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Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert
| Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.23
930 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RaaflaubKurt A
TalbertRichard J. A. <1947-> |
| Collana | The ancient world comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception
Human geography Civilization, Ancient |
| ISBN |
1-282-46165-6
9786612461651 1-4443-1565-X 1-4443-1566-8 |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Geography and Ethnography; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India; 3 Humans, Demons, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India; 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China; 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China; 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires; 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview; 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination; 9 Inca Worldview
10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt; 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees; 13 ""I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea"": Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World; 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure; 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia; 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels; 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns; 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139485703321 |
| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert
| Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.23
930 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RaaflaubKurt A
TalbertRichard J. A. <1947-> |
| Collana | The ancient world comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception
Human geography Civilization, Ancient |
| ISBN |
1-282-46165-6
9786612461651 1-4443-1565-X 1-4443-1566-8 |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Geography and Ethnography; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India; 3 Humans, Demons, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India; 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China; 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China; 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires; 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview; 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination; 9 Inca Worldview
10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt; 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees; 13 ""I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea"": Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World; 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure; 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia; 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels; 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns; 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996441544703316 |
| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Memory unbound : tracing the dynamics of memory studies / / edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen
| Memory unbound : tracing the dynamics of memory studies / / edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 302/.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Collective memory
Memory - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-78533-841-2 |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Memory on the Move -- Part I Transcultural Memory -- Chapter 1 Staging Shared Memory: Je Veux voir and L’Empreinte de l’ange -- Chapter 2 Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory Imperative -- Chapter 3 Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass Media -- Part II Transgenerational Memory -- Chapter 4 Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust -- Chapter 5 Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow and Black British Writing in Times of Mnemonic Transition -- Chapter 6 The Uses of Facebook for Examining Collective Memory: The Emergence of Nasser Facebook Pages in Egypt -- Part III Transmedial Memory -- Chapter 7 Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your Past -- Chapter 8 Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of Connectivity -- Chapter 9 Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11 -- Part IV Transdisciplinary Memory -- Chapter 10 The Agency of Memory Objects: Tracing Memories of Soweto at Regina Mundi Church -- Chapter 11 Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the Anthropocene -- Chapter 12 “Filled with Words” Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utility of Digital Methods in the Study of Memory -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792728003321 |
| New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Memory unbound : tracing the dynamics of memory studies / / edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen
| Memory unbound : tracing the dynamics of memory studies / / edited by Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 302/.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Collective memory
Memory - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-78533-841-2 |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Memory on the Move -- Part I Transcultural Memory -- Chapter 1 Staging Shared Memory: Je Veux voir and L’Empreinte de l’ange -- Chapter 2 Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory Imperative -- Chapter 3 Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass Media -- Part II Transgenerational Memory -- Chapter 4 Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust -- Chapter 5 Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow and Black British Writing in Times of Mnemonic Transition -- Chapter 6 The Uses of Facebook for Examining Collective Memory: The Emergence of Nasser Facebook Pages in Egypt -- Part III Transmedial Memory -- Chapter 7 Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your Past -- Chapter 8 Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of Connectivity -- Chapter 9 Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11 -- Part IV Transdisciplinary Memory -- Chapter 10 The Agency of Memory Objects: Tracing Memories of Soweto at Regina Mundi Church -- Chapter 11 Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the Anthropocene -- Chapter 12 “Filled with Words” Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utility of Digital Methods in the Study of Memory -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817773703321 |
| New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2017] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pursuits of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : well-being in anthropological perspective / / edited by Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo
| Pursuits of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : well-being in anthropological perspective / / edited by Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.09 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MathewsGordon
IzquierdoCarolina |
| Soggetto topico |
Quality of life
Well-being Happiness Anthropology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-282-62740-6
9786612627408 1-84545-877-X |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Why anthropology can ill afford to ignore well-being / Neil Thin -- Is a measure of cultural well-being possible or desirable? / Benjamin Nick Colby -- Well-being among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon : health, missions, oil, and "progress" / Carolina Izquierdo -- Embodied selves and social selves : aboriginal well-being in rural New South Wales, Australia / Daniela Heil -- The shifting landscape of Cree well-being / Naomi Adelson -- Well-being : lessons from India / Steve Derné -- Well-being, cultural pathology, and personal rejuvenation in a Chinese city, 1981-2005 / William Jankowiak -- Finding and keeping a purpose in life : well-being and Ikigai in Japan and elsewhere / Gordon Mathews -- Pleasure experienced : well-being and the Japanese bath / Scott Clark -- Selfscapes of well-being in a rural Indonesian village / Douglas Hollan -- Well-being and sustainability of daily routines : families with children with disabilities in the United States / Thomas S. Weisner. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791365703321 |
| New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pursuits of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : well-being in anthropological perspective / / edited by Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo
| Pursuits of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : well-being in anthropological perspective / / edited by Gordon Mathews and Carolina Izquierdo |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.09 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MathewsGordon
IzquierdoCarolina |
| Soggetto topico |
Quality of life
Well-being Happiness Anthropology - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-282-62740-6
9786612627408 1-84545-877-X |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Why anthropology can ill afford to ignore well-being / Neil Thin -- Is a measure of cultural well-being possible or desirable? / Benjamin Nick Colby -- Well-being among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon : health, missions, oil, and "progress" / Carolina Izquierdo -- Embodied selves and social selves : aboriginal well-being in rural New South Wales, Australia / Daniela Heil -- The shifting landscape of Cree well-being / Naomi Adelson -- Well-being : lessons from India / Steve Derné -- Well-being, cultural pathology, and personal rejuvenation in a Chinese city, 1981-2005 / William Jankowiak -- Finding and keeping a purpose in life : well-being and Ikigai in Japan and elsewhere / Gordon Mathews -- Pleasure experienced : well-being and the Japanese bath / Scott Clark -- Selfscapes of well-being in a rural Indonesian village / Douglas Hollan -- Well-being and sustainability of daily routines : families with children with disabilities in the United States / Thomas S. Weisner. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817596603321 |
| New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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