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This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories – Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe – deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.
Internationalisation of medical knowledge, its circulation and implementation through colonial institutions have played a significant role in combating diseases of public health importance. With contributions from reputed faculty and researchers, this volume examines the dynamics of circulation of medical knowledge and the creation of webs of empire through medical curiosities, medical and architectural knowledge, medical manuscripts, African agency, medical ideas and management of diseases, surgical and anatomical knowledge and a collective scientific enterprise in translating ‘local’ to ‘universal’ paradigms of practice.
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory and applications in the field of decision making, especially focused on Analytic Hierarchy Process, a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by Prof. Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s and has been extensively studied and refined since then. The idea of the book is to expand the reader's consciousness to deal with problems regarding the decision making. This book presents some application examples of Analytic Hierarchy. It contains original research and application chapters from different perspectives, and covers different areas such as supply chain, environmental engineering, safety, and social issues. This book is intended to be a useful resource for anyone who deals with decision making problems.
Exploring the idea of the museum as a ritual site, this volume looks at contemporary experience across Europe and Africa to reveal the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such places
This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework, advancing research in this multifaceted area and offering an ideal supplemental text.
Lawyer Sandra Lerner defends Dr. Raul Capistrana charged with murder, trafficking, and laundering. Detective Dirk Strong flies to Guadalajara, rescues scientist Austin Hale and apprehends the resurrected Ghost of Archbishop Jésus Llano Juarez. Dirk becomes incapacitated by Montezuma's revenge. Comet strikes Jupiter. Earth tilts on axis, and new ice age begins. Houston freezes, has narcotics withdrawal, riots, and Bubonic Plague. The courthouse and jails close, and social Darwinism is thwarted by martial law. WARNING: Not for Dummies.
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O volume 32/33 da Antropologia Portuguesa é constituído por artigos científicos na área da antropologia biológica com enfoque em assuntos tão diversos como a paleopatologia, a paleodemografia e a antropologia dentária. Os vários temas perscrutados, como as alterações das enteses, o desgaste dentário, as modificações dentárias e a trepanação, enfatizam o papel relevante dos fatores sociais e culturais na biologia do esqueleto. Esta confluência de saberes, inerente à antropologia, é fundamental no estudo das populações humanas, considerando a dimensão biocultural para explicar a importância dos fatores sociais e culturais subjacentes à variação morfológica humana e o seu papel na origem de várias doenças. Excerto do Editorial de Cristina Padez
Pouco mais de quatro anos do lançamento da sua fábula infantojuvenil “Canários Livres”, Márcio Musa, o nosso Musinha (também MM, Marcin, dentre outros codinomes), traz, em seu segundo livro, um apanhado de pensamentos, ideias, conselhos e histórias curtas registradas ao longo de quase duas décadas. Para os que têm o privilégio de conviver com o Musinha, será impossível percorrer as próximas páginas sem esbarrar em uma daquelas tiradas espirituosas ou num dos bordões bem-humorados que o autor deste livro cria em profusão e que logo se convertem em clássicos instantâneos, passando a integrar o vocabulário e o conjunto de expressões que compartilhamos com determinados grupos de amigos – um dos mais valiosos e característicos traços de um círculo de amizades. Mas como nem tudo é “Búzios, não, filhin”, MM compartilha conosco, também, algumas de suas inquietudes e pensamentos mais profundos, mostrando que sobriedade e loucura precisam coexistir. Enfim, a leitura da obra proporcionará momentos alternados de diversão e de reflexão, revelando todo o método do autor. por Fernando Franco
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