302 research outputs found
Two Interviews by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira: Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Soumendra Patnaik (University of Delhi)
No full textThe interviews published in this issue of American Anthropologist seek to contribute to the global conversations that the World Anthropologies section has been fostering in recent years. We may not all agree about whether globalization is a recent phenomenon, but I am convinced that we all agree that social issues of a global sort require global dialogues that also take the local into account. To that end, the interviews I conducted with Chandana Mathur and Soumendra Patnaik, and that AA includes here, focus on how social issues, intellectual trajectories, and scientific institutions are intertwined, and shape and reshape global connections. These interviews not only ask about the role of anthropology in responding to contemporary challenges but also ask how our discipline itself is being challenged and how it responds to those challenges. The accounts Chandana Mathur and Soumendra Patnaik provide capture a good deal of such social and disciplinary transformations. My aim in interviewing them was to explore aspects of both their personal trajectories and their academic work that epitomize anthropology's efforts to engage in these global issues. What is more, as the attentive reader may notice, in interviewing them I sought to explore the possibility that anthropology might make some progress in such global conversations by adopting a more symmetrical attitude when it comes to institutional and epistemological practices
Book Ends & Odd Books : Publications Refuting Conventional Form from the Banff Centre Library Collection
No full textMathur explains how he "unselected" nearly 200 works for this exhibition of unconventional publications by international artists and authors, recognizing the influence of Ulises Carrion's article "The New Art of Making Books." The author reflects upon the roles of language and poetics, the distinction between book and text, and how politics and power affect the making and reception of these works. 2 bibl. ref
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair‐Trade Tea Plantations in India by Sarah Besky.
No full textBook review: the abstract is included in the text
Book review: paper tiger: law, bureaucracy and the developmental state in Himalayan India by Nayanika Mathur
No full textFollowing eighteen months of intensive fieldwork, in Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India author Nayanika Mathur details the everyday absurdities of bureaucracy in the Himalayan borderlands, showing the frequent gulf between ‘real life’ and the abstract workings of the law. Elisabetta Iob highly recommends this accessible, witty and vividly written book as an outstanding and essential example of ethnographic research
Anthropology and the Irish Encounter
No full textIn their discussion of ancestral versus contemporary anthropology
in Ireland, Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy (this issue)
do not draw a parallel distinction, quite probably deliberately,
between “metropolitan” and “native” anthropologies.
Positing a category of “native anthropology” opens up an
explosive set of issues about the claim to be “native”—all the
more combustible in a place that has known settler colonialism
since the 12th century, tidalwaves of out-migration (and
consequently a vast and tuned-in diaspora) due to famine in
the 19th and economic stagnation in the 20th century, and
a total demographic makeover through in-migration in the
past two decades. Nonetheless, even though they do not resort
to this distinction, Egan and Murphy are likely to agree
that they are describing an Irish version of a quandary that is
all too familiar to native anthropologists from marginal anthropological
traditions, predominantly in the postcolonial
world: namely, what is to be done when the acknowledged
gold standard of metropolitan ethnographic writing renders
your home place in a way that is unrecognizable to you
FINANCING COMMUNITY FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE PARKS AND RECREATIONAL GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND MEASURE OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
No full textThis study of the City of San Jose’s Parks and Recreation General Obligation (GO) Bond Measure seeks to identify the politics-, management-, and planning-related lessons learned by the City as it developed its community facilities using the GO bonds proceeds. The study finds that these lessons include: be conservative in what you promise the residents; be prepared for changes in economic environment by identifying supplementary funding sources should the primary source not yield adequate funds; make sure that the jurisdiction is organizationally capable of handling the increased workload; and prepare detailed project plans prior to the bond issuance.Community Infrastructure and Services; Municipal Bonds; Public Finance
An Analytical Criterion for Centrifugal Instability in Non-Axisymmetric Vortices
No full textNon-axisymmetric vortices are ubiquitous in nature; examples include polar vortices in planets, the giant red spot in Jupiter, tornadoes and cyclones on Earth, mesoscale eddies in the ocean. Turbulent flows are furthermore known to be dominated by small- and large-scale vortex structures. Owing to the wide range of applications, knowledge of conditions under which a given vortex becomes unstable is beneficial. Here, the centrifugal instability of two-dimensional, non-axisymmetric vortices in the presence of an axial flow and a background rotation is studied using the local stability approach. The local stability approach, based on geometric optics and similar in formulation to the rapid distortion theory \cite{bib:godeferd2001}, considers the evolution of shortwavelength perturbations along streamlines in the base flow. This approach, developed by Lifschitz Hameiri \cite{bib:lifschitz1991}, is particularly useful for base flows for which a global stability analysis is computationally expensive. A sufficient criterion for centrifugal instability in an axisymmetric vortex with and is first derived by analytically solving the local stability equations for wave vectors that are periodic upon evolution around a closed streamline. This criterion is then heuristically extended to non-axisymmetric vortices and written in terms of integral quantities on a streamline. The criterion is then shown to be accurate in describing centrifugal instability over a reasonably large range of parameters that specify Stuart vortices and Taylor-Green vortices
An Interactive Dialogue for the Creation, Maintenance and Querying of a Data Base Representative of the Anatomy of an Administrative System
No full textTitle: An Interactive Dialogue for the Creation, Maintenance and Querying of a Data Base Representative of the Anatomy of an Administrative System, Author: Pratima Mathur, Location: ThodeThe logical structure of a database is given, and is
representative of the anatomy of an administrative system,
and of the personnel organization by which it is operated.
This project will adopt an appropriate host computer,
terminal, and physical representation of the database, for
the main purpose of developing a user-terminal dialogue by
which the database can be created and maintained. The
dialogue should be as easy and flexible to use by an audit
analyst as is possible, while at the same time imposing a
systematic and disciplined approach to the task.ThesisMaster of Science (MS
Uncovering a novel role for FXR-SHP axis in liver physiology, diseases and beyond
No full textLiver performs a multitude of functions ranging from detoxification, metabolism and digestion. To execute these tasks, one of the mechanisms that the liver utilizes is nuclear receptor signaling, which in turn can transcriptionally regulate gene networks. My doctoral thesis focuses on studying the role of two nuclear receptors, FXR and SHP in maintaining liver function. Farnesoid X Receptor (FXR) and Small Heterodimer Partner (SHP) are well-known regulators of glucose, fat and bile acid homeostasis. Here, I uncover novel roles for FXR-SHP axis not only in the liver but also in extrahepatic organs, like heart. In Chapter 2, I discuss how hepatic loss of FXR and SHP results in increased glycosylation of liver proteins and structural defects in Golgi apparatus, and ultimately liver cancer. Chapter 3 focuses on comprehending how FXR-SHP ablation results in increased drug metabolic capacity of the liver. Finally, chapter 4 discusses how liver dysfunction, caused by loss of FXR and SHP, can induce metabolic and functional defects in heart. Taken together, these projects will help understand some of the FXR and SHP transcriptional networks under different physiological and pathological contexts and may open avenues for pharmacological manipulation to treat various diseases.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Bhoomika Mathur, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-04 at 01:18.The student, Bhoomika Mathur, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-07-04 at 01:31.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2019-07-09 at 15:41.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14170 on 2019-11-26 at 13:04:27Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:49:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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The Ethnographic Past.
No full textIt is May 2015, and I am returning for a second fieldwork stay in the small Indiana town where I
conducted doctoral fieldwork from 1989 to 1991. I have been on the phone from Ireland with some
people I used to know. A former coal miner has told me that I am arriving just in time for the local
Workers’ Memorial Day event. We meet up in a completely transformed shopping mall, and I follow
his motorbike in my car as we drive down a highway that did not exist back then towards the
premises of the Central Labor Council of Southern Indiana
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