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  • 2005-2009  (6)
  • Electronic books ; local
  • Ethnology  (6)
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    Naked City : The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (2009)
    Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO
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    ISBN: 9780199741892
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (252 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Naked City : The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
    Parallel Title: Zukin, Sharon Naked city
    DDC: 307.14164097471
    RVK:
    ZH 9400
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    RB 10627
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    LB 73610
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    RU 20909
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    LB 73000
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    Keywords: Urbanization ; Community development, Urban ; City and town life ; Electronic books ; local ; City and town life ; New York (State) ; New York ; Community development, Urban ; New York (State) ; New York ; Urbanization ; New York (State) ; New York ; Electronic books ; New York, NY ; Stadtforschung ; Gentrifizierung
    Abstract: Sharon Zukin argues that the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--and the consequent escalating real estate prices--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen.
    Abstract: Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction The City That Lost Its Soul -- Uncommon Spaces -- 1 How Brooklyn Became Cool -- 2 Why Harlem Is Not a Ghetto -- 3 Living Local in the East Village -- Common Spaces -- 4 Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space -- 5 A Tale of Two Globals: Pupusas and IKEA in Red Hook -- 6 The Billboard and the Garden: A Struggle for Roots -- Conclusion Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity -- Notes -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Introduction: The City That Lost Its Soul; Uncommon Spaces; Common Spaces; Conclusion Destination Culture and the Crisis of Authenticity; Notes; Index;
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  • 2
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    Capital, Interrupted : Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India (2008)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
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    ISBN: 9780816656578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (364 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gidwani, Vinay K., 1965 - Capital, interrupted
    DDC: 338.1095475
    RVK:
    LB 55385
    Keywords: Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Agrarsoziologie ; Ethnologie ; Soziale Lage ; Kapitalismus ; Agrarpolitik ; Gujarat ; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Canada ; Food industy and trade -- Canada ; Farm produce -- Canada -- Marketing ; Local foods -- Canada ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Agriculture ; Economic aspects ; India ; Gujarat ; Capitalism ; India ; Gujarat ; History ; Capitalism ; Philosophy ; Patidars ; Economic conditions ; Patidars ; Social conditions ; Gujarat ; Landwirtschaft ; Geschichte 1800- ; Patidars ; Geschichte 1800-
    Abstract: The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its broad implications for the nature of labor and capital worldwide. With the Patels as his central case, Gidwani interrogates established concepts of value, development, and the relationship between capital and history. Capitalism, he argues, is not a frame of economic organization based on the smooth, consistent operation of a series of laws, but rather an assemblage of contingent and interrupted logics stitched together into the appearance of a deus ex machina. Following this line of thinking, Gidwani points to ways in which political economy might be freed of its lingering Eurocentrism, raises questions about the adequacy of postcolonial studies critique of Marx and capitalism, and opens the possibility of situating capitalism as a geographically uneven social formation in which different normative or value-creating practices are imperfectly sutured together in ways that can equally impair and enable profit and accumulation.Both theoretically astute and empirically informed, Capital, Interrupted unsettles encrusted understandings of staple concepts within the human sciences such as hegemony, governmentality, caste, and agency and, ultimately, does nothing less than rethink the very constitution of capitalism.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Sutures -- ONE: Waste -- TWO: Birth -- THREE: Machine -- FOUR: Distinction -- FIVE: Interruption -- Afterword: Aporia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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  • 3
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    Identity, Security and Democracy : The Wider Social and Ethical Implications of Automated Systems for Human Identification (2008)
    Amsterdam : IOS Press
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    ISBN: 9781607503835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (144 pages)
    Series Statement: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics, v. 49 v.v. 49
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Identity, security and democracy
    DDC: 005.8
    RVK:
    LB 51000
    Keywords: Computer security-Congresses ; Data integrity-Congresses ; Data protection-Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Computer security ; Congresses ; Data integrity ; Congresses ; Data protection ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Datenschutz ; Automatische Identifikation ; Privatsphäre ; Biometrie ; Computersicherheit
    Abstract: Deals with the relations between identity, security and democracy. This book shows how full of nuances the process of human identification is.
