Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- Bunapas health center -- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- The web of care relationships -- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792729103321 |
Herbst Franziska A. | ||
New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- Bunapas health center -- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- The web of care relationships -- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828740603321 |
Herbst Franziska A. | ||
New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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California Indian languages [[electronic resource] /] / Victor Golla |
Autore | Golla Victor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
Disciplina | 497.09794 |
Soggetto topico |
Indians of North America - California - Languages
Linguistics |
Soggetto non controllato |
algic
american languages anthropology athabaskan baja california california chumash franciscans grammars hokan indian languages indigenous culture indigenous language indigenous languages indigenous people jesuit missionaries language languages lexical borrowing linguistic diversity linguistics monqui native american native speakers nonfiction pacific coast penutian pericu pitch postcolonial prehistory tone uto aztecan villages waikuri wintuan yukian |
ISBN |
1-283-33186-1
9786613331861 0-520-94952-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PHONETIC ORTHOGRAPHY USED IN THIS BOOK -- PART 1. INTRODUCTION. Defining California as a Sociolinguistic Area -- PART 2. HISTORY OF STUDY -- PART 3. LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE FAMILIES -- PART 4. TYPOLOGICAL AND AREAL FEATURES -- PART 5. LINGUISTIC PREHISTORY -- APPENDIX A. C. Hart Merriam's Vocabularies and Natural History Word Lists for California Indian Languages -- APPENDIX B. Materials on California Indian Languages in the Papers of John Peabody Harrington -- APPENDIX C. Phonetic Transcription Systems Widely Used in California Indian Language Materials -- APPENDIX D. Basic Numerals in Selected California Languages -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781474203321 |
Golla Victor | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Khubilai Khan : His Life and Times, 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface / / Morris Rossabi |
Autore | Rossabi Morris |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2009] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina | 950/.2/0924 |
Soggetto topico | Mongols - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
13th century
ancient medieval asian culture asian history asian scholars biography china contemporary historians discussion books early mongols east asian languages european influence famous historical figures government and governing great khan historical leaders historical record history buffs kublai khan middle eastern language military drama military history monarch mongol army mongols nonfiction political villages warfare world history |
ISBN | 9780520945364 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Note on Transliteration -- Chapter One. The Early Mongols -- Chapter Two. Khubilai Emerges -- Chapter Three. The Great Khan -- Chapter Four. The Conqueror -- Chapter Five. The Emperor of China -- Chapter Six. The Cultural Patron -- Chapter Seven. Mismanagement and the Chinese Response -- Chapter Eight. Decline of an Emperor -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Characters -- Bibliography of Works in Western Languages -- Addenda to Bibliography of Works in Western Languages (As of August, 1994) -- Bibliography of Works in Oriental Languages -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248321103316 |
Rossabi Morris | ||
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2009] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The living ancestors : shamanism, cosmos and culture change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco / / by Zeljko Jokic |
Autore | Jokic Zeljko |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.898/92087 |
Soggetto topico |
Yanomamo Indians - Religion
Yanomamo mythology Shamanism - 87 (Venezuela and Colombia) |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient phenomenon
anthropology biomedicine cosmology cultural change disease dreams engaging ethnographic material fieldwork firsthand experiential involvement healing holographic principle illness indigenous people indigenous studies initiatory ordeal native religions origin myths page turner regional study shamanism shamanistic activities social science sociology of religion spirit helpers spiritual unexplained phenomena villages yanomami shamanism |
ISBN | 1-78238-818-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- The master shapori Ruweweriwë and his disciple Arawë singing in front of the ceremonial mast – Mountain of the ancestral hekura spirits -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories -- Chapter 2. Inside the Boa’s Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos -- Chapter 3. Hekura, the Body and Illness -- Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis -- Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters -- Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death -- Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Finding a Cure: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami -- Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, the End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch -- Postscript. Recent Developments -- Glossary of Yanomami Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797894803321 |
Jokic Zeljko | ||
New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The living ancestors : shamanism, cosmos and culture change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco / / by Zeljko Jokic |
Autore | Jokic Zeljko |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.898/92087 |
Soggetto topico |
Yanomamo Indians - Religion
Yanomamo mythology Shamanism - 87 (Venezuela and Colombia) |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient phenomenon
anthropology biomedicine cosmology cultural change disease dreams engaging ethnographic material fieldwork firsthand experiential involvement healing holographic principle illness indigenous people indigenous studies initiatory ordeal native religions origin myths page turner regional study shamanism shamanistic activities social science sociology of religion spirit helpers spiritual unexplained phenomena villages yanomami shamanism |
