Reite Plants

Download Reite Plants full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Reite Plants ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Reite Plants

Author : Porer Nombo
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921666013
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reite Plants by : Porer Nombo

Download or read book Reite Plants written by Porer Nombo and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reite Plants is a documentation and discussion of the uses of plants by speakers of the Nekgini language, a people who reside in the hinterland of the Rai Coast in northern Papua New Guinea. High quality images and detailed information about traditional customary practices using plants provide a unique entry into understanding Nekgini social and cultural life. The book contains a discussion of the ownership of plant knowledge in the context of both local and contemporary global trends. As a dual language, co-authored text, the book is a unique contribution to the ethnobotany and anthropology of Melanesia. Reite Plants represents the product of a long term collaborative work between the authors.

Ownership of Knowledge

Author : Dagmar Schafer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262545594
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ownership of Knowledge by : Dagmar Schafer

Download or read book Ownership of Knowledge written by Dagmar Schafer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Breaking with traditional discourse on knowledge property as something that concerns mainly words and intellectual history, or science and law, Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning propose technology as a central heuristic for studying the many implications of knowledge ownership. Toward this end, they focus on the notions of knowledge and ownership in courtrooms, workshops, policy, and research practices, while also shedding light on scholarship itself as a powerful tool for making explicit the politics inherent in knowledge practices and social order. The book presents case studies showing how diverse knowledge economies are created and how inequalities arise from them. Unlike scholars who have fragmented this discourse across the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and history, the editors highlight recent developments in the emerging field of the global history of knowledge—as science, as economy, and as culture. The case studies reveal how notions of knowing and owning emerge because they reciprocally produce and determine each other’s limits and possibilities; that is, how we know inevitably affects how we can own what we know; and how we own always impacts how and what we are able to know. Contributors Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Cynthia Brokaw, Marius Buning, Viren Murthy, Marjolijn Bol, Amy E. Slaton, James Leach, Myles W. Jackson, Lissant Bolton, Vivek S. Oak, Jörn Oeder

Folk Herbal Medicine And Drug Discovery

Author : S.S. Katewa
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
ISBN 13 : 938634758X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (863 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Folk Herbal Medicine And Drug Discovery by : S.S. Katewa

Download or read book Folk Herbal Medicine And Drug Discovery written by S.S. Katewa and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional medicines, especially the folk herbal medicines have recently been receiving heightened interest the world over. This reference book contains 24 papers by eminent scientists on herbal drugs, drug discovery and other related topics which deal with biological activities and aspects of herbal drug research, such as anti-cancer, antidiabetic, anti-ischemic, anti-microbial, ethnomedicine, ethnopharmacology, pharmacognostic and phytochemistry.

Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges

Author : Emma Gilberthorpe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003838472
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges by : Emma Gilberthorpe

Download or read book Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges written by Emma Gilberthorpe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges. Whilst it could not hope to represent the full scope of anthropological perspectives, those that are presented highlight some of the critical flaws embedded in such an all-encompassing notion. The contributors reveal the possibilities of reimagining the ways in which ‘challenges’ are understood and addressed and demonstrate how a combination of deep understanding of the past and collaboration, cooperation and inclusive dialogue about the future, can improve the chances of positive action. The collection thus not only shows us that perspectives must change, but also how that change might be realised. Whilst the chapters are authored solely by anthropologists, this book is not solely for anthropologists. The book is illustrative of the practical and theoretical insights that anthropology can offer those individuals, teams, and policy- and decision-makers engaged in research, mitigation and/or intervention practices in relation to the global challenges. Beyond academia, it contributes to broader understandings of the challenges we collectively face at this point in time and how we might collectively and effectively address them.

A World of Many Worlds

Author : Marisol de la Cadena
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004312
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A World of Many Worlds by : Marisol de la Cadena

Download or read book A World of Many Worlds written by Marisol de la Cadena and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science's philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not need to become the same. Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Déborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega

Author : Aung Si
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331924681X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega by : Aung Si

Download or read book The Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Solega written by Aung Si and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the ethnobiology and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Solega people of southern India. Solega TEK is shown to be a complex, inter-related network of detailed observations of natural phenomena, well-reasoned and often highly accurate theorizing, as well as a belief system, derived from cultural norms, regarding the relationships between humans and other species on the one hand, and between non-human species on the other. As language-based studies are strongly biased toward investigations of ethno-taxonomy and nomenclature, the importance of studying TEK in its proper context is discussed as making context and encyclopedic knowledge the objects of study are essential for a proper understanding of TEK.

Creative Land

Author : James Leach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571816931
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (169 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Creative Land by : James Leach

Download or read book Creative Land written by James Leach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions through formulating "creativity" as an integral part of kinship on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations, including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai Coast. Analytic attention is focused upon the life cycle, marriage, exchange and artistic production as the activities in which substantial connection is generated. The argument, made in relation to detailed ethnography, yields a fresh perspective on the connections people trace to each other.

Handbook of Intellectual Property Research

Author : Irene Calboli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198826745
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Handbook of Intellectual Property Research by : Irene Calboli

Download or read book Handbook of Intellectual Property Research written by Irene Calboli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The relevance of intellectual property (IP) law has increased dramatically over the last several years. Globalization, digitization, and the rise of post-industrial information-based industries have all contributed to a new prominence of IP law as one of the most important factors in driving innovation and economic development. At the same time, the significant expansion of IP rules has impacted many areas of public policy such as public health, the environment, biodiversity, agriculture, information, in an unprecedented manner. The growing importance of IP law has led to an exponential growth of academic research in this area. This Book offers a comprehensive overview of the methods and approaches that can be used to address and develop scholarly research questions related to IP law. In particular, this Book aims to provide a useful resource that can be used by IP scholars who are interested in expanding their expertise in a specific research method or seek to acquire an understanding of alternative lenses that could be applied to their research. Even though this Book does not claim to include all existing research methodologies, it represents one of the largest and most diverse compilations, which has been carried out to date. In addition, the authors of this Book comprise an equally diverse group of scholars from different jurisdictions, backgrounds, and legal traditions. This diversity, both regarding the topics and the authors, is a fundamental feature of the Book, which seeks to assist IP scholars worldwide in their research journeys." --

Some Applications of Atomic Energy in Plant Science

Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Some Applications of Atomic Energy in Plant Science by : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Download or read book Some Applications of Atomic Energy in Plant Science written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anthropological Controversies

Author : Gavin Weston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429861206
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Anthropological Controversies by : Gavin Weston

Download or read book Anthropological Controversies written by Gavin Weston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in "human zoos", Malinowski’s diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force for change, how they offer a window into the history of and research practice in the discipline, and how they might frame wider debates such as those around reflexivity, cultural relativism, and the politics of representation. The volume provokes discussion about research ethics and practice with tangible examples where gray areas are brought into sharp relief. The controversies examined in the book all involve moral or practical ambiguities that offer an opportunity for students to engage with the debate and the dilemmas faced by anthropologists, both in relation to the specific incidents covered and to the problems posed more generally due to the intimate and political implications of ethnographic research.

Art in the Time of Colony

Author : Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409455963
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Art in the Time of Colony by : Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Download or read book Art in the Time of Colony written by Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However, as this book demonstrates, it is a fallacy that colonized locals merely collected material for interested colonizers. Through an analysis of particular language notations and drawings hidden in colonial documents and a reexamination of cross-cultural communication, the book writes biographies for five objects that exemplify the tensions of nineteenth century history.

Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem

Author : Takuo Furusawa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9812879048
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem by : Takuo Furusawa

Download or read book Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem written by Takuo Furusawa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed case study of ecological and cultural interactions between the people and their natural environment at Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, a land of rich biodiversity. This volume documents the subsistence lifestyle of the people and their indigenous ecological knowledge, analyzes the effects of recent socioeconomic changes on the people and ecosystem, and proposes future directions for sustainability. The contents have been designed to answer questions such as, “What kinds of factors have determined whether current human actions are sustainable or will result in a collapse of biocultural diversity in the Solomon Islands?”; “How do Solomon Islanders recognize nature and biodiversity conservation in traditional ways or under socioeconomic changes?”; and “How can harmony between humans and nature be achieved in the Solomon Islands under changing socioeconomic conditions?” A truly transdisciplinary approach is applied, integrating theories of human ecology, quantitative ethnobiology, and folk ecology and methods of vegetation surveys, ethnographic fieldwork, remote sensing, and health surveys, in order to link different domains of humans and the natural world. In addition, this work focuses on the importance of understanding of diversity not only in natural environments, but also in human societies, and will be a valuable source for many, especially ecologists, anthropologists, conservation practitioners, and rural development planners.

