Predation pressure has long been considered a leading explanation of colonies, where close neighbors may reduce predation via dilution, alarming or group predator attacks. Attacking predators may be costly in terms of energy and survival, leading to the question of how neighbors contribute to predator deterrence in relationship to each other. Two hypotheses explaining the relative efforts made ...

Research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. The thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of Ghana with the introduction of the use of English among Ghanaians. The coexistence of both Ghanaian languages and Engli...

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with their own. Relations between Western and indigenous medicine are examined from a different perspective in Anil Kumar's account of the Indian drug industry between 1860 and 1920. He argues that, despite some recognition of the richness of indigenous materia medica, the British discouraged the development of an Indian drug industry and were never genuinely committed to import substitution. B...

The idea of the frontier reflects a uniquely colonial view of a place and process of encounter between colonising people, indigenous inhabitants, and natural landscapes.[1] Within this colonial context, the idea of the frontier has been variously developed through history by natural and social scientists, popular historians, artists, writers, and government officials. This volume draws together...

A meeting was held under tlie presidency of Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., in the Bast Conference Hall of the Imperial Institute, on Wednesday, March 2nd, 1898, and Mr. James Cantlie gave an address on the Organisation of the Colonial Medical Department. The scheme which was proposed for consideration was based upon that contained in a paper on the organisation of the Colonial Medical Serv...

Borders and Boundaries: these terms appropriately describe a certain tendency prevailing in Irish and Scottish Studies which delineates and thus delimits their field in terms of national concerns. While postcolonial criticism shows the potential to adhere to national boundaries whilst embedding them in an international context, this paper aims to shift its relevance from questions about the nat...

Because of the long colonial history of Filipinos and the highly Americanized climate of postcolonial Philippines, many scholars from various disciplines have speculated that colonialism and its legacies may play major roles in Filipino emigration to the United States. However, there are no known empirical studies in psychology that specifically investigate whether colonialism and its effects h...

^ to say a few words about this aspect of British Colonial stewardship. (C central organizing body is the Colonial Medical Research Committee It is aided by regional organizations in some of the Colonial territories, t^e ?S1: "^r*ca by the East African Bureau of Research in Medicine and Hygiene and ^frieaK "^r*can Standing Advisory Committee for Medical Research, and in West \ye , ky a similar ...

If decolonization truly begins with land, then it can be said that landscape studies—as a field concerned the study, design, and ordering of land—has at least some stake in on going processes decolonization. Repeated contestations for Indigenous land rights North America suggest settler-colonial contexts present distinct pressing concern The landscapes colonialism are also deeply racialized, co...