Francesca Bray
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 86088 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Francesca Bray |
| NOMBRES | Francesca |
| APELLIDO | Bray |
| FIRMA | BRAY F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3248-7787 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 96 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Purity and danger
In the late 1990s the citizens of Santa Barbara in Southern California experienced twin shocks that destabilized their understanding of their shit, obliging them to reconsider both the degree to which they could detach themselves from their own bodily detritus, and their personal and collective responsibility for managing it. Contamination of a famous surfing beach was traced using new DNA technologies; stringent new EPA regulations about disposa…
A European collaborative initiative to systematically map cancer risk by migration background
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Action Plan for Refugee and Migrant Health highlights the need for strengthened migration health governance and data-informed policies. A major barrier in Europe has been the lack of systematically collected and comparable cancer data stratified by migration background. METHODS: This study assesses the availability of routine data to map and examines differences of cancer risk among those with a mig…
Archaeozoological Insights Into Avian Exploitation in the Magdalenian of Belgium at the Caves of Trou du Frontal and Trou des Nutons
Bird exploitation in the European Upper Paleolithic remains poorly understood, particularly in northern regions. This study addresses that gap by presenting the archaeozoological analysis of bird remains from two Magdalenian sites in the Lesse valley (southern Belgium): Trou des Nutons and Trou du Frontal. Excavated in the nineteenth century, these sites are located near Trou de Chaleux—the most significant Magdalenian site in Belgium—and provide…
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
奪天工 Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China
Global cancer statistics 2022
This article presents global cancer statistics by world region for the year 2022 based on updated estimates from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). There were close to 20 million new cases of cancer in the year 2022 (including nonmelanoma skin cancers [NMSCs]) alongside 9.7 million deaths from cancer (including NMSC). The estimates suggest that approximately one in five men or women develop cancer in a lifetime, whereas aroun…
Neanderthal exploitation of birds in north-western Europe
For a long time, Neanderthals were considered hunters of large mammals, whereas the diversification of the exploited faunal spectrum to include smaller taxa, including birds, was assumed to be specific to anatomically modern humans. In recent decades, archeozoological analyses of faunal remains from layers associated with Middle Paleolithic lithic industries have revealed traces of human manipulation of small taxa, indicating the exploitation of …
Technology and Gender
The Rice Economies
Moving Crops and the Scales of History
Times
Times uses the concreteness of cropscapes and the elasticity of their histories to question and experiment with time scales, periodizations, and temporalities. Plants have their own rhythms, which humans modify when they grow them as crops. Crops in turn set many of the human rhythms of farming life. States, industries, and businesses all seek to discipline agricultural time yet must also accommodate the natural and social temporalities of the cr…
Global estimates of incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in 2020
BACKGROUND: Tracking progress and providing timely evidence is a fundamental step forward for countries to remain aligned with the targets set by WHO to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem (ie, to reduce the incidence of the disease below a threshold of 4 cases per 100 000 women-years). We aimed to assess the extent of global inequalities in cervical cancer incidence and mortality, based on The Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN…
Paléoprotéomique appliquée au site de Waziers, le « Bas‐Terroir » (Nord)
Les anciennes molécules conservées dans les ossements fossiles offrent l’opportunité d’acquérir une meilleure connaissance du passé biologique. Ces dernières années, la protéomique appliquée aux échantillons osseux et dentaires est devenue une méthode intéressante pour étudier les espèces éteintes et l’évolution phylogénétique comme alternative à l’analyse de l’ADN qui est limitée par l’amplification de l’ADN présent dans les échantillons anciens…
Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry
Technology, Gender, and Nation: Building Modern Citizens in Maoist China
Cancer statistics for the year 2020
Our study briefly reviews the data sources and methods used in compiling the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) GLOBOCAN cancer statistics for the year 2020 and summarises the main results. National estimates were calculated based on the best available data on cancer incidence from population‐based cancer registries (PBCR) and mortality from the World Health Organization mortality database. Cancer incidence and mortality rates for…
Global Cancer Statistics 2020
This article provides an update on the global cancer burden using the GLOBOCAN 2020 estimates of cancer incidence and mortality produced by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Worldwide, an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases (18.1 million excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths (9.9 million excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) occurred in 2020. Female breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the …
Technology in World Civilization
