Korea – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 30, 2012|Korea|0 comments

The collected works of Korean Buddhism / edited by A. Charles Muller. Korean migration to the wealthy West / Daniel Schwekendiek Language of migration : self- and other-representation of Korean migrants in Germany / Suin Roberts. Contemporary South Korean society : a critical perspective / edited by Hee-yeon Cho, Lawrence Surendra and Hyo-je Cho. Securitization of human rights : North Korean refugees in East Asia / Mikyoung Kim. Decisions of

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Japan – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 29, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Re-reading the salaryman in Japan : crafting masculinities / Romit Dasgupta. Diplomacy : memories & visions / George Sioris. Oman and Japan : unknown cultural exchange between the two countries / Haruo Endo. Ancient Indian influence on Japanese culture : a comparative study of civilizations / Yoshihiro Kaburagi. Japan’s great stagnation : forging ahead, falling behind / W.R. Garside. The passive in Japanese : a cartographic minimalist approach / by

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Mediterranean Memory : Med-Mem

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|November 29, 2012|Africa, Anthropology and Sociology, Films and Sound Recordings, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

Recently Launched: Med-Mem Online Archive of Mediterranean Video, 4000 Digitized Items Available “Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage (Med-Mem)” – co-funded by the European Union as part of the Euromed Heritage IV programme – offers the general public the largest online video archive library devoted to the historic, cultural and tourism heritage of the Mediterranean, free of charge. The TV and radio archives, set into their historic and cultural context, are

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Development Studies – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 28, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

 e-books Coming climate crisis?  : consider the past, beware the big fix / Claire L. Parkinson. Available from Dawsonera. Abortion in Asia local dilemmas, global politics / edited by Andrea Whittaker. Available from Dawsonera. United in discontent : local responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization / edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. Available from Dawsonera. e-book and print Ethics for disaster / Naomi Zack. [Also available as an e-book from

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Africa – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 26, 2012|Africa|0 comments

African hosts and their guests : cultural dynamics of tourism / edited by Walter van Beek and Annette Schmidt. The Africana world : from fragmentation to unity and renaissance / edited by Mammo Muchie, Sanya Osha and Matlotleng P. Matlou. L’Afrique centrale atlantique / contrib. de Ahmadou Séhou … [et al.]. American slaves and African masters : Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820 / by Christine E. Sears. Capital cities

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Responsa Project: trial running for another week

By Mary Fisk|November 23, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Law, Religions|0 comments

Coordinated by Bar-Ilan University, the Responsa Project is the world’s largest online collection of Torah literature “The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrash, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries), a large Responsa collection of questions and answers (‘Shut’ in Hebrew), the Talmudic Encyclopedia etc.” Go to  http://responsa.co.il/  from any computer on campus to explore the database &

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New open-access titles from the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago)

By Mary Fisk|November 23, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Linguistics, Literature|0 comments

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has released the following open-access monographs on ancient Near Eastern languages, literatures and cuneiform studies. These titles complete the Assyriological Studies series AS 24. The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard. H. G. Güterbock and Theo van den Hout. 1991 http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/as/as24.html AS 21. Computer-Aided Analyses of Amorite. I. J. Gelb. 1980 http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/as/as21.html AS 19. The Akkadian Influence on Aramaic. S. Kaufman. 1974

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South Asia – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 22, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

E- Book Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 / Munis D. Faruqui. Available from Dawsonera The tiger vanquished : LTTE’s story / M.R. Narayan Swamy. Available from ebrary Print Journal The International Journal of Jaina Studies Books Nartanam. vol. 12, no. 2. –  Special issue of the journal ‘Narantam’ on Tagore’s vision of dance. Penser, dire et représenter l’animal dans le monde indien / textes réunis par Nalini Balbir et Georges-Jean

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Art and Archaeology – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 20, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Primitive art & society / edited by Anthony Forge. Images of otherness in medieval and early modern times : exclusion, inclusion and assimilation / edited by Anja Eisenbeiß, Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch. Visualizing belief and piety in Iranian Shiism / Ingvild Flaskerud. The Silk Road : a new history / Valerie Hansen. 东方美朮史教程 / 邓惠伯著. Oracle bone collections in the United States / by Hung-hsiang Chou. Chinese export ceramics / Rose

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China and Inner Asia – October 2012.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 16, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 14, Old Tibetan studies / edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Revisiting rituals in a changing Tibetan context / edited by Katia Buffetrille. Change in democratic Mongolia : social relations, health, mobile pastoralism, and mining / edited by Julian Dierkes. Truths and half truths : China’s socio-economic reforms (1978-2010) / Ferdinand A. Gul and Haitian Lu. Migration, prostitution, and human trafficking :

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