From Stone Age To Real Time

Author : Martin Slama,Jenny Munro
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925022438

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From ‘Stone-Age’ to ‘Real-Time’ by Martin Slama,Jenny Munro Pdf

There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the ‘stone-age’ is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. From ‘Stone-Age’ to ‘Real-Time’ examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the current moment generates in West Papua, where the persistent ‘stone-age’ image meets the practices and ideologies of the ‘real-time’ – a popular expression referring to immediate digital communication. The volume is thus essentially occupied with discourses of time and space and how they inform questions of hierarchy and possibilities for equality. Papuans are increasingly mobile, and seeking to rework inherited ideas, institutions and technologies, while also coming up against palpable limits on what can be imagined or achieved, secured or defended. This volume investigates some of these trajectories for the cultural logics and social or political structures that shape them. The chapters are highly ethnographic, based on in-depth research conducted in diverse spaces within and beyond Papua. These contributions explore topics ranging from hip hop to HIV/ AIDS to historicity, filling much-needed conceptual and ethnographic lacunae in the study of West Papua.

Author : Martin Slama,Jenny Munro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Migration, Internal
ISBN : 1925022420

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From 'stone-age' to 'real-time' by Martin Slama,Jenny Munro Pdf

There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the 'stone-age' is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time' examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the current moment generates in West Papua, where the persistent 'stone-age' image meets the practices and ideologies of the 'real-time' - a popular expression referring to immediate digital communication. The volume is thus essentially occupied with discourses of time and space and how they inform questions of hierarchy and possibilities for equality. Papuans are increasingly mobile, and seeking to rework inherited ideas, institutions and technologies, while also coming up against palpable limits on what can be imagined or achieved, secured or defended. This volume investigates some of these trajectories for the cultural logics and social or political structures that shape them. The chapters are highly ethnographic, based on in-depth research conducted in diverse spaces within and beyond Papua. These contributions explore topics ranging from hip hop to HIV/ AIDS to historicity, filling much-needed conceptual and ethnographic lacunae in the study of West Papua.

Author : Martin Slama,Jenny Munro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154183189

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From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time': Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities by Martin Slama,Jenny Munro Pdf

There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the 'stone-age' is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time' examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the current moment generates in West Papua, where the persistent 'stone-age' image meets the practices and ideologies of the 'real-time' - a popular expression referring to immediate digital communication. The volume is thus essentially occupied with discourses of time and space and how they inform questions of hierarchy and possibilities for equality. Papuans are increasingly mobile, and seeking to rework inherited ideas, institutions and technologies, while also coming up against palpable limits on what can be imagined or achieved, secured or defended. This volume investigates some of these trajectories for the cultural logics and social or political structures that shape them. The chapters are highly ethnographic, based on in-depth research conducted in diverse spaces within and beyond Papua. These contributions explore topics ranging from hip hop to HIV/ AIDS to historicity, filling much-needed conceptual and ethnographic lacunae in the study of West Papua.

Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ™
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467772082

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How to Live Like a Stone-Age Hunter by Anita Ganeri Pdf

Team up with Dar, who lived around 15,000 years ago in the late Stone Age. Find out what it takes to survive in prehistoric times as he teaches you how to: ? trap animals ? make fire ? build shelters ? hunt a mammoth Do you have the skills and guts to be a Stone-Age hunter?

Author : Martha Macintyre,Ceridwen Spark
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760460891

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Transformations of Gender in Melanesia by Martha Macintyre,Ceridwen Spark Pdf

Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also by continuing the effort to explain and understand gender inequities in the Pacific through reference to the concept of societies in transition. The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. Exploring how contemporary Pacific identities are shaped by local contexts and traditions, they focus on how these are remade through interaction with global ideas, images and practices, including new forms of Christianity and economic transformations. Grounded in recent, original research in both the villages and towns of Melanesia, the collection engages with the study of gender in Melanesia as well as scholarship on global modernities. ‘This collection is a welcome addition to the study of gender in Melanesia … Collectively, the essays present complex, locally contextualised and regionally situated case studies of gender transformation occurring alongside, in many instances, the re-codification of hegemonic gendered norms and practices. Gender is not understood as simply code for women in this volume rather, the majority of chapters incorporate men and masculinities in their analysis of gender relations and dynamics. A highlight of the collection is the attention paid to how “the politics of tradition” (and of modernity) are expressed through morally loaded concepts of the “good” or “bad” woman or man and vice versa.’ — Kalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne

Author : Marjorie Quennell,Charles Henry Browne Quennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 0552540056

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Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times by Marjorie Quennell,Charles Henry Browne Quennell Pdf

Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Hungry Tomato ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467790802

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How to Live Like a Stone-Age Hunter by Anita Ganeri Pdf

Team up with Dar, who lived around 15,000 years ago in the late Stone Age. Find out what it takes to survive in prehistoric times as he teaches you how to: ● trap animals ● make fire ● build shelters ● hunt a mammoth Do you have the skills and guts to be a Stone-Age hunter?

