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Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stellan Ohlsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139496751
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Deep Learning written by Stellan Ohlsson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the ability to retain, process, and project prior experience onto future situations is indispensable, the human mind also possesses the ability to override experience and adapt to changing circumstances. Cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson analyzes three types of deep, non-monotonic cognitive change: creative insight, adaptation of cognitive skills by learning from errors, and conversion from one belief to another, incompatible belief. For each topic, Ohlsson summarizes past research, re-formulates the relevant research questions, and proposes information-processing mechanisms that answer those questions. The three theories are based on the principles of redistribution of activation, specialization of practical knowledge, and re-subsumption of declarative information. Ohlsson develops the implications of those mechanisms by scaling their effects with respect to time, complexity, and social interaction. The book ends with a unified theory of non-monotonic cognitive change that captures the abstract properties that the three types of change share.
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Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
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Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book Opinions Rendered written by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : U.S. Geological Survey Library
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Total Pages : 780 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of the United States Geological Survey Library written by U.S. Geological Survey Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library written by United States. Department of the Interior. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1724 pages
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Download or read book Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederica De Laguna
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803280083
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book American Anthropology, 1888-1920 written by Frederica De Laguna and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formative years of American anthropology were characterized by intellectual energy and excitement, the identification of key interpretive issues, and the beginnings of a prodigious amount of fieldwork and recording. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) was born as anthropology emerged as a formal discipline with specialized subfields; fieldwork among Native communities proliferated across North America, yielding a wealth of ethnographic information that began to surface in the flagship journal, the American Anthropologist; and researchers increasingly debated and probed deeper into the roots and significance of ritual, myth, language, social organization, and the physical make-up and prehistory of Native Americans. The fifty-five selections in this volume represent the interests of and accomplishments in American anthropology from the establishment of the American Anthropologist through World War I. The articles in their entirety showcase the state of the subfields of anthropology?archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology?as they were imagined and practiced at the dawn of the twentieth century. Examples of important ethnographic accounts and interpretive debates are also included. Introducing this collection is a historical overview of the beginnings of American anthropology by A. Irving Hallowell, a former president of the AAA.
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Total Pages : 2130 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 2130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole M. Cusack
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830313
Total Pages : 195 pages
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Download or read book The Sacred Tree written by Carole M. Cusack and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental nature of the tree as a symbol for many communities reflects the historical reality that human beings have always interacted with and depended upon trees for their survival. Trees provided one of the earliest forms of shelter, along with caves, and the bounty of trees, nuts, fruits, and berries, gave sustenance to gatherer-hunter populations. This study has concentrated on the tree as sacred and significant for a particular group of societies, living in the ancient and medieval eras in the geographical confines of Europe, and sharing a common Indo-European inheritance, but sacred trees are found throughout the world, in vastly different cultures and historical periods. Sacred trees feature in the religious frameworks of the Ghanaian Akan, Arctic Altaic shamanic communities, and in China and Japan. The power of the sacred tree as a symbol is derived from the fact that trees function as homologues of both human beings and of the cosmos. This study concentrates the tree as axis mundi (hub or centre of the world) and the tree as imago mundi (picture of the world). The Greeks and Romans in the ancient world, and the Irish, Anglo-Saxons, continental Germans and Scandinavians in the medieval world, all understood the power of the tree, and its derivative the pillar, as markers of the centre. Sacred trees and pillars dotted their landscapes, and the territory around them derived its meaning from their presence. Unfamiliar or even hostile lands could be tamed and made meaningful by the erection of a monument that replicated the sacred centre. Such monuments also linked with boundaries, and by extension with law and order, custom and tradition. The sacred tree and pillar as centre symbolized the stability of the cosmos and of society. When the Pagan peoples of Europe adopted Christianity, the sacred trees and pillars, visible signs of the presence of the gods in the landscape, were popular targets for axe-wielding saints and missionaries who desired to force the conversion of the landscape as well as the people. Yet Christianity had its own tree monument, the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, and which came to signify resurrected life and the conquest of eternal death for the devout. As European Pagans were converted to Christianity, their tree and pillar monuments were changed into Christian forms; the great standing crosses of Anglo-Saxon northern England played many of the same roles as Pagan sacred trees and pillars. Irish and Anglo-Saxons Christians often combined the image of the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden with Christ on the cross, to produce a Christian version of the tree as imago mundi.
Author : David Crockett Graham
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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Folk Religion in Southwest China written by David Crockett Graham and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winifred Gregory Gerould
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Total Pages : 1596 pages
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Download or read book Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada written by Winifred Gregory Gerould and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Carr
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030449173
Total Pages : 1564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Being Scioto Hopewell: Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective written by Christopher Carr and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 1564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in two volumes, breathes fresh air empirically, methodologically, and theoretically into understanding the rich ceremonial lives, the philosophical-religious knowledge, and the impressive material feats and labor organization that distinguish Hopewell Indians of central Ohio and neighboring regions during the first centuries CE. The first volume defines cross-culturally, for the first time, the “ritual drama” as a genre of social performance. It reconstructs and compares parts of 14 such dramas that Hopewellian and other Woodland-period peoples performed in their ceremonial centers to help the soul-like essences of their deceased make the journey to an afterlife. The second volume builds and critiques ten formal cross-cultural models of “personhood” and the “self” and infers the nature of Scioto Hopewell people’s ontology. Two facets of their ontology are found to have been instrumental in their creating the intercommunity alliances and cooperation and gathering the labor required to construct their huge, multicommunity ceremonial centers: a relational, collective concept of the self defined by the ethical quality of the relationships one has with other beings, and a concept of multiple soul-like essences that compose a human being and can be harnessed strategically to create familial-like ethical bonds of cooperation among individuals and communities. The archaeological reconstructions of Hopewellian ritual dramas and concepts of personhood and the self, and of Hopewell people’s strategic uses of these, are informed by three large surveys of historic Woodland and Plains Indians’ narratives, ideas, and rites about journeys to afterlives, the creatures who inhabit the cosmos, and the nature and functions of soul-like essences, coupled with rich contextual archaeological and bioarchaeological-taphonomic analyses. The bioarchaeological-taphonomic method of l’anthropologie de terrain, new to North American archaeology, is introduced and applied. In all, the research in this book vitalizes a vision of an anthropology committed to native logic and motivation and skeptical of the imposition of Western world views and categories onto native peoples.
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Total Pages : 1204 pages
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Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1200 pages
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Download or read book Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
