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The Rule of the Clan

Autor: Mark S. Weiner

Número de Páginas: 253

A revealing look at the role kin-based societies have played throughout history and around the world A lively, wide-ranging meditation on human development that offers surprising lessons for the future of modern individualism, The Rule of the Clan examines the constitutional principles and cultural institutions of kin-based societies, from medieval Iceland to modern Pakistan. Mark S. Weiner, an expert in constitutional law and legal history, shows us that true individual freedom depends on the existence of a robust state dedicated to the public interest. In the absence of a healthy state, he explains, humans naturally tend to create legal structures centered not on individuals but rather on extended family groups. The modern liberal state makes individualism possible by keeping this powerful drive in check—and we ignore the continuing threat to liberal values and institutions at our peril. At the same time, for modern individualism to survive, liberals must also acknowledge the profound social and psychological benefits the rule of the clan provides and recognize the loss humanity sustains in its transition to modernity. Masterfully argued and filled with rich historical detail, ...

Women in Kararau

Autor: Brigitta Hauser-schäublin

Número de Páginas: 399

The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women’s lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, the translation of a 1977 publication in German, is complemented by two chapters dealing with the life of the Iatmul in the 2010s. It presents rich quantitative and qualitative data on subsistence economy, marriage, and women’s knowledge concerning myths and rituals. Besides, life histories and in-depth interviews convey deep insights into women’s experiences and feelings, especially regarding their varied relationships with men in the early 1970s. Since then, Iatmul culture has changed in many respects, especially as far as the economy, religion, knowledge, and the relationship between men and women are concerned. In her afterword, the anthropologist Christiane Falck highlights some of the major topics raised in the book from a 2018...

A World that was

Autor: Ronald Murray Berndt , Catherine Helen Berndt , John E. Stanton

Número de Páginas: 688

This extraordinary book, written from material gathered over half a century ago, will almost certainly be the last fine-grained account of traditional Aboriginal life in settled south-eastern Australia. It recreates the world of the Yaraldi group of the Kukabrak or Narrinyeri people of the Lower Murray and Lakes region of South Australia. In 1939 Albert Karloan, a Yaraldi man, urged a young ethnologist, Ronald Berndt, to set up camp at Murray Bridge and to record the story of his people. Karloan and Pinkie Mack, a Yaraldi woman, possessed through personal experience, not merely through hearsay, an all but complete knowledge of traditional life. They were virtually the last custodians of that knowledge and they felt the burden of their unique situation. This book represents their concerted efforts to pass on the story to future generations. For Ronald and Catherine Berndt, this was their first fieldwork together in an illustrious joint career of almost fifty years. During long periods, principally until 1943, they laboured with pencil and paper to put it all down - a far cry from the recording techniques of today's oral historians. Their fieldnotes were worked into a rough draft of ...

Japanese Armies 1868–1877

Autor: Gabriele Esposito

Número de Páginas: 50

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the traditional Samurai feudal nobility, leading to a series of battles. The first clash between the two cultures came swiftly. During the Boshin War of 1868–69, a French military adviser, Jules Brunet, changed sides to join the insurgents. They won several engagements before the final crushing of the rebel Ezo Republic. After this point, the Imperial Army continued to modernize along French lines, and social changes began to impoverish Samurai noblemen, who lost their social and political role and their associated privileges. During 1876, the powerful Satsuma Domain, around Kagoshima in south-west Kyushu, became a focus for discontent. Its leader Saigo Takamori effectively ignored the central government, and in January 1877, increasing unrest broke out into open rebellion. The Imperial forces were now much stronger, and the Navy could land troops and bombard Kagoshima. The bitter Satsuma siege and ...

Innovaciones metodológicas con TIC en educación

Autor: Olga Buzón García , Amparo; Buzon Garcia Verdu Vazquez (olga; Romero.)

Número de Páginas: 4291

En la sección I de este libro, denominada “Metodologías innovadoras y prácticas educativas” se presentan una serie de experiencias basadas en nuevos modelos de enseñanza y aprendizaje como el modelo Flipped classroom, así como, en diferentes metodologías activas, como el Aprendizaje basado en Proyectos, Aprendizaje Servicio, Desing Thinking, Aprendizaje basado en juegos, Gamificación, Aprendizaje colaborativo y cooperativo, muchas de ellas impulsadas por las tecnologías, mostrando a otros docentes el posible camino a seguir en la mejora e innovación en la docencia.En la sección II, “Enseñanza, aprendizaje e investigación con tecnologías emergentes”, se recogen experiencias didácticas desarrolladas en diferentes niveles educativos, en las que se incorporan tecnologías emergentes (simuladores, realidad aumentada, 3D, robótica, APP lúdico-educativas, etc.), que ofrecen la posibilidad de una educación más personalizada. La utilización de estas tecnologías pretende tener un impacto no solo en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje sino también en la investigación creativa en educación.En la sección III, “Innovación docente, metodologías y prácticas ...

Les médias et leurs fonctions

Autor: Philippe Tassi

Número de Páginas: 308

De tout temps, l’Homme a eu besoin de relations et de sociabilité pour échanger avec ses pairs, qu’ils soient à proximité ou à des distances de plus en plus grandes qu’il a fallu vaincre ; le préfixe télé signifie simplement « à distance », en grec ancien. Cette nécessité de communication s’est toujours appuyée sur des technologies, les a même parfois suscitées, allant des pigments utilisés dans l’art pariétal au codage de la convergence numérique, sans oublier l’imprimerie, pour la presse et l’affichage, la théorie générale des ondes pour la radio et la télévision. Au sens étymologique du terme, les médias sont ces moyens techniques. Dans ce livre, un média sera un couple composé d’un support technique et d’un contenu, les fonctions des médias s’exprimant aussi par des idées portées par le support et accessibles grâce à deux sens que sont la vue et l’ouïe, mobilisant la lumière et le son. Pour s’exprimer, communiquer, transmettre, convaincre, témoigner, divertir, apprendre, manipuler, l’Homme a fait preuve d’une imagination sans borne : peinture rupestre, écriture, volumen, codex, livre, coursier, peinture,...

Combinatorial Chemistry

Autor: John Abelson

Número de Páginas: 546

The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. More than 260 volumes have been published (all of them still in print) and much of the material is relevant even today--truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences. Key Features* Phage display libraries* Repression fusion proteins* Polysome libraries* Peptide libraries* Nucleic acid libraries* Other small molecule libraries.

Le territoire de mare d'Ossolo

Autor: Jérôme Marie

Número de Páginas: 354