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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824874703321

Titolo

The ecology of pastoralism / / edited by P. Nick Kardulias

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4571-9369-8

1-60732-343-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Classificazione

SOC002000

Disciplina

636.08/45

Soggetti

Pastoral systems - Environmental aspects

Pastoral systems - History

Adaptation (Biology)

Adaptability (Psychology)

Human ecology

Ethnology

Ethnoarchaeology

Social archaeology

Landscape archaeology

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Pastoralism as an Adaptive Strategy / P. Nick Kardulias -- The Study of Nomads in the Republic of Kazakhstan / Claudia Chang -- The Ecology of Inner Asian Pastoral Nomadism / Nikolay Kradin -- Agropastoralism and Transhumance in Hunza / Homayun Sidky -- Animals, Identity, and Mortuary Behavior in Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age Mongolia : A Reassessment of Faunal Remains in Mortuary Monuments of Nomadic Pastoralists / Erik G. Johannesson -- Kalas and Kurgans : Some Considerations on Late Iron Age Pastoralism within the Central Asian Oasis of Chorasmia / Michelle Negus Cleary -- FulBe Pastoralists and the Neo-Patrimonial State in the Chad Basin / Mark Moritz -- Flexibility in Navajo Pastoral Land Use : An Historical Perspective / Lawrence A. Kuznar -- Accidental Dairy Farmers : Social



Transformations in a Rural Irish Parish / Mark T. Shutes -- Real Milk from Mechanical Cows : Adaptations among Irish Dairy Cattle Farmers / Mark T. Shutes -- Island Pastoralism, Isolation, and Connection : An Ethnoarchaeological  Study of Herding on Dokos, Greece / P. Nick Kardulias -- The Ecology of Herding : Conclusions, Questions, Speculations / Thomas D. Hall.

Sommario/riassunto

"In The Ecology of Pastoralism, a diverse group of contributions from archaeologists and ethnographers address pastoralism's significant impact on humanity's basic subsistence and survival, focusing on the network of social, political, and religious institutions existing within various societies dependent on animal husbandry. Pastoral peoples, both past and present, have organized their relationship with certain animals to maximize their ability to survive and adapt to a wide range of conditions over time. Despite differences in landscape, environment, and administrative and political structures, contributors show these societies share a major similar characteristic--high flexibility. Based partially on the adaptability of various domestic animals to difficult environments and partially on the ability of people to establish networks allowing them to accommodate political, social, and economic needs, this flexibility is key to survival of complex pastoral systems and serves as the connection among the varied cultures in the volume. Using archaeological and contemporary data, the wide variety of cases from a broad geographic sampling in The Ecology of Pastoralism offer a new perspective on the study of pastoralism that makes this volume a valuable contribution to current research in the area"--



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220043303321

Autore

Barbara Tillmann

Titolo

Music and Disorders of Consciousness: Emerging Research, Practice and Theory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (83 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Music processing in severely brain-injured patients with disorders of consciousness has been an emergent field of interest for over 30 years, spanning the disciplines of neuroscience, medicine, the arts and humanities. Disorders of consciousness (DOC) is an umbrella term that encompasses patients who present with disorders across a continuum of consciousness including people who are in a coma, in vegetative state (VS)/have unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS), and in minimally conscious state (MCS). Technological developments in recent years, resulting in improvements in medical care and technologies, have increased DOC population numbers, the means for investigating DOC, and the range of clinical and therapeutic interventions under validation. In neuroimaging and behavioural studies, the auditory modality has been shown to be the most sensitive in diagnosing awareness in this complex population. As misdiagnosis remains a major problem in DOC, exploring auditory responsiveness and processing in DOC is, therefore, of central importance to improve therapeutic interventions and medical technologies in DOC. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role of music as a potential treatment and medium for diagnosis with patients with DOC, from the perspectives of research, clinical practice and theory. As there are almost no treatment options, such a non-invasive method could constitute a promising strategy to stimulate brain plasticity and to improve consciousness recovery. It is therefore an ideal time to draw



together specialists from diverse disciplines and interests to share the latest methods, opinions, and research on this topic in order to identify research priorities and progress inquiry in a coordinated way. This Research Topic aimed to bring together specialists from diverse disciplines involved in using and researching music with DOC populations or who have an interest in theoretical development on this topic. Specialists from the following disciplines participated in this special issue: neuroscience; medicine; music therapy; clinical psychology; neuromusicology; and cognitive neuroscience.