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Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity: From Botany to Traditional Communities offers a unique approach in floristic diversity of the Neotropical region, specifically encompassing the Brazilian flora. This volume combines both theoretical and applied aspects of scientific making knowledge in different perspectives of Botanical Science. In this volume, botanical specialists discuss the many different approaches of taxonomic, reproductive, ecological and ethnobotanical aspects of Brazilian floristic diversity, thereby enlightening the global interest in Neotropical species, in particular those from the Brazilian territory. The book addresses relevant questions from many points of view, inclu...
A antologia de contos "Desordem" é o primeiro livro financiado de forma colaborativa pela Bookstorming. É o resultado de um projeto pensado com o objetivo de reunir autores que, em comum, têm a maturidade de uma escrita verdadeiramente contemporânea, ousada e instigante. Em cada um dos sete autores que fazem parte do livro, o leitor encontrará um prazer distinto, estimulado de forma magistral por narrativas pessoais e universais, que tomam as melhores tradições literárias como referência ao mesmo tempo em que as subvertem. Cristiano Baldi, Erika Mattos da Veiga, Katherine Funke, Natércia Pontes, Olavo Amaral, Patrick Brock e Paulo Bullar. Se você ainda não conhece estes nomes, bem-vindo à literatura brasileira do presente.
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Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.
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This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. These languages and the problems they raise for linguistic analyses have long featured prominently in language descriptions, and yet the essence of polysynthesis remains under discussion, right down to whether it delineates a distinct, coherent type, rather than an assortment of frequently co-occurring traits. Chapters in the first part of the handbook relate polysynthesis to other issues central to linguistics, such as complexity, the definition of the word, the nature of the lexicon, idioma...
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Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential concept in different fields, from art history, psychology and philosophy, to linguistics and ethnography. Having gained steam in concert with postmodernism’s emphasis on self-reflection and discourse, it is especially significant now as a framework to understand the process of ‘writing’ and understanding the Other: groups, cultures and cosmologies. This book showcases this concept by illustrating how people visualised others in the past, and how it coloured their engagements with them, both physically and cogn...