Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned
by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book …

Shoplifting is an ancient, though not honorable, art. Reports of criminal theft from shops and
stalls appeared in Elizabethan England.'Moll Flanders was sent to Newgate Prison for …

… They have not been very prolific in the invention of institutions to encourage invention. In
particular, it is extraordinary how the Patent System goes on largely unchallenged, much as …

A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of
communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact-from …

… have increasingly regulated processes of invention and invention-reuse through concepts
… Montessori, next to a discussion of human invention processes as collaborative endeavors. …

" The Invention of Modern Science proposes a fruitful way of going beyond the apparently
irreconcilable positions, that science is either" objective" or" socially constructed." Instead, …

Modern thought treats nature as separate from culture and has assigned ontological priority
to the former. Among Kubo, curing ceremonies, intercommunity prestations, initiations and …

… discovery apart from invention (Miller; Watson). In an often-quoted paragraph, Francis
Bacon would assert, “The invention of speech or argument is not properly an invention: for to …

The nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose
and identity. In The Invention of Argentina, Nicholas Shumway offers a cultural history of one …

The publication of these parts of a fundamental book on representations of Africa, drawing
on the analyses of a set of knowledges and discourses-from travel narratives or missionary …