"First contacts" in Polynesia : the Samoan case (1722-1848) : Western misunderstandings about sexuality and divinity / / Serge Tcherkézoff |
Autore | Tcherkézoff Serge |
Edizione | [New edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Disciplina | 327.961304 |
Soggetto topico |
History
Anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
history
customs social life samoan islands foreign relations europe Bougainville Island Ethnic groups in Europe James Cook Jean-François de Galaup comte de Lapérouse Polynesia Polynesians Tahiti |
ISBN | 1-921536-02-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910137647403321 |
Tcherkézoff Serge | ||
Canberra, : ANU Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"First contacts" in Polynesia : the Samoan case (1722-1848) : Western misunderstandings about sexuality and divinity / / Serge Tcherkézoff |
Autore | Tcherkézoff Serge |
Edizione | [New edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Disciplina | 327.961304 |
Soggetto topico |
History
Anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
history
customs social life samoan islands foreign relations europe Bougainville Island Ethnic groups in Europe James Cook Jean-François de Galaup comte de Lapérouse Polynesia Polynesians Tahiti |
ISBN | 1-921536-02-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996199793603316 |
Tcherkézoff Serge | ||
Canberra, : ANU Press, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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1500 California place names [[electronic resource] ] : their origin and meaning / / William Bright |
Autore | Bright William <1928-2006.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
Disciplina | 917.94/001/4 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GuddeErwin Gustav <1889-1969.> |
Soggetto topico | Names, Geographical - California |
Soggetto non controllato |
aguanga
alcatraz bodega california residents california camping chamisal cultural appropriation geography golden state hiking history indian tribes indigenous people indigenous tribes la jolla lakes landmarks local tribes mountains native americans nature nonfiction reference siskiyou state geography tahoe tourism tourist guide travel destination travel tribes wilderness |
ISBN |
1-280-08577-0
9786613520289 0-520-92054-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Key to Pronunciation -- 1500 California Place Names |
Altri titoli varianti | Fifteen hundred California place names |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779080603321 |
Bright William <1928-2006.> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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1989 [[electronic resource] ] : Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about / / Joshua Clover |
Autore | Clover Joshua |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina | 781.6409/048 |
Soggetto topico |
Popular music - 1981-1990 - History and criticism
Rap (Music) - History and criticism Underground dance music - History and criticism Grunge music - History and criticism Nineteen eighty-nine, A.D |
Soggetto non controllato |
acid house
bands cultural studies de la soul dr dre entertainment industry fall of the berlin wall gangsta rap george micheal grunge music historical history jesus jones lyrical theory madonna media studies music studies music musicians nine inch nails nirvana nwa performing arts political aesthetics politics pop music popular music public enemy rap music retrospective roxette singers social context the end of history the klf the scorpions u2 |
ISBN |
1-282-77263-5
9786612772634 0-520-94464-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- Introduction: The Long 1989 -- Part One. 1989 (the unconfined unreckoned year) -- Part Two. "1989" (a shout in the street) -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792447403321 |
Clover Joshua | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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1995 : the year the future began / W. Joseph Campbell |
Autore | Campbell W. Joseph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.92 |
Soggetto topico | Nineteen ninety-five, A.D |
Soggetto non controllato |
american culture
american history american politics american presidency beginning of the internet bill clinton bombing bosnian war domestic terrorism double murder government and governing high profile case history impeachment international negotiations internet late 20th century american history mainstream monica lewinsky oj simpson oklahoma city bombing political scandal president clinton retrospective scandal trial of the century trial united states of america world wide web |
ISBN | 0-520-95971-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to an Improbable Year -- 1. The Year of the Internet -- 2. Terror in the Heartland, and a Wary America -- 3. O.J., DNA, and the "Trial of the Century" -- 4. Peace at Dayton and the "Hubris Bubble" -- 5. Clinton Meets Lewinsky -- Conclusion: The Long Reach of 1995 -- The Timeline of a Watershed Year: 1995 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787169203321 |
