
Soggetto non controllato Anthropology
Folklore
Linguistics
Political Science
Public Policy
ISBN 0-8122-9010-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Timeline of Events -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. White/Latino School Resegregation, the Deprioritization of School Integration, and Prospects for a Future of Shared, High- Quality Education -- CHAPTER 2. Historicizing Educational Politics in Pleasanton Valley -- CHAPTER 3. Latino Empowerment and Institutional Amnesia at Allenstown High -- CHAPTER 4. The Road from Dissent to Secession -- CHAPTER 5. Race and School District Secession: Allenstown’s District Reorganization Campaign, 1995– 2004 -- CHAPTER 6. Cinco de Mayo, Normative Whiteness, and the Marginalization of Mexican- Descent Students at Allenstown High -- CHAPTER 7. Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Emergence of Progressive, Latino- Led Coalitions for School Reform -- Conclusion: Signifying Chavez -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Conscientious objectors in Israel : citizenship, sacrifice, trials of fealty / / Erica Weiss
Conscientious objectors in Israel : citizenship, sacrifice, trials of fealty / / Erica Weiss
Autore Weiss Erica <1981->
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (214 pages)
Disciplina 355.2/24095694
Collana Ethnography of political violence
Soggetto topico Conscientious objectors - Israel
Conscientious objection - Israel
Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Conscientious objectors
Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Moral and ethical aspects
Soldiers - Political activity - Israel
Conscientious objectors - Legal status, laws, etc - Israel
Soggetto non controllato African Studies
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Folklore
Law
Linguistics
Middle Eastern Studies
ISBN 0-8122-0942-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Interrupted Sacrifice -- 2. Every Tongue’s Got to Confess -- 3. Confronting Sacrifice -- 4. Pacifist? Prove It! The Adjudication of Conscience -- 5. The Yoke of Conscience and the Binds of Community -- Conclusion: False Promises -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Weiss Erica <1981->  
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Conscientious objectors in Israel : citizenship, sacrifice, trials of fealty / / Erica Weiss
Conscientious objectors in Israel : citizenship, sacrifice, trials of fealty / / Erica Weiss
Autore Weiss Erica <1981->
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (214 pages)
Disciplina 355.2/24095694
Collana Ethnography of political violence
Soggetto topico Conscientious objectors - Israel
Conscientious objection - Israel
Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Conscientious objectors
Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Moral and ethical aspects
Soldiers - Political activity - Israel
Conscientious objectors - Legal status, laws, etc - Israel
Soggetto non controllato African Studies
Anthropology
Asian Studies
Folklore
Law
Linguistics
Middle Eastern Studies
ISBN 0-8122-0942-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Interrupted Sacrifice -- 2. Every Tongue’s Got to Confess -- 3. Confronting Sacrifice -- 4. Pacifist? Prove It! The Adjudication of Conscience -- 5. The Yoke of Conscience and the Binds of Community -- Conclusion: False Promises -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Corpus linguistics : : A guide to the methodology / / Anatol Stefanowitsch
Corpus linguistics : : A guide to the methodology / / Anatol Stefanowitsch
Autore Stefanowitsch Anatol
Pubbl/distr/stampa Language Science Press, 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (1 p.)
Collana Textbooks in Language Sciences
Soggetto topico Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
Language arts
Soggetto non controllato Language Arts & Disciplines
Linguistics
General
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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Stefanowitsch Anatol  
Language Science Press, 2020
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A Corpus-assisted Multimodal Analysis to Policy Addresses of Macao SAR Government [[electronic resource] ] : Two Decades of Change in Macao / / by Michelle Lam Sut I
A Corpus-assisted Multimodal Analysis to Policy Addresses of Macao SAR Government [[electronic resource] ] : Two Decades of Change in Macao / / by Michelle Lam Sut I
Autore Lam Sut I Michelle
Edizione [1st ed. 2023.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (185 pages)
Disciplina 410.285
Collana Corpora and Intercultural Studies
Soggetto topico Computational linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Culture
Intercultural communication
Social policy
Computational Linguistics
Sociology of Culture
Intercultural Communication
Social Policy
Soggetto non controllato Linguistics
Religion And Sociology
Communication
Social Policy
Language Arts & Disciplines
Social Science
Political Science
ISBN 9789819911950
9789819911943
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Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- Literature Review -- Methodology -- Case Analysis -- Discussion -- Conclusion.
