Susanne Küchler & Daniel Miller, eds, Clothing as Material Culture

Some Background Material for 18 . 176 Daniel

C(R ;R) is the space of m-times, continuously differentiable funtions, C b (R ;R) is the subspace of C(R ;R) whose elements have bounded derivatives of all orders less than of equal to m, C c (R ;R) is the subspace of C b (R ;R) whose elements have compact support, C 1,2 b ( [0,∞)×R ;R) is the space functions (t,x) ∈ [0,∞) × R 7−→ u(t,x) ∈ R which have one bounded, continuous derivative with re...

Plant tissue culture studies in Sorghum bicolor: immature embryo explants as the source material

Sorghum is a wonder crop from physiological point of view. It is the most important cereal crop, after rice and wheat.  The number of reports describing the use of transgenic Sorghum for basic studies in Biotechnology is still limited when compared to other crops. In one hand, the success of the transformation techniques is mainly dependent upon the availability of optimal protocols for highly ...

Maize as Material Culture? Amazonian Theories of Persons and Things

Clothing as solar radiation protection.

The sun is essential for life. Yet, sunlight can also be a source of such deleterious effects as sunburn, and suntanning, as well as premalignant and malignant lesions. These may all occur in individuals with normal responses to sunlight. In addition, there exist a variety of 'abnormal' photosensitivity responses to sunlight that may result from either endogenous imbalances (e.g. the porphyrias...

Archaeology and material culture

This outstanding collection of papers documents the quality and quantity of historical archaeology research conducted on the island of Jamaica over the past thirty years. Jamaica offers a significant location for the investigation of the colonial enterprise in the Americas. Beginning with Spanish explorations and conquest in the sixteenth century, followed by British accession in 1655, the isla...