Traditional Crafts. What About?

Climate Narratives : What is Modern about Traditional Ecological Knowledge ? 1

The literature on traditional ecological knowledge has established the importance of community narratives for capturing and communicating complex environmental information and linking it to practice. We make the case that narratives are important not just to traditional communities but modern, cosmopolitan societies as well. Principles of narratology are employed to examine how ―moderns‖ talk a...

Digital Preservation of Traditional Crafts and Three-Dimensional Modeling Technologies

The cultural heritage preservation requires that objects persist throughout time to continue to communicate an intended meaning. Digital technology and specifically 3D digital technology is naturally a critical component in preservation. Yet once in the digital world the object's persistence is inextricably linked to data persistence and current 3D technologies do little more than capture a sil...

Two Thoughts about Traditional Knowledge

Professor Sunder’s intriguing paper demonstrates the continuing power of the related ideas of environmentalism and the public domain, but it also identifies some of the hazards of those metaphors. I have only two unrelated thoughts to add to her analysis. First, I was struck by the parallels between her argument and the historiography involving the displacement by British colonists of Native Am...

What about Memory, Consciousness, Recall, and Awareness in Anesthesia?

What can a meta-analysis tell us about traditional birth attendant training and pregnancy outcomes?

OBJECTIVE to summarise the available published and unpublished studies on traditional birth attendant (TBA) training effectiveness. DESIGN a meta-analysis. STUDY SAMPLE sixty studies (n=60) spanning 1971-1999 from 24 countries and three regions. MEASUREMENTS the effect size index, Cohen's h for each outcome; the variance-weighted mean effect size and 95% confidence interval for sub-group ...