Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands
Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands

Author: Robert K. Hitchcock

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2011-12-31

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 193877020X

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Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume brings together a group of scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology. Each of these specialties deals with the question of information in different ways and with different sets of data given different primacy. The fundamental goal of the volume is to bridge disciplines and subdisciplines, open discussion, and see if some common ground-either theoretical perspectives, general principles, or methodologies-can be developed upon which to build future research on the role of information in hunter-gatherer bands.

Vak Self-Audit
Vak Self-Audit

Author: Brian Everard Walsh

Publisher: Walsh Seminars

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780986665554

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All of us communicate and learn in our own unique ways. Understanding your own profile will help you improve your interaction with colleagues, family, friends, and even complete strangers. What you'll find in this book can make a dramatic difference in your life. All you have to do is discover the concepts, do a bit of practice, and then complete the self-audit. Once you understand the different profiles, you can get your point across in a way that people will understand, establish rapport quickly to facilitate smother interactions, absorb information with greater ease and comprehension, and enhance your leadership skills and accelerate your career.

Sounding Roman
Sounding Roman

Author: Sonia Tamar Seeman

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0199949247

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How do marginalized communities speak back to power when they are excluded from political processes and socially denigrated? In what ways do they use music to sound out their unique histories and empower themselves? How can we hear their voices behind stereotyped and exaggerated portrayals promoted by mainstream communities, record producers and government officials? Sounding Roman: Music and Performing Identity in Western Turkey explores these questions through a historically-grounded and ethnographic study of Turkish Roman ("Gypsies") from the Ottoman period up to the present. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork (1995 to the present), collected oral histories, historical documents of popular culture (recordings, images, song texts, theatrical scripts), legal and administrative documents, this book takes a hard look at historical processes by which Roman are stereotyped as and denigrated as "�ingene"---a derogatory group name equivalent to the English term, "gypsy", and explores creative musical ways by which Roman have forged new musical forms as a means to create and assert new social identities. Sounding Roman presents detailed musical analysis of Turkish Roman musical genres and styles, set within social, historical and political contexts of musical performances. By moving from Byzantine and Ottoman social contexts, we witness the reciprocal construction of ethnic identity of both Roman and Turk through music in the 20th century. From neighborhood weddings held in the streets, informal music lessons, to recording studios and concert stages, the book traces the dynamic negotiation of social identity with new musical sounds. Through a detailed ethnography of Turkish Roman ("Gypsy") musical practices from the Ottoman period to the present, this work investigates the power of music to configure new social identities and pathways for political action, while testing the limits of cultural representation to effect meaningful social change.

The Birth of the Khalsa
The Birth of the Khalsa

Author: Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0791482669

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Sikhs trace the genesis of their religious rites, prayers, dress codes, and names to Guru Gobind Singh's creation of the Khalsa in 1699. The Birth of the Khalsa is the first work to explore this pivotal event in Sikh history from a feminist perspective, questioning the ways in which Sikh memories have constructed a hypermasculine Sikh identity. The book argues that Sikh memory needs to acknowledge the vital female dimension grounded in the universal human condition and present at the birth of the Khalsa. Inspired by her own father, the eminent Sikh scholar Harbans Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh rediscovers the feminine side of the words and actions of the founders of Sikhism. She looks at the basic texts and tenets of Sikh religion and demonstrates the female aspect in the sacred text, daily prayers, dress code, and rituals of the Sikhs. Singh reminds us that Guru Gobind Singh's original vision was an egalitarian one and urges present-day Sikhs to live up to the liberating implications set in motion when he gave birth to the Khalsa.

Education Studies: Issues & Critical Perspectives
Education Studies: Issues & Critical Perspectives

Author: Kassem, Derek

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0335219721

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'Education Studies' is an essential text for Education Studies students. It provides a critical account of key issues in education today. Themed sections with introductions link the issues discussed in each chapter.

Patient Education in Rehabilitation
Patient Education in Rehabilitation

Author: Olga Dreeben-Irimia

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0763755443

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Patient education is an important aspect of the rehabilitation process. As a science, it consists of the health care professional's development of patient education skills. Delivering information, education, and training in rehabilitation is intended to promote and optimize clinical interventions including compliance, continuity of care, and patient satisfaction. This text applies patient education skills to the clinical rehabilitation process. In a reader-friendly manner, it explores various teaching and learning theories, models of instruction, as well as communication, ethical, legal and cu

Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 16th–18th Centuries
Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 16th–18th Centuries

Author: Rhoads Murphey

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1000944417

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The studies presented in this collection are concerned most particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries. They range from the evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace on the one hand, to notions of domesticity and organization of the private sphere on the other, and deal with the provinces, in both the Balkans and in Asia, as much as with Istanbul. At the same time the volume aims to illuminate Ottoman imperial institutional forms and norms as they existed in the high imperial era before the rapid change and transformation associated with late imperial times when the empire was more exposed both to global economic forces and external political pressures. This concentration on the relatively stable conditions that prevailed in the empire throughout the bulk of the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1750) provides the reader with an opportunity to assess Ottoman institutional development and observe social and economic organization in their relatively 'pure' state before the double impact of industrialization and increasing Westernization in the late nineteenth century.