    Abstract: Title page -- Preface: Life in a Jar -- Acknowledgment -- Biographies of Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction -- Human Rights, Identity and Anonymity: Digital Identity and Its Management in e-Society -- Towards a Governance of Identity Security Systems -- Children's Identity and Security -- Privacy and Security -- Biometric Recognition: An Overview -- Biometrics: Security vs Privacy. A Scientific and Bioethical Point of View -- Biometrics, Identification and Practical Ethics -- Machine-Readable Bodies Biometrics, Informatization and Surveillance -- The Biometric Society - Risks and Opportunities -- Ethical and Legal Aspects of Biometrics (Convention 108) -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
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  • 4
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    Handbook of sports and lottery markets (2008)
    Amsterdam ; : Elsevier/North-Holland
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    ISBN: 9780080559957 , 0080559956
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxiii, 536 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Handbooks in finance
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    RVK:
    QR 200
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    LB 61000
    Keywords: Sports betting ; Lotteries ; Gambling systems ; Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Its basic empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lottery markets make this volume a winner. These markets are simpler to study than traditional financial markets, and their expected values and outcomes are uncomplicated. By means of new overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market efficiencies, contributors consider a variety of sports in countries around the world. The result is not only superior information about market forecasting, but macro- and micro-analyses that are relevant to other markets. * Easily studied sports markets reveal features relevant for more complex traditional financial markets * Significant coverage of sports from racing to jai alai * New studies of betting exchanges and Internet wagering markets
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    Doing Things with Things : The Design and Use of Everyday Objects (2007)
    Abingdon : Routledge
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    ISBN: 9780754680109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Ethnoscapes Ser
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Doing things with things
    DDC: 306.46
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    LB 85000
    Keywords: Material culture -- Philosophy ; Technology -- Social aspects ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Knowledge, Theory of, in children ; Electronic books ; local ; Knowledge, Theory of, in children ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Material culture ; Philosophy ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Alltagsgegenstand ; Verwendung ; Kind ; Soziokultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sachkultur ; Archäologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'. While a subject such as archaeology, by its very nature, takes objects into account, other disciplines, such as psychology, emphasize internal mental structures and other non-material issues. This book brings together a team of contributors from across the social sciences who have been taking 'things' more seriously to examine how people relate to objects. The contributors focus on every day objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time. Using a combination of different theoretical approaches, including actor network theory, ecological psychology, cognitive linguistics and science and technology studies, the book argues against the standard notion of objects and their properties as inert and meaningless and argues for the need to understand the relations between people and objects in terms of process and change.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Intentionality and the Functionality of Things -- 1. The Case of the Recalcitrant Prototype -- 2. Use Plans and Artefact Functions: An Intentionalist Approach to Artefacts and their Use -- Part II: Things in the World of the Child -- 3. Autism and Object Use: The Mutuality of the Social and Material in Children's Developing Understanding and Use of Everyday Objects -- 4. Object Use in Pretend Play: Symbolic or Functional? -- 5. Culture, Language and Canonicality: Differences in the Use of Containers between Zapotec (Mexican Indigenous) and Danish Children -- Part III: Transformation and Things -- 6. The Cognitive Biographies of Things -- 7. The Woman who used her Walking Stick as a Telephone: The Use of Utilities in Praxis -- 8. Politics of Things: The Interplay of Design and Practice in a Design Workshop with Children -- Part IV: Organisation and Things -- 9. Working with Material Things: From Essentialism to Material-Semiotic Analysis of Sociotechnical Practice -- 10. Words and Things: Discursive and Non-Discursive Ordering in a Networked Organisation -- 11. Learning to Do Things with Things: Apprenticeship Learning in Bakery as Economy and Social Practice -- 12. Urban Makings and the Formalisation of Informal Settlements -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
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    Where the Wild Things Are Now : Domestication Reconsidered (2007)
    London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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    ISBN: 9781847883322
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (326 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Wenner-Gren International Symposium Ser
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wenner-Gren International Symposium (133. : 2004 : Tucson, Ariz.) Where the wild things are now
    DDC: 304.5
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    LC 55000
    Keywords: Domestication -- Congresses ; Domestic animals -- Congresses ; Plants, Cultivated -- Congresses ; Human-animal relationships -- Congresses ; Human-plant relationships -- Congresses ; Electronic books ; local ; Domestic animals ; Congresses ; Domestication ; Congresses ; Human-animal relationships ; Congresses ; Human-plant relationships ; Congresses ; Plants, Cultivated ; Congresses ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological control. Are we also writing a new chapter in the history of domestication? Where the Wild Things Are Now explores the relevance of domestication for anthropologists and scholars in related fields who are concerned with understanding ongoing change in processes affecting humans as well as other species. From the pet food industry and its critics to salmon farming in Tasmania, the protection of endangered species in Vietnam and the pigeon fanciers who influenced Darwin, Where the Wild Things Are Now provides an urgently needed re-examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships between humans, animals and plants.
    Abstract: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Participants at the Wenner-GrenFoundation International Symposium"Where the Wild Things Are Now" -- Introduction: Domestication Reconsidered -- 1 The Domestication of Anthropology -- 2 Animal Interface: The Generosity of Domestication -- 3 Selection and the Unforeseen Consequences of Domestication -- 4 Agriculture or Architecture? The Beginnings of Domestication -- 5 Monkey and Human Interconnections: The Wild, the Captive, and the In-between -- 6 "An Experiment on a Gigantic Scale": Darwin and the Domestication of Pigeons -- 7 The Metaphor of Domestication in Genetics -- 8 Domestication "Downunder": Atlantic Salmon Farming in Tasmania -- 9 Putting the Lion out at Night: Domestication and the Taming of the Wild -- 10 Of Rice, Mammals, and Men: The Politics of "Wild" and "Domesticated" Species in Vietnam -- 11 Feeding the Animals -- Index.
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