Author: Richard Fardon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134840802
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of 'cultural flow'? In Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the pervasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere. Rather than assuming that the world is culturally diverse, this book proposes that culture is itself a representation of the similarities and difference recognized between forms of social life. The authors address issues of globalization in terms of diverse histories and traditions of knowledge, which may include the construction of difference as cultural. In its attention to specific local situations, such as Bali, Cuba, Bolivia, Greece, Kenya, and the Maoris in New Zealand, Counterworks argues that the apparent oppositoin between strong westernizing, global forces and weak concept of culture, which supposes cultures to be integrated and possessed of essential properties, needs rethinking in a contemporary world where a marked sense of culture has become a wide-spread property of people's social knowledge. The book will have wide appeal to anthropologists, to students of comparative studies in history, religion and language, and to anyone interested in the phenomenon of postmodernism.

Author: Edward Adderley Stopford
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Category : Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Edward Hincks
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Edward Hincks
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Edward Adderley STOPFORD (Archdeacon of Meath.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Lin Zhang
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811026661
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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This four-volume set (CCIS 643, 644, 645, 646) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Asia Simulation Conference and the First Autumn Simulation Multi-Conference, AsiaSim / SCS AutumnSim 2016, held in Beijing, China, in October 2016. The 265 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 651 submissions. The papers in this second volume of the set are organized in topical sections on HMI and robot simulations; modeling and simulation for intelligent manufacturing; military simulation; visualization and virtual reality.

Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1332

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Author: W. Eric Wong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319017667
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1356

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This book aims to examine innovation in the fields of computer engineering and networking. The book covers important emerging topics in computer engineering and networking, and it will help researchers and engineers improve their knowledge of state-of-art in related areas. The book presents papers from The Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Network (CENet2013) which was held on 20-21 July, in Shanghai, China.

Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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