R Gibbs
Biographic Data
| ID | 14330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Gibbs |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbs |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6999-6227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conversations with Tim Ingold
Conversations with Tim Ingold offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of Tim Ingold, one of the leading anthropologists of our time. Presented as a series of interviews conducted by three anthropologists from the University of Glasgow over a period of two years, the book explores Ingold's key contributions to anthropology and other disciplines.
Metaphors For Designing Modern Products with New Meanings from Cultural Art Features
A metaphor is a valuable tool for creative design. It assists designers in comprehending design concepts by putting them next to things they already know. To generate creative ideas from metaphors, designers have to think creatively
Application of Metaphors for Integrating New Meanings of Cultural Art Features into Modern Products
Metaphor is a valuable tool for facilitating innovative product design. Metaphor facilitates designers' comprehension of design concepts by illustrating comparisons with their existing knowledge. Limited research exists on how metaphors transform cultural art characteristics into product designs to convey consumers' understanding of value meanings from cultural art features in modern products. To address this, a conceptual framework was developed…
Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology
This article argues that while translation as a metaphor was prominent in anglophone anthropology for most of the second half of the 20th century, the practices of interlingual translation that are often central to the production and circulation of disciplinary knowledge have tended to attract much less attention. The first main section begins by briefly reviewing debates about the idea that anthropology crucially involves 'the translation of cul…
Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France
This chapter draws on material from an anthropological study of the asylum process in France, conducted between 2007 and 2009, to explore the following questions: What can ethnographic research contribute to knowledge and understanding of the kinds of communication that take place at successive stages of the refugee status determination process in France? What light can it throw, more specifically, on the relationship between forms of communicati…
Datacubes
Datacubes are increasingly being implemented to manage big data workflows efficiently, particularly those for processing geospatial data. However, there is confusion in both the definition of the term “datacube” and the choices for how it is implemented. This and the conventional approach to managing spatial data (i.e., in map-projected data sets) have led to a restricted set of datacube implementations that are each tightly coupled to the spatia…
Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, ‘Rethinking combined departments
The choice of interdisciplinarities Stephen M. Lyon Multidisciplinarity as a necessity and challenge: the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (FHS UK) Yasar Abu Ghosh, Pavel Himl, Tereza Stöckelová and Lucie Storchová Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Robert Gibb Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Jakob Krause-Jensen Response to Sluis …
Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France
This article explores the interplay between language and intercultural communication within refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France, using material taken from ethnographic research that involved a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis in both countries over a two-year period (2007–2009). It is concerned, in particular, to examine the role played by interpreters in facilita…
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures
This article examines the place of Country of Origin Information (COI) in the British and French refugee status determination processes. It demonstrates that COI is crucial throughout those processes in both countries, and that there are important differences as well as similarities in the way it is treated. Following an overview of the refugee status determination process in each country, the article discusses different sources of COI and compar…
AAPA Presentation Schedule
The history of infectious disease in humans (and to a lesser extent other primates) has been studied from different perspectives including those of bioarchaeology, medical history, and evolutionary genetics. Technical advances in nucleotide sequencing as well as in the ability to obtain genetic material from difficult sources (such as feces and ancient materials) have enhanced our ability to examine both ancient pathogens and pathogens that are d…
Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Indigeneity and autochthony
The term indigenous tends to be used for people who are already marginalised, while autochthonous is generally reserved for people who are dominant in a given area but fear future marginalisation. Anthropologists often sympathise with the former, while being highly critical of the latter, although a bitter debate opposes opponents and proponents of indigeneity and autochthony. We argue that the implicit criteria used in this debate need to be dis…
An interview with Adam Kuper
Vers une anthropologie des mouvements sociaux
A review of the social movements literature reveals that social anthropologists have generally not played a prominent role in theoretical and conceptual debates within this field of research. This article argues that the 'invisibility' of social movements in anthropology is largely attributable to the way in which political anthropology constructs its object, and particularly to the weakness of its concepts of politics and practice. It is conclud…
Books Reviewed
Transport Processes in Lakes and Oceans
Rites of Passage or Exploitation? Teaching Social Anthropology, Class Relations and Institutional Change in Two British Universities
In this paper I discuss my experience of teaching and researching in two different British universities in the late 1990s in order to develop a number of arguments about the place of teaching in the making and un-making of professional / academic anthropologists. Not all of the issues I raise, however, can be formulated as questions of ‘boundaries’ or ‘identities’ (in the way the title and rubric of this panel suggest [2] ), although for some of …
Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France
This article explores the interplay between language and intercultural communication within refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France, using material taken from ethnographic research that involved a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis in both countries over a two-year period (2007–2009). It is concerned, in particular, to examine the role played by interpreters in facilita…
Vers une anthropologie des mouvements sociaux
