scholarly journals Editor's Note

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. v
Author(s):  
Martin Holbraad
Keyword(s):  
Social Analysis ◽  
The Core ◽  
Book Symposium ◽  
New Feature ◽  
First Time

This issue includes our First Book Symposium, a new feature for Social Analysis that replaces the book reviews section we have had for a number of years. In each regular issue of the journal, we shall be devoting this feature to a single book written by a first-time author, which in one way or another develops new potentials for anthropological analysis (this being the core intellectual mission of our journal). The book will be subjected to sustained critique by relevant scholars, to which the author will then respond. We hope that this more focused approach will allow for a deeper engagement with emerging currents of analysis than what the shorter book review format allows, providing also a platform for books by scholars who are not already established and well known.

scholarly journals First Book Symposium

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Maxmillian Julius Chuhila ◽  
Veena Das ◽  
Alex Pillen ◽  
Knut Christian Myhre
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Book Symposium ◽  
The One ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
First Time

This issue inaugurates the First Book Symposium as a feature in the pages of Social Analysis. Instead of including ourselves among the journals that devote a section to book reviews in their regular issues, as we have done for many years, we feel that a more focused approach is better suited to our goal of exploring the potentials of anthropological analysis. Adopting from other journals the format of the book symposium, in which a single book is subjected to sustained critical engagement by relevant scholars, we devote it in particular to discussion of books by first-time authors. Our aim is, on the one hand, to give a platform to scholars who are not already widely known and established and, on the other, to acquaint our readers with ideas and analytical approaches that are fresh.Knut Christian Myhre, Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 336 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. eBook. eISBN 9781785336669.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1983 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-164
Author(s):  
Juliet Garfit
Keyword(s):  
American Anthropologist ◽  
First Time ◽  
Do So

In this issue of Nexus we have published, for the first time, a book review. We hope to include reviews in future editions, but we need your contributions. If you are interested in submitting a review dealing with any aspect of anthropology - linguistic, social/cultural, physical or archaeological please do so in the format followed by American Anthropologist. Books dating from 1982 to the present are acceptable for admission. With your help we feel reviews will be interesting and informative additions to Nexus.

scholarly journals On the formation and stability of fermionic dark matter halos in a cosmological framework

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos R Argüelles ◽  
Manuel I Díaz ◽  
Andreas Krut ◽  
Rafael Yunis
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Space Distribution ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Dark Matter Halos ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Gravitating Systems ◽  
The Given ◽  
First Time

Abstract The formation and stability of collisionless self-gravitating systems is a long standing problem, which dates back to the work of D. Lynden-Bell on violent relaxation, and extends to the issue of virialization of dark matter (DM) halos. An important prediction of such a relaxation process is that spherical equilibrium states can be described by a Fermi-Dirac phase-space distribution, when the extremization of a coarse-grained entropy is reached. In the case of DM fermions, the most general solution develops a degenerate compact core surrounded by a diluted halo. As shown recently, the latter is able to explain the galaxy rotation curves while the DM core can mimic the central black hole. A yet open problem is whether this kind of astrophysical core-halo configurations can form at all, and if they remain stable within cosmological timescales. We assess these issues by performing a thermodynamic stability analysis in the microcanonical ensemble for solutions with given particle number at halo virialization in a cosmological framework. For the first time we demonstrate that the above core-halo DM profiles are stable (i.e. maxima of entropy) and extremely long lived. We find the existence of a critical point at the onset of instability of the core-halo solutions, where the fermion-core collapses towards a supermassive black hole. For particle masses in the keV range, the core-collapse can only occur for Mvir ≳ E9M⊙ starting at zvir ≈ 10 in the given cosmological framework. Our results prove that DM halos with a core-halo morphology are a very plausible outcome within nonlinear stages of structure formation.

Book Reviews, The Common Law Tort of Defamation, and the Suppression of Scholarly Debate

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 656-670
Author(s):  
Kate Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Defamation Law

Professor Joseph Weiler will soon stand trial for criminal libel in France for refusing to remove a book review from a website associated with an academic journal for which he serves as editor. His case has disturbing implications for all those who write, edit, and publish critical scholarly work. In this article, I explore those implications for Canadian scholars at home and as members of a global scholarly community. I assess the likelihood of success of a similar complaint under Canadian defamation law, and I consider the impact of libel chill and libel tourism. I conclude that although the defendant in such a case would have a good chance of prevailing under Canadian law through the defense of fair comment, a threat to academic freedom remains that requires action on the part of individuals and institutions committed to its preservation and enhancement.

Book Reviews : The Core of the Fourth Gospel

1976 ◽  
Vol 87 (9) ◽  
pp. 280-280
Author(s):  
A.E. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
The Core

scholarly journals Extended analysis of Xe VII and Xe VIII

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (9) ◽  
pp. 805-810 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Raineri ◽  
M. Gallardo ◽  
J. Reyna Almandos ◽  
C.J.B. Pagan ◽  
R. Sarmiento
Keyword(s):  
Light Source ◽  
Energy Levels ◽  
Excited Configuration ◽  
Pulsed Discharge ◽  
Hartree Fock ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Extended Analysis ◽  
First Time ◽  
Atomic Parameters

A pulsed discharge light source to study the six and seven times ionized xenon spectra in the 419–4642 Å region was used. A set of 40 transitions of Xe VII and 25 transitions of Xe VIII were classified for the first time. We revised the values for the previously known energy levels and extended the analysis for Xe VII to 10 new energy levels belonging to 5s6d, 5s7s and 5s7p, 4d95s25p even and odd configurations, respectively. Seven new energy levels of the core excited configuration 4d95s5d of Xe VIII are presented. For the prediction of the atomic parameters, energy levels, and transition, relativistic Hartree–Fock calculations were used.

Book Review : Book Reviews

Probation ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-33
Author(s):  
Michael Nyman

Book Review: Book Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 436-439
Author(s):  
Robert MacSwain
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