South Asia – December 2013 to July 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 11, 2015|South Asia|

Art, Archaeology and Architecture Excavations at Kanaganahalli (Sannati), Taluk Chitapur, Dist. Gulbarga, Karnataka / K.P. Poonacha. The hermit’s hut : architecture and asceticism in India / Kazi K. Ashraf. Late temple architecture in India 15th to 19th centuries : continuities, revivals, appropriations, and innovations / George Michell. Nalanda : situating the great monastery / Frederick M. Asher. No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia /

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Religions – March 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 12, 2015|Religions|0 comments

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

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Religions – February 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 31, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic studies Death and the Afterlife / edited by Jacob Neusner.  – Cannibal metaphysics: for a post-structural anthropology / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro   translated and edited by Peter Skafish – The postsocialist religious question: faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe / Chris Hann and the Civil Religion Group – The hip hop and religion reader / edited by Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn

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Art and Archaeology – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 9, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

A great court painter of 18th-century Korean : the art of Kim Hong-do / Oh Ju-seok ; [translated by Lim Seon-young, Yang Ji-hyun ; revised by Mark S. Turnoy]. Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world / [edited] by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz. Archaeological theory today / edited by Ian Hodder. Embellished reality : Indian painted photographs : towards a transcultural history of photography /

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South Asia – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 8, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Gujarati communities across the globe : memory, identity and continuity / edited by Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukadam. Bamboo : the wonderful grass / by G.K. Ghosh. Dalits and environment : a critical analysis / D.V. Rao, P. Lakshmi. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. A report on the preservation of Buddhist monuments at Bamiyan in Afghanistan / by B.B. Lal and R. Sengupta ; edited

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South East Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 20, 2012|South East Asia|0 comments

Abhaya : Burma’s fearlessness / text and photogr.: James Mackay ; [ed. by Narisa Chakra]. Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s struggle for democracy / Bertil Lintner. Borobudur : majestic, mysterious, magnificent / John N. Miksic … [et al.]. Contemporary Southeast Asian performance : transnational perspectives / edited by Laura Noszlopy and Matthew Isaac Cohen. Diagnosing the Indonesian economy : toward inclusive and green growth / edited by H. Hill,

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