ISBN | 1-78238-818-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- The master shapori Ruweweriwë and his disciple Arawë singing in front of the ceremonial mast – Mountain of the ancestral hekura spirits -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories -- Chapter 2. Inside the Boa’s Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos -- Chapter 3. Hekura, the Body and Illness -- Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis -- Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters -- Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death -- Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Finding a Cure: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami -- Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, the End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch -- Postscript. Recent Developments -- Glossary of Yanomami Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808184503321 |
Jokic Zeljko | ||
New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living on thin ice : the Gwich'in in natives of Alaska / / Steven C. Dinero |
Autore | Dinero Steven C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 305.897/20798 |
Soggetto topico |
Gwich'in Indians - Social conditions - Alaska - Arctic Village
Gwich'in Indians - Ethnic identity |
Soggetto non controllato |
alaska
american history anthropology arctic village council arctic village bush villages changing climate climate change communication community culture demography studies demography economic changes engaging gwichin natives history interdisciplinary evaluation native american demography studies native community rural areas social changes social issues social science sociology transportation value systems vibrant native community villages |
ISBN | 1-78533-162-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | How Did We Get Here? : An Overview of the First Century -- Episcopalianism Comes to Nets'aii Country -- Cleanliness, Hygiene, and Civilization Discourse : The Educational System, Past and Present -- The Village, Service Provision, and Economic Development -- The Evolving Role of Subsistence in Nets'aii Gwich'in Life -- The Environment and a Changing Climate -- The Youth Are the Future -- We Don't Know Where We Are Anymore. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798696303321 |
Dinero Steven C. | ||
New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living on thin ice : the Gwich'in natives of Alaska / / Steven C. Dinero |
Autore | Dinero Steven C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 305.897/20798 |
Soggetto topico |
Gwich'in Indians - Social conditions - Alaska - Arctic Village
Gwich'in Indians - Ethnic identity |
Soggetto non controllato |
alaska
american history anthropology arctic village council arctic village bush villages changing climate climate change communication community culture demography studies demography economic changes engaging gwichin natives history interdisciplinary evaluation native american demography studies native community rural areas social changes social issues social science sociology transportation value systems vibrant native community villages |
ISBN | 1-78533-162-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | How Did We Get Here? : An Overview of the First Century -- Episcopalianism Comes to Nets'aii Country -- Cleanliness, Hygiene, and Civilization Discourse : The Educational System, Past and Present -- The Village, Service Provision, and Economic Development -- The Evolving Role of Subsistence in Nets'aii Gwich'in Life -- The Environment and a Changing Climate -- The Youth Are the Future -- We Don't Know Where We Are Anymore. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813820903321 |
Dinero Steven C. | ||
New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The missionary's curse and other tales from a Chinese Catholic village [[electronic resource] /] / Henrietta Harrison |
Autore | Harrison Henrietta |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 282/.5117 |
Collana | Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
boxer rebellion
boxer uprising catholic practice catholic rituals catholic china chinese folk religion chinese history chinese priests chinese village chinese christian history christianity communist party cultural revolution engaging extreme violence folk tales franciscan missionaries global themes globalizing church government and governing historical history intense italian catholicism political power of god religion religious history socialist education stories of faith villages |
ISBN | 0-520-95472-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology and Names -- Introduction -- 1. The Ancestors Who Founded the Village -- 2. The Bishop and the Wolf -- 3. The Priest Who Ran Away to Rome -- 4. The Boxer Uprising and the Souls in Purgatory -- 5. The Missionary Who Cursed the Village -- 6. The Four Fragrances and the Flying Bicycle -- 7. The Village Since the 1980's -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786880503321 |
Harrison Henrietta | ||
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The missionary's curse and other tales from a Chinese Catholic village [[electronic resource] /] / Henrietta Harrison |
Autore | Harrison Henrietta |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina | 282/.5117 |
Collana | Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
boxer rebellion
boxer uprising catholic practice catholic rituals catholic china chinese folk religion chinese history chinese priests chinese village chinese christian history christianity communist party cultural revolution engaging extreme violence folk tales franciscan missionaries global themes globalizing church government and governing historical history intense italian catholicism political power of god religion religious history socialist education stories of faith villages |
ISBN | 0-520-95472-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology and Names -- Introduction -- 1. The Ancestors Who Founded the Village -- 2. The Bishop and the Wolf -- 3. The Priest Who Ran Away to Rome -- 4. The Boxer Uprising and the Souls in Purgatory -- 5. The Missionary Who Cursed the Village -- 6. The Four Fragrances and the Flying Bicycle -- 7. The Village Since the 1980's -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826168303321 |
Harrison Henrietta | ||
Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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