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Sex and Salvation
As much of the intense political and social changes in Madagascar revolve around urban youth, who view themselves as avatars of modernity, this book argues that traditional social science offers inadequate theorizations of generational change and its contribution to broader cultural historical processes.
The Sex Thieves
While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these accusations can have dramatic outcomes: the “sex thieves” are often targeted by large crowds and publicly lynched. Moreover, such rumors are an extremely widespread practice, having affected almost half of the African continent since the 1970s. In this book, Bonhomme examines the story of the “penis snatcher,” asking larger questions about how to account for such a phenomenon—unique in its spatial and temporal scale—without falling pre...
Geometric Aspects of Dwork Theory
This two-volume book collects the lectures given during the three months cycle of lectures held in Northern Italy between May and July of 2001 to commemorate Professor Bernard Dwork (1923 - 1998). It presents a wide-ranging overview of some of the most active areas of contemporary research in arithmetic algebraic geometry, with special emphasis on the geometric applications of the p-adic analytic techniques originating in Dwork's work, their connection to various recent cohomology theories and to modular forms. The two volumes contain both important new research and illuminating survey articles written by leading experts in the field. The book will provide an indispensable resource for all those wishing to approach the frontiers of research in arithmetic algebraic geometry.
Automorphic Forms and Galois Representations
Part one of a two-volume collection exploring recent developments in number theory related to automorphic forms and Galois representations.
Cyclic Cohomology at 40: Achievements and Future Prospects
This volume contains the proceedings of the virtual conference on Cyclic Cohomology at 40: Achievements and Future Prospects, held from September 27–October 1, 2021 and hosted by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada. Cyclic cohomology, since its discovery forty years ago in noncommutative differential geometry, has become a fundamental mathematical tool with applications in domains as diverse as analysis, algebraic K-theory, algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, solid state physics and quantum field theory. The reader will find survey articles providing a user-friendly introduction to applications of cyclic cohomology in such areas as higher ca...
Global Perspectives on Global History
In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials of global history have been largely confined to national or regional academic communities. In this groundbreaking book, Dominic Sachsenmaier sets out to redress this imbalance by offering a series of new perspectives on the global and local flows, sociologies of knowledge and hierarchies that are an intrinsic part of historical practice. Taking the United States, Germany and China as his main case studies, he reflects upon the character of different approaches to global history as well as their social, political and cultural contexts. He argues that this new global trend in historiography needs to be supported by a corresponding increase in transnational dialogue, cooperation and exchange.
The War of Guns and Mathematics
For a long time, World War I has been shortchanged by the historiography of science. Until recently, World War II was usually considered as the defining event for the formation of the modern relationship between science and society. In this context, the effects of the First World War, by contrast, were often limited to the massive deaths of promising young scientists. By focusing on a few key places (Paris, Cambridge, Rome, Chicago, and others), the present book gathers studies representing a broad spectrum of positions adopted by mathematicians about the conflict, from militant pacifism to military, scientific, or ideological mobilization. The use of mathematics for war is thoroughly examin...
Cognitive Approaches to Contemporary Media
This collection represents a fresh perspective on metaphorical language used in the media nowadays and will inform and captivate both the general reader and the specialist. It explores the fascinating facets of metaphor use in journals and filmsâ andâ given the mediatic tendencies of manipulative framings of reality, offers fresh insights into how figurative language works in the media nowadays may be useful in order to educate audiences and train their decoding abilities in order to avoid being misled and biased. Its complexity and wide array of perspectives would make this book a must-read for anyone genuinely interested in achieving a broader picture of the fieldâ from undergraduate students of English language and linguists to people working in the media.
Ecoop 2000--Object-Oriented Programming
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented programming, ECOOP 2000, held in Sophia, Antipolis and Cannes, France, in June 2000. The book also contains a CD-ROM providing digitized versions of all previous ECOOP conference proceedings and related indices.The 20 revised full papers presented in the book together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 109 submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on UML, type theory, object relations, cooperation and distribution, Java run time, optimization, and tools.