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Lam Sut I Michelle  
Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
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Creating Africa in America [[electronic resource] ] : translocal identity in an emerging world city / / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
Creating Africa in America [[electronic resource] ] : translocal identity in an emerging world city / / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
Autore Copeland-Carson Jacqueline
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina 305.896/073776579
Collana Contemporary ethnography
Soggetto topico African Americans - Race identity
African Americans - Services for - Minnesota - Minneapolis
African Americans - Social conditions
African Americans - Minnesota - Minneapolis - Ethnic identity
African Americans - Minnesota - Minneapolis - Social conditions
African diaspora
Community life - Minnesota - Minneapolis
Community life - United States
Soggetto non controllato African Studies
African-American Studies
American History
American Studies
Anthropology
Folklore
Linguistics
ISBN 1-283-89903-5
0-8122-0426-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: On Life Betwixt and Between -- Prologue to a Diasporan Journey -- Part I. Reimagining North America's African Diaspora -- 1. "Africa" in Minnesota -- 2. Ethnographic Grounding -- Part II. Across Diasporan Space, Time: Who Is "African" in a Global Ecumene? -- 3. "Three Parts African": Blood, Heart, Skin, and Memory -- 4. Organizing Across Diasporan Crosscurrents -- 5. The African Body Resistant -- Part III. Creating "Africa": A State of Mind, Body, Spirit -- 6. Healing the Mind: Embodying an African Epistemology -- 7. Healing the Body: Reactivating the African Habitus -- 8. Healing the Spirit: Embodying an African Historicity -- Epilogue to a Diasporan Journey -- Appendix A: Research Design, Methods, and Documents -- Appendix B: Cultural Wellness Center and Powderhorn Photographs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Copeland-Carson Jacqueline  
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
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Creating Africa in America [[electronic resource] ] : translocal identity in an emerging world city / / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
Creating Africa in America [[electronic resource] ] : translocal identity in an emerging world city / / Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
Autore Copeland-Carson Jacqueline
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina 305.896/073776579
Collana Contemporary ethnography
Soggetto topico African Americans - Race identity
African Americans - Services for - Minnesota - Minneapolis
African Americans - Social conditions
African Americans - Minnesota - Minneapolis - Ethnic identity
African Americans - Minnesota - Minneapolis - Social conditions
African diaspora
Community life - Minnesota - Minneapolis
Community life - United States
Soggetto non controllato African Studies
African-American Studies
American History
American Studies
Anthropology
Folklore
Linguistics
ISBN 1-283-89903-5
0-8122-0426-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: On Life Betwixt and Between -- Prologue to a Diasporan Journey -- Part I. Reimagining North America's African Diaspora -- 1. "Africa" in Minnesota -- 2. Ethnographic Grounding -- Part II. Across Diasporan Space, Time: Who Is "African" in a Global Ecumene? -- 3. "Three Parts African": Blood, Heart, Skin, and Memory -- 4. Organizing Across Diasporan Crosscurrents -- 5. The African Body Resistant -- Part III. Creating "Africa": A State of Mind, Body, Spirit -- 6. Healing the Mind: Embodying an African Epistemology -- 7. Healing the Body: Reactivating the African Habitus -- 8. Healing the Spirit: Embodying an African Historicity -- Epilogue to a Diasporan Journey -- Appendix A: Research Design, Methods, and Documents -- Appendix B: Cultural Wellness Center and Powderhorn Photographs -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Copeland-Carson Jacqueline  
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
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Crimes of peace : Mediterranean migrations at the world's deadliest border / / Maurizio Albahari
Crimes of peace : Mediterranean migrations at the world's deadliest border / / Maurizio Albahari
Autore Albahari Maurizio
Pubbl/distr/stampa Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (283 p.)
Disciplina 304.8/45
Collana Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Soggetto topico Immigrants - Mortality - Mediterranean Region - History - 20th century
Immigrants - Mortality - Mediterranean Region - History - 21st century
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato Anthropology
Folklore
Human Rights
Law
Linguistics
Public Policy
ISBN 0-8122-9172-7
Classificazione LB 56000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: On the Threshold of Liberty -- Chapter 1. Genealogies of Care and Confinement -- Chapter 2. Genealogies of Rescue and Pushbacks -- Chapter 3. Sovereignty as Salvation: Moral States -- Chapter 4. Sovereignty as Preemption: Undocumented States -- Chapter 5. Spring Uprisings, Fall Drownings -- Chapter 6. Public Aesthetics Amid Seas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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Albahari Maurizio  
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015
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