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China, ancient kilns and modern ceramics: a guide to the potteries »
Publication date: 1983
This is the first book about Chinese ceramics written by an Australian in co-operation with a long-time resident of China. Wanda Garnsey, through her long friendship with Rewi Alley, had access to up-to-date information not readily available to others. The book describes the search for historical facts relating to the long and sustained cultural growth of the Chinese people now being undertaken in China and the continuing manufacture of objects of beauty. Since 1949, when the Government of the People's Republic of China was proclaimed, extensive efforts have been made to preserve the antiquities that remain in the many tombs scattered over the countryside. Chinese archaeologists have laboured hard to annotate everything of value that has been discovered either in the course of construction work or in deliberate excavation. Cultural relics may no longer be exported without the consent of the Chinese government, and this book, with its many photographs, gives a glimpse of the great wealth of ceramics, both ancient and modern, that is part of the Chinese cultural tradition.
Margaret Mead and Samoa: the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth »
Publication date: 1983
In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence do not exist. Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial "negative instance," an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology. In Margaret Mead and Samoa, Professor Freeman presents startling but wholly convincing evidence that Mead's proof is false. On the basis of years of patient fieldwork and historical research, Freeman refutes Mead's characterization of Samoan society and adolescence point for point. Far from the relaxed transition to adulthood that Mead ascribed to permissive childrearing and tolerant sexual attitudes, Samoan adolescence, Freeman demonstrates, is a time of frequent stress in an authoritarian society with punitive methods of childrearing and restrictive regulations against premarital sex. Freeman's book thus corrects a towering scientific error. His aim is not to blame Margaret Mead but to understand how her error could have occurred and become basick to the doctrine of cultural determinism The result is a detective story in the history of science, one filled with engrossing details about cultural anthropology's battle with the eugenics movement, about Mead's relationships with her most important colleagues, Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas, and finally about her poor preparation for the field and the likelihood that she was duped by her adolescent informants. Beyond these particulars lie painful but important generalizations about how the truth in Science can sometimes be obscured by theory and how theory can sometimes be twisted by ideology.
The Academy reorganized: the R. & D. role of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1961 »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2885 1885_115156.jpg ANU Press The Academy reorganized: the R. & D. role of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1961 Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Fortescue, Stephen Charles
The gifted knight, Sir Robert Garran, G.C.M.G., Q.C.: first Commonwealth public servant, poet, scholar and lawyer »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3049 1885_115100.jpg ANU Press The gifted knight, Sir Robert Garran, G.C.M.G., Q.C.: first Commonwealth public servant, poet, scholar and lawyer Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Francis, Noel
Grammatical analysis of the Lao ch'i-ta with an English translation of the Chinese text »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3419 1885_114793.jpg ANU Press Grammatical analysis of the Lao ch'i-ta with an English translation of the Chinese text Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Dyer, Svetlana Rimsky-Korsakoff
Biographical register of the New South Wales Parliament 1856-1901 »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3409 1885_114996.jpg ANU Press Biographical register of the New South Wales Parliament 1856-1901 Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Connolly, C. N
Youth, transition, and social research »
Publication date: 1983
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2715 1885_114731.jpg ANU Press Youth, transition, and social research Thursday, 18 August, 1983 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services
Bigger or smaller government?: papers from the sixth Symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982 »
Publication date: 1983
Papers from the sixth symposium of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1982.
Hospital funding »
Publication date: 1983
This book reviews the basis of hospital funding in Australia. In addition to two background papers by the Commonwealth Treasury and Department of Health, and the Commonwealth Grants Commission, respectively, there are papers on Canada's system of hospital funding; on why Queensland's per capita hospital costs are so low and on why Western Australia's costs are so high, on factors affecting costs and efficiency in hospital administration; on hospital charges and revenue-raising capacity; on the likely future course of health funding; and on alternative methods of providing and financing hospital services, including greater reliance on the market in substitution for direct government provision. The authors include senior Treasury officers, hospital administrators and health economists.
Climate of Papua New Guinea »
Publication date: 1983
This book presents the first comprehensive study of the climate of Papua New Guinea. It is based on an exhaustive analysis and interpretation of the basic meteorological data from the country's extensive recording station network, a network which resulted from the need for accurate weather information for the operation of widespread airstrips in an otherwise inaccessible interior. The data collected made it possible to undertake a climatic survey and analysis for Papua New Guinea which is perhaps unique in its spatial extent and time span for a less developed country. The analysis has revealed the inadequacy of currently held theories of the major climatic controls operating in the region for explaining the various climatic patterns found there. The first chapters present a treatment of regional climatic controls which is in part entirely new. This explanation is then used as the basis for the succeeding chapters on specific climatic elements, the water balance and climatic classification. Papua New Guinea is a land of many and varied cultures, each with its own traditional agricultural practices which have often evolved in response to climatic factors. Climate is also of major importance in planning and implementing many resource development projects such as the construction of roads and of hydro-electric power stations. For these reasons this book is directed to agriculturalists, engineers, planners and students as well as to professional meteorologists.