The British government's current educational policy for England draws on E.D. Hirsch's writings 'cultural literacy'. This paper aims to uncover the roots of Hirsch’s influential views through a genealogical critique. Hirsch admired Scottish Enlightenment educator Hugh Blair as model architect hegemonic culture unite disparate members nation. Following Hirsch, government Department Education in ...

This describes the factual and epistemological mistakes leading to collapse of anthropological interest in scientific analysis kinship social organization 1980s, their persistence present, alternative that avoids them. The basic argument is while was a challenging topic, reason for studies response David Schneider's criticism 1987 had did not reflect those inherent problems.  They reflecte...

I never expected to spend most of my life studying worms. However, when it came time for me to choose an area for my postdoctoral research, I was intrigued both with the problems of neurobiology and with the approaches of genetics. Having heard that a new “genetic organism” with a remarkably simple nervous system was being explored by Sydney Brenner – the microscopic soil nematode Caenorhabditi...

The ciliate class Colpodea provides a powerful case in which a molecular genealogy can be compared to a detailed morphological taxonomy of a microbial group. Previous analyses of the class using the small-subunit rDNA are based on sparse taxon sampling, and are therefore of limited use in comparisons with morphologically-based classifications. Taxon sampling is increased here to include all ord...

Genealogy research is centered on collecting records about an individual from various sources and combining the information to gain a larger historical perspective about that individual, commonly in the form of a pedigree. Data extraction, the internet, and other technological advancements have made large amounts of digital genealogical data more accessible. Discovering the relevancy of a digit...

Increase of multimedia information in Web requires a new method to manage and service multimedia documents efficiently. This paper proposes a conceptual object grouping method by fuzzy filtering, which is automatically constituted based on increase of multimedia documents. The proposed method composes subsumption relations between conceptual objects automatically using fuzzy filtering of the do...

Molecular genetic data provide powerful tools for genealogy reconstruction to reveal mechanisms underlying disease ecology. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) congregate in matriarchal groups; kin-related close social spacing may be a factor in the spread of infectious diseases. Spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a prion disorder of deer and their cervid relatives, is presumed to ...