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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship -- I Approaches to the Cultural Study of Law -- Law as Culture -- What It Is and What It Isn't: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor -- Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes toward a Nonskeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis -- Freedom, Autonomy, and the Cultural Study of Law -- II Deploying Law and Legal Ideas in Culture and Society -- Ethnography and Democracy: Texts and Contexts in the United States in the 1990s -- Rules of Law, Laws of Science -- Law, Therapy, Culture -- III Reading Legal Events -- A Ghost in the House of Justice: Death and the Language of the Law -- Lacan and Voting Rights -- ''Into the Blue'': The Image Written on Law -- Contributors -- Index

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This article aims to show that the concept of cultures as discrete entities is crucial for arguments for the protection of cultures. In this regard, Will Kymlicka's arguments for cultural protection are critically examined. We show that important aspects of his arguments, particularly the distinctions between 1) external and internal protections and 2) cultural content and structure, as well as 3) the notion of attachment to culture, can only succeed if one can conceive of cultures as distinct entities. In our concluding remarks, we suggest that this is a notion worth investigating. In particular, we suggest that the combination of delineation in terms of historical conflicts (as opposed to cultural essence) and the presence of real exit possibilities may allow for the delineation of cultures.

Citizen science is fundamentally about participation within and for communities. Attempts to merge citizen science with schooling must call not only for a democratization of schooling and science but also for the democratization of the ways in which science is taken up by, with, and for citizen participants. Using this stance, along with critical studies of place, I build on the criticisms of citizen science outlined in "The Future of Citizen Science" to argue for the centrality of place. Using a case of urban youths working toward transparency and cross-cultural dialogue regarding energy production in their community, I complicate the proposed immersion model to suggest a further reconstruction of citizen science in ways that account for youths' deep and critical connections to the geohistorical and sociocultural dimensions of place.

Cultural factors may influence selection pressures by affecting the passage of people through the life cycle diff'ially. A case is made for the cultural determinants of selection at the gene & genotype levels. Changes in selection pressures may result in changes in gene frequencies. Culture is a principal cause of human evolution. D. Cooperman.

In the late 1990s, Egypt experienced a boom period in in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology and now boasts more IVF clinics than neighboring Israel. In this book, Marcia Inhorn writes of her fieldwork among affluent, elite couples who sought in vitro fertilization in Egypt, a country which is not only at the forefront of IVF technology in the Middle East, but also a center of Islamic education in the region. Inhorn examines the gender, scientific, religious and cultural ramifications of the transfer of IVF technology from Euro-American points of origin to Egypt - showing how cultural ideas r

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Philosophical Considerations -- Theological Perspectives -- Scientific Insights -- Historical Reflections -- Contents -- Part I: Philosophical Considerations -- Chapter 1: Nature: And Beyond? Immanence and Transcendence in Science and Religion -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Signals of Transcendence -- 1.3 Emergent Complexity -- 1.4 Implications for Knowing the Transcendent -- 1.5 Interim Assessment -- 1.6 Emergent Complexity and a New Theology of Nature -- 1.7 The Immanent Transcendent from the Standpoint of Natural Emergence -- 1.8 Concluding Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Immanence and Transcendence: On/Off Difference or Gradation? Implications for Science-and-Theology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Proposal: Religion Arises as a Basic Distinction Between Transcendence and Immanence -- 2.3 Discussion: Do We Really Need Neat Distinctions When Dealing with Religion? -- 2.3.1 Social and Cultural Trends Regarding Religion and Spirituality -- 2.3.2 Social Theory, History and Alternative Models -- 2.3.3 Theology and Its Perplexities -- 2.3.4 The Scientific Method -- 2.3.5 The Scientific Study of Beliefs -- 2.4 Back to the Proposed Distinction: Persisting with Religion and Transcendence -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Why I Am a Science-Inspired Naturalist But Not a Philosophical Naturalist Nor a Religious Naturalist -- 3.1 Science-Inspired Naturalism -- 3.2 Philosophical Naturalism -- 3.3 Religious Naturalism -- 3.4 Concluding Comments -- Bibliography -- Part II: Theological Perspectives -- Chapter 4: The Twin Truths of Divine Immanence and Transcendence: Creation, Laws of Nature and Human Freedom -- 4.1 Divine Transcendence and Immanence Conjoined in Classic Christian Theology -- 4.1.1 Augustine of Hippo -- 4.1.2 Thomas Aquinas -- 4.2 Divine Transcendence and Immanence in the Bible.