The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a “world civilization.” Case studies include “technological dialogues” between China and West As…
Introduction
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Underground Inspirations
Taking tuber sciences and their histories as a case study, this essay hinges on materiality, both as a condition shaping thing–human relations and as a vector for producing knowledge and generating theory. It explores how people have made knowledge about some very earthy, solid, rooted, underground things: namely, tuber crops—yams, sweet or white potatoes, manioc, and taro. Unlike the waving seas of wheat and other grand global crops that sustain…
Estimates of incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in 2018
BACKGROUND: The knowledge that persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the main cause of cervical cancer has resulted in the development of prophylactic vaccines to prevent HPV infection and HPV assays that detect nucleic acids of the virus. WHO has launched a Global Initiative to scale up preventive, screening, and treatment interventions to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem during the 21st century. Therefore, our s…
Global burden of cancer attributable to infections in 2018
BACKGROUND: Infectious pathogens are strong and modifiable causes of cancer. The aim of this study was to improve estimates of the global and regional burden of infection-attributable cancers to inform research priorities and facilitate prevention efforts. METHODS: We used the GLOBOCAN 2018 database of cancer incidence and mortality rates and estimated the attributable fractions and global incidence for specific anatomical cancer sites, subsites,…
Technology and Society in Ming China (1368-1644)
Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 6
Technology in World Civilization
Gender and Technology
The praxis-oriented interdisciplinary field of feminist technology studies (FTS) has done most among the social sciences to build a vibrant and coherent school of gender and technology studies. Given their shared commitment to exploring emergent forms of power in the contemporary world, there is surprisingly little dialogue between FTS and mainstream cultural anthropology. This review begins by outlining FTS and its concepts and methods. I then t…
Patterns of evolution in rice-growing societies
Our understanding of historical change in non-European societies is hampered less by shortage of information than by the lack of appropriate models. Eurocentric perceptions of economic and technological development have often led to a dismissal of other societies as static. This paper suggests that light may be thrown on processes of historical change characteristic of non-European societies by analysing the technological constraints underlying t…
Technology and Gender
In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and the tyrannies of patriarchy that they were incapable of productive wor…
Science, technique, technology
Many historians today prefer to speak of knowledge and practice rather than science and technology. Here I argue for the value of reinstating the terms science, techniques and technology as tools for a more precise analysis of governmentality and the workings of power. My tactic is to use these three categories and their articulations to highlight flows between matter and ideas in the production and reproduction of knowledge. In any society, agri…
Eloge
Neanderthal exploitation of birds in north-western Europe
For a long time, Neanderthals were considered hunters of large mammals, whereas the diversification of the exploited faunal spectrum to include smaller taxa, including birds, was assumed to be specific to anatomically modern humans. In recent decades, archeozoological analyses of faunal remains from layers associated with Middle Paleolithic lithic industries have revealed traces of human manipulation of small taxa, indicating the exploitation of …
Constructing Intimacy
After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back one's grief; but the separation of the living is an endless, unappeasable anxiety. 1 (Du Fu, `Dreaming of Li Bo')Sometimes there are si
Technics and Civilization in Late Imperial China
Swords into Plowshares
A great deal is now known about the two earliest Chinese dynasties, the Shang (from ca. 1800 to between 1154 and 1022 B.c.) and the Chou (1154-221 B.C.). We are well informed as to their geographical features and climate; the size of their cities; and the skill of their metalworkers, potters, and weavers as well as many aspects of their social and political organization. Very little is known, however, about the agriculture which supported these c…
Paléoprotéomique appliquée au site de Waziers, le « Bas‐Terroir » (Nord)
Les anciennes molécules conservées dans les ossements fossiles offrent l’opportunité d’acquérir une meilleure connaissance du passé biologique. Ces dernières années, la protéomique appliquée aux échantillons osseux et dentaires est devenue une méthode intéressante pour étudier les espèces éteintes et l’évolution phylogénétique comme alternative à l’analyse de l’ADN qui est limitée par l’amplification de l’ADN présent dans les échantillons anciens…
The Craft of Mud-making
The Craft of Mud-making: Cropscapes, Time, and History
Science, Technology and Late Imperial History
As illustrated in the work of Elman and his school, the demystification of science has opened new vistas in the history of late imperial China. I argue that the similarly demystified concept of technology, as it is has recently been elaborated in technology studies, offers equally exciting new opportunities. They include an enrichment of our understanding of late imperial governance, subjectivities and material culture, and new possibilities for …
Qu'est-ce qu'un texte technique
