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Propriétés mécaniques des bétons durcissants : analyse comparée des bétons classiques et à très hautes performances
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Year: 1993 Volume: OA13 Publisher: Paris : Ministère de l'equipement, des transports et du Tourisme, Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées,

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State of the art on direct posterior filling materials and dentine bonding : international symposium : Paris, March 24-25, 1993
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ISBN: 9080130338 Year: 1993 Publisher: Leuven Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. School voor Tandheelkunde, Mondziekten en Kaakchirurgie


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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen : Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place
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ISBN: 1400843472 Year: 1993 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture.Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.

Castaways
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ISBN: 0520910281 0585130027 9780520910287 9780585130026 0520070623 0520070631 9780520070622 9780520070639 Year: 1993 Publisher: Berkeley

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This enthralling story of survival is the first major narrative of the exploration of North America by Europeans (1528-36). The author of Castaways (Naufragios), Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition to claim for Spain a vast area that includes today's Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. A shipwreck forced him and a handful of men to make the long westward journey on foot to meet up with Hernán Cortés. In order to survive, Cabeza de Vaca joined native peoples along the way, learning their languages and practices and serving them as a slave and later as a physician. When after eight years he finally reached the West, he was not recognized by his compatriots. In his writing Cabeza de Vaca displays great interest in the cultures of the native peoples he encountered on his odyssey. As he forged intimate bonds with some of them, sharing their brutal living conditions and curing their sick, he found himself on a voyage of self-discovery that was to make his reunion with his fellow Spaniards less joyful than expected. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping narrative is a trove of ethnographic information, with descriptions and interpretations of native cultures that make it a powerful precursor to modern anthropology. Frances M. López-Morillas's translation beautifully captures the sixteenth-century original. Based as it is on Enrique Pupo-Walker's definitive critical edition, it promises to become the authoritative English translation.

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Indians of North America --- Explorers --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, --- Cabeça de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, --- Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, --- De Vaca, Alvar Núñez Cabeza, --- Núñez, Alvar, --- Nunez, Alvaro, --- Núñez Cabeça de Vaca, Alvar, --- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, --- Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Vasco, --- Núñez de Vera Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, --- Vaca, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de, --- Vaca, Cabeza de, --- Vera Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez de, --- America --- Southwestern States --- Southwestern United States --- United States, Southwestern --- Early accounts to 1600. --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish. --- Description and travel. --- 16th century native american culture. --- 16th century spanish exploration. --- anthropology. --- cultural study. --- curing the sick. --- ethnography. --- exploration. --- faith healer. --- florida. --- hernn corts. --- living conditions. --- louisiana. --- medical care. --- native american tribes. --- native cultures. --- native peoples. --- new world. --- nobleman. --- north america. --- physician. --- proto anthropology. --- reunion. --- self discovery. --- shipwreck. --- slave. --- spain. --- spanish explorer. --- survival. --- texas. --- translated text. --- treasurer. --- westward journey.

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