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Originally published in 1968. In The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, James Baird traces the process of Wallace Steven's Grand Poem and the total structure that it accomplished in language. In the words of Professor Baird, "The full art of Stevens is organized with architectural precision. The shape of the mind becomes a building, the framework of which is founded in a willed symmetry of design." In The Dome and the Rock, James Baird exposes the capacity of Wallace Stevens to design his poetry in a manner similar to an architect, and he "reveals the craftsmanship of [Wallace's] acts as builder."

Die Arbeit enthält nach einem Überblick zur ökonomischen Theorie der Steuerhinterziehung eine Anwendung dieser Theorie auf die Hinterziehung von Steuern auf Zinserträge privater Haushalte. Dabei wird auch auf die Wirkungen einer Quellensteuer eingegangen. Zur derzeit praktizierten Besteuerung von Zinserträgen wird eine Alternative skizziert. Die in der Arbeit dargestellten mikroökonomischen Modelle gehen teils von einer einmaligen, teils von periodisch wiederholten Veranlagungen zur Einkommensteuer aus. Im letzten Fall ist die bei der Steuerhinterziehung zu erwartende Strafe von der Vergangenheit des Hinterziehers abhängig.

Anthropology has neglected the study of music. Music and Digital Media shows how and why this should be redressed. It does so by enabling music to expand the horizons of digital anthropology, demonstrating how the field can build interdisciplinary links to music and sound studies, digital/media studies, and science and technology studies. Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital assume clamouring audibility. The book contains ten chapters, eight of which present comprehensive original ethnographies; they are bookended by an authoritative introduction and a comparative postlude. Five chapters address popular, folk, art and crossover musics in the global South and North, including Kenya, Argentina, India, Canada and the UK. Three chapters bring the digital experimentally to the fore, presenting pioneering ethnographies of anextra-legal peer-to-peer site and the streaming platform Spotify, a series of prominent internet-mediated music genres, and the first ethnography of a global software package, the interactive music platform Max. The book is unique in bringing ethnographic research on popular, folk, art and crossover musics from the global North and South into a comparative framework on a large scale, and creates an innovative new paradigm for comparative anthropology. It shows how music enlarges anthropology while demanding to be understood with reference to classic themes of anthropological theory. Praise for Music and Digital Media ‘Music and Digital Media is a groundbreaking update to our understandings of sound, media, digitization, and music. Truly transdisciplinary and transnational in scope, it innovates methodologically through new models for collaboration, multi-sited ethnography, and comparative work. It also offers an important defense of—and advancement of—theories of mediation.’ Jonathan Sterne, Communication Studies and Art History, McGill University 'Music and Digital Media is a nuanced exploration of the burgeoning digital music scene across both the global North and the global South. Ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated, this collection will become the new standard for this field.' Anna Tsing, Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz 'The global drama of music's digitisation elicits extreme responses – from catastrophe to piratical opportunism – but between them lie more nuanced perspectives. This timely, absolutely necessary collection applies anthropological understanding to a deliriously immersive field, bringing welcome clarity to complex processes whose impact is felt far beyond what we call music.' David Toop, London College of Communication, musician and writer ‘Spanning continents and academic disciplines, the rich ethnographies contained in Music and Digital Media makes it obligatory reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex, contradictory, and momentous effects that digitization is having on musical cultures.’ Eric Drott, Music, University of Texas, Austin ‘This superb collection, with an authoritative overview as its introduction, represents the state of the art in studies of the digitalisation of music. It is also a testament to what anthropology at its reflexive best can offer the rest of the social sciences and humanities.’ David Hesmondhalgh, Media and Communication, University of Leeds ‘This exciting volume forges new ground in the study of local conditions, institutions, and sounds of digital music in the Global South and North. The book’s planetary scope and its commitment to the “messiness” of ethnographic sites and concepts amplifies emergent configurations and meanings of music, the digital, and the aesthetic.’ Marina Peterson, Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin

This Reprint brings together different perspectives on sustainable energy transitions, highlighting the importance of integrating social, technological, and spatial approaches. The papers explore key themes such as user behaviour in residential energy use, renewable energy communities, smart cities and buildings, energy modelling at the urban scale, and the role of critical raw materials in long-term planning. The contributions included in the volume support the identification of multiple strategies and research lines for the future of the topic, from bottom-up strategies to innovative storage systems and building retrofits. One of the main aspects emphasized is the need for systemic thinking and multi-scalar coordination across levels and techniques. It provides a critical perspective into how urban environments, infrastructures, and citizen engagement can interact to accelerate decarbonization and support more resilient and inclusive energy systems.

The university complex at Via Mezzocannone 8 has, over the centuries, been the center of the Neapolitan scientific community and a symbol of the city's culture. However, the places and people who made its history are known only to experts and some local event enthusiasts. This volume, the first in a series, covers the period from the second half of the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. It details the events of the Collegio Massimo dei Gesuiti, particularly the Cortile delle Statue, and highlights the contributions of teachers such as Pasquale Del Pezzo, Francesco De Sanctis, Paolo Panceri, Giosuè Sangiovanni, and Arcangelo and Eugenio Scacchi to the enrichment of the university's structures, including its libraries, museums, and laboratories.

This work provides the legal framework in which the Venetian book trade operated in the years 1527-1565. The repertoire documents the systematic use that authors and printers made of the privileges system to ensure exclusivity in the economic exploitation of a work and thus protect their work and investments. The archival and bibliographic sources collected in this volume testify to the entrepreneurial strategies implemented by authors and printers to innovate and diversify publishing production in order to create products capable of competing on foreign markets. The repertoire also traces the role of the Venetian State in promoting and protecting the local book industry in a context characterized by constant historical and political changes.

The first book-length study of Nairobi-based female filmmakers—and how their dogged pursuit of opportunities, innovation, and cultural support is defining an industry.Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, is home to something extraordinary and unlikely: in this city, the most critically acclaimed filmmakers—both directors and producers—are women. Yet, across the globe, women make up less than 10 percent of film directors. In Creative Hustling,Robin Steedman takes a closer look at these remarkable women filmmakers, viewing them as auteurs as well as entrepreneurswho are taking the lead in creating a vibrant, and atypical, screen media industry. To understand their achievement, Steedman theorizes hustling as not only a practice born out of necessity but also an inventive labor in its own right—one that can create new spaces of community by carving new entrepreneurial pathways.Through original empirical field research gathered over eight months in Nairobi, Steedman describes how female filmmakers go about trying to create their films, as well as the challenges they face in distributing those films in their local market. Along the way, she traces the history of the industry over the last fifteen years, the lack of state support for these filmmakers' undertakings, the low social standing of the profession, and the transnational conflicts that arise when Euro-American funding is at the heart of Kenyan cinema.Creative Hustling is a major contribution to the task of de-Westernizing media industry studies, imparting important lessons about what it takes to create and distribute creative work in a global age increasingly marked by uncertain work.

The Netherlands faces enormous challenges: climate change, our national security is at stake and maintaining prosperity and welfare requires our time, effort and innovative thoughts. Innovation power, the ability to actually realise innovations, is the key to a better future. But what exactly does this mean? How do we ensure that innovation delivers concrete results? And who is responsible? This innovation handbook offers clear answers to complex questions about the world of private-public partnerships, placed in a historical and international perspective. Full of examples and practical tips, it offers essential tools for anyone active in innovation programs who is looking for new possibilities. With seven suggestions for action, Innovation Power is the essential guide for strengthening the innovation capacity of the Netherlands. Get inspired and discover how you can contribute to an innovative, sustainable and safe future for the Netherlands!

Quelle place pour l’artisan et l’artiste dans la société grecque ancienne ? Ce livre revient sur un débat ancien et complexe à travers le cas des sculpteurs : leur carrière, de l’apprentissage à la pleine possession de leur art, le processus de création, de la commande à la livraison, et l’image que les sociétés antiques ont véhiculée d’eux. Si l’archéologie et l’anthropologie ont renouvelé les données depuis les années 1970, elles ont focalisé l’attention sur les sources matérielles et les activités de production. Archéologue et historienne d’art formée à la philologie classique, l’auteur s’appuie sur le riche corpus des sources écrites : textes littéraires, souvent contradictoires, et inscriptions – comptes de chantiers, signatures, décrets honorifiques – qui donnent un éclairage différent, celui des réalités économiques et sociales, et nuancent la vision partiale du travail des artisans qu’offrent les philosophes. Le prétendu mépris des Grecs pour les artisans et les artistes n’est qu’un fantasme de moraliste : de fait, les artistes jouissaient d’une considération importante, qui se traduisait dans la valeur marchande de leurs œuvres. Le livre propose ainsi une vision dynamique et moderne de l’artiste antique, loin du « primitivisme » qui a longtemps prévalu. Il revient sur le problème de la « construction » historique de la figure de l’artiste et montre que l’étude de l’image et de l’imaginaire de l’artisan constitue, au même titre que la documentation archéologique, un objet d’histoire.

