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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
"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 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.
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.
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.
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