The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, Ideology, Methodology

Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world’s largest folklore collections. This study draws on the extensive government files on the Commission in the National Archives of Ireland and on a wide variety of other primary and secondary sources, in order to recount and ass…

Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Collaboration in Sr…

In Research as Development, Salla Sariola and Bob Simpson show how international collaboration operates in a setting that is typically portrayed as "resource-poor" and "scientifically lagging." Based on their long-term fieldwork in Sri Lanka, Sariola and Simpson bring into clear ethnographic focus the ways international scientific collaborations feature prominently in the pursuit of global heal…

Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

In recent political and constitutional history, scholars seldom specify how and why they use the concept of territory.

Conflictividades interculturales; Demandas indígenas como crisis fructíferas

Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends.

Classic Concepts in Anthropology

The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944–98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about rit…

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for the Bipolar Disorder Patients

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for the Bipolar Disorder Patients

Ciudadanías en conflicto; Enfoques, experiencias y propuestas

Las transformaciones políticas, económicas, sociales y culturales de las últimas décadas, han posicionado a la ciudadanía como tema de interés público, generando un amplio debate en torno a su conceptualización y a las características del modelo educativo que se requiere para la formación ciudadana.

Chapter 6 Optogenetic actuation, inhibition, modulation and readout for neuro…

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Stochastic mobility models in space and time

An interesting fact in nature is that if we observe agents (neurons, particles, animals, humans) behaving,or more precisely moving, inside their environment, we can recognize – tough at different space or time scales – very specific patterns. The existence of those patterns is quite obvious, since not all things in nature behave totally at random, especially if we take into account thinking…

Keeping the World’s Environment under Review

How do we take stock of the state and direction of the world’s environment, and what can we learn from the experience? Among the myriad detailed narratives about the condition of the planet, the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) reports—issued by the United Nations Environment Programme—stand out as the most ambitious. For nearly three decades the GEO project has not only delivered iconic …