Black Nightshades
Author: Jennifer M. Edmonds
Publisher: Bioversity International
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9290433213
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Wild Plants for a Sustainable Future
Author: Tiziana Ulian
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781842466742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElection Observation and Democratization in Africa
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1349623288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an authoritative study of election observation in Africa and its relation with democratization processes. Election observation is a hotly debated issue in contemporary international relations and in political science. It is seen by donor- countries and the international community as a means to enhance democratization, but has been controversial with regard to the `mandates' of the observers, the cases of its misappropriation by authoritarian governments and its masking of other donor-country interests. The book addresses fundamental issues of elections and democrat-ization in Africa, evaluation policies and implementation, as well as the historical backgrounds. A range of case studies leads to new interpretations, which challenge previous empiricist accounts of election observation in Africa. Greater attention to historical and cultural context is required than has been present in previous, somewhat prescriptive accounts. An interdisciplinary approach gives fair coverage of the historical, political and cultural issues involved in elections and election observation in Africa. Key examples of the interface between election observation and democratization processes in various important countries in Africa are presented, linking an analysis of policies and practice. The book contributes to topical debates on the dilemmas and challenges of 'good governance' and on the varieties of democracy as a global phenomenon.
From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures
Author: Hiroyuki Hino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1108476600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.
Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses
Author: Michael Jordan
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1438109857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents brief entries describing the gods and goddesses from the mythology and religion of a wide variety of cultures throughout history.
From Hospitality to Grace
Author: Julian Alfred Pitt-Rivers
Publisher: Hau
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780986132520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his life--including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress, and more--this omnibus brings his reflections to new life. Holding Pitt-Rivers's diversity of subjects and ethnographic foci in the same gaze, this book reveals a theoretical unity that ran through his work and highlights his iconic wit and brilliance. Striking at the heart of anthropological theory, the pieces here explore the relationship between the mental and the material, between what is thought and what is done. Classic, definitive, and yet still extraordinarily relevant for contemporary anthropology, Pitt-Rivers's lifetime contribution will provide a new generation of anthropologists with an invaluable resource for reflection on both ethnographic and theoretical issues.
Ethno-ornithology
Author: Sonia C. Tidemann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 113654383X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability. In contrast, western approaches have tended to reduce knowledge to elemental and material references. This book looks at the significance of indigenous knowledge of birds and their cultural significance, and how these can assist in framing research methods of western scientists working in related areas. As well as its knowledge base, this book provides practical advice for professionals in conservation and anthropology by demonstrating the relationship between mutual respect, local participation and the building of partnerships for the resolution of joint problems. It identifies techniques that can be transferred to different regions, environments and collections, as well as practices suitable for investigation, adaptation and improvement of knowledge exchange and collection in ornithology. The authors take anthropologists and biologists who have been trained in, and largely continue to practise from, a western reductionist approach, along another path - one that presents ornithological knowledge from alternative perspectives, which can enrich the more common approaches to ecological and other studies as well as plans of management for conservation.
The East Africa Protectorate
Author: Charles Eliot
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780714616612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Living with the Commons
Author: Are J. Knudsen
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives
Author: Pamela L. Geller
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-28
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 3319409956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather, the case studies within—extend from Neolithic Europe to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to the nineteenth-century United States—highlight the importance of culturally and historically contextualizing socio-sexual beliefs and practices. The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives highlights a major shortcoming in many scholarly and popular presentations of past socio-sexual lives. They reveal little about the ancient or historic group under study and much about Western society’s modern state of heteronormative affairs. To interrogate commonsensical thinking about socio-sexual identities and interactions, this volume draws from critical feminist and queer studies. Reciprocally, bioarchaeological studies extend social theorizing about sex, gender, and sexuality that emphasizes the modern, conceptual, and discursive. Ultimately, The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives invites readers to think more deeply about humanity’s diversity, the naturalization of culture, and the past’s presentation in mass-media communications.