Dans le monde moderne il va sans dire qu'un texte écrit, avec ou à la limite sans illustrations, constitue un moyen efficace de transmettre des connaissances techniques. Certes, nous reconnaissons la difficulté de traduire en un dessin au trait, linéaire et bidimensionnel, la logique floue, manquant souvent de rigueur formelle, d'une opération matérielle multidimensionnelle. Nous sommes pourtant convaincus qu'une telle traduction est non seulemen…
Technology and Gender Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
Le Travail Féminin dans la Chine Imperiale L'élaboration de nouveaux motifs dans le tissu social
Le modèle classique de division sexuelle du travail en Chine tient dans l'expression : ' les hommes labourent et les femmes tissent ' (nan geng nu zhi) ; qu'il s'agisse d'assurer le bien-être du peuple ou la puissance de l'Etat, la culture des céréales alimentaires et la production des textiles étaient tenues pour aussi fondamentales l'une que l'autre. Formulées par les penseurs politiques du vesiècle avant notre ère, puis institutionnalisées par…
Conditions of production and the differenciation of the peasantry in rice economies
The Cradle of the East
Swords into Plowshares
A great deal is now known about the two earliest Chinese dynasties, the Shang (from ca. 1800 to between 1154 and 1022 B.c.) and the Chou (1154-221 B.C.). We are well informed as to their geographical features and climate; the size of their cities; and the skill of their metalworkers, potters, and weavers as well as many aspects of their social and political organization. Very little is known, however, about the agriculture which supported these c…
Agricultural Technology and Agrarian Change in Han China
This article considers the Interaction between technological development in agriculture and social change. In the early Han, a period of comparatively strong and centralized rule, the government encouraged and subsidized a particular type of agricultural development designed to benefit independent small-holders, thus discouraging the formation of large estates and maximizing the state's Income from taxes. Later as the power of the landed gentry g…
Rural Asia
Economic Consequences of the New Rice Technology by the International Rice Research Institute, and
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 547 Economic Consequences of the New Rice Technology. By the International Rice Research Institute. Los Banos, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute, 1978. Pp. viii+402. Anatomy of a Peasant Economy: A Rice Village in the Philippines. By Y. Hayami in association with M. Kikuchi, P. F. Moya, L. M. Bambo, and E. B. Marciano. Los Banos, Philippines: International Rice Re search Institute, 1978. Pp. x…
Economic Consequences of the New Rice Technology
World Agriculture A Historical Perspective
Agricultural practice is largely dictated by natural environment and the technological requirements of the principal crops cultivated. Yet the inherent characteristics of an individual farming system, in particular whether production methods tend to be intensive or extensive, will affect not only the associated agricultural technology but also the organization of the economy and society. Here a brief historical survey of four of the world's most …
World Agriculture A Historical Perspective
Patterns of evolution in rice-growing societies
Our understanding of historical change in non-European societies is hampered less by shortage of information than by the lack of appropriate models. Eurocentric perceptions of economic and technological development have often led to a dismissal of other societies as static. This paper suggests that light may be thrown on processes of historical change characteristic of non-European societies by analysing the technological constraints underlying t…
The Rice Economies
The rice-plant paths of technical development water control rice and the wider economy peasant, landlord and state - changes in relations of production. Appendices: the Western model the historical experience of China the Japanese experience.
Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6
Science and Civilisation in China, Volume VI, Biology and Biological Technology
Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 6
The Rice Economies
The Rice Economies
Conditions of production and the differenciation of the peasantry in rice economies
The Rice Economies
Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society . Rubie S. Watson and Patricia BUCKLEY Ebrey
Le Travail Féminin dans la Chine Imperiale L'élaboration de nouveaux motifs dans le tissu social
Le modèle classique de division sexuelle du travail en Chine tient dans l'expression : ' les hommes labourent et les femmes tissent ' (nan geng nu zhi) ; qu'il s'agisse d'assurer le bien-être du peuple ou la puissance de l'Etat, la culture des céréales alimentaires et la production des textiles étaient tenues pour aussi fondamentales l'une que l'autre. Formulées par les penseurs politiques du vesiècle avant notre ère, puis institutionnalisées par…
Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. CHARLES Leslie and Allan Young
Eloge
Technology and Gender
Food and Culture
Qu'est-ce qu'un texte technique ? Réflexions à propos de la Chine et des Andes
Dans le monde moderne il va sans dire qu'un texte ecrit, avec ou a la limite sans illustrations, constitue un moyen efficace de transmettre des connaissances techniques. Certes, nous reconnaissons la difficulte de traduire en un dessin au trait, lineaire et bidimensionnel, la logique floue, manquant souvent de rigueur formelle, d'une operation materielle multidimensionnelle. Nous sommes pourtant convaincus qu'une telle traduction est non seulemen…
Technics and Civilization in Late Imperial China
History (33 obras) · Archaeology (26 obras) · Political science (26 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Chinese history and philosophy (24 obras) · China (22 obras) · Philosophy (22 obras) · Economics (20 obras) · Medicine (19 obras) · Cancer (18 obras)