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Hanyang Kut

Korean Shaman Ritual Music from Seoul

By: Maria K. Seo

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Hanyang Kut

Korean Shaman Ritual Music from Seoul

By: Maria K. Seo

This volume, first published in 2002, presents a sophisticated analysis of the musical instruments, repertoires, musicians and ensembles, and symbolism of the ritual music of Shamans of Seoul, Korea. Placed firmly in a social and historical context, it shows that Shamanism, considered superstition by many today, is alive and well in Seoul in a rich tradition reaching back to the Chosôn Dynasty (1392-1910), the capital of which was Hanyang (now Seoul). The instruments, dress and other accoutrements of courtly life from the Chosôn Dynasty have been taken up, although transformed, in contemporary rituals among spirit-possessed Shamans. Through a comparison of Hanyang kut - the rituals of the Hanyang Shamans - and the ritual practice of Inner Asian Shamans, and through an analysis of the relations of spirit-possession music rituals to musok, the indigenous religion of Korea, Seo sheds light on the role of music, spiritual practice and culture in present-day Korea.

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342

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Routledge

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1000012255

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9781000012255

Plant Stress Physiology and Climate Change

How Plants Struggle in Our New World

By: Maria Alexou

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Plant Stress Physiology and Climate Change

How Plants Struggle in Our New World

By: Maria Alexou

This book will help students and researchers of Plant Physiology to expand their knowledge on Stress Physiology due to Climate Change. Part A summarises plant physiology in a way that most people can understand, and even memorise easily. Part B brings together various fields of more advanced physiology, while explaining some of the newest findings and trends in physiology, focusing on drought and heat stress. Part B begins by covering oxidative stress in the cell, then the impact of stress on leaf stomata, the carbon and nitrogen metabolism of plants, and subsequently the underestimated role of the plant vasculature. The final chapter examines four advanced scientific queries that challenge some accepted viewpoints in Plant Physiology. In the end, a summary outlines the “big picture” in Plant Stress Physiology. This book guides the reader from basic knowledge to advanced specifics on major topics of Plant Stress Physiology, and helps the reader address some questions fundamental to plant life itself.

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506

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036409074

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Non-perturbative Methods In Two Dimensional Quantum Field Theory

By: Elcio Abdalla,Maria Cristina Batoni Abdalla,Klaus D Rothe

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Non-perturbative Methods In Two Dimensional Quantum Field Theory

By: Elcio Abdalla,Maria Cristina Batoni Abdalla,Klaus D Rothe

This book is a survey of methods used in the study of two-dimensional models in quantum field theory as well as applications of these theories in physics. It covers the subject since the first model, studied in the fifties, up to modern developments in string theories, and includes exact solutions, non-perturbative methods of study, and nonlinear sigma models.

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World Scientific

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9814506516

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9789814506519

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Hanyang Kut

Hanyang Kut

Plant Stress Physiology and Climate Change

Plant Stress Physiology and Climate Change

Non-perturbative Methods In Two Dimensional Quantum Field Theory

Non-perturbative Methods In Two Dimensional Quantum Field Theory

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