Transactions and Creations

Transactions and Creations
Author: Eric Hirsch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781845450281

In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent economic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property rights (IPR and CPR). The contributors bring from Melanesia their collective experience of people initiating, limiting and rationalizing claims through transactions in ways that challenge many of the assumptions behind the international language. In a bold theoretical move, "property" is put alongside two other terms: "transactions" and "creations." The former have a place in the anthropological tradition that now needs to be brought into the foreground. In turn, increasing interest in protecting intellectual and cultural resources means that questions about creativity have suddenly become pertinent to what is or is not being transacted. Yet is creativity a special preoccupation of modernity? How are we to talk about people's creative practices, when innovation becomes the basis for ownership claims? This book is full of surprises!

Science Conspectus

Science Conspectus
Author: Isaac W. Litchfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1914
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Includes lists of members of the society.

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context

Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
Author: Dwight Atkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1998-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135691762

Describes changing language & rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. Of interest to scholars of rhetoric, composition, communication, & applied linguistics, as well as historians, sociolinguists, and education researchers

Transactions with the World

Transactions with the World
Author: Adam O’Brien
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-02-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785330012

In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.