A review of the social movements literature reveals that social anthropologists have generally not played a prominent role in theoretical and conceptual debates within this field of research. This article argues that the 'invisibility' of social movements in anthropology is largely attributable to the way in which political anthropology constructs its object, and particularly to the weakness of its concepts of politics and practice. It is conclud…
Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology
This article argues that while translation as a metaphor was prominent in anglophone anthropology for most of the second half of the 20th century, the practices of interlingual translation that are often central to the production and circulation of disciplinary knowledge have tended to attract much less attention. The first main section begins by briefly reviewing debates about the idea that anthropology crucially involves 'the translation of cul…
Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Rites of Passage or Exploitation? Teaching Social Anthropology, Class Relations and Institutional Change in Two British Universities
In this paper I discuss my experience of teaching and researching in two different British universities in the late 1990s in order to develop a number of arguments about the place of teaching in the making and un-making of professional / academic anthropologists. Not all of the issues I raise, however, can be formulated as questions of ‘boundaries’ or ‘identities’ (in the way the title and rubric of this panel suggest [2] ), although for some of …
Transport Processes in Lakes and Oceans
Books Reviewed
Vers une anthropologie des mouvements sociaux
A review of the social movements literature reveals that social anthropologists have generally not played a prominent role in theoretical and conceptual debates within this field of research. This article argues that the 'invisibility' of social movements in anthropology is largely attributable to the way in which political anthropology constructs its object, and particularly to the weakness of its concepts of politics and practice. It is conclud…
An interview with Adam Kuper
Indigeneity and autochthony
The term indigenous tends to be used for people who are already marginalised, while autochthonous is generally reserved for people who are dominant in a given area but fear future marginalisation. Anthropologists often sympathise with the former, while being highly critical of the latter, although a bitter debate opposes opponents and proponents of indigeneity and autochthony. We argue that the implicit criteria used in this debate need to be dis…
Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures
This article examines the place of Country of Origin Information (COI) in the British and French refugee status determination processes. It demonstrates that COI is crucial throughout those processes in both countries, and that there are important differences as well as similarities in the way it is treated. Following an overview of the refugee status determination process in each country, the article discusses different sources of COI and compar…
AAPA Presentation Schedule
The history of infectious disease in humans (and to a lesser extent other primates) has been studied from different perspectives including those of bioarchaeology, medical history, and evolutionary genetics. Technical advances in nucleotide sequencing as well as in the ability to obtain genetic material from difficult sources (such as feces and ancient materials) have enhanced our ability to examine both ancient pathogens and pathogens that are d…
Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, ‘Rethinking combined departments
The choice of interdisciplinarities Stephen M. Lyon Multidisciplinarity as a necessity and challenge: the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (FHS UK) Yasar Abu Ghosh, Pavel Himl, Tereza Stöckelová and Lucie Storchová Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Robert Gibb Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Jakob Krause-Jensen Response to Sluis …
Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France
This article explores the interplay between language and intercultural communication within refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France, using material taken from ethnographic research that involved a combination of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis in both countries over a two-year period (2007–2009). It is concerned, in particular, to examine the role played by interpreters in facilita…
Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France
This chapter draws on material from an anthropological study of the asylum process in France, conducted between 2007 and 2009, to explore the following questions: What can ethnographic research contribute to knowledge and understanding of the kinds of communication that take place at successive stages of the refugee status determination process in France? What light can it throw, more specifically, on the relationship between forms of communicati…
Datacubes
Datacubes are increasingly being implemented to manage big data workflows efficiently, particularly those for processing geospatial data. However, there is confusion in both the definition of the term “datacube” and the choices for how it is implemented. This and the conventional approach to managing spatial data (i.e., in map-projected data sets) have led to a restricted set of datacube implementations that are each tightly coupled to the spatia…
Metaphors For Designing Modern Products with New Meanings from Cultural Art Features
A metaphor is a valuable tool for creative design. It assists designers in comprehending design concepts by putting them next to things they already know. To generate creative ideas from metaphors, designers have to think creatively
Application of Metaphors for Integrating New Meanings of Cultural Art Features into Modern Products
Metaphor is a valuable tool for facilitating innovative product design. Metaphor facilitates designers' comprehension of design concepts by illustrating comparisons with their existing knowledge. Limited research exists on how metaphors transform cultural art characteristics into product designs to convey consumers' understanding of value meanings from cultural art features in modern products. To address this, a conceptual framework was developed…
Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology
This article argues that while translation as a metaphor was prominent in anglophone anthropology for most of the second half of the 20th century, the practices of interlingual translation that are often central to the production and circulation of disciplinary knowledge have tended to attract much less attention. The first main section begins by briefly reviewing debates about the idea that anthropology crucially involves 'the translation of cul…
Conversations with Tim Ingold
Conversations with Tim Ingold offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of Tim Ingold, one of the leading anthropologists of our time. Presented as a series of interviews conducted by three anthropologists from the University of Glasgow over a period of two years, the book explores Ingold's key contributions to anthropology and other disciplines.
Sociology (9 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works)