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Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles (Hardcover): Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Fernando Garcia-Fernandez, Rosaldo J F Rossetti Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles (Hardcover)
Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Fernando Garcia-Fernandez, Rosaldo J F Rossetti
R2,992 Discovery Miles 29 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles addresses issues related to the analysis of human factors in the design and evaluation of intelligent vehicles for a wide spectrum of applications and over different dimensions. To commemorate the 8th anniversary of the IEEE ITS Workshop on Human Factors (http://hfiv.net) some recent works of authors active in the automotive human factors community have been collected in this book. Enclosed here are extended versions of papers and tutorials that were presented at the IEEE ITSS Workshop on "Human Factors in Intelligent Vehicles" and also included is additional deeper analysis along with detailed experimental and simulation results. The contributors cover autonomous vehicles as well as the frameworks for analyzing automation, modelling and methods for road users' interaction such as intelligent user interfaces, including brain-computer interfaces and simulation and analysis tools related to human factors.

Hybrid Cultures - Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (Paperback, Expanded): Nestor Garcia Canclini Hybrid Cultures - Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity (Paperback, Expanded)
Nestor Garcia Canclini; Foreword by Renato Rosaldo; Translated by Christopher L. Chiappari, Silvia L Lopez
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When it was originally published, Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies. This now-classic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decade. Garcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity. He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis, from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and grafitti. Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological trends are still going strong.

Histories and Stories from Chiapas - Border Identities in Southern Mexico (Paperback, 1st ed): R. Aida Hernandez Castillo Histories and Stories from Chiapas - Border Identities in Southern Mexico (Paperback, 1st ed)
R. Aida Hernandez Castillo; Translated by Martha Pou; Introduction by Renato Rosaldo
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 1994 Zapatista uprising of Chiapas' Maya peoples against the Mexican government shattered the state myth that indigenous groups have been successfully assimilated into the nation. In this wide-ranging study of identity formation in Chiapas, Aida Hernandez delves into the experience of a Maya group, the Mam, to analyze how Chiapas' indigenous peoples have in fact rejected, accepted, or negotiated the official discourse on "being Mexican" and participating in the construction of a Mexican national identity.

Hernandez traces the complex relations between the Mam and the national government from 1934 to the Zapatista rebellion. She investigates the many policies and modernization projects through which the state has attempted to impose a Mexican identity on the Mam and shows how this Maya group has resisted or accommodated these efforts. In particular, she explores how changing religious affiliation, women's and ecological movements, economic globalization, state policies, and the Zapatista movement have all given rise to various ways of "being Mam" and considers what these indigenous identities may mean for the future of the Mexican nation. The Spanish version of this book won the 1997 Fray Bernardino de Sahagun national prize for the best social anthropology research in Mexico.

Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974 - A Study in Society and History (Paperback): Renato Rosaldo Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974 - A Study in Society and History (Paperback)
Renato Rosaldo
R856 Discovery Miles 8 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study, a history of the kind of people who are supposed to have one, challenges the fashionable view that so-called primitives live in a timeless present. The conventional wisdom, that such societies are static, is shown by the author to be an artifact of anthropological method. By piecing together extended oral histories and written history records, the author found that headhunting among the Ilongots of Northern Luzon, Philippines, was not an unchanging ancient custom, but a cultural practice that has shifted dramatically over the course of the past century. Headhunting stopped, resumed, and stopped again; its victims at various periods were fellow Ilongots, Japanese soldiers, and lowland Christian Filipinos; it took place as surprise attack, planned vendetta, or distant raid against strangers. Placing headhunting in its social, cultural, and historical contexts requires a novel sense of how to use biography, recorded history, and narrative in the analysis of small-scale, non-literate local communities. This study combines historical and ethnographic method and documents the inherent orchestration of structure, events, time, and consciousness. The book is illustrated with 34 photographs.

The Chasers (Paperback): Renato Rosaldo The Chasers (Paperback)
Renato Rosaldo
R514 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R69 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Renato Rosaldo's new prose poetry collection shares his experiences and those of his group of twelve Mexican American Tucson High School friends known as the Chasers as they grew up, graduated, and fell out of touch. Derived from interviews with the Chasers and three other friends conducted after their fiftieth high school reunion, Rosaldo's poems present a chorus of distinct voices and perspectives that convey the realities of Chicano life on the borderlands from the 1950s to the present.

Advances in Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation (Hardcover): Rosaldo J F Rossetti, Ronghui Liu Advances in Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation (Hardcover)
Rosaldo J F Rossetti, Ronghui Liu
R2,111 R1,913 Discovery Miles 19 130 Save R198 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Intelligent Systems Series encompasses theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. It publishes titles in three core sub-topic areas: Intelligent Automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Intelligent Computing. Titles focus on professional and academic reference works and handbooks. This volume, Advances in Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation, covers hot topics including driver assistance systems; cooperative vehicle-highway systems; collision avoidance; pedestrian protection; image, radar and lidar signal processing; and V2V and V2I communications. The readership for the series is broad, reflecting the wide range of intelligent systems interest and application, but focuses on engineering (in particular automation, control, mechatronics, robotics, transportation, automotive, aerospace), electronics and electronic design, and computer science.