Author : James Suzman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525561767

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Work by James Suzman Pdf

"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like? To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he shows that while we have evolved to find joy meaning and purpose in work, for most of human history our ancestors worked far less and thought very differently about work than we do now. He demonstrates how our contemporary culture of work has its roots in the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago. Our sense of what it is to be human was transformed by the transition from foraging to food production, and, later, our migration to cities. Since then, our relationships with one another and with our environments, and even our sense of the passage of time, have not been the same. Arguing that we are in the midst of a similarly transformative point in history, Suzman shows how automation might revolutionize our relationship with work and in doing so usher in a more sustainable and equitable future for our world and ourselves.

Author : Kath Weston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317958406

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Gender in Real Time by Kath Weston Pdf

After decades of innovative scholarship that galvanized a field and shattered a world of preconceptions, the study of gender now appears to languish. It has been a long while since the publication of a provocative and influential text like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble . Kath Weston argues that the problem is one of time. For too long gender studies has been preoccupied with the visual, with ample attention given to issues of performativity and embodiment, all at the expense of time. Gender in Real Time makes a provocative and important new argument that will revolutionize the field of gender studies. Introducing temporality into the equation and examining the ways gender exists, Weston uses the tools of political economy, the history of mathematics, Darwinian evolution, and a bit of physics to propel gender studies toward the future. Startling new concepts like zero gender and the meaning of time claims are introduced. Moreover, the impact of our time-sensitive society, with its ever-increasing need for speed and accelerated development, is explored for its effect on the production of gender. With chapter titles including, Unsexed, The Ghosts of Gender Past, and The Global Economy Next Time, this book offers a pioneering addition to the field that will forever change our notion of gender.

Author : Antony Mason
Publisher : Copper Beach Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761304800

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The Stone Age by Antony Mason Pdf

The Time Trekkers learn about cave painting, building a mammoth-bone hut, craft tools of stone, and outwit a saber-tooth tiger.

Author : Deborah A. Thomas,Joseph Masco
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023715

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Sovereignty Unhinged by Deborah A. Thomas,Joseph Masco Pdf

Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with the geopolitical realities of the present, the contributors consider sovereignty from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it reflects people’s aspirations for new futures. In a series of ethnographic case studies ranging from the Americas to the Middle East to South Asia, they examine the means of avoiding the political and historical capture that make one complicit with sovereign authority rather than creating the conditions of possibility to confront it. The contributors attend to the affective dimensions of these practices of world-building to illuminate the epistemological, ontological, and transnational entanglements that produce a sense of what is possible. They also trace how sovereignty is activated and deactivated over the course of a lifetime within the struggle of the everyday. In so doing, they outline how individuals create and enact forms of sovereignty that allow them to endure fast and slow forms of violence while embracing endless opportunities for building new worlds. Contributors. Alex Blanchette, Yarimar Bonilla, Jessica Cattelino, María Elena García, Akhil Gupta, Lochlann Jain, Purnima Mankekar, Joseph Masco, Michael Ralph, Danilyn Rutherford, Arjun Shankar, Kristen L. Simmons, Deborah A. Thomas, Leniqueca A. Welcome, Kaya Naomi Williams, Jessica Winegar

Author : M.L. Banner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Disasters
ISBN : 0692026061

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Stone Age by M.L. Banner Pdf

Our Earth is fighting a daily battle, shielding us and our life-giving technology from the electromagnetic ravages of the sun. Every 100 years or so, we are hit by an epic solar storm which could devastate our world's electrical-based society were it to strike today. It happened last in 1859, when we had little technology... over 150 years ago. We are past due! "Any day now we will be hit with a solar storm that will return us back to the Stone Age!" - Noted astrophysicist, Dr. Carrington Reid - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A vacationing family is separated;A friend readies them for a catastrophe;A young love blossoms;A prophet's fame rises;A prepper waits for the violence to come; All are unprepared for the apocalypse about to strike the Earth, one so great and unprecedented; it will bring humanity into a new Stone Age. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (Newly reedited & includes a bonus: First three chapters of DESOLATION, the next book in the STONE AGE Series, coming fall 2014) Get prepared for what readers are calling, "very real & very scary," a "chilling story," and your "worst nightmare." STONE AGE is the first book in a saga, spread over three different time periods: STONE AGE - How the loss of technology will knock our lives back into a new Stone Age. "This is a warning call to all of us." DESOLATION (Halloween 2014) - How do we survive the desolation that will follow? Then, when all seems lost, will there be a new hope on the horizon, or is it more likely the sun will set on all humanity?

Author : Andreas Schühly,Frank Becker,Florian Klein
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787568112

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Real Time Strategy by Andreas Schühly,Frank Becker,Florian Klein Pdf

Combining classical scenario thinking (the gentle art of perception) with the analytical power of big data and artificial intelligence, Real Time Strategy presents the decision making of the future which enables decision makers to develop dynamic strategies, monitor their validity, and react faster.

Author : Sophie Chao
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022855

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In the Shadow of the Palms by Sophie Chao Pdf

Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant.

Author : Jenny Munro
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785337598

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Dreams Made Small by Jenny Munro Pdf

For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from stigmatization and violence. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Dani men and women, asking us to think differently about education as a trajectory for transformation and belonging, and ultimately revealing how dreams of equality are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.