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Growing up on the trobriand islands in Papua New Guinea. Childhood and educat…
This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education within their `own little community’ until they reach the age of seven years. During this time ch…
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- 9789027200693
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- 274 p.; 22 cm.
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- Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
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- 305.2309953 SEN g
Regime change and ethnic politics in Indonesia; Dayak politics of West Kalima…
When the Indonesian New Order regime fell in 1998, regional politics with strong ethnic content emerged across the country. In West Kalimantan the predominant feature was particularly that of the Dayaks. This surge, however, was not unprecedented. After centuries of occupying a subordinate place in the political and social hierarchy under the nominal rule of the Malay sultanates, Dayaks became …
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- xiv, 461 p.; 22 cm.
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- VERHANDELINGENVAN HET KONINKLIJK INSTITUUTVOOR TAAL-, LAND- EN VOLKENKUNDE278
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- 959.8 TAN r
The evolution of grounded spatial language
This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization strategies, spatial categories, landmark systems and spatial grammar by tracing the interplay of environmental conditions, communicative and cognitive pressures. The experiments discussed in this book go far beyond previous …
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- 9783946234142
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- X, 267 p.
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- 402.85 SPR e
Cultural integration of immigrants in Europe
The concepts of cultural diversity and cultural identity are at the forefront of the political debate in many western societies. In Europe, the discussion is stimulated by the political pressures associated with immigration flows, which are increasing in many European countries. The imperatives that current immigration trends impose on European democracies bring to light a number of issues that…
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- 9780199660094
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- XIV, 344 p.
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- 325.4 VER c
The plant stem : a microscopic aspect
This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding colorfully stained images of anatomical micro-structures. In contrast to most botanical textbooks, it presents all the stem characteristics as photographs and shows the microscopic reality. The amount of text is reduced to a minimum, and the scientific information i…
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- 9783319735245
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- vii, 207p. : ill.
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- 581.495 SCH p
Pre-field screening protocols for heat-tolerant mutants in rice
This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice crop are targeted – the seedling and flowering stages – with screening based on simple phenotypic responses. The protocols are based on the use of a hydroponics system an…
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- 9783319773384
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- xii, 39p. : ill.
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- 633.182 PRE p
Cult places and cultural change in Republican Italy : a contextual approach t…
This scholarly study throws a new light on the Roman impact on religious structures in Republican Italy. In the last four centuries BC, Italy went through immense changes. The Apennine and Adriatic areas were originally inhabited by various 'Italic' tribes and characterised by a specific non-urban societal organisation, in which cult places had a pivotal function. From the fourth century BC onw…
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- 9789089641779
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- X. 263 p.
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- 939.01 STE c
The European blood and marrow transplantation textbook for nurses : under the…
This textbook, endorsed by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), provides adult and paediatric nurses with a full and informative guide covering all aspects of transplant nursing, from basic principles to advanced concepts. It takes the reader on a journey through the history of transplant nursing, including essential and progressive elements to help nurses improve t…
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- 9783319500263
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- 615.39 EUR e
Learning ontology relations by combining corpus-based techniques and reasonin…
The manual construction of formal domain conceptualizations (ontologies) is labor-intensive. Ontology learning, by contrast, provides (semi-)automatic ontology generation from input data such as domain text. This thesis proposes a novel approach for learning labels of non-taxonomic ontology relations. It combines corpus-based techniques with reasoning on Semantic Web data. Corpus-based methods …
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- 9783631606513
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- 221 p.
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- Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, 44
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- 004.678 WOH l
Man or monster?: the trial of Khmer rouge torturer
During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity. While the prosecution painted Duch as evil, his defense lawyers claimed he simply followed orde…
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- 9780822373551
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- viii, 350p.: ill.
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- 345.0235 HIN m
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