Wrapping In Images

Author : Alfred Gell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015002200948

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Wrapping in Images by Alfred Gell Pdf

In traditional Polynesian societies, tattooing played a key role in the social construction of the person. This study is the first to provide a comparative analysis of tattooing in its original setting, based on a comprehensive survey of the documentary sources, both written and visual. Drawing on modern social theory, psychoanalysis, and contemporary anthropological studies of Polynesia, Alfred Gell demonstrates that tattooing formed part of a complex array of symbolic techniques for controlling sacredness and protecting the self. This framework is used to elucidate the iconographic meaning of tattoo motifs, as well as the rich corpus of mythology surrounding tattooing in certain Polynesian societies, and the complex rituals associated with the tattooing operation. However, not all ancient Polynesian societies placed an equal emphasis on tattooing, and not all exploited the basic metaphors of tattooing in the same way. Dr Gell provides a wide-ranging comparative political analysis of the main Polynesian societies in order to show consistent correlations between forms of political structure and different tattooing institutions. In this way, Wrapping in Images can be read as a general introduction to Polynesian comparative sociology, viewed from the perspective of body symbolism.

Author : Alfred Gell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475328833

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Wrapping in Images by Alfred Gell Pdf

Author : Susanna Harris,Laurence Douny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315415642

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Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture by Susanna Harris,Laurence Douny Pdf

This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.

Author : Peggy Agouris,Anthony Stefanidis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540466215

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Integrated Spatial Databases: Digital Images and GIS by Peggy Agouris,Anthony Stefanidis Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Integrated Databases, Digital Images and GIS, ISD'99, held in Portland, Maine, USA in June 1999. The 18 revised full papers presented went through a double reviewing process and were selected from nearly 40 original submissions. The book is divided into parts on object extraction from raster images, geospatial analysis, formalisms and modeling, and data access.

Author : Ed Bott,Woody Leonhard
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132714587

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Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2007 by Ed Bott,Woody Leonhard Pdf

Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office 2007 THE ONLY OFFICE BOOK YOU NEED We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Office proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Office 2007, Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office 2007 is the only book you need. If you own a copy of Office 2007, you deserve a copy of this book! Although this book is aimed at the Office veteran, Ed and Woody’s engaging style will appeal to beginners, too. Written in clear, plain English, readers will feel as though they are learning from real humans and not Microsoft clones. Sprinkled with a wry sense of humor and an amazing depth of field, this book most certainly isn’t your run-of-the-mill computer book. You should expect plenty of hands-on guidance and deep but accessible reference material. This isn’t your Dad’s Office! For the first time in a decade, Microsoft has rolled out an all-new user interface. Menus? Gone. Toolbars? Gone. For the core programs in the Office family, you now interact with the program using the Ribbon—an oversize strip of icons and commands, organized into multiple tabs, that takes over the top of each program’s interface. If your muscles have memorized Office menus, you’ll have to unlearn a lot of old habits for this version.

Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226733715

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How "Natives" Think by Marshall Sahlins Pdf

When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures. In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over the death and deification of Captain James Cook on Hawai'i Island in 1779. Did the Hawaiians truly receive Cook as a manifestation of their own god Lono? Or were they too pragmatic, too worldly-wise to accept the foreigner as a god? Moreover, can a "non-native" scholar give voice to a "native" point of view? In his 1992 book The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, Gananath Obeyesekere used this very issue to attack Sahlins's decades of scholarship on Hawaii. Accusing Sahlins of elementary mistakes of fact and logic, even of intentional distortion, Obeyesekere portrayed Sahlins as accepting a naive, enthnocentric idea of superiority of the white man over "natives"—Hawaiian and otherwise. Claiming that his own Sri Lankan heritage gave him privileged access to the Polynesian native perspective, Obeyesekere contended that Hawaiians were actually pragmatists too rational and sensible to mistake Cook for a god. Curiously then, as Sahlins shows, Obeyesekere turns eighteenth-century Hawaiians into twentieth-century modern Europeans, living up to the highest Western standards of "practical rationality." By contrast, Western scholars are turned into classic custom-bound "natives", endlessly repeating their ancestral traditions of the White man's superiority by insisting Cook was taken for a god. But this inverted ethnocentrism can only be supported, as Sahlins demonstrates, through wholesale fabrications of Hawaiian ethnography and history—not to mention Obeyesekere's sustained misrepresentations of Sahlins's own work. And in the end, although he claims to be speaking on behalf of the "natives," Obeyesekere, by substituting a home-made "rationality" for Hawaiian culture, systematically eliminates the voices of Hawaiian people from their own history. How "Natives" Think goes far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, it is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.

