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Animism in Southeast Asia

Animism in Southeast Asia

Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations. Based on original fieldwork this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and peninsular Southeast Asia and offers a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon – its diversity and underlying commonalities and its resilience in the face of powerful forces of change. Critically engaging with the current standard notion of animism based on hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist societies in other regions it examines the roles of life forces souls and spirits in local cosmologies and indigenous religion. It proposes an expansion of the concept to societies featuring mixed farming sacrifice and hierarchy and explores the question of how non-human agents are created through acts of attention and communication touching upon the relationship between animist ontologies world religion and the state. Shedding new light on Southeast Asian religious ethnographic research the book is a significant contribution to anthropological theory and the revitalization of the concept of animism in the humanities and social sciences. | Animism in Southeast Asia

GBP 46.99
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Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management unites experts in wildlife and fishery sciences for an interdisciplinary overview of harvest management. This book presents unique insights for embracing the complete social-ecological system to ensure a sustainable future. It educates users on evolutionary and population dynamics; social and political influences; hunter and angler behavior; decision processes; impacts of regulations; and stakeholder involvement. Features: Written by twenty-four teams of leading scientists and managers. Promotes transparent justification for fishing and hunting regulations. Provides examples for integrating decision making into management. Emphasizes creativity in management by integrating art and science. This book appeals to population biologists evolutionary biologists and social scientists. It is a key resource for on-the-ground managers and research scientists developing harvesting applications. As the book’s contributors explain: “Making decisions that are robust to uncertainty…is a paradigm shift with a lot of potential to improve outcomes for fish and wildlife populations. ” –Andrew Tyre and Brigitte Tenhumberg “Temporal shifts in system states…must somehow be anticipated and dealt with to derive harvest policies that remain optimal in the long term. ” –Michael Conroy “Proactive effective management of sportspersons…will be essential in the new paradigm of harvest management. ” –Matthew Gruntorad and Christopher Chizinski | Harvest of Fish and Wildlife New Paradigms for Sustainable Management

GBP 66.99
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Human Hierarchies A General Theory

Human Hierarchies A General Theory

Human beings are hierarchical animals. Always and everywhere people have developed social ranking systems. These differ dramatically in how they are organized but the underlying causal mechanisms that create and sustain them are the same. Whether they are on the top or bottom of the heap people attempt to be superior to some other persons or group. This is the root of Melvyn L. Fein's thesis presented in Human Hierarchies: A General Theory. Fein traces the development of changes from hunter-gatherer times to our own techno-commercial society. In moving from small to large communities humans went from face-to-face contests for superiority to more anonymous and symbolic ones. Societies evolved from hunting bands where the parties knew each other through big-men societies chieftainships agrarian empires patronage chains caste societies estate systems and market-oriented democracies. Where once small groupings were organized primarily by strong forces such as personal relationships the now standard large groupings are more dependent on weaker forces such as those provided by social roles. Bureaucracies and professional roles have become prominent. Bureaucracies allow large-scale organizations to maintain control of people by limiting the potential destructiveness of unregulated tests of strength and by clarifying chains of command. Their rigidity and unresponsiveness requires that they be supplemented by professional roles. At the same time a proliferation of self-motivated experts delegate authority downward thereby introducing a more flexible decentralization. This analysis is a unique and significant advance in both the sociology and anthropology of stratification among humans. | Human Hierarchies A General Theory

GBP 51.99
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Statistics in Engineering With Examples in MATLAB and R Second Edition

Statistics in Engineering With Examples in MATLAB and R Second Edition

Engineers are expected to design structures and machines that can operate in challenging and volatile environments while allowing for variation in materials and noise in measurements and signals. Statistics in Engineering Second Edition: With Examples in MATLAB and R covers the fundamentals of probability and statistics and explains how to use these basic techniques to estimate and model random variation in the context of engineering analysis and design in all types of environments. The first eight chapters cover probability and probability distributions graphical displays of data and descriptive statistics combinations of random variables and propagation of error statistical inference bivariate distributions and correlation linear regression on a single predictor variable and the measurement error model. This leads to chapters including multiple regression; comparisons of several means and split-plot designs together with analysis of variance; probability models; and sampling strategies. Distinctive features include: All examples based on work in industry consulting to industry and research for industry Examples and case studies include all engineering disciplinesEmphasis on probabilistic modeling including decision trees Markov chains and processes and structure functionsIntuitive explanations are followed by succinct mathematical justificationsEmphasis on random number generation that is used for stochastic simulations of engineering systems demonstration of key concepts and implementation of bootstrap methods for inferenceUse of MATLAB and the open source software R both of which have an extensive range of statistical functions for standard analyses and also enable programing of specific applicationsUse of multiple regression for times series models and analysis of factorial and central composite designs Inclusion of topics such as Weibull analysis of failure times and split-plot designs that are commonly used in industry but are not usually included in introductory textbooksExperiments designed to show fundamental concepts that have been tested with large classes working in small groupsWebsite with additional materials that is regularly updatedAndrew Metcalfe David Green Andrew Smith and Jonathan Tuke have taught probability and statistics to students of engineering at the University of Adelaide for many years and have substantial industry experience. Their current research includes applications to water resources engineering mining and telecommunications. Mahayaudin Mansor worked in banking and insurance before teaching statistics and business mathematics at the Universiti Tun Abdul Razak Malaysia and is currently a researcher specializing in data analytics and quantitative research in the Health Economics and Social Policy Research Group at the Australian Centre for Precision Health University of South Australia. Tony Greenfield formerly Head of Process Computing and Statistics at the British Iron and Steel Research Association is a statistical consultant. He has been awarded the Chambers Medal for outstanding services to the Royal Statistical Society; the George Box Medal by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics for Outstanding Contributions to Industrial Statistics; and the William G. Hunter Award by the American Society for | Statistics in Engineering With Examples in MATLAB® and R Second Edition

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