Anthropology in theory: issues in epistemology / edited by Henrietta L. Moore and Todd Sanders Ruth Landes: a life in anthropology / Sally Cole The other face of the moon / by Lévi-Strauss, Claude The ground between: anthropologists engage philosophy / edited by Veena Das, Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, and Bhrigupati Singh Ethnographies of uncertainty in Africa / edited by Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten After the ancestors: an anthropologist’s
On Belonging: Photographs of Indians of African Descent National Portrait Gallery [NPG], 13 April – 31 August 2015, Room 33, Free, Open late Thursday & Friday One of India’s leading contemporary photographers, Ketaki Sheth has a long-standing interest in questions of identity and representation. In her most recent project, shown here at the NPG, she features the Siddi, a people of African descent living in India. Ketaki has been working on
The winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2015 was announced on Wednesday as Francis Fukuyama with Political Order Political Decay – From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. The book prize of 15.000 Euros is awarded every two years to the best book on globalization, as judged by an international panel, who look for books that offer “rigorous and well – defended conclusions and are written in a clear
LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES 2015 Professor Steph Newell University of Sussex The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa For details of the DirtPol project at the University of Sussex, please see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/dirtpol/ 11:00 – 12:00 Wednesday 10th June 2015 Seng Tee Lee Room, Senate House Library, Senate House, Malet Street, London,
“There came a darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I Friday 17th July 2015 9.15am – 5.00pm Programme 9.15 Registration 9.30 Welcome 9.40 Keynote speech Edward Paice The Pike Report and Captain Caulfeild: Emerging Voices and Commemoration of the Great War in Africa 10.30 Coffee 10.50 Panel 1 10.50-11.10 Holgar Hansen, Copenhagen Karen Blixen: a Danish view on the War in Africa 11.10-11.30 David Stuart-Mogg, Society of Malawi
Several major series from academic publishers Brill now have selected volumes available on open-access via Ancient World Digital Library. Click on the links below to access the collections Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East (10 titles) Titles include: Family religion in Babylonia, Syria and Israel / Toorn (1996) The care of the elderly in the Ancient Near East / Stol & Vleeming History and historical writing
Comparative and thematic Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed : continuity and change / edited by Michael Blömer, Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja. From your gods to our gods: a history of religion in Indian, South African, and British courts / Marco Ventura The end of conceit: western rationality after postcolonialism / Patrick Chabal. [also available as a e-book] After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics / Erin
Comparative and thematic histories Mapping the end of empire: American and British strategic visions in the postwar world / Aiyaz Husain. History and popular memory: the power of story in moments of crisis / Paul A. Cohen. The lifeblood of war: logistics in armed conflict / Julian Thompson. Empires of vision: a reader / Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds. The Princeton companion to Atlantic history / editor, Joseph C.
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Canaanite religion according to the liturgical text of Ugarit [2nd edn ] / Gregorio del Olmo Lete. Transl. by W. G. E. Watson. Knowledge and wisdom: archaeological and historical essays in honour of Leah Di Segni / edited by Giovanni C. Bottini, L. Daniel Chrupcala, Joseph Patrich Memory and the city in ancient Israel / edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi. Prophétisme et
Comparative and thematic Sharing sacred spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at shrines and sanctuaries / edited by Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli. Heirs to forgotten kingdoms: journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East / Gerard Russell After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics / Erin K. Wilson (also available as an e-book) Buddhism Muktālatāvadānam of Ksẹmendra : Sanskrit text, Tibetan version with Hindi, English translations