1.What it is and what it isn't : introducing cultural studies /Toby Miller --2.Interdisciplinary /Mark GibsonandAlec McHoul --3.Is there a cultural studies of law /Rosemary Coombe --4.The renewal of the cultural in sociology /Randy Martin --5.Sociology, cultural studies, and disciplinary boundaries /Frank Webster --6.Notes on the traffic between cultural studies and science and technology studies /Marianne de Laet --7.Political economy within cultural studies /Richard Maxwell --8.Cultural studies and philosophy : an intervention /Douglas Kellner --9."X" never, ever marks the spot : archaeology and cultural studies /Silke Morgenroth --10.The unbalanced reciprocity between cultural studies and anthropology /George E. Marcus --11.Media studies and cultural studies : a symbiotic convergence /John Nguyet Erni --12.Comparative cultural studies traditions : Latin America and the US /George Yúdice --13.Can cultural studies speak Spanish /Jorge Mariscal --14.Australasia /Graeme Turner --15.Peripheral vision : Chinese cultural studies in Hong Kong /Eric Kit-wai Ma --16.Decentering the centre : cultural studies in Britain and its legacy /Ben Carrington --17.European cultural studies /Paul Moore --18.Let's get serious : notes on teaching youth culture /Justin Lewis --19.Looking backwards and forwards at cultural studies /Paul Smith --20.Close encounters : sport, science, and political culture /C.L. Cole --21.Intellectuals, culture, policy : the practical and the critical /Tony Bennett --22.Listening to the state : culture, power, and cultural policy in Columbia /Ana María Ochoa Gautier --23.Museum highlights : a gallery talk /Andrea Fraser --24.The scandalous fall of feminism and the "first Black president" /Melissa Deem --25.Rap and feng shui : on ass politics, cultural studies, and the timbaland sound /Jason King --26.Fashion /Sarah Berry --27.Cultural studies and race /Robert Stam --28.Globalization and culture /Toby MillerandGeoffrey Lawrence --29."Cricket, with a plot" : nationalism, cricket, and diasporic identities /Suvendrini Perera --30.Bibliographical resources for cultural studies.

Studies of cultural differentiation have shown that social mechanisms that normally lead to cultural convergence—homophily and influence—can also explain how distinct cultural groups can form. However, this emergent cultural diversity has proven to be unstable in the face of cultural drift—small errors or innovations that allow cultures to change from within. The authors develop a model of cultural differentiation that combines the traditional mechanisms of homophily and influence with a third mechanism of network homophily, in which network structure co-evolves with cultural interaction. Results show that in certain regions of the parameter space, these co-evolutionary dynamics can lead to patterns of cultural diversity that are stable in the presence of cultural drift. The authors address the implications of these findings for understanding the stability of cultural diversity in the face of increasing technological trends toward globalization.

In the centuries since the enlightenment, the world has seen an increase in socioeconomic development, measured as increased life expectancy, education, economic development and democracy. While the co-occurrence of these features among nations is well documented, little is known about their origins or co-evolution. Here, we compare this growth of prosperity in nations to the historical record of cultural values in the twentieth century, derived from global survey data. We find that two cultural factors, secular-rationality and cosmopolitanism, predict future increases in GDP per capita, democratization and secondary education enrollment. The converse is not true, however, which indicates that secular-rationality and cosmopolitanism are among the preconditions for socioeconomic development to emerge.

Discusses the degree to which science is integrated in contemporary culture. Though widely diffused, it is poorly understood, at a distance from most people, and shallowly rooted in any specific cultural world. (CP)

This open access bookA Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, ranging across the civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. Over this long period, chemical artisans, recipes, and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium. The flowering of alchemy in the Middle and Early Modern Ages had its roots in the chemical arts of antiquity. This study presents the first synthesis of this epoch, examining the centrality of intense exchange and interconnectivity to the discovery and development of sources, techniques, materials, and instruments. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Chemistry presents the first comprehensive history from the Bronze Age to today, covering all forms and aspects of chemistry and its ever-changing social context. The themes covered in each volume are theory and concepts; practice and experiment; laboratories and technology; culture and science; society and environment; trade and industry; learning and institutions; art and representation. Marco Beretta is Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna, Italy. Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Chemistry set. General Editors: Peter J. T. Morris, University College London, UK, and Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University, USA. The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

The "culture" debate in economics and economic history has been long-lasting. This volume incorporates contributions of scholars from economics, management studies and international relations, as well as economic and social historians' attempts to evaluate the role and impact of cultural factors on economic growth