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Book Relative Relations

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  • Author : Jane McAdam-Freud
  • Publisher : Jane McAdam Freud
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780952984818
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Relative Relations written by Jane McAdam-Freud and published by Jane McAdam Freud. This book was released on 2007 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Relative Races

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  • Author : Brigitte Fielder
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-21
  • ISBN : 1478012684
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Relative Races written by Brigitte Fielder and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Relative Races, Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed. Contrary to notions of genealogies by which race is transmitted from parents to children, the examples Fielder discusses from nineteenth-century literature, history, and popular culture show how race can follow other directions: Desdemona becomes less than fully white when she is smudged with Othello's blackface, a white woman becomes Native American when she is adopted by a Seneca family, and a mixed-race baby casts doubt on the whiteness of his mother. Fielder shows that the genealogies of race are especially visible in the racialization of white women, whose whiteness often depends on their ability to reproduce white family and white supremacy. Using black feminist and queer theories, Fielder presents readings of personal narratives, novels, plays, stories, poems, and images to illustrate how interracial kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and non-patrilineal models of inheritance in nineteenth-century literary culture.

Book What s in a Relative

Download or read book What s in a Relative written by Joan Bestard-Camps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective. This book is an outstanding example of ethnographic analysis which is sensitive to the findings of demographic and historical research.

Book Relative Tense and Aspectual Values in Tibetan Languages

Download or read book Relative Tense and Aspectual Values in Tibetan Languages written by Bettina Zeisler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a comparative approach to a universal theory of TENSE, ASPECT and MOOD, combining the methods of comparative and historical linguistics, fieldwork, text linguistics, and philology. The parts of the book discuss and describe (i) the concepts of TENSE, ASPECT and MOOD; (ii) the Tibetan system of RELATIVE TENSE and aspectual values, with main sections on Old and Classical Tibetan, “Lhasa” Tibetan, and East Tibetan (Amdo and Kham); and (iii) West Tibetan (Ladakhi, Purik, Balti); Part (iv) presents the comparative view. Discussing the similarities and differences of temporal and aspectual concepts, the study rejects the general claim that ASPECT is a linguistic universal. A new linguistic concept, FRAMING, is introduced in order to account for the aspect-like conceptualisations found in, e.g., English. The concept of RELATIVE TENSE or taxis, may likewise not be universal. Among the Tibetan varieties, West Tibetan is unique in having fully grammaticalized the concept of ABSOLUTE TENSE. West Tibetan is compared diachronically with Old and Classical Tibetan (documented since the mid 8th century) and synchronically with several contemporary Tibetan varieties. The grammaticalized forms of each variety are described on the basis of their employment in discourse. The underlying general function of the Tibetan verbal system is thus shown to be that of RELATIVE TENSE. Secondary aspectual functions are described for restricted contexts. A special focus on the pragmatic or metaphorical use of present tense constructions in Tibetan leads to a typology of narrative conventions. The last part also offers some suggestions for the reconstruction of the Proto-Tibetan verb system.

Book Relative Values

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  • Author : Sarah Franklin
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2002-02-22
  • ISBN : 0822383225
  • Pages : 531 pages

Download or read book Relative Values written by Sarah Franklin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a group of internationally recognized scholars—examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have long occupied a central place within the discipline of anthropology and moving beyond them. Ideas about kinship are vital not only to understanding but also to forming many of the practices and innovations of contemporary society. How do the cultural logics of contemporary biopolitics, commodification, and globalization intersect with kinship practices and theories? In what ways do kinship analogies inform scientific and clinical practices; and what happens to kinship when it is created in such unfamiliar sites as biogenetic labs, new reproductive technology clinics, and the computers of artificial life scientists? How does kinship constitute—and get constituted by—the relations of power that draw lines of hierarchy and equality, exclusion and inclusion, ambivalence and violence? The contributors assess the implications for kinship of such phenomena as blood transfusions, adoption across national borders, genetic support groups, photography, and the new reproductive technologies while ranging from rural China to mid-century Africa to contemporary Norway and the United States. Addressing these and other timely issues, Relative Values injects new life into one of anthropology's most important disciplinary traditions. Posing these and other timely questions, Relative Values injects an important interdisciplinary curiosity into one of anthropology’s most important disciplinary traditions. Contributors. Mary Bouquet, Janet Carsten, Charis Thompson Cussins, Carol Delaney, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Sarah Franklin, Deborah Heath, Stefan Helmreich, Signe Howell, Jonathan Marks, Susan McKinnon, Michael G. Peletz, Rayna Rapp, Martine Segalen, Pauline Turner Strong, Melbourne Tapper, Karen-Sue Taussig, Kath Weston, Yunxiang Yan