Biomedical Entanglements

Author : Franziska A. Herbst
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178533235X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Biomedical Entanglements by : Franziska A. Herbst

Download or read book Biomedical Entanglements written by Franziska A. Herbst and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.

Kinship and Beyond

Author : Sandra Bamford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857456393
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Kinship and Beyond by : Sandra Bamford

Download or read book Kinship and Beyond written by Sandra Bamford and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model--in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission--structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making in domains well beyond what is normally labeled "kinship." The detailed ethnographic work and analysis included in this text explores how these assumptions have been built into our understandings of race, personhood, ethnicity, property relations, and the relationship between human beings and non-human species. The authors explore the influences of the genealogical model of kinship in wider social theory and examine anthropology's ability to provide a unique framework capable of bridging the "social" and "natural" sciences. In doing so, this volume brings fresh new perspectives to bear on contemporary theories concerning biotechnology and its effect upon social life.

Art in the Time of Colony

Author : Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351957074
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Art in the Time of Colony by : Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Download or read book Art in the Time of Colony written by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of Indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However colonized locals did more than merely collect material for interested colonizers. In developing the concept of anachronism for the analysis of colonial material this book writes the complex biographies for five key objects that exemplify, embody, and refract the tensions of nineteenth-century history. Through an analysis of particular language notations and drawings hidden in colonial documents and a reexamination of cross-cultural communication, the book writes biographies for five objects that exemplify the tensions of nineteenth-century history. The author also draws on fieldwork done in communities today, such as the group of Koorie women whose re-enactments of tradition illustrate the first chapter’s potted history of indigenous mediums and debates. The second case study explores British colonial history through the biography of the proclamation boards produced under George Arthur (1784-1854), Governor of British Honduras, Tasmania, British Columbia, and India. The third case study looks at the maps of the German explorer of indigenous taxonomy Wilhelm von Blandowski (1822-1878), and the fourth looks at a multi-authored encyclopaedia in which Blandowski had taken into account indigenous knowledge such as that in the work of Kwat-Kwat artist Yakaduna, whose hundreds of drawings (1862-1901) are the material basis for the fifth and final case study. Through these three characters’ histories Art in the Time of Colony demonstrates the political importance of material culture by using objects to revisit the much-contested nineteenth-century colonial period, in which the colonial nations as a cultural and legal-political system were brought into being.

How Materials Matter

Author : Graeme Were
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202027
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How Materials Matter by : Graeme Were

Download or read book How Materials Matter written by Graeme Were and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.

Bioelectromagnetics Current Concepts

Author : Sinerik N. Ayrapetyan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402042787
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bioelectromagnetics Current Concepts by : Sinerik N. Ayrapetyan

Download or read book Bioelectromagnetics Current Concepts written by Sinerik N. Ayrapetyan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the lectures and selected posters on different aspects of biological effects of EMF, presented at the NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP “The mechanisms of biological effect Extremely High Power Pulses (EHPP)” (3-5 March 2005) and the UNESCO/WHO/IUPAB Seminar “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Biological Effects of EMF” (1-2 March 2005) that took place in Yerevan, Armenia. The gracious support of several international organizations made possible to bring together 47 scientists, engineers, physicians and policy makers from 21 countries from Europe, North and South America, Asia. The Capital of Armenia, Yerevan, provided an excellent opportunity for discussions of the experimental data and theoretical models of EMF effect on various levels, starting from cell aqua bathing medium to the whole organism, including the human, applying multidisciplinary approaches. The continuous increase of the number of man made EMF sources leads to dramatic changes in the spectrum of EMF in the biosphere. During the last two decades the public concern about potential hazard of EMF generated by power and distribution lines, as well as mobile communications and base stations have initiated serious public concern and has triggered the attention of the WHO, which reflected in the EMF project of harmonization of standards. At the same time, contemporary medicine largely uses EMF diagnostic methods. The beneficial effects of EMF are complemented with a large scale of EMF therapeutic modalities used in a number of countries, helping millions of people.