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Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia : Perspectives fro…
Economic behavior is governed by two major sets of boundary conditions: environmental and technological factors on the one hand, and conditions of social organization on the other hand. Indeed, social scientists are often particularly interested in the framework of exchange relationships: exchange of goods, services, personnel, and information. Economic exchanges lend concrete manifestations to…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472901722
- Collation
- 337p
- Series Title
- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 13
- Call Number
- 380.10959
Kastom, property and ideology : Land transformations in Melanesia
The relationship between customary land tenure and ‘modern’ forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is even more pressing today, as the region is subject to its own version of what is described in the international literature as a new ‘land rush’ or ‘land grab’ in developing countries. T…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461065
- Collation
- 434
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.73130995.MCD
The archaeology of rock art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory, has a rich archaeological landscape, ethnographic record and body of rock art that displays an astonishing array of imagery on shelter walls and ceilings. While the archaeology goes back to the earliest period of Aboriginal occupation of the continent, the rock art represents some of the richest, most diverse and visually …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760461621
- Collation
- xxiiii, 499p.; ill.
- Series Title
- Terra Australis
- Call Number
- 919.429 DAV t
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls : European missionary agendas in Australia
This book covers the missionary activity in Australia conducted by non-English speaking missionaries from Catholic and Protestant mission societies from its beginnings to the end of the mission era. It looks through the eyes of the missionaries and their helpers, as well as incorporating Indigenous perspectives and offering a balanced assessment of missionary endeavour in Australia, attuned to …
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760462055
- Collation
- 280
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 266.00899915.GAN
Making in the making : Performing new forms and spatialities of production
During the last two decades, we have witnessed the spreading of shared spaces of work and production in different urban contexts, attracting attention from both policymakers and scholars in economic geography and urban studies. In particular, Fablabs are considered open workshops for grassroots innovation, which is enabled by the availability of shared digital fabrication machines and by the po…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788835131618
- Collation
- 270p
- Series Title
- Nuove Geografie. Strumenti di lavoro
- Call Number
- 306 CEN
Social Media in Trinidad : Values and Visibility
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwellers look down on and villagers look up to. The complex identity of the town is expressed through u…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787350953
- Collation
- XIV, 252p
- Series Title
- Why We Post
- Call Number
- 302.30285 SIN
Speaking for the social : A catalog of Methods
What does it mean to “speak for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change? This is the problem that the contributors to Speaking for the Social: A Catalogue of Methods set out to explore through a series of creative interventions that reimagine the role for qualitative social science in understanding and shaping design and engineering projects. The book departs from fa…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781685710538
- Collation
- 334p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301 SPE s
Arab Americans in the United States
Shaikha H. Al-Kuwari is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Qatar University. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Florida, USA, in 2018. Her research focuses in studying the relation between culture and health. She is interested in building cultural models of illnesses using the latest methodological advances in social science. Her goal is to create culturally based pr…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789819974177
- Collation
- XI, 107
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8927
Reimagining Marginalized Foods
Contributor(s) Finnis, Elizabeth (editor) Collection Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Number 102404 Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh This volume brings together ethnographically based anthropological analyses of shifting meanings and representations associated with the foods, ingredients, and cooking practices that of marginalized and/or indigenous cultures. Contributors are particula…
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- 23
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780816539239
- Collation
- vi, 175 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 394.12
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds
As a result of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011, a large volume of radionuclides was released into the environment, thus contaminating marine and freshwater systems. The Fisheries Research Agency has conducted research beginning soon after the accident. Our research addressed the contamination processes of radionuclides (mainly radiocesium) through water, sedime…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9784431555377
- Collation
- XI, 238p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 571.954 SUG
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