Book Relative Strangers

Download or read book Relative Strangers written by William R. Beer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1988 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relative Strangers studies the stepfamily as a social system in its own right, and examines the processes at work in this system. A sociological study of the stepfamily, this book will appeal to social workers, counsellors, family therapists, sociologists, teachers and educated readers interested in the American family.

Book The Principles of Mathematics

Download or read book The Principles of Mathematics written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Relative Constructions in European Non Standard Varieties

Download or read book Relative Constructions in European Non Standard Varieties written by Adriano Murelli and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars. This volume breaks with the tradition in that it investigates relative constructions in non-standard varieties from a multidisciplinary perspective and addresses a crucial question: what does Europe's typological panorama actually look like?

Book Relative Constructions in Turkish

Download or read book Relative Constructions in Turkish written by Geoffrey Haig and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book IRS Administration of Tax Laws Relating to Lobbying  Problems in the relationship between the Commerce Department s Maritime Administration and the National Maritime Council  a private trade organization  tax treatment of National Maritime Council expenditures for the  Don t Give Up the Ships  advertising and public relations campaigns

Download or read book IRS Administration of Tax Laws Relating to Lobbying Problems in the relationship between the Commerce Department s Maritime Administration and the National Maritime Council a private trade organization tax treatment of National Maritime Council expenditures for the Don t Give Up the Ships advertising and public relations campaigns written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages

Download or read book Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages written by Gratien Gualbert Atindogbé and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strategy in the world’s languages, and considering the evidence that the African language are either under-described, poorly described or not described at all, investigations into the forms, structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers dwelt on the construction of relative clauses, their structure and constraints, their morphosyntactic properties, how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that are thematic in a given discourse, and to mark the boundaries of units of text, and the formal characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general linguistics, cognitive linguist, applied psycholinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and pragmatics.

Book The Church in Relation to the State     Edited by J  McNaught  Second Edition   With a Recommendatory Notice Signed by J  Begg  and Others

Download or read book The Church in Relation to the State Edited by J McNaught Second Edition With a Recommendatory Notice Signed by J Begg and Others written by James GIBSON (Professor of the Free Church College, Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Relative Distance

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  • Author : Leslie Fesenmyer
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-06-30
  • ISBN : 1009335057
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Relative Distance written by Leslie Fesenmyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer's work provides a rich, historically nuanced study of the kinship dilemmas that underlie transnational migration and explores the dynamic relationship between those who migrate and those who stay behind. Challenging a focus on changing modes of economic production, 'push-pull' factors, and globalisation as drivers of familial change, she analyses everyday trans-national family life. Relative Distance shows how quotidian interactions, exchanges, and practices transform kinship on a local and global scale. Through the prism of intergenerational care, Fesenmyer reveals that the question of who is responsible for whom is not only a familial matter but is at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.

Book Frege on Absolute and Relative Truth

Download or read book Frege on Absolute and Relative Truth written by U. Pardey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has two objectives: to be a contribution to the understanding of Frege's theory of truth – especially a defence of his notorious critique of the correspondence theory - and to be an introduction to the practice of interpreting philosophical texts.

Book Evaluation of Relative Density and Its Role in Geotechnical Projects Involving Cohesionless Soils

Download or read book Evaluation of Relative Density and Its Role in Geotechnical Projects Involving Cohesionless Soils written by Ernest Theodore Selig and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1973 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Water relation Between Plant and Soil

Download or read book The Water relation Between Plant and Soil written by Burton Edward Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: