Some updates on 2 open access journals on Hebraica & the Ancient Near East

By Mary Fisk|May 12, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Literature|0 comments

Seferad: estudios hebraicos, sefardies y de Oriente Proximo is a Spanish journal, first published in 1941, on the history and culture of the Spanish Jewish community and the Sephardic diaspora, including Hebrew and Ladino language and literature. Open access content is currently from 2001 to 2013. SOAS Library has print holdings from 1941 onward at Per 5 / 49429 (Level F) Access is either via the Seferad website or AWOL

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New tool to address rural poverty and rural development projects released

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 9, 2014|Development Studies|0 comments

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has recently announced its new multidimensional poverty assessment tool (MPAT) which combines 10 different indicators to measure rural poverty. Led by IFAD, MPAT has been collaboratively developed since 2008 and has been through extensive field testing in several countries, as well as independent validation and peer review. The website includes full background information, related reports and a downloadable guide as well as contact

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History – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 9, 2014|History|0 comments

Comparative & Thematic Thinking, recording, and writing history in the ancient world / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub. Activating the past: history and memory in the Black Atlantic world / ed. by Andrew Apter and Lauren Derby. The Cambridge history of capitalism / edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson. The monks of Kublai Khan, emperor of China: medieval travels from China through Central Asia to Persia and the

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Development Studies – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 8, 2014|Development Studies|0 comments

E-books Development and Democracy : What Have We Learned and How? / Ole Elgstrom and Goran Hyden Survival Migration : Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement / Alexander Betts International development studies : theories and methods in research and practice / Andrew Sumner and Michael Tribe. Reducing urban poverty in the global South / David Satterthwaite and Diana Mitlin. Child security in Asia the impact of armed conflict in

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 8, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations State correspondence from the New Kingdom to the Roman Empire: the role of long-distance communication in the cohesion of early empires / edited by Karen Radner. Hittites: an Anatolian Empire / Metin Alparslan, Meltem Alparslan-Dogan (eds.) = Hititler : bir Anadolu imparatorlugu / Metin Alparslan, Meltem Alparslan-Dogan (eds.) Götterwort in Menschenmund : Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda / Manfred Weippert. Neo-Babylonian trial records

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Korea – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2014|Korea|0 comments

Representing the cultural other : Japanese anthropological works on Korea / edited by Hyup Choi. Living on your own : single women, rental housing, and post-revolutionary affect in contemporary South Korea / Jesook Song. The Korean popular culture reader / Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, editors. An affair with Korea / Vincent S.R. Brandt. Evolving Asian culture gateways : the Korean wave and beyond / Su Jung Kim, Kalinga

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Japan – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2014|Japan|0 comments

Tosaka Jun : a critical reader / edited by Ken C. Kawashima, Fabian Schäfer, Robert Stoltz. The philosophy of Japanese wartime resistance : a reading, with commentary, of the complete texts of the Kyoto School discussions of the standpoint of world history and Japan / David Williams. The princess nun : Bunchi, Buddhist reform, and gender in early Edo Japan / Gina Cogan. Postcolonial citizens and ethnic migration : the

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Africa – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 6, 2014|Africa|0 comments

Books +Section27 review : a review of the work of SECTION27 and an assessment of important aspects of the government’s compliance with its duties under section 27 of the Constitution : April 2010-December 2011 / edited by Jonathan Berger and Mark Heywood. Africa 2050 : realizing the continent’s full potential / edited by Theodore Ahlers, Hiroshi Kato, Harinder S. Kohli, Callisto Madavo, Anil Sood. Africa in the world : capitalism,

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Rabindranath Tagore goes online

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 6, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

The Ministry of Culture, Government of India has sponsored a new online variorum of the works of Rabindranath Tagore; a project undertaken by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. The website has digitized all of Tagore’s writings in both Bengali and English, whether manuscript or printed format and made them freely available online. The website can be navigated in English, Bengali and Hindi and includes a

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