fÀ la période charnière de la crise révolutionnaire, l’ouvrage questionne le rôle politique des femmes dans un moment propice à la transgression des normes. La Révolution a été considérée par la majorité des historiennes du Gender comme le tournant critique des rapports entre la République et les femmes. Les fonds d’archives provençales et comtadines et l’historiographie locale sont revisités en fonction du rôle des femmes dans l’espace public en situation de crise. Les pratiques politiques féminines sont d’abord étudiées dans la conflictualité d’Ancien Régime utilisée comme moyen d’expression politique. Malgré le refus des droits politiques, la période révolutionnaire voit des femmes patriotes s’affirmer comme membres du Souverain, en militant dans des clubs féminins ou mixtes, participant aux journées révolutionnaires et aux politiques de Terreur. D’autres Provençales et Comtadines se mobilisent pour résister au monde nouveau qui se crée et sont victimes de leur engagement. À côté des femmes agissantes que révèlent les archives, les sources montrent l’importance du rôle des représentations – des furies de guillotine aux victimes de la Révolution mises en valeur par le camp conservateur. On constate l’influence de ces représentations sur l’évolution des options collectives et leur enracinement géographique, ainsi que sur la place des femmes dans le champ du politique jusqu’à nos jours.

This paper examines the ambivalent influence of the UN Security Council’s practice on the development of international refugee protection since the early 1990s. While the international refugee protection regime did not originally foresee a role for the Security Council, the increasingly complex security challenges in the post-Cold War era have led to its de facto inclusion in the institutional framework of protection. After having used its wide discretionary powers under the UN Charter to lin...

This book presents theoretical and practical reflections on the construction of social knowledge in the light of Genetic Epistemology. Children's rights, as an important social theme present in school curricula, was the main focus of the discussions to be presented here, through the report of a pedagogical intervention that sought to know, evaluate and collaborate for the construction of social notions more elaborated by students of the Elementary School I. The importance of teachers working with the construction of social knowledge in the classroom is highlighted, and it brings contributions as it draws attention to active, fruitful and colluding ways with child development, of thinking in an educational context , truly, constructivist, concerned with the formation of citizen children, in essence, critical, autonomous and reflective.

Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World presents a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colonies: Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Flores, and Portuguese Timor. Through ethnographic, historical, and legal analyses, the book investigates how colonial land policies and interventions were not simply implemented and forgotten but have shaped contemporary land access, governance, and socio-economic structures in profound ways. Portuguese colonialism was shaped by shifting political and economic priorities. From trading routes to plantation economies and extractive industries, land became central to Portuguese colonial interests. Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World investigates the bureaucratic mechanisms employed by Portuguese authorities to regulate land, highlighting how these systems were frequently manipulated by elites to consolidate power and control over resources. It explores Indigenous-settler entanglements, illustrating how colonial land policies interacted with local governance systems, leading to contested and hybrid forms of land control shaped by both resistance and adaptation. Finally, it focuses on the global capitalist motivations driving land policies, particularly the use of large-scale concessions for plantations, and how these practices continue to shape contemporary land ownership and economic inequalities in post-colonial contexts. Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World is a critical and comparative analysis of colonial land governance and its afterlives. It highlights how these legacies continue to shape contemporary struggles over land, making it essential to address them in the pursuit of more equitable land governance. Through its case studies, the book contributes to broader discussions on the relationships between land, power, and colonialism, offering insights into the ongoing challenges of land policy and practice in post-colonial contexts.

A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. These volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arabic text showing the stages in which the author composed the work. Introductory essays provide important background. The reader will find on these pages an Islamic society that worked closely with Christians and Jews, deeply committed to advancing knowledge and applying it to health and wellbeing.

Spätestens im Zeitalter der Klimakatastrophe steht der klassische Landschaftsbegriff in der Krise. Die Beiträger*innen fragen daher nach dem Möglichkeitsraum virtueller Landschaften: Welche Resonanzen entstehen zwischen historischen Landschaftskonzepten, Techniken des sensorischen Screenings und künstlerischem Worldbuilding? Wie werden Landschaften politisch strukturiert, im Gaming generiert oder virtuell zum Wachsen gebracht? Dabei sind die Grenzen, die im Prozess der Virtualisierung als Bildrahmen, Materialität oder Betrachtungsposition überschritten werden, von besonderem Interesse: Zwischen Zugang und Entzug, Illusion und Immersion sowie Vereinzelung und Gemeinschaft leiten virtuelle Landschaften zu neuen Fluchtlinien kunst- und medienwissenschaftlicher Raumdiskurse an.