Chechnya [[electronic resource] ] : life in a war-torn society / / Valery Tishkov ; with a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev |
Autore | Tishkov Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
Disciplina | 947.5/2 |
Collana | California series in public anthropology |
Soggetto topico | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
academic chechen conflict chechnya contemporary world deportation ethnographer ethnography family life fundamentalist government historical hostages ideology intellectual international interviews islam islamic modern world modernization morals myth mythology nationalism political politics regional religion revolution russia russian scholarly sociology violence wartime |
ISBN |
0-520-93020-7
0-520-23887-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- One. Ethnography and Theory -- Two. Indigenization, Deportation, and Return -- Three. Contradictory Modernization -- Four. Chechen Images -- Five. The Road to War -- Six. Dzhokhar -- Seven. The Sons of War -- Eight. The Culture of Hostage-Taking -- Nine. Violence in Secessionist Warfare -- Ten. The Impact on Family Life -- Eleven. Religion and the Chechen Conflict -- Twelve. The Myth and Reality of the "Great Victory" -- Thirteen. An Ideology of Extremes -- Fourteen. Chechnya as a Stage and a Role -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- MAIN CHARACTERS -- INFORMANTS AND INTERVIEWERS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783584603321 |
Tishkov Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich
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Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / / Lisa Stevenson |
Autore | Stevenson Lisa |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.19699/5008997124 |
Soggetto topico |
Inuit - Medical care - Canada - History
Tuberculosis - Canada - History Inuit - Health and hygiene - Canada - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologist
anthropology canadian history canadian inuit collection of stories ethnographer ethnography historical biography mental health new life professor psychologist reincarnation sociologist somewhere else suicide epidemic tuberculosis epidemic understanding our world |
ISBN |
0-520-28294-9
0-520-95855-1 |
Classificazione | SOC002000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Facts and Images -- 2. Cooperating -- 3. Anonymous Care -- 4. Life-of-the-Name -- 5. Why Two Clocks? -- 6. Song -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Illustrations -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791004903321 |
Stevenson Lisa
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / / Lisa Stevenson |
Autore | Stevenson Lisa |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.19699/5008997124 |
Soggetto topico |
Inuit - Medical care - Canada - History
Tuberculosis - Canada - History Inuit - Health and hygiene - Canada - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologist
anthropology canadian history canadian inuit collection of stories ethnographer ethnography historical biography mental health new life professor psychologist reincarnation sociologist somewhere else suicide epidemic tuberculosis epidemic understanding our world |
ISBN |
0-520-28294-9
0-520-95855-1 |
Classificazione | SOC002000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Facts and Images -- 2. Cooperating -- 3. Anonymous Care -- 4. Life-of-the-Name -- 5. Why Two Clocks? -- 6. Song -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Illustrations -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807089603321 |
Stevenson Lisa
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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The other shore [[electronic resource] ] : essays on writers and writing / / Michael Jackson |
Autore | Jackson Michael <1940-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.509 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English literature - History and criticism English language - Writing Authorship |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
art artists authors dark night of the soul empathy engaging ethnographer ethnography fiction writers imagination impossibility of writing leap of faith life experiences literary criticism literary literature lively longing magic meditation modes of understanding modes of writing modes nostalgia oral storytelling poet poetry relationship ritual social science students and teachers unrequited love utopia worldliness writing |
ISBN | 0-520-95482-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1.The Other Shore -- 2. The Red Road -- 3. Kindred Spirits -- 4. Writing under the Influence -- 5. A Typewriter Collecting Dust -- 6. Writing in Limbo -- 7. The Magical Power of Words -- 8. Flights of Fancy -- 9. Writing Fellowship -- 10. There Go I -- 11. Love Letters -- 12. Writing for Bare Life -- 13. Writing So As Not to Die -- 14. Chinese Boxes -- 15. The Writing on the Wall -- 16. Writing out of the Blue -- 17. A Storyteller's Story -- 18. Writing in the Dark -- 19. Writing in the Zone -- 20. Writing, Naturally -- 21. Writing Workshop -- 22. The Books in My Life -- 23. Writing Utopia -- 24. Writing in Search of Lost Time -- 25. Writing about Writers -- 26. Writing in Ruins -- 27. Writing as a Way of Life -- Notes -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779676003321 |
Jackson Michael <1940->
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Transpacific displacement [[electronic resource] ] : ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature / / Yunte Huang |
Autore | Huang Yunte |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/005 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Chinese American authors - History and criticism
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Chinese literature - Appreciation - United States American literature - Chinese influences Chinese Americans - Intellectual life Chinese Americans in mass media Chinese Americans in literature Immigrants in literature Ethnology in literature Intertextuality |
Soggetto non controllato |
amy lowell
appropriation asia chinese poetry critique cultural history cultural studies disappropriation displacement ethnographer ethnographic ethnography ezra pound imagism imagist poets linguistic ethnography linguistic theory linguistics race issues race racial stereotypes racism social history social studies stereotypes transpacific |
ISBN |
0-520-92814-8
1-282-35598-8 9786612355981 1-59734-963-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnographers-Out-There: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough -- 2. Ezra Pound: An Ideographer or Ethnographer? -- 3. The Intertextual Travel of Amy Lowell -- 4. The Multifarious Faces of the Chinese Language -- 5. Maxine Hong Kingston and the Making of an "American" Myth -- 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783173703321 |
Huang Yunte
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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