: Contemporary Change in Traditional Societies. Volume I: Introduction and African Tribes . Julian H. Steward.

Julian Steward

Julian Henriques Sonic Bodies Introduction

It hits you, but you feel no pain, instead, pleasure. This is the visceral experience of audition, to be immersed in an auditory volume, swimming in a sea of sound, between cliffs of speakers towering almost to the sky, sound stacked up upon sound tweeters on top of horns, on top of mid, on top of bass, on top of walk-in sub bass bins (Frontispiece). There is no escape, not even thinking about ...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Study, analyze and Introduction designs imported (adapted) and new ones in contemporary Arak carpets (Sultan Abad)

This article is basically a result of a fieldwork and less theoretical. purpose or adapted plans and drawings in this article, designs and drawings that entered the Arak knitting system in various ways. or introduced by the traders and manufacturers of Tabriz into the Arak map and design tradition, or adapted by designers, traders and native producers from other carpet areas, or new designs des...

Introduction: Medicine and Healing in Tibetan Societies

This introduction to the special issue of EASTS begins with a survey of recent social scientific work on medicine and healing in Tibetan and Himalayan societies. The author considers the specificity of the Tibetan encounter with biomedicine in comparison with that experienced by other traditions of Asian medicine and introduces both the traditional Tibetan medical system (Sowa Rigpa) and the wi...