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This volume is the second attempt by a joint international research team (consisting of Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian and American ethnologists) to contribute to the domain of ecological anthropology. The editors of and contributors to this collection share the understanding that catastrophic events challenge society to rework a specific methodology, and to activate a specific resource, to adapt to and cope Other crises ecologically, socially and ideologically. The main aim of this volume is to

This article, focused on the Persian Gobryas, the head of Patischorian tribe and a member of the mysterious circle bringing Darius I (the Great) to the throne called the "Seven" by Herodotus, aims to argue that the concept of seven families was originally derived from the tribal structure of the Achaemenid society rather than from traditions found in classical writers. Mainly based on the administrative Elamite texts from Persepolis, the paper attempts to add contextual and practical detail to the classical narrative about the status of the "Seven" in the Achaemenid imperial system. This data leads us to the Fahliyān region in southwestern Persia as the house of the Patischorians and shows how Gobryas and his house were involved in the political, economic and administrative structures of the Persian Achaemenid Empire especially during the reign of Darius. The case also provides a valuable context for the study of various aspects of social organization particularly the land tenure.

Tactfulness represents an aspect of interhuman relations. The term comes from the Latin tactus which means contact, influence, action, sense of moderation. The nowadays accepted meaning, tactfulness implies the strict abidance of day-to-day behaviour rules. Being a psychosocial phenomenon, tactfulness occurs only in a social interaction, in every human activity. We can speak about tactfulness in relations between spouses, friends, coworkers, members of a political organization, etc. In all these situations, tactfulness takes aim at human relationships, carrying the observance of reputation, of other's prestige, with the purpose of accomplishment, without difficulties, of one's own interests. Tactfulness has an important part in educator-educated relationships on every school rung, although in the more recently emerging studies was insisted increasingly on implications in work with finality instructive. Tact is the fundamental teaching of craftsmanship (which is the full development of all components of teacher personality) requirement for ensuring authority and educator by profession.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Plato to Polio Chronic Disease in Historical Context -- Chapter 2 An Awakening Medicine and Illness in Post-World War Two America -- Chapter 3 Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness -- Chapter 4 The Women's Health Movement and Patient Empowerment -- Chapter 5 Culture, Consumerism, and Character Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s -- Chapter 6 A Slight Hysterical Tendency Revisiting "The Girl Who Cried Pain" -- Chapter 7 Into the Fray Patients in the Digital Age -- Chapter 8 Participatory Medicine and Transparency -- Chapter 9 What Future, at What Cost? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Note on the Author -- By the Same Author -- eCopyright.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of acronyms -- List of contributors -- 1 Understanding mine closure: global and national trends -- 2 A theoretical framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure -- 3 Mine closure policies and strategies in South Africa: a critical review -- 4 A scoping review of the literature on mine closure -- 5 Miners' lives after retrenchment -- 6 West Rand: decline in South Africa's economic heartland -- 7 Matjhabeng: decline in the urban periphery -- 8 Kleinzee: looking for a new dawn amidst the diamond dust -- 9 Koffiefontein mine downscaling: socioeconomic and infrastructural consequences -- 10 Alexkor and the Richtersveld community: unlikely partners to mine diamonds together -- 11 Tshikondeni: mine closure in a deeply rural area -- 12 Emalahleni's just transition: from closure to collaboration? -- 13 Rustenburg: the struggle to go beyond mining -- 14 Rustenburg: coping despite mine decline -- 15 A framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure in South Africa -- Index.

Science fiction author/physicist Ken Wharton, Ph.D. : a speculative view to the future of journalism -- Futurist forum of journalism (a discussion with futurists with Ian Punnett & Phylis Johnson) -- The science fiction of journalism (a look at world of the future confronting journalists, as expressed in popular science fiction books and films / P. Johnson -- Journalism and media in virtual worlds / P. Johnson -- Future electronic media / P. Johnson -- Future radio / P. Johnson -- Future sports / P. Johnson -- Shoot for the moon : media in outer space / P. Johnson -- Election 2050 / P. Johnson -- Future Africa : journalism in the new world order / P. Johnson -- Conclusion: Future shock-and-roll : getting the job done in future times.

This questionnaire study sheds light on the psychological component of kin selecting tendencies predicted by Hamilton's (1964b) inclusive fitness theory of discriminatory altruistic behavior based on genetic similarity. Participants rated donations of assistance aiding survival
and material wealth as more rational and ethical when these actions were performed for closer relatives. Participants also felt a greater obligation to perform these acts for a close relation. A comparison condition where assistance was unlikely to affect survival or reproductive success did
not exhibit these tendencies.

Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests. Thaddeus Sunseri uses the lens of forest history to explore some of the most profound transformations in Tanzania from the nineteenth century to the present. He explores anticolonial rebellions, the world wars, the depression, the Cold War, oil shocks, and nationalism through their intersections with and impacts.