Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective.
Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta's Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives tha…
Teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) baru telah diterapkan dalam perang melawan penyakit Parkinson, gangguan neurodegeneratif yang progresif dan melumpuhkan dengan dampak signifikan terhadap kualitas hidup. Buku ini menjelaskan pengalaman yang diperoleh dari hasil yang dicapai dalam proyek REMPARK tentang manajemen penyakit Parkinson hingga peluncuran produk medis baru ke pasar Eropa, STAT-…
Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces in voter turnout. Given the province's economic reliance on oil revenues, a symbiotic relationship…
Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking, literature, and innovative dance from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics.
Buku ini adalah proyek bersama dari Divisi Urusan Indian Utah dan Masyarakat Sejarah Negara Bagian Utah. Buku ini didistribusikan ke perdagangan buku oleh Utah State University Press. Lembah, gunung, dan padang pasir di Utah telah menjadi rumah bagi masyarakat asli selama ribuan tahun. Seperti masyarakat di seluruh dunia, penduduk asli Utah mengorganisir diri mereka dalam unit keluarga, kelompo…
There is one thing common among all those who have met and worked with Dr. Baum: their description of Prof. Baum’s work ethics and dedication. His associates fondly describe him as a person with unmatched physical and mental strength, allowing him to work for 16–18 h every single day, 7 days a week
Starting from a cluster of villages in southeast Albania, Albanian-born British scholar Julie Vullnetari follows rural migrants to domestic urban destinations such as Tirana and abroad to Thessaloniki in Greece. Vullnetari has conducted more than 150 interviews, and drawing upon this rich empirical material, she offers a profound account of Albanian migration from start to finish. A rare, exhau…
The aim of this paper is to describe and reflect upon the functional aspects of the ritual reuse of Bronze Age monuments that occurred in south-western Sweden in the Late Iron Age. The often very complex ritual behaviour cannot be labelled as traces of simple plundering. The archaeological record reveals that the large barrows and stone settings of the Bronze Age were systematically reused …