Author : Elizabeth Castro
Publisher : Peachpit Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132366991

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EPUB Straight to the Point by Elizabeth Castro Pdf

Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy documentation, and incomplete creation tools. This extensively researched guide to creating EPUB files by best-selling author Elizabeth Castro shows you how to prepare EPUB files, make the files look great on the screen, work around EPUB weaknesses, and fix common errors. In this essential book, Liz shares her hard-earned experience for how to: Create EPUB files from existing Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign files, or from scratch. Tweak EPUB files to take full advantage of the power of EPUB in each respective ereader. Control spacing, indents, and margins. Insert images and sidebars and wrap text around them. Create links to external sources and cross-references to internal ones. Add video to ebooks for the iPad.

Author : Melody Miller,Allison Tannery
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781590309995

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Ruby Star Wrapping by Melody Miller,Allison Tannery Pdf

Provides instructions for creating unique and reusable gift wrappings from fabric scraps, empty cereal boxes, old book covers, and more.

Author : Jim Elferdink
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596514310

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Office 2008 for Macintosh by Jim Elferdink Pdf

Provides information on using Microsoft Office 2008 with a Mac, covering the features and functions of Word, Entourage, Calendar, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Author : Reeta Sahoo & Gagan Sahoo
Publisher : Saraswati House Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789353624217

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Saraswati Information Technology (Vocational Course) by Reeta Sahoo & Gagan Sahoo Pdf

Saraswati Information Technology Series for Classes IX and X is a complete resource for study and practice written in simple, easy-to-understand language. The student-friendly edition is entirely based on the curriculum prescribed under NSQF for vocational courses. The series provides useful tools to learn theory and do practical at ease. Designed to meet student’s needs, it provides sound practice through a wide variety of solved and unsolved exercises based on the latest examination pattern. The series covers the complete syllabus laid down by CBSE.

Author : Reeta Sahoo, Gagan Sahoo
Publisher : New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789353623005

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Comp-Information Technology-TB-10-R by Reeta Sahoo, Gagan Sahoo Pdf

Comp-Information Technology-TB-10-R

Author : Reeta Sahoo, Gagan Sahoo
Publisher : New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789352723812

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Foundation of Information Technology MS Office Class 09 by Reeta Sahoo, Gagan Sahoo Pdf

A series of Book of Computers . The ebook version does not contain CD.

Author : Nancy Conner,Matthew MacDonald
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 1589 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781449359423

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Office 2013: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner,Matthew MacDonald Pdf

Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but most people just know the basics. This helpful guide gets you started with the programs in Office 2013, and provides lots of power-user tips and tricks when you’re ready for more. You’ll learn about Office’s new templates and themes, touchscreen features, and other advances, including Excel’s Quick Analysis tool. The important stuff you need to know: Create professional-looking documents. Use Word to craft reports, newsletters, and brochures for the Web and desktop. Stay organized. Set up Outlook to track your email, contacts, appointments, and tasks. Work faster with Excel. Determine the best way to present your data with the new Quick Analysis tool. Make inspiring presentations. Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, charts and graphs, and animations. Share your Access database. Design a custom database and let other people view it in their web browsers. Get to know the whole suite. Use other handy Office tools: Publisher, OneNote, and a full range of Office Web Apps. Create and share documents in the cloud. Upload and work with your Office files in Microsoft’s SkyDrive.

Author : Jim Elferdink
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596554507

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Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink Pdf

Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features. You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through the changes. Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual gives you the friendly, thorough introduction you need, whether you're a beginner who can't do more than point and click, or a power user who's ready to tackle a few advanced techniques. To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one -- a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time. Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That's why this Missing Manual isn't shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough -- and which are duds. With it, you'll learn how to: Navigate the new user interface with its bigger and more graphic toolbars Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together Keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature Create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word's Publishing Layout View Build financial documents like budgets and invoices with Excel's Ledger Sheets Get quick access to all document templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery Organize all of your Office projects using Entourage's Project Center Scan or import digital camera images directly into any of the programs Customize each program with power-user techniques With Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you tap into all of the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time.

Author : Charles Conover
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781118130889

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Designing for Print by Charles Conover Pdf

This book is a single-source guide to planning, designing and printing successful projects using the Adobe Creative Suite. Packed with real-world design exercises, this revised edition is fully updated to align with CS. Dozens of sidebars and step-by-step descriptions walk readers through the design process in the same order actual projects are implemented Content progresses from planning through execution