The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality: The Humane Images of Modernism, Betsy van Schlun

Автор: Delsanto Pier Paolo
Название: Universality of Nonclassical Nonlinearity / Applications to Non-Destructive Evaluations and Ultrasonics
ISBN: 0387338608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387338606
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book comes as a result of the research work developed in the framework of two large international projects: the European Science Foundation (ESF) supported program NATEMIS (Nonlinear Acoustic Techniques for Micro-Scale Damage Diagnostics) (of which Professor Delsanto was the European coordinator, 2000-2004) and a Los Alamos-based network headed by Dr. P.A. Johnson. The main topic of both programs and of this book is the description of the phenomenology, theory and applications of nonclassical Nonlinearity (NCNL). In fact NCNL techniques have been found in recent years to be extremely powerful (up to more than 1000 times with respect to the corresponding linear techniques) in a wide range of applications, including Elasticity, Material Characterization, Ultrasonics, Geophysics to Maintenance and Restoration of artifacts (paintings, stone buildings, etc.). The book is divided into three parts: Part I - defines and describes the concept of NCNL and its universality and reviews several fields to which it may apply; Part II - describes the phenomenology, theory, modelling and virtual experiments (simulations); Part III - discusses some of the most relevant experimental techniques and applications.

Автор: ELIZABETH CHIN
Название: Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures
ISBN: 193864512X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781938645129
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist. One of the first African Americans to obtain a degree in anthropology, she conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in Jamaica and Haiti in the early 1930s and wrote several books including Journey to Accompong, Island Possessed, and Las Danzas de Haiti. Decades before Margaret Mead was publishing for popular audiences in Redbook, Dunham wrote ethnographically informed essays for Esquire and Mademoiselle under the pseudonym Kaye Dunn. Katherine Dunham was a dancer. The first person to head a black modern dance company, Dunham toured the world, appeared in numerous films in the United States and abroad, and worked globally to promote the vitality and relevance of African diasporic dance and culture. Dunham was a cultural advisor, teacher, Kennedy Center honoree, and political activist.This book explores Katherine Dunham’s contribution to anthropology and the ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each other. Drawing from Dunham’s holistic vision, the contributors began to experiment with how to bring the practise of art back into the discipline of anthropology - and vice versa.

Автор: Rabinow Paul, Stavrianakis Anthony
Название: Designs on the Contemporary: Anthropological Tests
ISBN: 022613847X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226138473
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Описание: Deals with the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. The authors explore the contemporary from past works: how to conceptualize, test, and give form to breakdowns of truth and conduct, and how to open up possibilities for the remediation of such breakdowns.

Автор: Headley John M.
Название: The Problem with Multiculturalism: The Uniqueness and Universality of Western Civilization
ISBN: 1412854970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412854979
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The horrors of the past century have done little to advance appreciation for the virtues of Western civilization

Автор: Weiss
Название: Reflected Brownian Motions in the KPZ Universality Class
ISBN: 3319494988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319494982
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Описание: This book presents a detailed study of a system of interacting Brownian motions in one dimension. The interaction is point-like such that the n-th Brownian motion is reflected from the Brownian motion with label n-1. This model belongs to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. In fact, because of the singular interaction, many universal properties can be established with rigor. They depend on the choice of initial conditions. Discussion addresses packed and periodic initial conditions (Chapter 5), stationary initial conditions (Chapter 6), and mixtures thereof (Chapter 7). The suitably scaled spatial process will be proven to converge to an Airy process in the long time limit. A chapter on determinantal random fields and another one on Airy processes are added to have the notes self-contained. These notes serve as an introduction to the KPZ universality class, illustrating the main concepts by means of a single model only. The notes will be of interest to readers from interacting diffusion processes and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.

Автор: J?r?me Durand-Lose; Maurice Margenstern
Название: Machines, Computations, and Universality
ISBN: 3540745920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540745921
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Описание: Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Machines, Computations, and Universality, MCU 2007, held in Orleans, France, September 10-13, 2007. This book presents 18 revised full papers together with 9 invited papers that were reviewed and selected.

Автор: Rabinow Paul, Samimian-Darash Limor
Название: Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases
ISBN: 022625707X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226257075
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Описание: Organizing contributions from various anthropological subfields, including economics, security and environment, the authors offer tools which consider uncertainty, its management, and the differing modes of subjectivity appropriate to it. The also present ways of thinking about danger and risk from an analytical and anthropological perspective.