Listing 1 - 10 of 40 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
It is widely assumed that the "non-classical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "non-classical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of racial science in pre-revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union. Marina Mogilner places this story in the context of imperial self-modernization, political and cultural debates of the epoch, different reformist and revolutionary trends, and the growing challenge of modern nationalism. By
Physical anthropology --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- History --- History.
Choose an application
Physical anthropology --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Vocational guidance.
Choose an application
Surface engineering has rapidly expanded in recent years as the demand for improved materials has increased. Surface engineering is a valuable tool for conceiving both surface and bulk properties, which cannot be achieved simultaneously either by the coating material or by the substrate material alone. The book is written on the current trends of surface engineering and relevant research. The applied and basic research as well as some worthy concepts of materials related to this area is explained clearly to understand the need for surface engineering in industrial applications. The different surface modification processes, properties, and their characterizations are discussed elaborately for future research and as a text book. Modification of surface properties by films or coatings is used in industrial applications. This is an area of interest to numerous fields: fabrication of parts, mechanics, transport, catalysis, energy, production, microelectronics, optoelectronics, the leisure industry, etc. The properties are considered for protection against corrosion, oxidation or wear, biocompatibility, wetting, adhesion, durability, catalytic activity, and toughness. The modern concept of engineering is discussed to ensure that the contributions of this subject minimize energy consumption. The book will be used as a state of the art for present and future researchers, industrial components design, and control.
Physical anthropology. --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Surface Science --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Materials Science
Choose an application
Physical anthropology --- Human genetics --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Genetic variation in humans --- Variation (Biology) --- Study and teaching. --- Variation.
Choose an application
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in the ideology of the Nazis. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, and an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the core area of this ‘master race’. This book investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing this so-called superior race, and discusses how this concept put its stamp on Norwegian physical anthropology, prehistory, national identity, and on the Norwegian eugenics movement. It also explores the decline and scientific disputation of these ideas in the 1930s as they came to be associated with the ‘genetic cleansing’ of Nazi Germany. This is the first comprehensive study on Norwegian physical anthropology, and its findings shed new light on current political and scientific debates about race across the globe.
Physical anthropology --- Anthropometry --- Craniometry --- History. --- Skull --- Skeletal remains --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Measurement --- Cephalometry --- Craniology --- Body size --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Nazi ideology --- anthropology --- scientific discourse --- eugenics
Choose an application
Many physical anthropologists study populations using data that come primarily from the historical record. For this volume's authors, the classic anthropological 'field' is not the glamour of an exotic locale, but the sometimes tedium of the dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museum collections. This book tells of the way in which archival data inform anthropological questions about human biology and health. The authors present a diverse array of human biological evidence from a variety of sources including the archaeological record, medical collections, church records, contemporary health and growth data and genetic information from the descendants of historical populations. The papers demonstrate how the analysis of historical documents expands the horizons of research in human biology, extends the longitudinal analysis of microevolutionary and social processes into the present and enhances our understanding of the human condition.
Medical anthropology --- Physical anthropology --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Archival resources --- Anthropological aspects --- Life Sciences --- General and Others
Choose an application
The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artifacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonization, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that stayed at home or those that immigrated into Scandinavia, whether voluntarily or by force. This book uses results from the examination of a substantial corpus of Swedish osteological material to discuss aspects of demography and health in the Viking period -- those which would have been visible and recognizable in the faces or physical appearances of the individuals concerned. It explores the effects of migration, from the spread of new diseases such as leprosy to patterns of movement and integration of immigrants into society. The skeletal material also allows the study of levels of violence, attitudes towards disablement, and the care provided by Viking communities. An overview of the worldwide phenomenon of modified teeth also gives insight into the practice of deliberate physical embellishment and body modification. The interdisciplinary approach to questions regarding ordinary life presented here will broaden the knowledge about society during the Viking Age. The synthesis of the Swedish unburnt human skeletal remains dated to the Viking Age will be a valuable resource for future research and provides an in-depth view on Viking Age society.
Human remains (Archaeology) --- Physical anthropology --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- History. --- Sweden --- History
Choose an application
In order to gain an understanding of the dynamics of human individual and average growth patterns it is essential that the right methods are selected. There are a variety of methods available to analyse individual growth patterns, to estimate variation in different growth measures in populations and to relate genetic and environmental factors to individual and average growth. This 2004 volume provides an overview of modern techniques for the assessment and collection of growth data and methods of analysis for individual and population growth data. The book contains the basic mathematical and statistical tools required to understand the concepts of the methods under discussion and worked examples of analyses, but it is neither a mathematical treatise, nor a recipe book for growth data analysis. Aimed at junior and senior researchers involved in the analysis of human growth data, this book will be an essential reference for anthropologists, auxologists and paediatricians.
Human growth --- Physical anthropology --- Population research --- 572.087 --- 612.6 --- Population --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Human biology --- Human body --- Developmental biology --- Growth --- Research --- Statistical methods --- Methodology --- Antropometrie --- Voortplanting. Groei. Ontwikkeling --- Mathematical statistics --- Biology --- Population research. --- Research. --- Statistical methods. --- Methodology.
Choose an application
The 15th Congress of the European Anthropological Association, held under the title ""MAN AND ENVIRONMENT: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN ANTHROPOLOGY"", was organized by the Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. The
Anthropology. --- Physical anthropology. --- Human evolution. --- Human genetics. --- Genetics --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Anthropology --- Origin --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences
Choose an application
A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion and threatened traditional biblical ideas about special creation and the timeline of human history. Advances in print culture and voyages of exploration also provided researchers with a wealth of material that contributed to their investigations into humanity's past. Historicizing Humans takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire
Human evolution --- Anthropology --- Physical anthropology --- Biological anthropology --- Somatology --- Human biology --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Philosophy --- History --- Origin --- Anthropology. --- Physical anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences
Listing 1 - 10 of 40 | << page >> |
Sort by
|