SOAS Blog about Indian Elections
The South Asia Institute has started a blog to share information, analysis and expertise of SOAS academics on the world’s biggest ever election. Follow what is going on here.
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Monthly Archives: March 2014
2803, 2014
Religions – March 2014
General & comparative Periodization and historiography of Indian philosophy: [twelve lectures held at the fourteenth World Sanskrit Conference (Kyoto, September 1 – 5, 2009)] / ed. by Eli Franco. Handbook of contemporary Japanese religions / edited by Inken Prohl and John Nelson. Re-imagining South Asian religions: essays in honour of professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt / edited by Pashaura Singh, Michael Hawley. Politics of worship in
2703, 2014
Korea – March 2014
Confucius in East Asia : Confucianism’s history in China, Korea, Japan, and Viet Nam / Jeffrey L. Richey. The Korean wave : Korean popular culture in global context / edited by Yasue Kuwahara. Infected Korean language, purity versus hybridity : from the sinographic cosmopolis to Japanese colonialism to global English / By Koh Jongsok Translated by Ross King. Power, place, and state-society relations in Korea : neo-confucian and geomantic reconstruction
2703, 2014
Japan – March 2014
Public properties : museums in imperial Japan / Noriko Aso. Handbook of contemporary Japanese religions / edited by Inken Prohl and John Nelson. Interactions with Japanese Buddhism : explorations and viewpoints in twentieth-century Kyōto / edited by Michael Pye, with the assistance of The Eastern Buddhist Society. Changing lives : the postwar in Japanese women’s autobiographies and memoirs / Ronald P. Loftus. Japan’s Ainu minority in Tokyo : diasporic indigeneity
2503, 2014
Photographic archive of expedition to Iraq 1919-1920
Photographs of James Breasted’s photographs documenting his journeys through the Near East in the period immediately following the First World War to record archaeological sites for the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago) have recently been added to the Oriental Institutes’s open-access photographic archive. Click here to go to the photographic archive page on the Oriental Institute’s website Clicking on the map allows you to select a site from those visited
2503, 2014
Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft: open-access content
The Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen has made the first 100 volumes of the eminent Mitteilingen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft (MDOG) from 1898 to 1968 available on open-access. The journal contains reports from the excavations carried out by the German Archaeological Society (DOG) in the Ancient Near Eastern region, along with philological, historical, religious and cultural studies Click here to go to the University’s website and link to the journal
2403, 2014
Some recent reviews of new books in SOAS Library
Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica QLB415 / 755495 – An introduction to Ugaritic / John Huehnergard (reviewed in Marginalia) QI221.12 / 743308 – The formation of the Jewish canon / Timothy H. Lim (reviewed in Marginalia) QB930 / 737342 – Predicting the past in the ancient Near East : mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / by Matthew Neujahr (reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature) [ON ORDER] – Anti-Judaism :
1803, 2014
Layla : first Iraqi women’s magazine (1923-1925)
Layla was the first women’s magazine to be published in Iraq. Launched in 1923, the magazine dealt with new and useful matters related to science, art, literature, sociology, and in particular to child-rearing and the education of girls, family health, and other matters pertaining to home economics. One of the most important articles to appear in the magazine was the editorial, printed in Issue 6 on May 15, 1924, addressed
1203, 2014
Development Studies – January and February 2014
Alternatives to neoliberal globalization : studies in the political economy of institutions and late development by Dic Lo. The global challenge of encouraging sustainable living : opportunities, barriers, policy and practice / edited by Shane Fudge, Michael A. Peters, Steven M. Hoffman, Walter Wehrmeyer. The domestic politics of foreign aid / Erik Lundsgaarde. The future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity / Jörg
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South Asia – February 2014
Fashion India : spectacular capitalism / edited by Tereza Kuldova. Dying wisdom : rise, fall and potential of India’s traditional water harvesting systems / editors, Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain. Partitioned lives : migrants, refugees, citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-1965 / Haimanti Roy. Edge of empire : the British political officer and tribal administration on the North-West Frontier, 1877-1947 / Christian Tripodi. The life style of the eunuchs /