Woman, Culture, and Society (Paperback): Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, Louise Lamphere Woman, Culture, and Society (Paperback)
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, Louise Lamphere
R858 R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Save R60 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sixteen women anthropologists analyze the place of women in human societies, treating as problematic certain questions and observations that in the past have been ignored or taken for granted, and consulting the anthropological record for data and theoretical perspectives that will help us to understand and change the quality of women's lives.The first three essays address the question of human sexual asymmetry. Recognizing that men's and women's spheres are typically distinguished and that anthropologists have often slighted the powers and values associated with the woman's world, these essays examine the evidence for asymmetrical valuations of the sexes across a range of cultures and ask how these valuations can be explained. Explanations are sought not in biological "givens" of human nature, but in universal patterns of human, social, psychological, and cultural experience-patterns that, presumably, can be changed.The remaining papers explore women's roles in a wide variety of social systems. By showing that women, like men, are social actors seeking power, security, prestige, and a sense of worth and value, these papers demonstrate the inadequacies of conventionally male-oriented accounts of social structure. They illuminate the strategies by which women in different cultures achieve a surprising degree of political power and social recognition; and investigate, from case-oriented and comparative perspectives, the social-structural, legal, psychological, economic, ritual, mythological, and metaphorical factors that account for variation in women's lives.

The Crusades, the Templars and Freemasonry - A historical saga, of wealth, power, betrayal and faith.: Rosaldo Bonnet The Crusades, the Templars and Freemasonry - A historical saga, of wealth, power, betrayal and faith.
Rosaldo Bonnet
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Chasers (Hardcover): Renato Rosaldo The Chasers (Hardcover)
Renato Rosaldo
R2,229 Discovery Miles 22 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Renato Rosaldo's new prose poetry collection shares his experiences and those of his group of twelve Mexican American Tucson High School friends known as the Chasers as they grew up, graduated, and fell out of touch. Derived from interviews with the Chasers and three other friends conducted after their fiftieth high school reunion, Rosaldo's poems present a chorus of distinct voices and perspectives that convey the realities of Chicano life on the borderlands from the 1950s to the present.

Into the World Outspread - Notes from a Walker (Paperback): Renato Rosaldo Into the World Outspread - Notes from a Walker (Paperback)
Renato Rosaldo
R408 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R76 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship (Paperback): Phillip B Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo, Mary Louise... Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship (Paperback)
Phillip B Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo, Mary Louise Pratt
R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For Latinx people living in the United States, Trumpism represented a new phase in the old struggle to achieve a sense of belonging and full citizenship. Throughout their history in the United States, people of Mexican descent have been made to face the question of how they do or do not belong to the American social fabric and polity. Structural inequality, dispossession, and marginalized citizenship make up an old story for Mexican Americans, and this story is a foundational one. This volume situates a new phase of presidential politics in relation to what went before and asks what new political possibilities emerged from this dramatic chapter in our history. What role did anti-Mexicanism and attacks on Latinx people and their communities play in Trump's political rise and presidential practices? Driven by the overwhelming political urgency of the moment, the contributors to this volume seek to frame Trumpism's origins and political effects.

Fernando Gallego and the Retablo of Ciudad Rodrigo (Paperback): Robert MacLean Quinn Fernando Gallego and the Retablo of Ciudad Rodrigo (Paperback)
Robert MacLean Quinn; Illustrated by Fernando Gallego; Translated by Renato I. Rosaldo
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Day of Shelly's Death - The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief (Paperback): Renato Rosaldo The Day of Shelly's Death - The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief (Paperback)
Renato Rosaldo
R637 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R87 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage," which first appeared in 1984 and is reprinted here. In the poems at the heart of this book, he returns to the trauma of Shelly's death through the medium of free verse, maintaining a tight focus on the events of October 11, 1981. He explores not only his own experience of Shelly's death but also the imagined perspectives of many others whose lives intersected with that tragic event and its immediate aftermath, from Shelly herself to the cliff from which she fell, from the two young boys who lost their mother to the strangers who carried and cared for them, from a tricycle taxi driver, to a soldier, to priests and nuns. Photographs taken years earlier, when Renato and Shelly were conducting research across the river valley from Mungayang, add a stark beauty. In a new essay, "Notes on Poetry and Ethnography," Rosaldo explains how and why he came to write the harrowing yet beautiful poems in "The Day of Shelly's Death." More than anything else though, the essay is a manifesto in support of what he calls "antropoesia," verse with an ethnographic sensibility. The essay clarifies how this book of rare humanity and insight challenges the limits of ethnography as it is usually practiced.

