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Russell provides an examination of the production, distribution and use of carved stone objects in the Roman world. Focusing on the market for stone and its supply, he offers an assessment of the practicalities of stone transport and how the relationship between producer and customer functioned even over considerable distances.

Stone industry and trade --- Stone --- Stone carving --- Pierre --- Sculpture en pierre --- History --- Transportation --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Transport --- Rome --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- History. --- Conditions économiques --- Stone sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Carving (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Sculpture --- E-books --- Building materials industry

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"A study of the contemporary gemstone industry of Jaipur with special emphasis on its ownership class. Detailed examination of an industry in a non-Western setting, with contextual background for the Jain religion and recent Jaipur history"--Provided by publisher.

Jaipur (India) - Commerce - Social aspects. --- Precious stone industry --- Ethnology --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Jaipur (India) --- Commerce --- Social aspects. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Jaipur, India (Rajasthan) --- Jayapura (India) --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Mineral industries --- E-books

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Textile industry --- Textile fabrics, Ancient --- Copper age --- Bronze age --- Iron Age --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Civilization --- Chalcolithic age --- Copper-stone age --- Cyprolithic age --- Eneolithic age --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Ancient textile fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles industry --- Manufacturing industries --- History. --- Iron age --- History --- E-books

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Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, which is deeply influenced by social and economic inequalities, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as much a cultural process as it is political and economic. In this paper, they analyze important examples of discursive spaces - public meetings in Indian village democracies (gram sabhas), where villagers make important decisions about budgetary allocations for village development and the selection of beneficiaries for anti-poverty programs. They examine 290 transcripts of gram sabhas from South India to demonstrate how they create a culture of civic/political engagement among poor people, and how definitions of poverty and beneficiary-selection criteria are understood and interrogated within them. Through this examination, they highlight the process by which gram sabhas facilitate the acquisition of crucial cultural capabilities such as discursive skills and civic agency by poor and disadvantaged groups. They illustrate how the poor and socially marginalized deploy these discursive skills in a resource-scarce and socially stratified environment in making material and non-material demands in their search for dignity. The intersection of poverty, culture, and deliberative democracy is a topic of broad relevance because it sheds light on cultural processes that can be influenced by public action in a manner that helps improve the voice and agency of the poor.

Ancestral --- Anthropology --- Art --- Basic --- Beliefs --- Cultural context --- Cultural Heritage and Preservation --- Cultural life --- Cultural Policy --- Culture and Development --- Economic growth --- Education --- Governance --- ICT Policy and Strategies --- Information and Communication Technologies --- Intellectual history --- Knowledge for Development --- Learning --- Legislation --- Literacy --- Literature --- Parliamentary Government --- Philosophy --- Pluralism --- Population --- Population Policies --- Primary Education --- Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures --- Public Sector Development --- Rituals --- Rural Development --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Social capital --- Stone --- Tradition --- Traditional cultures --- Vernacular style