Author: Mario Osorio OlazábalPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557829801
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 162
Book Description
Herencias Arquitectónicas y Dinásticas Andinas
Author: Mario Osorio OlazábalPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557829801
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 162
Book Description
Herencias arquitectónicas y dinásticas andinas
Author: Mario E. Osorio OlazábalPublisher:
ISBN: 9789972338052
Category : Incas
Languages : es
Pages : 159
Book Description
The Handbook of Mummy Studies
Author: Dong Hoon ShinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789811533532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1171
Book Description
Owing to their unique state of preservation, mummies provide us with significant historical and scientific knowledge of humankind’s past. This handbook, written by prominent international experts in mummy studies, offers readers a comprehensive guide to new understandings of the field’s most recent trends and developments. It provides invaluable information on the health states and pathologies of historic populations and civilizations, as well as their socio-cultural and religious characteristics. Addressing the developments in mummy studies that have taken place over the past two decades – which have been neglected for as long a time – the authors excavate the ground-breaking research that has transformed scientific and cultural knowledge of our ancient predecessors. The handbook investigates the many new biotechnological tools that are routinely applied in mummy studies, ranging from morphological inspection and endoscopy to minimally invasive radiological techniques that are used to assess states of preservation. It also looks at the paleoparasitological and pathological approaches that have been employed to reconstruct the lifestyles and pathologic conditions of ancient populations, and considers the techniques that have been applied to enhance biomedical knowledge, such as craniofacial reconstruction, chemical analysis, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA analysis. This interdisciplinary handbook will appeal to academics in historical, anthropological, archaeological and biological sciences, and will serve as an indispensable companion to researchers and students interested in worldwide mummy studies.
Writing Across Cultures
Author: Angel RamaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822352931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.
Aztec City-States
Author: Mary G. HodgePublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703025
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The building blocks of the Aztec state were smaller, local polities known as city-states. Author Mary G. Hodge selected five city-states in the Valley of Mexico (Amecameca, Cuauhtitlan, Xochimilco, Coyoacan, and Teotihuacan) for detailed study of their internal organization.
Bilingual
Author: François GrosjeanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674056450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many facets of life with two or more languages.
Proto-Lima
Author: Alfred Louis KroeberPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258636067
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Fieldiana: Anthropology, Volume 44, Number 1.
Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Author: Steve TwomeyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476776482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter chronicles the 12 days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, examining the miscommunications, clues, missteps and racist assumptions that may have been behind America's failure to safeguard against the tragedy, "--NoveList.
Arte en Lengua Mixteca (A.D. 1593)
Author: Antonio de los ReyesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780935462036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
To the Other
Author: Adriaan Theodoor PeperzakPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557530240
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)