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  • FID-SKA-Lizenzen  (6)
  • Berliner, David  (2)
  • Brightman, Marc  (2)
  • MacKellar, Calum  (2)
  • New York, NY : [s.n.]  (6)
  • 1
    ISBN: 9781789201116
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 262 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Cyberneuroethics;Neuronal Network;Neuro;Cyber;Brain-Mind Interface
    Abstract: With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace. In so doing, this book does not hesitate to blend disciplines including neurobiology, philosophy, anthropology and politics. It also invites society, as a whole, to seek a path in the use of these interfaces enabling humanity to prosper while avoiding the relevant risks. As such, the volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Why use the term Cyberneuroethics? -- Chapter 2. Popular Understanding of Neuronal Interfaces -- Chapter 3. Presentation of the Brain/Mind Interface -- Chapter 4. Neuronal Interface Systems -- Chapter 5. CyberNeuroEthics -- Chapter 6. Neuronal Interfaces and Policy -- Conclusion -- Appendix: SCHB Recommendations on CyberNeuroEthics -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781785333101
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 206 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'state of nature' operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of 'simple' political units with 'egalitarian' political ideologies and 'harmonious' relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian politics: far from balanced and egalitarian, Carib societies are rife with tension and difference; but this imbalance conditions social dynamism and a distinctive mode of cohesion. The Imbalance of Power is based on the author's fieldwork in partnership with Vanessa Grotti, who is working on a companion volume entitled Living with the Enemy: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A note on Trio and Wayana orthography -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- -- Guianan Leadership -- Guiana -- The Trio, Wayana and Akuriyo -- Fieldwork and its Limitations -- Structure and Scope of the Book -- -- Chapter 1. Making Trio and Other Peoples -- -- Ethnogenesis -- A Theory of Continuity -- Substance and Filiation -- Telling Stories, Making Groups -- Time, History and Identity -- 'The Trio' as a Group -- Ethnogenesis and Alterity -- Missionisation and Ethnicity: The Contact of the Akuriyo -- Slavery and Identity -- Marriage and Manioc -- Strategic Ethnicity -- Leadership Inside and Out -- -- Chapter 2. Houses and In-Laws -- -- Leadership, Inequality and the House -- Houses and Housebuilders -- The House as Artefact -- The Collective House -- Scale and the Household -- Consanguinity, Affinity and the 'Atom of Politics' -- Symmetry and Asymmetry -- Leadership and the House as Idea -- -- Chapter 3. Trade, Money and Influence -- -- Economic Influence -- Exchange and Trade -- Trading with Maroons -- Money -- The Politics of Air Travel -- Airborne Evangelism -- The City, Prestige and Mobility -- Air Entrepreneurship -- Public Speaking -- Literacy -- Metaphysical Communication -- Bible Economy -- Leadership and Influence Beyond Consanguinity -- -- Chapter 4. Music and Ritual Capacities -- -- Structured Sound -- Tortoiseshell Pipes: Individual and Collective -- Rattles and Shamanism: Percussion and Harmony -- Capacity, Blowing and Song -- The Music of the Other -- Speech as Music -- Ceremonial Dialogue -- Music and Leadership -- Heterophony -- Music and Difference -- -- Chapter 5. Owning Places and Persons -- -- The Language of Possession -- Moveable Wealth -- The Value of Land -- Names and Places -- Gender Asymmetry and Women as Property -- Ownership, Wealth and Influence -- -- Conclusion: Society Transcends the State -- Glossary -- Appendix: Trio Relationship Terminology -- References --
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781785330841
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 284 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization. Through carefully constructed studies of land ownership, slavery, shamanism, spirit mastery, aesthetics, and intellectual property, this volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia, and that the ownership of persons plays an especially significant role in native cosmology.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Foreword -- James Leach -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction: Altering Ownership in Amazonia -- Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto and Vanessa Grotti -- Chapter 1. Masters, Slaves, and Real People: Native Understandings of Ownership and Humanness in Tropical American Capturing Societies -- Fernando Santos-Granero -- Chapter 2. First Contacts, Slavery and Kinship in Northeastern Amazonia -- Vanessa Grotti and Marc Brightman -- This chapter is open access under a Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY) -- Chapter 3. Fabricating Necessity: Feeding and Commensality in Western Amazonia -- Luiz Costa -- Chapter 4. Parasitism and Subjection: Modes of Paumari Predation -- Oiara Bonilla -- Chapter 5. How Much for a Song? The Culture of Calculation and the Calculation of Culture -- Carlos Fausto -- Chapter 6. The Forgotten Pattern and the Stolen Design: Contract, Exchange and Creativity Among the Kĩsêdjê -- Marcela Stockler Coelho de Souza -- Chapter 7. Doubles and Owners: Relations of Knowledge, Property and Authorship Among the Marubo -- Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino -- Chapter 8. Ownership and Wellbeing Among the Mebêngôkre-Xikrin: Differentiation and Ritual Crisis -- Cesar Gordon -- Chapter 9. Temporalities of Ownership: Land Possession and its Transformations Among the Tupinambá (Bahia, Brazil) -- Susana de Matos Viegas -- Index --