Creativity/Anthropology (Paperback): Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo Creativity/Anthropology (Paperback)
Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study of ethnography itself. Contributors include Barbara A. Babcock, Edward M. Bruner, James W. Fernandez, Don Handelman, Smadar Lavie, Jose E. Limon, Barbara Myerhoff, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo, Richard Schechner, Edward L. Schieffelin, Marjorie Shostak, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Edith Turner.

The Day of Shelly's Death - The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief (Hardcover): Renato Rosaldo The Day of Shelly's Death - The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief (Hardcover)
Renato Rosaldo
R2,681 Discovery Miles 26 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage," which first appeared in 1984 and is reprinted here. In the poems at the heart of this book, he returns to the trauma of Shelly's death through the medium of free verse, maintaining a tight focus on the events of October 11, 1981. He explores not only his own experience of Shelly's death but also the imagined perspectives of many others whose lives intersected with that tragic event and its immediate aftermath, from Shelly herself to the cliff from which she fell, from the two young boys who lost their mother to the strangers who carried and cared for them, from a tricycle taxi driver, to a soldier, to priests and nuns. Photographs taken years earlier, when Renato and Shelly were conducting research across the river valley from Mungayang, add a stark beauty. In a new essay, "Notes on Poetry and Ethnography," Rosaldo explains how and why he came to write the harrowing yet beautiful poems in "The Day of Shelly's Death." More than anything else though, the essay is a manifesto in support of what he calls "antropoesia," verse with an ethnographic sensibility. The essay clarifies how this book of rare humanity and insight challenges the limits of ethnography as it is usually practiced.

Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia - Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands (Paperback): Renato Rosaldo Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia - Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands (Paperback)
Renato Rosaldo
R1,126 Discovery Miles 11 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This important book, full of new and original perspectives, will be of great interest to students and specialists of Southeast Asia. It also makes important contributions to the anthropological and historical study of cultural citizenship, postcolonial nation building, and the dynamics of ethnic identity."--Suzanne Brenner, author of "The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java

"This stimulating volume of essays makes a very strong contribution to an understanding of how pre-modern cultural diversity in some parts of Southeast Asia have been reconfigured as modern states have promoted distinctive and powerfully backed 'imagingings' of nation."--Charles Keyes, author of "Social Memory and Crises of Modernity: Politics of Identity in Thailand and Laos

"This tightly focused and high quality volume will make an important contribution to Southeast Asian studies, while connecting the rich ethnographic literature of that region with a set of contemporary theoretical questions that transcend geographic areas."--James Ferguson, author of "Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

Culture & Truth - The Remaking of Social Analysis (Paperback, Revised edition): Renato Rosaldo Culture & Truth - The Remaking of Social Analysis (Paperback, Revised edition)
Renato Rosaldo
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Culture and Truth is a call for a new approach to thinking and writing about culture. Exposing the inadequacies of old conceptions of static, monolithic culture, and of detached, "objective" observers, the book argues instead for social science to acknowledge and celebrate diversity, narrative, emotion, and the unavoidability of subjectivity. In this edition, a new introduction gives powerful reasons for protecting diversity within and outside the academy.

Creativity/Anthropology (Hardcover): Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo Creativity/Anthropology (Hardcover)
Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo
R1,768 Discovery Miles 17 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Familia - Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1880-1975 (Paperback): Robert R Alvarez Familia - Migration and Adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1880-1975 (Paperback)
Robert R Alvarez; Foreword by Renato Rosaldo
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them.

Knowledge and Passion (Paperback): Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo Knowledge and Passion (Paperback)
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo
R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Michelle Rosaldo presents an ethnographic interpretation of the life of the Ilongots, a group of some 3,500 hunters and horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines. Her study focuses on headhunting, a practice that remained active among the Ilongots until at least 1972. Indigenous notions of "knowledge" and "passion" are crucial to the Ilongots' perceptions of their own social practices of headhunting, oratory, marriage, and the organization of subsistence labor. In explaining the significance of these key ideas, Professor Rosaldo examines what she considers to be the most important dimensions of Ilongot social relationships: the contrasts between men and women and between accomplished married men and bachelor youths. By defining "knowledge" and "passion" in the context of their social and affective significance, the author demonstrates the place of headhunting in historical and political processes, and shows the relation between headhunting and indigenous concepts of curing, reproduction, and health.

Theoretically oriented toward interpretive or symbolic ethnography, this book clarifies some of the ways in which the study of a language -- both vocabulary and patterns of usage -- is a study of a culture; the process of translation is presented as a method of cultural interpretation. Professor Rosaldo argues that an appreciation of the Ilongots' specific notions of "the self" and the emotional concepts associated with headhunting can illuminate central aspects of the group's social life.

Woman, Culture and Society (Hardcover): Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, Louise Lamphere Woman, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, Louise Lamphere; Rosaldo
R1,360 R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Save R376 (28%) Out of stock
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