Campbell W. Joseph | ||
Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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1995 : the year the future began / W. Joseph Campbell |
Autore | Campbell W. Joseph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.92 |
Soggetto topico | Nineteen ninety-five, A.D |
Soggetto non controllato |
american culture
american history american politics american presidency beginning of the internet bill clinton bombing bosnian war domestic terrorism double murder government and governing high profile case history impeachment international negotiations internet late 20th century american history mainstream monica lewinsky oj simpson oklahoma city bombing political scandal president clinton retrospective scandal trial of the century trial united states of america world wide web |
ISBN | 0-520-95971-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to an Improbable Year -- 1. The Year of the Internet -- 2. Terror in the Heartland, and a Wary America -- 3. O.J., DNA, and the "Trial of the Century" -- 4. Peace at Dayton and the "Hubris Bubble" -- 5. Clinton Meets Lewinsky -- Conclusion: The Long Reach of 1995 -- The Timeline of a Watershed Year: 1995 -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816498603321 |
Campbell W. Joseph | ||
Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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2000 years of Mayan literature / / Dennis Tedlock ; with new translations and interpretations by the author |
Autore | Tedlock Dennis <1939-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
Disciplina | 897/.4209 |
Soggetto topico |
Mayan literature - History and criticism
Mayan literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient literature
ancient mayan texts anthropology chilam balam colonial latin america early mayan writing ethnography graffiti hieroglyphic inscriptions history indigenous american literature indigenous peoples lady shark fin language of suyua linguistics literary maya mayan literature moon woman native americans poetry pre colombian antiquity rattlesnakes of the city of three stones roman alphabet temple of the sun eyed shield temple of the tree of yellow corn thunderstorm women writers |
ISBN | 0-520-94446-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Learning to read -- Early Mayan writing -- The skilled observer from Maxam -- From the time of gods to the time of lords -- Cormorant and her three sons -- Temple of the Sun-eyed shield -- Temple of the Tree of yellow corn -- Lady Shark fin and the evening star -- The rattlesnakes of the City of three stones -- Drawing and designing with words -- Graffiti -- The question of the beginning and end of time -- The mouth of the well of the Itza -- Writing on the pages of books -- Signs of the times -- Moon woman meets the stars -- The power of the great star -- Thunderstorm -- Diagrams of the days -- The alphabet arrives in the Lowlands -- The books of Chilam Balam -- Understanding the language of Suyua -- Song of the birth of the twenty days -- Conversations with madness -- The alphabet arrives in the Highlands -- A way to see the dawn of life -- Blood moon becomes a trickster -- The death of death -- The human work, the human design -- We saw it all, oh my sons -- The count of days -- Man of Rabinal -- Epilogue. |
Altri titoli varianti | Two thousand years of Mayan literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786769503321 |
Tedlock Dennis <1939-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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2000 years of Mayan literature / / Dennis Tedlock ; with new translations and interpretations by the author |
Autore | Tedlock Dennis <1939-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
Disciplina | 897/.4209 |
Soggetto topico |
Mayan literature - History and criticism
Mayan literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient literature
ancient mayan texts anthropology chilam balam colonial latin america early mayan writing ethnography graffiti hieroglyphic inscriptions history indigenous american literature indigenous peoples lady shark fin language of suyua linguistics literary maya mayan literature moon woman native americans poetry pre colombian antiquity rattlesnakes of the city of three stones roman alphabet temple of the sun eyed shield temple of the tree of yellow corn thunderstorm women writers |
ISBN | 0-520-94446-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Learning to read -- Early Mayan writing -- The skilled observer from Maxam -- From the time of gods to the time of lords -- Cormorant and her three sons -- Temple of the Sun-eyed shield -- Temple of the Tree of yellow corn -- Lady Shark fin and the evening star -- The rattlesnakes of the City of three stones -- Drawing and designing with words -- Graffiti -- The question of the beginning and end of time -- The mouth of the well of the Itza -- Writing on the pages of books -- Signs of the times -- Moon woman meets the stars -- The power of the great star -- Thunderstorm -- Diagrams of the days -- The alphabet arrives in the Lowlands -- The books of Chilam Balam -- Understanding the language of Suyua -- Song of the birth of the twenty days -- Conversations with madness -- The alphabet arrives in the Highlands -- A way to see the dawn of life -- Blood moon becomes a trickster -- The death of death -- The human work, the human design -- We saw it all, oh my sons -- The count of days -- Man of Rabinal -- Epilogue. |
Altri titoli varianti | Two thousand years of Mayan literature |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807068603321 |
Tedlock Dennis <1939-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The 2006 military takeover in Fiji [[electronic resource] ] : a coup to end all coups? / / Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth, and Bry V. Lal (editors) |
Autore | Fraenkel Jon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (486 pages) |
Disciplina | 996.11 |
Collana | State, society and governance in Melanesia program studies in state and society in the Pacific |
Soggetto topico | Government, Resistance to - Fiji |
Soggetto non controllato |
politics and government
government history 21th century fiji Democracy Fijians Frank Bainimarama Laisenia Qarase Mahendra Chaudhry Republic of Fiji Military Forces |
ISBN |
1-921536-51-9
1-921536-50-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acronyms and abbreviations; Authors' biographies; Introduction; 1. The enigmas of Fiji's good governance coup; The coup; 2. 'Anxiety, uncertainty and fear in our land': Fiji's road to military coup, 2006; Introduction; Gathering storm; Controversial bills; General election; Multiparty cabinet; Confrontation with the military; The Great Council of Chiefs; Military demands; Impact and implications; 3. Fiji's December 2006 coup: Who, what, where and why?; 4. 'This process of political readjustment': The aftermath of the 2006 Fiji Coup; The 'President's Mandate' and the 'Doctrine of Necessity'
Appointment of the interim administrationPoliticization of public institutions; The Church, the chiefs and the Indians; The response of civil society; External response; Warfare in cyberspace; Where to now?; Themes; 5. The changing role of the Great Council of Chiefs; The Great Council of Chiefs as an instrument of colonial rule; The GCC's dual political role; The army coups of 1987: Managing militant ethno-nationalism; The GCC and liberal constitutional reform ; The coup crisis of 2000 ; The 2006 coup ; Conclusion ; Postscript 6. The Fiji military and ethno-nationalism: Analyzing the paradoxThe expansion of Fiji's military; The shifting constitutional position; Bainimarama and the link with the Mara dynasty; Divergent trajectories; Good governance by militarization; Conclusion: Military futures; 7. Swim or sink: The post-coup economy in limbo; A snapshot of the economy post-coup; The economic impacts of the coups; The macro-economy; Fiscal policy; Monetary policy; Sectoral prospects; Garments; Sugar; Tourism; Information and communication technology (ICT); The way forward; Conclusions 8. The great roadmap charade: Electoral issues in post-coup FijiThe authoritarian preference; Roadmap to engagement; The real danger of elections; The invention of obstacles; Were the 2006 polls rigged?; The power of chiefs, padres and pastors; The advantages of sheep's clothing; Roadmap to Damascus; End of the roadmap; Conclusion: The primacy of domestic discontent; Religion; 9. Religion and politics: The Christian churches and the 2006 coup in Fiji; The umbrella groups: The FCC and the ACCF; The Fijian ethos, churches and politics before the 2006 coup The ACCF's response to the December 2006 coupA Catholic coup?; The relationship between religion and politics in Fiji; The FCC and ACCF revisited; Conclusion; 10. The good, the bad and the faithful: The response by Indian religious groups; The Indian community between 1987 and 2006: A community under siege?; The responses of the Indian community; Responses to the build-up to the coup; Post-coup responses; The perceived impact on poverty; The response of the SSDPS; The response of the TISI Sangam; The response of the APS/Fiji; The response of the Indian division of the Methodist Church 2007 - Mahendra Chaudhry: The return of the king? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910137457003321 |
Fraenkel Jon | ||
Canberra, : ANU Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Foreign Voyage : Pacific Maritime Labour Identity, 1840-1890 |
Autore | Grider John T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (334 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Maritime history |
Soggetto non controllato |
History
colonialism migration maps Atlantic Pacific sailing maritime ships sailors mariners exploration labour voyage perspectives justice inequality colonisation industrialisation history |
ISBN | 1-920382-89-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910639977603321 |
Grider John T | ||
Bloemfontein, : UJ Press, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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