1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996217060003316

Titolo

Customary land tenure and registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea : anthropological perspectives / / edited by James F. Weiner, Katie Glaskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-921313-27-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations, charts

Collana

Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs ; ; 3

Disciplina

347.2

Soggetti

Land titles - Registration and transfer - Australia

Land use - Australia - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve merely to identify and register already-existing customary indigenous landowning groups in these countries. Because the legislation is an integral part of the way in which indigenous people are defined and managed in relation to the State, it serves to elicit particular responses in landowner organisation and self-identification on the part of indigenous people. These pieces of legislation actively contour the progressive evolution of landowner social, territorial and political organisation at all levels in these nation states. The contributors to this volume provide in-depth anthropological case studies of social structural and cultural transformations engendered by the confrontation between states, developers and indigenous communities over rights to customarily owned land.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786771703321

Autore

Nading Alexander M., III, <1979->

Titolo

Mosquito trails : ecology, health, and the politics of entanglement / / Alex M. Nading

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95856-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

614.5/8852097285

Soggetti

Dengue

Dengue viruses

Nicaragua

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Guide to Acronyms -- Introduction: Dengue in the Landscape -- One. City of Emergencies -- Two. Patrons, Clients, and Parasites -- Three. House holding and Evangelical Ecology -- Four. Mosquitos, Madres, y Moradores -- Five. Stories of Surveillance and Participation -- Six. Dengue Season in the City of Emergencies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dengue fever is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches to animal-borne illness, Mosquito Trails tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change, and economic upheaval. Blending theory from medical anthropology, political ecology, and science and technology studies, Nading develops the concept of "the politics of entanglement" to describe how Nicaraguans strive to remain alive to the world around them despite global health strategies that seek to insulate them from their environments. This innovative ethnography illustrates the



continued significance of local environmental histories, politics, and household dynamics to the making and unmaking of a global pandemic.

3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00297281

Autore

Debnath, Lokenath

Titolo

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers / Lokenath Debnath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer ; Boston, : Birkhäuser, 1997

Descrizione fisica

xvii, 593 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

35-XX - Partial differential equations [MSC 2020]

35L65 - Hyperbolic conservation laws [MSC 2020]

35Q51 - Soliton equations [MSC 2020]

35Q55 - NLS equations (nonlinear Schroedinger equations) [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia