One of the key examples analysed in Edward Said’s Orientalism is Flaubert’s account his meeting with almeh Kuchiuk Hanem, a skilled dancer and courtesan, Egypt 1850. Frequently revisited by criticism following Said, has had an extraordinary afterlife which she seen as standing for Orient whole, instance synecdoche. We, postcolonial theorists, tend to interpret Kuchiuk-as-text (Flaubert’s notes ...

ANTHROPOLOGISTS cannot be said to have a theory of learning of their own. They borrow and apply concepts from behavioristic approaches in psy chology, from theories of learning, from social psychology, and particularly from psychoanalysis. 1 This has made anthro pological perspectives on learning some what less than systematic, but it has kept them flexible. Until the influence of Edward Sapir,...

We propose Edward, a Turing-complete probabilistic programming language. Edward builds on two compositional representations—random variables and inference. By treating inference as a first class citizen, on a par with modeling, we show that probabilistic programming can be as flexible and computationally efficient as traditional deep learning. For flexibility, Edward makes it easy to fit the sa...

This article takes up the challenge of critical methods in "revolting times," as we conduct qualitative research on (in)justice festering within repulsive inequality gaps, and yet surrounded by the thrill of radical social movements dotting the globe. I introduce a call for "critical bifocality," a term coined by Lois Weis and myself, to argue for research designs that interrogate how history, ...

PROVIDENCE – When Brown alumnus Dr. Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD’83, was a second-year medical student, he found himself bored and proffered his resignation letter to then-Dean Stanley M. Aronson, MD. At this year’s Brown commencement weekend, Dr. Ellenbogen, who delivered the Charles O. Cooke, MD, Distinguished Visiting Lectureship, recalled the incident. “The Silver Fox put the letter aside with...

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After several decades of scholarship on science and empire, it is now largely accepted that disciplines such as medicine and geography played a crucial role in imperial expansion. On a purely technical level these disciplines were important "tools of empire", enabling colonizers to map their new domains and to exploit more effectively their human and material resources.2 But following the work ...

We discuss the analysis of data from πN elastic scattering and single pion photoand electroproduction. The main focus is a study of low-lying non-strange baryon resonances. Here we concentrate on some difficulties associated with resonance identification, in particular the Roper and higher P11 states.