Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design (Van Nostrand Reinhold Electrical/Computer Science and Engineering Series)

Singhal, Kishore; Vlach, Jiri

ISBN 10: 0897895967 / ISBN 13: 9780897895965

Published by Springer, 1993

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Title: Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and ...

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 2nd Edition.

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Synopsis:

Using new case data from South American, Australian, and Papua New Guinean societies, the authors explore how cultural ideas for humanity are reflected in seemingly universal understandings of our potential for anthropophagy. Whether or not a society actually practices cannibalism, these conceptions are often articulated at the level of folklore and myth, where flesh-eating is imbued with symbolic meanings centered on ideas about regeneration after death, the equivalence between human flesh and food, and the morality of social exchange in and between groups. Thus, cannibalism emerges at once as a resource for political agendas that perpetuate ethnic stereotypes of exotic others; a cultural practice capable of expressing violent suppression as well as transforming death into a life-sustaining process; and a theme whose horrific potentiality engenders baleful monsters and myths for public delectation as well as child control. Cannibalism exists in folklore traditions as the definition of the antithesis of socially accepted morality, as well as something that in practice was a conduit for the regeneration and reproduction of positive values. Cannibalism is seen as bound up with the commerce of exchange between people intent on defining their economic and political worlds in and through symbols. This book is a major milestone, providing a valuable set of correctives for both the academic discourse on cannibalism as well as the wider conventional beliefs about the topic.

Synopsis:

The topic of cannibalism continues to be emblematic of people's ideas of the "exotic other". In addition to its lingering cultural meanings, the continued interest in the topic stems in part from the history of controversy about methods, evidence, and inference patterns within anthropology and archaeology. This work looks at how and why cannibalism was actually practised, both as part of a wider cultural system of meanings about reproduction and regeneration as well as how cannibalism as myth perpetuates political processes of stereotyping across cultures. Cannibalism exists in folklore traditions as the definition of the antithesis of socially accepted morality, as well as something that in practice was a conduit for the regeneration and reproduction of positive values. Cannibalism is seen as bound up with the commerce of exchange between people intent on defining their economic and political worlds in and through symbols. This book seeks to provide a set of correctives for both the academic discourse on cannibalism as well as the wider conventional beliefs about the topic.