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Aspects of the aesthetics of Balinese rice-growing -- "Metaphors of living" and Balinese life -- Leopold E.A. Howe and Balinese conceptions of duration -- Mediated relationships in aspects of Balinese ideology -- Broken symmetries in aspects of Balinese and Japanese ideology -- Locals and non-locals in Singapore, Bali/Lombok, and Tokyo -- Notes on natural resemblances among humankind.

This book explores the main issues in new social science approaches to understanding the human body and aging. In particular, the development of postmodernism and its relationship to culture and the body is delineated. The book also addresses some of the power issues that manifest in social relationships focused on the body. Here, the work of Michel Foucault is useful in using conceptual tools to disrupt dominant bio-medical narratives relating to the aging body

"What is 'social capital'? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. A work of critical media studies, Social Capital Online examines the idea within the new 'network spectacle' of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze. Explaining how such phenomena as online narcissism and aggression arise, Faucher offers a new theoretical understanding of how the spectacularisation of online activity perfectly aligns with the value system of neoliberalism and its data worship. Even so, at the centre of all, lie familiar ideas – alienation and accumulation – new conceptions of which he argues are vital for understanding today's digital society."

"This book provides practical guidance for delivering and sustaining value and impact from digital content. Our digital presence has the power to change lives and life opportunities. We must understand digital values to consider how organizational presence within digital cultures can create change. Impact assessment is the tool to foster understanding of how strategic decisions about digital resources may be fostering change within our communities. Delivering Impact with Digital Resources focuses on introducing both a mechanism and a way to thinking about strategies and evidence of benefits that extend to impact. Such that, the existence of a digital resource shows measurable outcomes that demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community. The book proposes an updated Balanced Value Impact Model (BVIM) to enable each memory organization to convincingly argue they are an efficient and effective operation, working in innovative modes with digital resources for the positive social and economic benefit of their communities." -- Provided by publisher

The article discusses major threats that the Western society has hadto deal with after the end of the Cold War. This issue seems to be of particularconcern due to the fact that nowadays certain new trends in the world of geopolitics can be observed. Due to the change in the global balance of power afterthe year 1991, the role of the main geostrategic actors has also changed whilenew actors have begun to appear. Among the new challenges for the geostrategic position of the West there are the military ambitions of the Russian Federation and the economic hegemonic aspirations of China. Other threats includeterrorism, mass migration, transnational organized crime, infectious diseases,and environmental degradation.

When Culture Impacts Health -- Antecedents of Culture-in-Health Research -- Biological and Biocultural Anthropology -- Toward Cultural Epidemiology: Beyond Epistemological Hegemony -- The Cultural Anthropological Contribution to Communicable Disease Epidemiology -- Medicalization or Medicine as Culture? The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs: Lay Concepts of Contagious Disease Transmission in Developed Countries --Context and Environment: The Value of Considering Lay Epidemiology -- Identity, Social Position, Well-Being, and Health: Insights from Australians Living with Hearing Loss -- Framing Debates about Risk for Skin Cancer and Vitamin D Deficiency in New Zealand: Ethnicity, Skin Color, and/or Cultural Practice? -- Analyzing Smoking Using Te Whare Tapa Wha -- Thirty Years of New Zealand Smoking Advances a Case for Cultural Epidemiology and Cultural Geography -- On Slimming Pills, Growth Hormones, and Plastic Surgery: The Socioeconomic Value of the Body in South Korea -- Tacking between Disciplines: Approaches to Tuberculosis in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Tuvalu

In the article explores the concept of fiscal policy, the essence of state regulation of social and economic development as a process of inclusion of the state in the economic sphere of society through of fiscal policy. Defines types of fiscal policy. ; В статье исследуется понятие фискальной политики, раскрывается сущность государственного регулирования социально-экономического развития как процесса включения государства в экономическую сферу общества посредством бюджетно-налоговой политики. Даются определения видов фискальной политики.