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781785330926
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 336 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: EASA Series 28
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction: UNESCO World Heritage – Grounded? -- Christoph Brumann and David Berliner -- PART I: CITIES -- Chapter 1. Affects and Senses in a World Heritage Site: People–House Relations in the Medina of Fez -- Manon Istasse -- Chapter 2. 'UNESCO is What?' World Heritage, Militant Islam and the Search for a Common Humanity in Mali -- Charlotte Joy -- Chapter 3. Heritage-making in Lijiang: Governance, Reconstruction and Local Naxi Life -- Yujie Zhu -- Chapter 4. Multiple Nostalgias: The Fabric of Heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR) -- David Berliner -- PART II: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES -- Chapter 5. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Angkor World Heritage Site -- Keiko Miura -- Chapter 6. One List, a World of Difference? The Dynamics of Global Heritage at Two Neighbouring Properties -- Noel B. Salazar -- Chapter 7. Civilization and the Transformation of Xiaotun Village at Yin Xu Archaeological Site, China -- Shu-Li Wang -- Chapter 8. The Business of Wonder: Public Meets Private at the World Heritage Site of Chichén Itzá -- Lisa Breglia -- PART III: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES -- Chapter 9. Decolonizing the Site: The Problems and Pragmatics of World Heritage in Italy, Libya and Tanzania -- Jasper Chalcraft -- Chapter 10. The Values of Exchange and the Issue of Control: Living with (World) Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria -- Peter Probst -- Chapter 11. Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: Extractive Economies and Endangerment on South Africa's Borders -- Lynn Meskell -- CODA -- Conclusion: Imagining the Ground from Afar: Why the Sites are so Remote in World Heritage Committee Sessions -- Christoph Brumann --
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9781782381211
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 242 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. The History of Eugenics -- Chapter 2. General Introduction to Eugenic Procedures -- Chapter 3. General Ethical Discussion -- Chapter 4. Arguments Supporting the New Eugenics -- Chapter 5. Arguments Opposing the New Eugenics -- -- Conclusion -- -- Appendix I: Past and Present Personalities Supporting Eugenic Policies -- Appendix II: Scottish Council on Human Bioethics Recommendations on Eugenics -- -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography --
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  • 6
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    ISBN: 9781782384540
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 244 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building. They contribute to a better understanding of how individuals and groups commemorate their pasts, and how nostalgia plays a role in the process of remembering.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Anthropology of Nostalgia-Anthropology as Nostalgia -- Olivia Angé and David Berliner -- Chapter 1. Are Anthropologists Nostalgist? -- David Berliner -- Chapter 2. Missing Socialism Again? The Malaise of Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Lithuania -- Gediminas Lankauskas -- Chapter 3. The Politics of Nostalgia in the Aftermath of Socialism's Collapse: A Case for Comparative Analysis -- Maya Nadkarni and Olga Shevchenko -- Chapter 4. Why Postimperial Trumps Postsocialist: Crying back the National Past in Hungary -- Chris Hann -- Chapter 5. Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in Former East Germany -- Jonathan Bach -- Chapter 6. The Key from (to) Sepharad: Nostalgia for a Lost Country -- Joseph Josy Lévy and Inaki Olazabal -- Chapter 7. Nostalgia and the Discovery of Loss: Essentializing the Turkish Cypriot Past -- Rebecca Bryant -- Chapter 8. Social and Economic Performativity of Nostalgic Narratives in Andean Barter Fairs -- Olivia Angé -- Chapter 9. Wither Left-Wing Nostalgia -- Petra Rethmann -- Afterword: On Anthropology's Nostalgia: Looking Back/Seeing Ahead -- William Cunningham Bissell -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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